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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Pretty much anything related to personal growth (however you define it) takes time to click, but it took a while to understand two things at a deep enough level to begin to make change: * everyone has a set of habits that served them well
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
> How mortgage repayments change over time as you pay off some of it (YMMV) This is a big one people buying houses recently due to FOMO don't understand: you're really not building equity the first few years because almost all
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
From what I've seen on youtube / auto magazines, towing with an EV takes a massive hit to its range, way more than a diesel truck. If it's only an occasional thing (e.g. take the boat to the lake on the weekends, now with an
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
I was pleased at first when I tried to use ChatGPT as a search engine. I asked something like "give me the top 5 blog posts to learn about C++ metaprogramming" and it actually spit out extremely plausible titles from top people (e
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
It is easier to make the "j" said for "rejex". The "g" sound is more effortful (it is "made" more in the back of the mouth, compared to "j"). Laziness wins the day again on pronunciation xD
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
fwiw I have never met a native English speaker who says "num-pee". Although -py = "pee" for most English words, this random made-up proper noun is yet again another weird English exception...
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
This is almost certainly true, and if the strike isn't allowed the only recourse they have that is not punishable is just quitting (iirc). Things like wildcat strikes and work slowdowns would probably lead to fines or worse. I'm a
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Railroad workers are covered by the Railway Labor Act, while almost every other job is covered by the National Labor Relations Act. The RLA makes it harder to strike, but the tactics that strikers may use once a strike is declared are much
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
A few other folks have mentioned exercise, but I will throw in my 2 cents: * rock climbing is great (for myriad reasons), but it really forces you to use pretty much every muscle in your body. This is especially true for the muscles you use
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
oh lol yes you're right. I meant to return the list. I should not try to HN comment while running out the door to catch my bus...
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Is there a language where you get everything? (i.e. there's nothing you don't get) Based on the people who have amount of "C++ experts" I've interviewed over the years who don't know much about template metap
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
It's been a long time since I played trumpet, but aren't those incorrect? On a regular Bb trumpet, this is the D (major) scale, so D should be 1-3 unless it's in the second octave (in which case this sequence is still wrong).
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
>This is identical to how employers share salary information. Friendly reminder to all: you can opt out of most of this. Most employers subscribe to The Work Number, but you can opt out of your data being shared here: https://
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Thanks for doing this! Nix has been one of those tools that looks so cool, yet the instruction manuals are akin to the "...draw the rest of the fuckin' owl" meme whenever I look into it. This gives me hope to give it another
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
> and revitalized suburban neighborhoods (e.g. more walkable areas) Without other changes, this would not happen (in the US at least). The default would be every more cookie-cutter suburban sprawl, with the cul-de-sac-y construction of t
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Not PP, but how often do you find yourself tracking down lazy-evaluation / GC-related performance issues? I've heard some horror stories and I honestly don't have the mental model yet to track these things down. Even learning
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
There is a very opinionated and batteries-included "Vim-y" Emacs called Doom [0]. A decent way to approach this if you don't want to start writing elisp outta the gate to have fancy editor features is to learn enough of the D
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Well if you want to return to Emacs, I can attest as a former long-time vim user that the emulation layers for vim modes in Emacs are fantastic! They're really the only good part of vim, as the configuration language was always a bit l
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Santa Cruz, CA, has only one billboard iirc, coming over hwy 17 from the Bay Area. I never appreciated how this muted the pace of advertising exposure until I spent time in other parts of the US where such things are less regulated.
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Did they control for all of the comorbidities associated with non-drinkers? A lot of people who don't drink are not abstaining for some health augmentation or lifestyle choice, but because drinking any amount of alcohol would send them
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
> A gang of extremist pacifists That is: a Jain gang [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Yes, I would rather pay usurious rates with a commensurately low price. Even though it would be terrible basically having the vast majority of my monthly payment going purely to interest for a long time, it's possible to: - refi at a l
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
This is another thing people don't consider: housing is priced at the margin. One house has to sell in the neighborhood because of divorce / death / etc, and boom you have the one comp that everything else is tied to. Even if
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Make good decisions when you're feeling well that make bad decisions when you're feeling impulsive harder. Example: buy only good food / no alcohol / etc when you shop; when those emotions well up that typically trigger
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Not strawman, but this guy just has Burgerbrain: the only choices he can conceive of are those in the US. Anyone who has been to any suburb in Europe or Japan knows that you can easily build housing that is well between "high rise hell
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Santa Cruz voted down turning the disused railroad branch line connecting Watsonville to the old cement factory in Davenport into a rail trail [0], by an enormous margin. If this trail were implemented, it would basically create a scenic,
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Ben Thompson cohosts a podcast [0] that comes out very irregularly, but is a true gem. He says "stra-tech-ery" there, so you are correct :) [0] https://exponent.fm/
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Yes, this pattern is far better than attaching passport_scan.pdf over email! I used to send links to a fileshare that is password protected (hooray pcloud!), but it seems like most companies have really locked down that avenue of sharing (u
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
Just for clarity and equanimity about this stuff: - If you sign up to see your TWN data (which is just the usual KYC-type sign-up), you can generate a report and will likely see that no employer has pulled your data in the past 24 months (t
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by _huayra_ 4y ago
In the US at least, you have the right to freeze your credit report at any time. I've done it for the big 3 at least (Transunion, Equifax, Experian). It's all free (finally! it used to cost) and you can temporarily suspend the fre

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