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by bluejellybean 5y ago
I can recall people saying similar things about grocery store checkouts. Lines were quicker if you went through the self-checkout, but people still stood around to have a person do the work and socialize. At some point in the last last few
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by bluejellybean 5y ago
Assuming you don't need/care about maximizing salary, university research can be a pretty rewarding path. There are a lot of big institutions that need high quality software developers with 'real-world' experience to ass
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by bluejellybean 5y ago
I agree that health should be considered fully. As is the case with gas, don't put your body on the burners, the distances discussed in that paper are extremely close, less than 50mm, and upto 300mm. From the paper linked[1]: "the
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by bluejellybean 5y ago
Another trick that I haven't seen anyone talk about in this thread is visualization. I'll use this whenever I notice the loop, but still don't have the courage to actually stop. I'll pause for a moment, tell myself that
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by bluejellybean 5y ago
Combination of things, if I'm cold (literally and figuratively) or I'm still warming up, if I'm really pushing hard, or when I've been going too long and the fatigue sets in. I don't really know how common it is amo
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by bluejellybean 5y ago
Thanks for the heads-up, I just tried it out, somehow never noticed it before!
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by bluejellybean 5y ago
I love that this thread popped up when it did, as part of a new years resolutions of sorts I decided to start writing short stories and have been thinking about this topic quite a lot. For me it depends, when I know exactly what I need to s
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by bluejellybean 5y ago
I've been active in my typing practice since I was about 4, and once I'm warmed up I can usually hit high 120s with 100% accuracy on unseen MonkeyType using a qwerty keyboard with red Cherry switches. If I ignore accuracy and go f
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by bluejellybean 5y ago
Such is the beauty of America, if you don't like a place, you can go somewhere else with relative ease. People like dense urban places, they like suburban cul-de-sac, they also like quiet country living. I personally really like a hub
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by bluejellybean 5y ago
I waited a little over 4 years to upgrade from the Samsung s7 to the iPhone 13 mini. I could gush over how much I love this phone, both the hardware and software are a delight. I've owned the original iPod touch as my first foray into
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by bluejellybean 5y ago
It's funny you mention buying an old house to fix up, I was literally searching online this morning before reading this comment to do the very same thing. Overall I would say that your post, and the parent, resonates quite well with me
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by bluejellybean 5y ago
>But energy -- of the vim and vigor variety -- is not a tank that you must fill before you can use it. It's a choice. It is in fact _created by action_. It's getting up and making things happen even when your tank is empty. So
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by bluejellybean 5y ago
Most people buy cheap stuff, I think there are three main factors that cause this. 1. It's what's available in big box stores, 2. It's cheap (affordable), and 3. Many people don't have the skills/space to build thei
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by bluejellybean 5y ago
> I have a theory that we can eliminate 90% of the required labor in our economy with the following strategy: Until we had extremely advanced robotics, endless land, and infinite energy/resources, this will never become reality, eve
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by bluejellybean 5y ago
Which is why I don't read the articles the vast majority of the time. It's rare that I find an article worth reading slowly, but when I do, I slow down and read it. I come to this forum for the comments, not for poorly written art
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by bluejellybean 5y ago
I don't really consider myself a fast reader, but I was able to get the broad strokes in about 1 and half minutes (timed it). Articles like these are 80% filler and the first sentence of two can generally tell you what the rest is abou
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by bluejellybean 5y ago
Society does, it's called Oxycodone. The results of it have been quite devastating.
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by bluejellybean 5y ago
As a side effect, this would completely destroy the pipeline for commercial aviation (think big jet) pilots. Pretty much everyone starts on small crafts and then proceeds to burn hundreds of hours of avfuel in the process of getting to thei
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by bluejellybean 5y ago
The market is very liquid for anything above 3 pennies. Source, I have over 150,000 market transactions.
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by bluejellybean 5y ago
I've read Soros' work on this idea, he described it as 'reflexivity'. It's a meaty problem that, from my limited point of view anyway, keeps investing from being a trivial exercise. Every bet one takes on the future
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by bluejellybean 5y ago
As many people on this forum know first hand, it's very, very hard to write that's 'perfect'. I've had the chance to write some fairly technically complicated EVM code (on chain contract upgrades with some other adm
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by bluejellybean 5y ago
To the first point, isn't this still true? Unless I missed something, N-95s/respirators are the only way to protect yourself, wearing the cloth/surgical masks is a way to prevent yourself, who may be asymptomatic, from spread
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by bluejellybean 5y ago
Thank you for this demonstration, you've convinced me to give this setup a try! I've been moving towards a mouse-free environment, stemming from wanting a productive remote/on-the-go laptop setup (where the mouse is tolerable
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by bluejellybean 5y ago
If an adult has 10 kids they're going to need even more.
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by bluejellybean 5y ago
It's a reference to PG's essay titled "Ramen Profitable"[0] [0] http://www.paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html
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by bluejellybean 5y ago
Don't really need "Seinfeld money" to do it though. I'm agreeing with the top sub-comment to yours. If you don't have time for 1 hour, should really find a way to do 2.
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by bluejellybean 5y ago
Could always hire a cleaner and order delivery. Doesn't seem like that much of a stretch to me.
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by bluejellybean 5y ago
Having grown up in (very) poor rural America (~3k population), gone to work/live in an urban area (close to 3 million metro population), and now live in an extraordinarily affluent but smallish (100k) midwest city, I really don't
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by bluejellybean 5y ago
I agree with the "read from the beginning" vs "landed on a page" issue. Linking can solve a lot of these styles of issues, as does keeping in mind the many possible consumers of the given documentation. As a simple examp
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by bluejellybean 6y ago
Yupp! I made a little toy project for the EVM over a year ago with this exact concept, never really did anything with it sadly, life seems to find ways to get busy. Due to the nature of needing to send 'gas' to make function calls

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