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by galdosdi 2y ago
Thoroughput vs Latency
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Sounds like you're pretty close to getting to where you need to be then. Buy something with minor (not foundation issues or something) work needed then do it. Even better if none of the work is urgent, so you can spread it out. For exa
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by galdosdi 2y ago
(1) I was earning over triple what I had been earning just a couple years earlier, so it was hard to sympathize with people who felt that still wasn't enough. (2) It is very unpleasant to know that what you are doing day in and day out
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Why the fuck didn't MSFT just do blue/green canarying? No update should be rolled out to a billion devices at once until it's baked in a million devices for a bit, and that only after baking in 10,000 devices for a bit.
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by galdosdi 2y ago
I agree; this is my experience too, I've known so many people just like you describe; it describes all the "best" neighborhoods in places like Tulsa, Oklahoma. And that is why we're in no hurry to buy into that kind of n
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Lol, 30 is way too soon. Try 150. Read history. The world you are imagining could just as easily be one where Chinese and Arabs dominate, the US and UK are a joke, and yet the dominant coalition paradoxically speaks English at least for eli
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by galdosdi 2y ago
As a white man living on a very black block in Philadelphia, it's extremely difficult for me to relate or sympathize. People move from here to Pittsburgh because of Pittsburgh's famously low housing costs. Sucks to suck I guess. P
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Your experiences sounds very similar to mine. > I could see right away what Google was, just a money printing machine with everything else they did a way to flush some of the excess gravy away. And because of that it all lacked purpose o
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by galdosdi 2y ago
I'm surprised to hear this, I would never think to lump Pittsburgh in with big metros. Are you being picky or something? Do you have kids and thus school district is a major consideration? Do you have a specific neighborhood you want?
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by galdosdi 2y ago
And they did innovate in those days, eg, Gmail and purchase and integrate very innovative things like Writely (Docs), Grand Central (Voice). At some point they got the idea that because they made so much money, new innovations could not be
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Regarding #1, owners operate a factory that sells goods to the masses so they can get the labor or products of the labor of the masses (indirectly by getting currency they then use to buy that labor) If with enough automation that's no
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by galdosdi 2y ago
I don't know. It's not hard to buy a home if you're an American software engineer though, and aren't tied to the bay area or NYC. There are even places commuting distance from NYC where you can get a $250k single family
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by galdosdi 2y ago
> new shiny things that turn out to he disappointments (Google Wave, metaverse, blockchain, a lot of AI produc To be fair, the more seasoned observers among us were not affected by most of those disappointments due to ha ing recognized t
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by galdosdi 2y ago
You gotta be careful. Some interviewers, especially the ones who are going to be peers, or worse, a peer of the hiring manager, might have mixed incentives to avoid hiring someone who could show them up. I feel that happened to me once when
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by galdosdi 2y ago
This was in 2011, just after the Great Recession. It was a tougher labor market then. It was normal for low skill jobs to fire people on the spot for no show / no call. The labor market has changed in that sector since then.
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by galdosdi 2y ago
So? That just means the regulators are part of the decision. If the stakeholders (regulators plus utility managers) choose to, they can do this, and it is affordable. If it takes an act of legislature to make it work, whatever. The point is
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by galdosdi 2y ago
> Nobody who is serious thinks medical marijuana can cure any specific disease. Have you seen dispensary advertising my friend?
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by galdosdi 2y ago
If a soldier class is needed, they will be the new middle class. But they may not. > Now, OTOH, if at that point, robot/AI weapons are sufficient so you only need 10 people to run the entire US Army.... then it's game over.
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Well, it could also be priorities, not extra money to splurge. Private school costs way more. Kumon OTOH may be just a couple hundred a month, modest enough even a working class person can easily afford by bucking up and treating their chil
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by galdosdi 2y ago
A certain large and loud sector of American culture hates education. Another smaller sector likes it. You foreigners mostly interact with the smaller sector that likes it, which is no coincidence, because education pulls you up, so what you
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by galdosdi 2y ago
That's... totally normal calculus curriculum, and is pretty elementary, not advanced. It's true you won't do a symbolic integration ever again, but practice learning stuff like that will serve them well when they're lear
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Idk. Native speakers are biased. I would trust someone who learned BOTH the languages they are comparing as a second language most. Even then they may have different views depending on what languages they already knew prior (eg, portuguese
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Someday, when the global language is no longer English but some other language, the new global language will still be full of fossilized English phrases, just as English today is full of fossilized French and Latin phrases. There is absolut
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Not even. Humanity would consist of a small elite who owns everything, a small, continually shrinking middle class that consists of the remaining few workers who are actually needed for some reason (eventually, this tiny middle class would
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by galdosdi 2y ago
Sigh, it's probably because, for cannabis-naive people, it's far harder to tell if someone is super high than if someone is super drunk. There's not a lot of difference between a high person who's trying not to let on, a
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by galdosdi 2y ago
It was a joke. We'll have to agree to disagree. Take care now.
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by galdosdi 2y ago
I changed my mind, I agree with you. I refuse to disagree. I'n not sure what we're agreeing about anymore, but whatever. See you next time you fail to resist the temptation to continue this increasingly silly thread
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by galdosdi 2y ago
The land grant thing is sort of weird though. Hard to think of it as that big of a subsidy when the land was so so low in value prior to the railroad and the railroad's construction is what made the adjoining land so valuable. I wouldn
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by galdosdi 2y ago
I wouldn't say vanishingly few. Seems like the vast majority of infrastructure built before some certain point in the mid-to-late 20th century was cheap and easily worth it (and we built a TON of it all the time) and it's only sin
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by galdosdi 2y ago
> ridiculous unit to choose. ...but... that's like, uh, how projects like this actually get financed. On a per customer (which I know is distinct from per person) and per monthly bill basis, capitalized and amortized. Why would I us

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