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by bckr 4y ago
I don't have kids, and I'm not certain I want them, but I've gotten to where I can understand that people would rather create people instead of ideas / impact / change. This is because, in some ways, nothing ever c
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by bckr 4y ago
> genuinely feel angry about the anti-corporate "the system is for losers, follow your passion" shit I feel you on this, although I'm less angry and more feel silly for falling for it. That said, there was some healing tha
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by bckr 4y ago
> friends My mentor is also a friend. Not sure about my other friends and family. They all seem to love me and just want me to be happy. > yourself I'd like to create some things. Maybe businesses, maybe not. It's pretty gre
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> Your mentor wishes they weren’t boring Good observation. He is insecure about being "average". He's far from average, but has clearly risen to a place where he doesn't feel more successful/intelligent than his
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> start a family If by this you mean make babies, maybe later.
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> I can't get the grocery store clerk to help me find wheat tortillas You definitely could if you asked. This was my calculus professor whom I then did undergrad research with (ML just before deep learning became the hotness; not my
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Ask HN: Thoughts on being “boring”
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you're welcome
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They can disclose their interests without the repetitive intro. But for the above comment, just asking a question, even this is unnecessary.
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> That said, I did have a job offer that was rescinded at the last moment At what point in the process was it rescinded? Had you already accepted or even started the process of getting your equipment / Onboarding?
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Hey, Anh-Tho, just as a point of feedback, since you're leaving a lot of comments in this thread, it's not necessary to introduce yourself in each one. Most folks will be scanning the whole thread and seeing your introduction gets
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you can click on the timestamp to reveal a flag button
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> Just relatively mundane sexual stuff as you say. I believe you're over thinking this and honestly shouldn't have sent her any money. Sorry you're going through this.
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Maybe Elon is trying to do us all a favor and destroy Twitter by, ironically, embodying the worst qualities of Twitter.
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Name things properly. Don't use the old-fashioned naming conventions that try to minimize the length of names. good: doc_file_parser bad: x bad: dcprsr good: getFlightString() bad: flightstr() bad: myfun() Writing code is writing . Wr
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Not a system, but a habit: when you've decided to do something, do it long before you feel ready. Probably shoot for feeling 2-5% ready to do anything new. "Bullets, then cannonballs".
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Thanks for typing that up! The test will be whether this will help as much as I think it would in a real system.
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By "never", I'm referring to the blog posts that have many images. Some images are OK. These are mostly OK. The mouse does have too many toes on one paw, but that's not too bad. The sloth also has uneven-sized claws in a
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Might call it analysis paralysis. You might also call it research. Consider putting your studies together as blog posts or videos so that your research becomes art in its own right. "Process is art".
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This is a good next step in mapping musical space, yes.
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An idea that I've been kicking around is to, in Python codebases, have a @log decorator that first logs the name of the function, all of the parameters it's called with and a function call id, then the name of the function, its re
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Unfortunately, I can still never look at these blog posts for more than a few seconds without becoming disturbed. Any time an animal (human or otherwise) is included in the image, it's terrifying--especially the hands/hooves/
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I'm curious how to arrive at a point in life where one has enough friends to make this plausible. I hope Lincoln goes beyond the design and accomplishes living in a place like this, and writes about it. I daydream about intentional com
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> This feels a whole hell of a lot like "this is hard and I don't want to learn how to do it so I'll make up some syndrom to excuse it". Bah. I don't think that's a charitable interpretation and is uncalled
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> pretty sure caretakers [can't] work from home Why not? > Also isn't it pretty racist /sexist to suggest that just because [you're] black or a woman, you won't be able to commute? I don't agree with the
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I can imagine a study could be done on the effects of WFH/WFO on minorities. That said, I wouldn't discount anecdotes if there were enough of them.
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Then again, maybe that would bring the prices down in a place that you want to live anyway.
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They have created a series of epic comedy-advertisements for their productivity suite: https://youtu.be/GC5Gmkn92Bg
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This may be true, but should we all strive to appear rational at all times? Maybe the most rational thing is for workers to always stick together.
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Well, off the top of my head, black folks, asians, and latin folks might be more likely to be caretakers and/or further from the office. That said, if they have Apple salaries, I'm sure they can work it out. That said (again), the

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