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by endymi0n 5y ago
From my anecdotal experience and studies, this seems to not be the case: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-downside-of-full-pay-transp... Also, defining the problem by first principles, this effect kind of makes sense.
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The more I see, the more I think we need a mandatory „Life School“ curriculum in classes. Financial literacy is just one issue, but all that stuff like media competency, scientific method, cui bono, negotiations, assertiveness, how to deal
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by endymi0n 5y ago
So much this. Most about building a tech startup isn't about engineering at all: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3134322 If you still depend on a job for paying the bills (which means that you don't currently
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by endymi0n 5y ago
What is your end goal? If it's being hired at a large corporation, you'll find useful advice in lots of other comments here. If you want to go to FAANG, it can still be useful, but open source contributions and learning data struc
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It‘s always funny and surprising to non-insiders, but tax law and criminal law don‘t have that many touchpoints. If you pay extortion money or bribes as a company, it‘s not just that they‘re deductible, you‘re actually obligated to account
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Brand appeal and self-selection are exactly what are happening there. The owner of our favorite Italian restaurant was talking to us and always used phrases like "in my home country" until we got to know him really well and he con
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…is it called streaming then?
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This. Just start finishing! :) „Just“ as in: I‘m still trying to figure this stuff out as a lifelong procrastinator but other ingredients than momentum conservation which was also huge for me were self-acceptance, self-forgiveness and espec
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I can‘t find the link anymore, but in the prologue of (I think) a German norm for building playgrounds it said something along these lines that resonated a lot with me: „Kids have the right to hurt themselves and test their boundaries in a
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After all, it's not even that hard or costly in comparison. Total expected lifetime cost of the F-35 program [1]: 1.5T$ Expected cost of shifting the US to 100% renewables [2]: 4.5T$ (note these estimates are probably at least double t
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by endymi0n 5y ago
Pretty much spot on. The very best engineers often have a mix of technical excellence, courage / nonconformism and loyalty / optimism. Take out any of those and you get either nothing or a disaster. But if all come together, you w
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I hear this a lot of times recently — what I'm interested by now is where the new equilibrium will be going forward. So far us software engineers have often seen jobs as replaceable and we know we'll have another one at the snip o
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by endymi0n 5y ago
Same here, my body would take 12h every night it it wasn‘t for the alarm clock and I‘m still tired as hell. All the usual advice I‘ve tried, I can kill my three alarm clocks, drink two coffees, take a brutal cold shower in my daylight brigh
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by endymi0n 5y ago
> Maybe you're an exception, and it would be great if you are. But I've had deep and meaningful relationships with people, fully remotely and text-based, since I used IRC as a teenager. I think in 2021 it's fair to raise t
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So yes, as a "boss", the work-from-home future is definitely and absolutely destroying my brain, but I think the whole discussion around control in the article completely misses my point. I couldn't care less about control an
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You‘re pretty much describing the idea behind Pulumi which got a lot of traction lately. Personally, I‘m still undecided on whether the unlimited freedom of a fully fledged programming language is a good or a bad idea in terms of footgun po
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by endymi0n 5y ago
This. > yachts and super cars will pay 90% tax Oh really? But car parts are just 20% so let‘s just cut the Veyron in half before delivery. And the yacht is better privately rented from that Serbian shell company whose business model it i
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by endymi0n 5y ago
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." — George Santayana "I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive." — Kurt
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by endymi0n 5y ago
While still significant, the impact of lithium cost on battery cost is commonly far overestimated: "A 50% increase in lithium prices would for instance increase the battery pack price of a nickel-manganese-cobalt (NMC) 811 battery by l
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by endymi0n 5y ago
Almost 7 years ago, we set up our first build pipeline and I was a bit anxious about Jenkins because I simply hated it and it would have been the only piece of Java technology in our stack. Our infra guy basically told me "look, there’
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If it had not been for 15 minutes (2004)(web.archive.org)
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Negative. Mike Uniform Lima, please descend to flight level one zero, turn heading zero tree one abeam Sierra and request alternate approach.
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I don‘t disagree, but I think it‘s congruent with what I said: A lot of that actual, totally existent revenue was paid through individuals on unemployment benefits and corporations on life support. It wasn‘t „earned“ in a lot of cases, but
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So my pet theory is: All conventional wisdom on inflation deals with the assumption that all money is equal. But we've come into an unprecedented situation where a lower and lower share of overall money is actually used in transit inst
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My 2 cents on it is that this isn't a bubble. It's just massive inflation that hasn't arrived at the consumer just yet. The pandemic created a massive problem for economies, but that problem existed pretty much globally, so w
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by endymi0n 5y ago
Spot on. It all is a massive step forward from the times when my mom asked me which cable to plug in where and identical (but fully different) PS/2 connectors for mouse and keyboard were still a thing. The fact that power doesn‘t just
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Hoping for the best. Preparing for the usual: https://vooza.com/videos/the-truth-about-acquisitions/
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Datomic does, so does Oracle, Snowflake and BigQuery.
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There, I did it for you in PostgreSQL: ALTER TABLE table_name SET (autovacuum_enabled = false); Snark aside, it‘s still not 100% clear what‘s the upside of using a completely different database, just for that use case.
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by endymi0n 5y ago
Disregarding the practical aspects and all nostalgia: All that unburnt fuel and oil vapor from the 2 stroke was a major ecological and health hazard and I‘m glad they‘re long gone. Every time a Trabbi Safari passes by me around Checkpoint C

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