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drawkbox
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Agreed. I am a traveler and we are all connected, everything has beauty. Ego death from psychedelics is realizing ego is a tool, that it isn't truly you, just a tool or armor you use to navigate reality. We live in a self-interested wo
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I'd argue all your 'no' and corrections are directly from your ego competing. The end part of my rant is how you use ego to separate yourself from self constructed walls and competition, and to not rely on motivation but rely
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We are all confident idiots and this is why the ego was created in evolution. Ego is needed to make you think you are better than others at something, eventhough initially you may not be. Without ego, people would be Marvin The Paranoid An
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The rise of private equity siphoning off all gains before they dump it on the public, is breaking the public markets and skimming from all investors. The idea of public markets was trusted investments and the ability to gain with early comp
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7y ago
That definitely plays a role. However, large companies have remote offices in different cities that rely on virtual communication to one another. This just moves the remote/virtual aspect further down the system to the individuals/
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Solution: push remote work as a housing crisis solution. Remote work allows the people to place themselves in better, affordable places, while helping companies get the best from all over, rather than bound to a physical location. This work
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7y ago
A programmer, engineer, creative and product developers job is to create simplicity from complexity. The job is to tame complexity via simplicity, not make a complex beast that needs more taming. Sometimes engineers take something simple an
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Yeah how many people want to park their car in the sun all day long? The better way is parking it in a garage of small to large size, that has solar on the roof, with a much bigger surface area, that you could plug into. Another bad part is
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Why Teslas don’t—and can’t—have solar roofs [1] The top of an electric car has maybe 3–5 square meters of flat space. Solar panels, even at high noon, usually only produce about 200 watt-hours per square meter. The most efficient produ
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Additionally on (A) this is massively beneficial to contractors. They cannot force you to work in an office or the hours you work which is key for a freelancer/contractor/creator/developer. The items are already part of Cali
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Well done, adding in some nice lighting from three.js or glslsandbox.com style would awesome. Art Gallery: https://3dforreddit.com/r/art Earth Natural Art Gallery https://3dforreddit.com/r/EarthPor
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Calming sounds of storms are great to relax to, reading a book or having a rainy day activity are quite nice. However, storms are loved probably because when it storms predators are also hiding, it is a moment of peace in the animal kingdom
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The answer is almost always economics. Unfortunately, in modern society, or really since the human condition has existed, we address symptoms and short-term fixes not root cause analysis and long term fixes. Criminals don't usually wan
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We use platforms and layers that are at the level of branches and leaves on trees, supported by abstracted away structures hiding complexity that make them simpler to use as a platform higher up the tree (or down). A researching traveler ca
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Even back to the days of Archimedes and before, invention and innovation can be fueled by war and military research across many fields. Technology is almost directly tied to defense/intel research even this here internet. That is one o
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Reviews aren't bad, but they don't necessarily stop bad apps, and they slow down good ones. The worse part of approval delays is that they are almost never given time in development schedules made by project managers, bizdevs, mar
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Nearly all entities in products and politics astroturf heavily. In the end it is a massive critical thinking lesson and adds much needed skepticism to the populace. The truth is the internet is teaching the biggest lesson ever in critical t
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No doubt multiplexing is good, better in the transport layer though not protocol. Protocols should be programmable. Currently HTTP/2 requires libraries and being binary by nature there are more changes for vulnerable libraries, that is
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HTTP/3 has a better goal in that it aims to push these elements back down to the transport layer using QUIC, in HTTP/2 transport abstractions bubbled up to the protocol layer making for a messy abstraction. HTTP/2 is a leaky
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Version 2 syndrome on full display aka the "second-system effect" [1]. > The second-system effect (also known as second-system syndrome) is the tendency of small, elegant, and successful systems, to be succeeded by over-engine
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One pretty solid indicator of recessions to the year or two is the inverted yield curve on short and long term yields. From the FRED: 10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Minus 2-Year Treasury Constant Maturity (T10Y2Y) [1]. Once it dips and
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Allowing "Voice" internally is a pressure release valve that is also stated inside the company as mentioned, so maybe issues can be fixed. In a way it is a bit like some democracy in a company rather than the usual authoritarian&#
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As the reserve currency, the USD has some weight on it due to that position, can't just manipulate it like others can as easily except printing more [1]. Being the reserve currency, it was more fair when everyone was pegged to the doll
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Technology and progress is great, but deciding on what to use is becoming like browsing for something to watch on Netflix (or other streaming services). Lots of the time we spend deciding, dealing with devtools and toolchains, and debugging
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> I disagree then. No one does this anymore. The big tech companies certainly don't. In a way they do. Game development/engine development is more possible for this but it happens in all software, especially widely successfu
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We have these AR-15s and all dressed up in SWAT gear, why not start something where we get to use them. /s Sometimes when you get all the equipment, it can encourage usage, just like military gear to police, or large databases gained f
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We still have our thoughts, for now. We should at least know when our face is being accessed on demand and in some ai process. Same with our data. We'll get there eventually but there will be lots of issues along the way.
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As a mobile dev for games/apps I like to have as many versions of devices as possible, newest one if possible. However, the older phones/tablets/devices are best to start and do most of the development on, somewhat like makin
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> Rolling back code and rebuilding to run a test is a pain, and you aren’t going to do it very often, even if you have a suspicion that things aren’t working quite as well in a particular case you hadn’t considered during the rewrite.
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John Carmack on Parallel Implementations (2018)
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