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by badpun 3y ago
> looking at my early 2013 Macbook Pro, even with fans on full blast, the aluminum body gets quite hot I have the exact same laptop. Opening it and thoroughly cleaning huge amounts of dust that gathered inside over the years changed it i
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by badpun 3y ago
How? Fans don't get rid of the heat, they merely exhaust it outside of the laptop. In fact, fanless machine is probably producing less heat (as it does not require a fan), so it would be better with no AC.
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by badpun 3y ago
UK's number of cars per capita is not much different from countries in Europe which have much better services, though.
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by badpun 3y ago
The "movement" was of course a continuous effort, hard to say when it started. In England, a major improvement effort was done around 1810-1830 by a rich nobleman, who was irritated by having to use very bad country roads to go to
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by badpun 3y ago
People desired flat roads before cars. There was a huge effort in XIX century to develop better roads for the horse-drawn buggies and stagecoaches.
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by badpun 3y ago
Women equality destroyed marriage. Before women could work in attractive jobs, a marriage was often only way for a woman to a middle class lifestyle. The husband was a neccessity. Now, women can just get a job that provides such lifestyle,
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by badpun 3y ago
The standard of living will go down for sure, but I don't think it's reasonable to predict people starving to death due to not enough workers producing food. More likely, we won't be going on vacations abroad, we'll be d
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by badpun 3y ago
> The german car industry killed itself by being complacent and ignoring the writing on the wall. "Killed itself"? Do you know VW is the largest car company in the world?
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by badpun 3y ago
Same could be said of hunger or tiredness. In other words, depression can be an unwanted, but inevitable byproduct of our internal workings - same as being tired is.
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by badpun 3y ago
I became free by working for salary (or daily rate, when contracting), saving most of my paycheck, and retiring on the savings. It's the easiest, most fool-proof way.
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by badpun 3y ago
It’s by choice. Most people in the US could achieve 1920s standard of living by working for a fraction of standard career (say 10-20 years), and retiring early. Instead, people choose to work till old age, to be able to afford modern comfor
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by badpun 3y ago
Arguably, Soviets were prioritizing military production (up to 14% GDP going to military in the 80s), and everything else was an afterthought. They didn't need to give population quality cars, as they could just send them to Gulags if
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by badpun 3y ago
Aspirin or Ibupofren have their limits.
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by badpun 3y ago
Right now, Apple's P/E is on par with SP500 average. It's not an overpriced stock (or, contrarily, the entire SP500 is overpriced).
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by badpun 3y ago
I personally think modules are fantastic. Finally, with modules, C++ catches up to the rest of programming world, and allows you to completely ditch the outdated header/implementation split.
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by badpun 3y ago
> Nah, that's not the right answer. It puts focus on the product rather than the founders. You do NOT need PMF to get 1-5 sales. If you can't even get there, it's bigger problems. PMF is needed to turn 2k MRR into 50k MRR.
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by badpun 3y ago
Is anyone really having to re-buy appliances every few years? I bought all my appliances back in 2016 (dishwasher, washing machine, induction plate, owen with microwave, fridge, hot water boiler) and none of it broke yet. They're all f
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by badpun 3y ago
I wonder if it translates into shops not selling the most unreliable crap, or selling it at a markup, compared to other countries. Or do they just amortize the cost across entire product gauntlet.
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by badpun 3y ago
There's also tons of next-level thinking, i.e. seeking status via appearing to be good, or even by genuinely doing some helping. Charities, concerned celebrities visiting malnourished children in Africa etc.
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by badpun 3y ago
Holy cow, is that for real? I don't think I know a single person like that. How old were the guests?
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by badpun 3y ago
There’s plenty of real-world FP systems written in Scala. In general, FP is not a problem today, because data mutation usually happens in some kind of external database, and the programs people have to write are just stateless transformatio
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by badpun 3y ago
20x increase happened to me as well. My first full-time coding job paid around 2.5k PLN after taxes, while my highest paying job so far paid around 50k PLN after taxes. That was over the span of a bit over 15 years, with low inflation over
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by badpun 3y ago
> Finally, getting to L7 EM is maybe 30% in your control and 70% circumstances, but that ratio is IMO inverted for ICs. That sounds like a positive. As an EM, there's a good chance you'll be promoted to L7 via pure luck - with
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by badpun 3y ago
There are some Trader Joe's products in my local Aldi in Poland.
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by badpun 3y ago
> There is no more correlation between production price and consumption price. That is because, for certain modes of production (renewables, nuclear), most of the cost is paid up-front during construction, and the cost of production is m
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by badpun 3y ago
Don't believe things you read/hear/see on the Internet, particularly if they come from people who make an income out of spreading said message. Internet is the snake oil salesman's paradise, particularly when it comes to
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by badpun 3y ago
> Me: "I would think they needed a committee since that can last longer than a lifetime if the current members add in new people as the old members die" > Tour Guide: "Yes! Exactly! So few people realize that is what ha
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by badpun 3y ago
Thanks for the AMA! Do you see a lot of opportunities for people utilizing computer-vision based SLAM (aka Structure from Motion)? I quite like that technique, but it seems too niche to make a consistent career out of it.
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by badpun 3y ago
The solution is simple - don't come back at 1 am, or if you absolutely have to, either move closer to your friends, or come back via a taxi.
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by badpun 3y ago
Europe has an algorithm that, on such intersections, you have to yield to a car on your right-hand side. This works well until there's a car on every leg of the intersection, which is extremely rare (because, on intersections with such

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