ZephyrBlu

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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
We've also destroyed a lot of social norms that used to help people make good decisions. Continuously making good choices is really difficult, especially when we have so many incredibly alluring distractions. Having some guard rails is
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
Cost of living/spending power is not the same as quality of life. Mobile phones alone are an insane improvement in QoL.
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
The draw of MKBHD has nothing to do with "objective credibility". Consumer tech reviews are more about whether the reviewer will discuss daily usability objectively, and entertainment. Coffee is more niche. It makes more sense for
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
> 95% of Hearthstone players are bots Pure cope, but whatever helps you sleep better at night.
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
Play goes clockwise, no? If you take another card, you're taking what would have been the person on your left's card if you had stood.
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
Yeah, top-level IC positions are much harder to acquire than their equivalent management positions and tend to require some level of public claim to fame.
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
> Never once have I had any semblance of a "plan" or a "goal". And despite what all the authority figures in your life will tell you, that is a perfectly fine way to live and be happy That's the ideal career fo
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
You do not understand what you're reading. I told you, lawyers are on fixed pay schedules . The numbers are different from what I thought, but that doesn't really affect anything I said. The first role is a 2nd-5th year associate
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
This doesn't really make sense. What is a "researcher" at a law firm? Lawyers at top firms are on fixed pay schedules, starting at 180k as a 1st year going up to something like 450k after 8yrs (?). Tech is high earning. It
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
He does have a lot of good info, but also shits on people very frequently. I would prefer if he was a little more polite.
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
> But on the flip side, that one cool thing might be the ONLY thing they do, all day, every day, which might not be as cool after 6-10 years Yeah, sometimes I think I'd like to be a systems engineer and work on databases or simila
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
Have you ever actually tried to learn a language? I'm learning Korean as a native English speaker. I thought it would be a grind, which it kind of is, but learning new words and grammar is actually really fun. I use anki cards and get
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
I feel like MTM jeans are pretty rare, and $200-300 isn’t actually that much for nice denim. I don’t think price is the main problem though. Most people could probably spend that if they wanted, they just don’t care about clothes enough t
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
This is why I put a lot of energy into finding brands that are transparent with their materials and that I can trust for quality. Once you find these brands you can buy stuff without worrying about whether it’s going to suck. For dress shir
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
The cues you’re picking up on here are completely incorrect. This doesn’t require you to be rich. In fact, I would consider his wardrobe to only be small/medium sized for someone into fashion. I’ve spent >35k USD on my wardrobe in t
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
When you spend this much money on clothes and shoes it’s not for functional reasons. Also, you keep it in your wardrobe. Do you not have a wardrobe?
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
$95 USD for a nice dress shirt is cheap. $120-150 is normal, $170+ is expensive. I can't find dress shirts I like for $95 USD unless they're on sale for 30-40% off, and that's very rare. Cheap shirts have terrible collars wit
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
This is only a problem with really big and popular brands, where they leverage their brand at scale to generate more revenue. You can find smaller brands that have been doing high quality stuff for a while, and they're unlikely to blow
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
> I'm pretty sure I really want (the illusion of) exactly-once delivery Do you know what idempotency is? This is exactly what he described. Idempotency is important to prevent unwanted behaviour for duplicate actions. If you have
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
$7500/mo in donations is also already really, really good. It seems like they could easily turn this into a viable business with some small changes.
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
Insane vulnerabilities. The massive mismatches between authentication and authorization scopes are crazy. Encrypting data with "secret" as the key is also a facepalm.
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
I read it like this: - "We extend SAM to video", because is was previously only for images and it's capabilities are being extended to videos - "by considering images as a video with a single frame", explaining how
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
Really curious what "fast" is in this context. Milliseconds, seconds, minutes?
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
Not sure why that was your takeaway. Much more likely that he feels that it's dumb he was promoted and put at the bottom of the band by default, regardless of his performance. How large the raise is shouldn't have any impact on
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
Yeah I agree. That was what the last bit of my comment was supposed to be about, but I unintentionally underplayed it a lot.
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
Yeah 100%. We're all in that mode sometimes.
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
This is a tech-focused selection from my personal list, with a few more business-y sources thrown in: - https://erikbern.com - https://lethain.com - https://commoncog.com - https://scattered-th
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
My experience on the internet suggests that high-signal information usually has very low memetic fitness. All the good sources of information I've found have been buried away and I've come across them serendipitously. Not particul
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
I 100% believe it's possible, but that's even more of a lottery than FAANG is which would negate his point :). If you can get your foot in the door it's hard to beat FAANG comp on a risk-adjusted basis and they do actually em
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by ZephyrBlu 2y ago
> I know many people making (very) high 6 figures working at places most have never heard of You know people making ~800-900k at places most people have never heard of? That is what "high 6 figures" means. I have to assume yo

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