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by achenet 4y ago
What I do, with the caveat that while I am doing this I've had mediocre results from it so far, is find where the people you'd like to meet tend to hang out, go there, and start building positive relationships. You can politely ex
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by achenet 4y ago
anyone up for a rewrite in Rust? :D
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by achenet 4y ago
not the person you are responding to, but I think they meant dystopian as in the "vibe" of the place. For example, many housing projects in France (where I live), tend to be basically large concrete rectangles, with very little gr
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by achenet 4y ago
and also, * leave the Bay Area and go somewhere with higher quality of life and lower real estate prices (read: basically anywhere that isn't Tokyo or NYC), go for residential housing + commercial property unless you have some reason t
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by achenet 4y ago
this makes me wish I were like the Harvey Keitel character in Pulp Fiction, so I could straighten my tie, say "I'm on it", and hop into my vintage Mercedes convertible to go fix it.
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by achenet 4y ago
I'm pretty sure the comment you are responding to was being ironic ;)
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by achenet 4y ago
https://archive.ph/ICWl6
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by achenet 4y ago
er, there's another one for Rust and game dev https://arewegameyet.rs/
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by achenet 4y ago
another factor - lockdown decreasing social ties, which in turns increases mortality. Loneliness kills.
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by achenet 4y ago
aren't interfaces technically an abstract data type? EDIT: ah, it's algebraic data types, my bad, apologies.
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by achenet 4y ago
oh hi there, would you like to hire a few super expensive accountants to optimize taxes like the other big corporations? (in case it isn't obvious, yes, I fully agree that evading government control/taxation is a hugely lucrativ
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by achenet 4y ago
if you're going for VC funding, it's more 1. Make (semi-)BS metrics/goals 2. Achieve them 3. ??? 4. More funding!
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by achenet 4y ago
difference being it is easier (especially if you've got some computer skills) to create a new company than a new university/research lab. My personal "growth" trajectory will eventually entail starting my own shop, I sus
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by achenet 4y ago
He's a guy who Murdoch pays to say offensive things to drive engagement on Fox News :)
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by achenet 4y ago
Thinking Fast and Slow by Kahneman
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by achenet 4y ago
> I'm a little sick of the physically boring aspect of sitting in front of a computer for many hours on end. you ever try a standing desk?
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The Attractin for Drugs Is Spiritual(o-meditation.com)
1 points by achenet 4y ago|0 comments
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by achenet 4y ago
Disagree. Biologically, men are bigger, stronger, and more aggressive. This is also true for basically all large social mammals (cats, dogs, deer, ...), and seems to be a consequence of the fact that female parental investment is greater th
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by achenet 4y ago
how about urbanization drops our birth rates naturally and global population stops growing after a while?
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The one-company workers who never leave(bbc.com)
2 points by achenet 4y ago|0 comments
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by achenet 4y ago
ah, good point about the extensions, I do have uBlock Origin and NoScript, so it could actually be those, even if the latter is basically off 90% of the time... thank you for pointing that out ^_^
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by achenet 4y ago
uh, Bloomberg's original business was selling computer systems. " Bloomberg developed and built his own computerized system to provide real-time market data, financial calculations and other financial analytics to Wall Street firm
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by achenet 4y ago
yeah, except it doesn't work half the time (I have issues with it on MS Teams, Outlooks, even Gmail sometimes) the Mozilla boss thinks the solution is raise her own pay and fire devs. EDIT: and I should mention that I am a die-hard Fir
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by achenet 4y ago
build better systems. Easier said than done, but the basic idea would be something like what the Founding Fathers of the US did with the Constitution - make a system where incentives are set up in such a way as to align success for the indi
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by achenet 4y ago
Banning books and firing teachers is one thing, and I agree we should protect free speech. However, I'm not sure I'm okay with the idea that feeding complex hormones to children who are not old enough to vote, drive, or get tattoo
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by achenet 4y ago
> We did not manage to solve even one none technical problem since we came down the trees. But that's nothing unexpected actually given we're a horde of apes. I'm old enough to know that nothing will ever change as we had
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by achenet 4y ago
I completely agree with you. I hope this way of doing things prevails, although I am worried that the "megacorp sales org wines-and-dines key politician and secures juicy $$$$$ government contract" way of doing things may still be
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by achenet 4y ago
nicotine actually stimulates your acetylcholine receptors, making it a mild nootropic and can be taken in non-smelly ways (patches, gum, etc).
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by achenet 4y ago
Apple is a bad example - they make computers, that is their core business. From chips (ok, they don't own any chip fabs, iirc they used to have their own manufacturing but later outsourced to China, but they do design) up to software,
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by achenet 4y ago
I think a better analogy would if the sparky decided to use a new type of wire with better conduction than standard copper. As GP comment said, there has been innovation in the electrical engineering space that maintains backward compatibi

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