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by badpun 3y ago
It's possible to hear cars driving 20 miles away?
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by badpun 3y ago
> With covid lately and other challenges like AI and whatnot there may just be no time to be passionate because it is time spent worrying. It was always like that, it's basically the human condition. You may choose not to worry and
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by badpun 3y ago
>The tantalizing just-out-of-reach articulation of a compelling concept. What out of reach concepts do you have? I've found that, with time, I could code almost anything (barring ultraspecialized programs like FEA analysis etc.). Th
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by badpun 3y ago
"Architect" in most places is basically "code politician".
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by badpun 3y ago
Video games and other personal projects rarely bring enough money to live on. If they do for you, then really there's no need to retire. However, you're in a small minority.
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by badpun 3y ago
> Being a deeply average anonymous nobody is the ideal life in the 21st century. I agree, but I’d say an early retired average nobody is even better.
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by badpun 3y ago
> Streetcars and trains are more efficient at bringing people to places that most people want to go. They rarely are. Between walking to the stop, waiting for train/bus, time on train/bus, then walking from the stop - car is al
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by badpun 3y ago
> again, we are so far off as engineers and we are clueless regarding negotiation and deal making. The street cleaners or workers at McDonals are even more clueless then. Or, it's supply and demand.
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by badpun 3y ago
> Don't charge for your time if you can negotiate a better arrangement. Charging for time makes perfect sense in some cases, though. If you're working for a pointless startup that is likely never going to be profitable (or &quo
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by badpun 3y ago
> Seems like the doubters were quite right - our ability to go anywhere is now dependent on forking out $25-50K for a car, hundreds of dollars in insurance payments, hundreds of dollars in gas payments, hundreds of dollars in parking, ti
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by badpun 3y ago
> We live in the richest society in history, and also the most suicidal. Actually, the US is not even in top 30 of countries with most suicides per capita. And of course, it's probably better than most at actually keeping records, w
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by badpun 3y ago
> Either way, I think the vast majority of people who are alive want to remain alive, so I never understood the sentiment that it's selfish to bring someone into the world. It's not "remaining". If you had decided to
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by badpun 3y ago
> Official policy sounds like the Soviet Union was the only employer and they were deciding to pay peanuts unilaterally. The official doctrine was that it was a Laborer's Republic, and so physical labor very often paid more than men
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by badpun 3y ago
You can also check out how the car does in specific tests. So, if you want to ignore risk to pedestrians, you can.
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by badpun 3y ago
Let's punish every act that we don't want to see with death (or, at a minimum, cutting off a hand), that will solve world's problems for sure.
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by badpun 3y ago
On the other han, euro crash tests are absolute (as far as I know). You can see the decrease in safety in smaller car models, down to which part of the body is getting crashed in which type of collision in a smaller car, but is intact in a
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by badpun 3y ago
> The LLM hype has kinda poisoned the front page for me. Pretty much any time I look about half of the stories are about LLMs. Not only that, they also poisoned the podcasts I like. Now, there like 50% chance that a given episode will be
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by badpun 3y ago
The IDEs support incremental recompilation and it usually takes at most a couple of seconds - unless your project is huge and you work on some core module on which everything else depends. That's not common in Java though (more common
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by badpun 3y ago
> iPhone is the most successful consumer product in history, I'd say it's probably Coca-Cola?
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by badpun 3y ago
> PM2.5 levels in Tokyo yesterday were like 6x WHO limits and absolutely no one on the local news was talking about it. According to [1], yesterday's peak of PM2.5 (not the 24 hour average) in Tokyo was at 22 µg/m3, whereas acc
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by badpun 3y ago
In cities (especially dense, old European cities), IC cars makes most of the noise when they accelerate after a stop at the crossroads, pedestrian crossing etc. EVs or even hybrids make a big difference in such conditions. Not to mention, o
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by badpun 3y ago
Java will be with us for many decades.
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by badpun 3y ago
I saw the exposition of their movie sets (basically incredible dollhouses and puppets) in New York's MoMA. Much more intersting and beautiful than the movie itself IMO.
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by badpun 3y ago
> You know, it's not different in ANY of the empires, past or present. Look at Russia and it's just a couple decades of further decline, but the same thing. I very seriously doubt that US or even the UK will look like Russia in
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by badpun 3y ago
I had the same experience when I started working, but it only lasted about a year. In a year, the novelty wore off and what was left was an endlesss, monotonous grind, that was incomparably harder than in school.
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by badpun 3y ago
It's practically impossible to determine price though. It can be gamed very easily.
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by badpun 3y ago
There's a simple solution - I don't do none of that stuff. Just go with the flow. It won't make you rich or successful, but it will definitely make you less anxious.
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by badpun 3y ago
Looks like the lawyers were able to defend themselves because they, well, write the laws.
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by badpun 3y ago
> Because the salaries have been stagnant since the 70s and the cost of living/existing has sky rocketed. I couldn't find info about salaries per se, but average hourly wage in the US increased by around 800% since 1970.
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by badpun 3y ago
I dunno, for me it wasn't the worst. School was overall much nicer than a job - less demanding, less workload, much more fun coworkers, a ton of camraderie ("us against teachers"). Basically a fun, low-stakes environment.

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