antiherovelo

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by antiherovelo 3y ago
+1 for music production. Endlessly diverting, and not nearly as expensive as it used to be. With a good laptop and a keyboard and a guitar or two you can accomplish stuff that was impossible 20 years ago in the most advanced studio on Earth
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by antiherovelo 3y ago
Absolutely. Some of the best engineers I have hired have been of modest talent but had tons of grit. They run circles around their more talented but aimless peers. And if you have both talent and resilience, you’ve got a proper superpower.
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by antiherovelo 3y ago
You’re talking about consumer grade graphics, not AI processing, and you’re talking about cheap, not performant. There is no significant competition to the NVIDIA A100 and H100 for machine learning.
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by antiherovelo 4y ago
Handwriting still has value in certain contexts, but these are so subtle compared to the massive speed/retention/recall advantages of computing that they seem worthless unless you’ve already mastered and use them. I handwrite all
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by antiherovelo 4y ago
^^^ this is great advice. For some of us (not all) taking a long break makes stuff worse because we are so identified with the whole work/money axis. If you’re like this, find ways to stay busy and make some income, even just a little,
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by antiherovelo 4y ago
^^^ this is the way. Spend your time on deep relationships with worthwhile people and remarkable things can happen.
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by antiherovelo 4y ago
I’ve been where you are. It’s a worrisome spot. Cutting back is absolutely the right thing to do. You won’t regret it. Your mind will bounce back - the longer you’re sober, the better you’ll feel. I’ve been mostly sober for 6 years, and 100
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by antiherovelo 4y ago
Moving to an entirely plant based diet has made all the difference in the world for me. It isn’t a cure, but excellent nutrition makes a HUGE difference. Eating entirely plant-based can also be done very very cheaply if you’re careful. Walk
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by antiherovelo 4y ago
It matters. If you are tall and good looking, it helps. BUT… Amongst the vast majority of the most capable, successful, and broadly well-respected people I have worked with, their status has had little to do with their beauty. I am thinking
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by antiherovelo 4y ago
For a DC operator, GPUs have high runtime costs: think about all amps drawn and heat spewed by a box full of GPUs. The fraud thing has been a factor, for sure. You need some guarantees that your client is legit before you spend money on the
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by antiherovelo 4y ago
Pretty much the same as right now, or 200 years ago: The ability to learn new skills on short notice. Grit. Emotional and intellectual maturity. Most everything else is just details. That said, there will likely be plenty of Enterprise Java
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by antiherovelo 4y ago
You need observability in order to make good decisions. Get that mess into source control, and the. Start instrumenting it. Spend what meager budget you can get from upper mgmt on instrumentation. Writing tests is great, but how do you even