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by badpun 3y ago
Please don't do a quick open source project for the sake of padding one's resume. The world is full of crap software as it is. Such software shows up in people's google searches, takes time to try out, and the user will inevi
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by badpun 3y ago
Individually, most startups fail, so most of them are "wasting capital". As wtih any experimentation, they only make sense in the aggregate, where the total value for society delivered by successful experiments makes up for the co
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Notice the large black borders around the gameplay area. That's due to hardware being too weak to render the game on entire screen.
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Just keep doing it, preferably in low-stakes settings (short presentations on non-important matters, ideally to people who you know). It's a matter of practice. Also, for some people, performance anxiety does not go away but at best ca
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by badpun 3y ago
> I mean that in general it appears to me that almost everything is produced by a very small number of people. We're no longer living in a world where you need 9 people to feed 10 people. This is only true for complex positions, whe
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> Years ago, when I was younger and more idealistic, I would have expressed my opinion on the choices made, even forcefully so. After I got fired at one of my previous jobs, I tend to side with the boss, strategically. Perhaps I'm a
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by badpun 3y ago
Isn't that the case? There are plenty of initiatives (both public and private) which favor non-whites, while I don't think there's even one which favors black people. So, people who get to put non-white in their papers are pr
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by badpun 3y ago
That makes sense, given how startups (at least those VC funded) are defacto quasi-scams with a goal of creating an illusion of an unicorn, and then quickly flipping it in an IPO, and happily running away with the money. For such purpose, cr
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by badpun 3y ago
Why do people just roll over and accept such bullshit? When have workers become such pussies? A century ago, people risked their lives (and some died) striking to improve working conditions. Today, people just accept management's asini
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by badpun 3y ago
Poland is literally 95%+ ethnic Poles (many of whom have their ancestral roots outside of Poland, but that was centuries ago - they consider themselves Poles now). It's not diverse at all, not "infinitely diverse".
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Wait, a native Spaniard emigrating to US is not counted as "white" there? Are you sure?
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Poles, Hungarians and Spaniards share a thousand-long common history of being part of Christian Europe, under Roman Christianity. That was the leading and unifying cultural force in Europe up until the XX century (with common philosophy, La
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All bodies at temperatures higher than 0K radiate heat, the vacuum around them doesn't stop that from happening. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_radiation
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For one, with a 1 file per row (entity) design, any larger query would require reading from potentially millions of files, which I imagine would be nightmarishly inefficient.
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> the nation responsible for the largest ethnic cleansing in the last 500 years (that of North America, which inspired Adolf Hitler) Weren't those nations mainly Brittain, Spain and France?
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by badpun 3y ago
It's been only 10 months now. So far, I've played a lot of my favorite video games, read books, fixed some things around the apartment, learned a lot of new cooking recipes, tried my hand at new programming areas (however, I'
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by badpun 3y ago
> You like fine dining and look forward to a new restaurant every week? That's the equivalent of a dream to some people. Well, then my "dream" is to play MtG and lay in bed reading random stuff on the Internet. Seems like
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by badpun 3y ago
That's exactly right. For example, I decided I prefer to live on $500-$1000 a month to having to work more years. So, I retired as soon as I could afford $1k till the rest of my life. It's not a life rich in material goods, but, i
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by badpun 3y ago
> Almost everyone regrets not having achieved more. Depends on the culture. This my be true in the US, but most other cultures aren't as obsessed with achieving.
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Is the alcohol really necessary? Any social relation that requires alcohol to continue does seem low value.
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Also, be aware that most people don't have a dream or a thing they love. The message about having a dream and "doing what you love" is so prevalent in the US culture, that the large number of people whom it does not pertain t
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by badpun 3y ago
That's for enthusiasts (super fit people)? From health benefits perspective for average person, what I've heard is that it's enough for the weight to trigger accelerated heart rate, heavier breathing, sweating etc. when walki
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by badpun 3y ago
> However, do you think putting 2 hrs a week on a single project for extended time will take me to places? What places? Getting a job in the field? I think it could do it, unless the field is very hard to get into (e.g. 3d computer visio
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by badpun 3y ago
Nope. But it wouldn't be a problem to carry even 8-10 kg in a backpack instead of just 3-4 kg. In fact, it's a recommended form of cardiovascular excercise (it's called "rucking").
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> The Balkans is sunny, taxes are low. I'd take that any day over subzero Northern Germany. Isn't the weather still not great during the winter months? I don't care if it's 0 C or +8 C, both make me not want to go out
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A mile to a store is a very comfortable distance. I've lived in such situation for a couple of years and just walked to the store a couple times a week, hauling back a couple of kilograms of groceries in my backpack every time. I neede
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My mother is similar. We both don't have that much energy and seem to tire quicker than most people. I've tried some things over the years, done paid blood panel (not the most fancy one you could get), fixed my sleep, excercised e
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by badpun 3y ago
I'm a good counterexample to that story though. I've started coding when I was nine, have Masters in Computer Science, have worked in software for roughly 15 years (most of that coding). I've taught myself linear algebra, 3d
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by badpun 3y ago
This really depends on your previous experience. If, for example, you have previous experience with C++ (which is what is often used in those hard niches), it would make sense to just apply to generic C++ roles, and work your way up to high
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Those "average" PhD researchers are in reality all very smart and hard working people. If you want big salaries, people who get them often have PhD degree from top20 universities in the world. They will be your competition when in

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