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by aworks 3y ago
I'm a heavy Bill Simmons podcast listener as well as with other podcasts on the Ringer Network. I had only head music by Taylor Swift sporadically in the past. Those podcast discussions about Swift in the last several years have height
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I was just in line at the grocery where an elderly couple bought $600 worth of groceries and paid by check. I wasn't even sure stores still took checks.
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Yes, location, location, location. I'm a Bay Area resident in a crappy 76 y/o house worth > 2M. And surprisingly happy about it.
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I've lived in Palo Alto and Menlo Park since 1987 and I go to San Francisco a couple times a month. I had my bike stolen at a Caltrain station. Someone yelled at me once South of Market. I've seen drug usage in UN Plaza. I'v
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I live in Menlo Park. We frequently go to SF for cultural/historical/nature reasons. But to go shopping, it's far easier to drive and park at Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto or Santana Row in San Jose. I've stopped
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Pre-announcement of a leadership change...
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In 1970, Menlo Park was 17.4% black. Wikipedia says in 2020 it was about 3% http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/cities/MenloPark70.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menlo_Park,_California
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This reminded me to check my gmail spam folder. It included a short message I sent to myself as a reminder and a message from my health care provider.
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Appreciate the empathy towards SF residents. I'd say the epicenter of the tech industry is to the south of San Francisco: Silicon Valley/Santa Clara County/San Mateo County e.g. Google, Apple, Facebook, Sand Hill Road.
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The Bay Area is also geographically constrained by water and mountains. This is compared to say a plains city that can greatly expand in all directions e.g. Dallas (?).
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That's a good point about use cases. In my usage of ChatGPT, in areas I'm very knowledgable. I've mostly received answers that were stylistically excellent, creatively plausable and maybe even transcendent. The boilerplate ar
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I think this is right. The chats I've had with it are more thoughtful, comprehensive and modest than any conversation I've had on the Internet with people I don't know, starting from the usenet days. And I respect it more tha
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My priors: I've lived in (chemically toxic) Silicon Valley for decades near a long-term Superfund site created by a long-gone semiconductor facility. I'm also a former Midwestener who understands the importance of the Ohio River e
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In a more moderate version of this, I believe to be powerful also requires one to be responsible (among other attributes). I won't go into the details but I've found this to be also true in my personal life, when I've been in
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Google is an ad-driven company and they haven't yet figured out to generate ad revenue from Waymo... (Having said that, it's cool that the Mountain View office building I used to go to is now occupied by Waymo).
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During the pandemic, I started taking drives and walks and drives to take walks, often to mundane places. Three years later, the novelty has worn off so I take multi-day drives. So I learned it's important for me to get out often, in
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I used to subscribe to The Wire but as much as I enjoy it, I always had an unread backlog. Now I just buy new and used editions at Amoeba Music occasionally. It's a surprisingly satisfying experience particularly compared to other maga
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I met my wife and all my previous girlfriends at work. Only one was a software engineer but they were all smart...
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I suspected that the problems were strategic and cultural, not just operational. Being cheap and efficient seems hard-wired into Southwest's business. They may have lost their way on being friendly, however.
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Interesting and naive journey to find a suitable and minimal "permacomputing" environment for doing software development on a sailboat.
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On a business trip to China, I accidentally walked into our company's Communist Party meeting (and was politely encouraged to quickly leave). I have no idea if company-specific discussion ever occurred. Our office was mostly junior eng
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Ukrainian Consequences: Nord Stream(youtube.com)
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Maybe a sufficing vs. optimizing problem?. It seems like a doable journey if you put thought into it. Mainstream America can now keep their phone charged. In x years, the same for keeping their vehicle charged?
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As I wind down 16 years of twitter use, this suggests the benefits of newsletters.
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7,999,993,869 and counting...
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Double Indeed! Akhnaten and SAW2 are two of my favorites.
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I've decided to take a twitter hiatus. Elon fatigue is a thing, for me anyway.
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As a quick check, here's the first definition from a google search of social media: "websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking." I was surprised by the &quo
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I recently decided to double the number of books I read in a month. Newport suggests the monthly book rate as a good metric to organize your book reading.
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HopTea was my workday treat during the pandemic.

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