ericmcer

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by ericmcer 2y ago
Agree, if your personal site is basic looking but links to a cool react library you made that would be more impressive to me than a fancy portfolio. If you want to learn React then nothing you do is a bad idea because it is all going to tea
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I run to get fit but it is also freeing to know your body can cover distance without much effort. If the coffee shop is a mile away but you are a decent runner you can go there and back in ~20 minutes without getting tired/sweaty. No
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Kind of a tough read, I just turned 37 and this was the year when it really hit home that your body degrades and sometimes it never goes back to "normal". I was used to sports injuries being a pattern of injury -> recovery -&gt
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by ericmcer 2y ago
deaths of thousands is a massive understatement. Just overdose deaths is probably getting close to a million. But they are also responsible for: The people who don't OD but have their lives destroyed by opiods. The family and friends w
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by ericmcer 2y ago
It is really interesting to watch late 90s sitcoms (Friends, Seinfeld, etc.). Everyone is hopeful, they all view their low incomes and renting apartments as temporary conditions that they can turn around at anytime. 9/11 really popped
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Incrementally increasing expenses as your income raises seems dumb, for me there are only three financial levels: 1. Can't afford lifestyle. 2. Can afford lifestyle. 3. Can retire. Raises and budgeting can take you from 1 -> 2 quick
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by ericmcer 2y ago
This attitude is bad, but it is kinda justified. If you spend any time in the "indie hacker" entrepreneur space today it is oversaturated with people trying to root out every single angle they can possibly try to address with thei
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by ericmcer 2y ago
If you really think about what an LLM is you would think there is no way that leads to general purpose AI. At the same time though they are already doing way more than we thought they could. Maybe people were surprised by what OpenAI achiev
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Don’t you produce ketones any time you can’t get enough energy from carbohydrates?
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by ericmcer 2y ago
A factor I don't see talked about: All those countries killed their manufacturing and offshored it over the last 40 years. Factories and manufacturing meant good jobs located far away from major cities, and towns/communities built
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by ericmcer 2y ago
"I'm glad I chose mediocrity, but how am I to say what reward might have come with the other? None of my children will be great either, except perhaps Tom. He's suffering over the choosing right now. It's a painful thing
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by ericmcer 2y ago
"The future, which distinctly though barely missing, is going to be brighter than the present." This one hit pretty hard. I am not a cancer patient who is missing a life saving treatment by 10 years, but it does feel like we are l
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by ericmcer 2y ago
That plays out for all the examples, except for the one where its answer was way off it and it corrected itself and attempted again. It was surprising that it generated an answer based on statistics but then was able to recognize that it wa
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I don't think there is a single variable name or comment in this entire code block that conveys any information. Name stuff well! Especially if you want random strangers to gaze upon your code in wonder.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
This is interesting because many believe the Black Plague is what caused the Renaissance. Maybe Roman leadership drained themselves ensuring that power structures stayed in place, whereas in post Black Plague Europe survivors were left with
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I am so tired of noise and air pollution having 0 enforcement in cities, but if a car is parked for 15m too long in a metered spot they are ready like hawks to swoop down and dispense a $60 ticket. I was eating lunch at a restaurant few wee
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by ericmcer 2y ago
We need to give more credence to our subconscious abilities. People like their knowledge to be sheets of notes or flash cards they can rattle off because those are easy for our conscious minds to quantify. The subconscious mind is way stron
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Writing is one of the strongest tools I have against ADHD. When doing a code review or thinking about a problem my mind wanders, but while writing, just stream of consciousness, it focuses intensely. It’s barely legible and utterly useless
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by ericmcer 2y ago
They probably figured it would be really strong imagery to see the items being physically crushed in a giant press. It definitely invokes feelings, but not good ones.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
If I wanted to hire a bunch of fake accounts to upvote my shill posts it does seem like a great subreddit to do it in.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
This has always been a dream, because there is a "perfect" way for your body to climb a route but it would be insanely complex to calculate, especially when factoring in every tiny physiological aspect like ankle strength and hams
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Its useful to do the math around what your equity would be worth, if you are the 50th hire you are probably getting less than .1%, so even a crazy moonshot billion dollar acquisition would leave you with a few 100k at most. Grinding yoursel
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by ericmcer 2y ago
I was 19 in 2008, and I don't know if something like that will ever happen again now that the government has shown their willingness to dumping money to prop up any weakening asset. Look at the pandemic, everything kept going up.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Agree, The author of the post said he has been paying $2500/mo in rent, that is similar to the mortgage on a $450k house with 20% down. The problem is all the $450k houses are miles from where most young people want to live. I am not s
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by ericmcer 2y ago
Can you be an ex Microsoft CFO and a cool skateboarder? What if she is legitimately good at it? It is tricky to divorce the spirit behind an activity from the activity itself. Also wow you have to seriously lack self-awareness to pose for s
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by ericmcer 2y ago
InsureGPT would actually be great at its job. In the same way LLMs can never say "I don't know" it could never admit the claim was valid.
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by ericmcer 2y ago
If AI is telling the nurse the substance and quantity I should be injected with I am going to have some concerns. If it is filling forms and unburdening doctors and nurses from bureaucratic busy work then it is great. Startups are treating
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by ericmcer 2y ago
The government was paying just Pfizer like 50bn a year for Covid vaccines, I’m sure if you add up all the manufacturers they were easily paying 100bn a year from 2021-2023. I don’t have all the math but I am guessing it ended up costing at
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by ericmcer 2y ago
The brain sometimes grabs some sequence (coffee was bad... but then good... just like AI) and attributes some kind of epiphanal significance to it, but then on later examination it seems stupid and unimportant. I guess the short form of Twi
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by ericmcer 2y ago
> the argument is less "I know this potential catastrophe isn't real" and more "worrying about potential catastrophes is a costly and losing game". Thanks, this succinctly puts what I have circled around a few ti

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