geekster777

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by geekster777 3mo ago
Honestly, I've been hand waving this somewhat. We'll be on my wife's insurance for the next several years at least, and live in an area where public schools are quite good (Massachusetts). My assumption is that each kid will
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by geekster777 3mo ago
I quit in May. I'm a bit worried though. The gig was good, people were great, but writing on the wall was that management expected devs to be so bullish on AI that no handwritten code would exist moving forward. Simultaneously, deadlin
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by geekster777 4mo ago
Made a fun app that generates daily riddles. If you give an llm an answer then ask it for a riddle, it's pretty clever and fun to see what connections it draws: https://riddles.jpn.fyi/ I'm also currently working
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by geekster777 5mo ago
I live in a tourist town (population 45k, with 2M visitors this past season). It's truly lovely. Our museums kick ass, the food and cocktails punch above their weight, and there are countless activities in the off season. Sure, I can g
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by geekster777 2y ago
Every cheat sheet like this highlights the surprisingly high learning curve of the git cli. It's an interface that really ships it's underlying data model rather than optimizing for common workflows. This isn't necessarily a
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by geekster777 3y ago
On Windows, my most common use of the start menu is to tap the windows key and start typing out some math. The issue is that Windows isn't actually solving that math locally, but showing you the Bing search results for the expression.
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by geekster777 3y ago
Been playing with this as a beta user for a few months. I really like how the cli removes a ton of the footguns I've come to find with git. With Graphite I don't have to think too closely about navigating and reordering branches.
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by geekster777 4y ago
Interesting, I've had the opposite experience. I'd love to develop in native with something like Flutter or React Native, but I find CSS to be much easier and more flexible to use. The base components always /seem/ flexi
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by geekster777 5y ago
Practice for sure. One thing I noticed with covid was just how out of practice I got. I felt vastly more critical of myself in social situations that would have been very normal pre covid (for example, being the first one to a social gather
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by geekster777 5y ago
Man, I felt this hard and I'm surprised burnout isn't on the poll. For me, I have no real complaints about my team or work, and the ones I do have ping me more as a symptom of burnout - e.g. I'll get frustrated that the team
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by geekster777 5y ago
I think lying is a reasonably fundamental part of human research, or at least obfuscation. You don't tell the participants what you're testing for, since you don't want the results to be biased, and often obfuscate what you&#
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by geekster777 5y ago
I consider mental models more to be good decisions made in bulk (though not necessarily the best decisions). Of course you'll break the model when it's convenient or when you know better, but when you're taking your day on au
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by geekster777 5y ago
I work at FB right now, and one of the more stressful things are the timelines for promotion. I think you have a year and a half to go from New Grad to E4, then 2 and a half years to go from E4 to E5. If you fall behind on those timelines,
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by geekster777 5y ago
I've struggled with the accuracy of statements like this as someone who writes a lot of music. Writing the melodies is always the easiest part (lyrics are the hardest). So how much is it brain wiring vs just practicing an order of magn
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by geekster777 5y ago
At the big companies I've been at, it's because no one (myself included) will read them. Sure, they'll read them at first, happy to get back the 25 minutes. Then new meetings will replace that time until it cascades into a se
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by geekster777 5y ago
I've thought often about this, but fundamentally no woman should feel obligated to fix this issue at a prospective company. You should be prioritizing yourself, your career, and your comfort. It's hard to ask someone to take on th
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by geekster777 5y ago
This may be stated often, but it's still easy to get too caught up in the optimization game of FI. I appreciate every time someone reiterates the value in the journey, even when its expressed as a concern for FI.
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by geekster777 5y ago
I think of it more as I could work a few more years at my current high paying miserable job, or the same few years + 1 at a flexible (arguably less miserable) job. For me at least, the goal has been to bank big cash early, then let the comp
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by geekster777 5y ago
Sure, landing the same tech job may not be feasible. As I mentioned, the big nest egg should ease that blow. You can instead get a lower paying tech job you're plenty qualified for. You can also get a job doing something unrelated to t
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by geekster777 5y ago
You do have the option of going back to work if shit hits the fan. Maybe it'll be harder to find a job, or to find one that pays as well as before, but that's pretty heavily tempered by the fat nest egg you have. It's a prett
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by geekster777 5y ago
May not be enough to pull the trigger, but definitely enough to transition down to a part time or remote web dev gig in a low cost of living area. Once you have such a net worth secured, you just have to keep from pulling from it for a few
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by geekster777 5y ago
Unrelated to your larger point, your financial goal is a good one. The FI/RE community is an odd one, but very welcoming and supportive overall. I'm currently on a similar path, and as I've started to near the end I've f
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by geekster777 5y ago
From what I've seen, minority targeted scholarships tend to be created by minorities rather than the college itself. For example, the Women in Computing group will organize and fundraise for a scholarship towards their school. A succes
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by geekster777 5y ago
I'd rephrase this as "people despise weak men". I don't think women are unique in this conditioned view, and putting this in terms of Us vs Them doesn't quite get to the root of the problem. The image of a damsel in
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by geekster777 5y ago
I've been finding Signal Music Studio[1] to be doing a good job of conveying theory with minimal notation and practical examples. E.g. less labeling of things and more "here's what folks like to use this construct for".
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by geekster777 5y ago
You may enjoy looking up micro-tones. Where western scales are made up of whole-tones and semi-tones, other cultures don't necessarily use the 12 semi-tone based scale system. Notably, Toxic by Britany Spears samples some Bollywood mus
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by geekster777 5y ago
Something I wish was more clear in music theory is just how much overlap exists between the various concepts. I think it suffers from having so many names for everything, the learning curve seems much steeper than it really is. Even in this
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by geekster777 6y ago
https://soundcloud.com/jpnickolas My quarantine hobby has been to get better at mixing and producing music. I mostly play guitar, so it's been a difficult process to get my vocals and lyrics anywhere near good (and som
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by geekster777 6y ago
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. There seem to be two "problems" to solve for. 1. A permanent loss of wealth. When you've got more cash, you've got more to lose. People have more to gain from robbing&#x2F
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by geekster777 6y ago
I've been doing the method in your second link (tl;dr: buy every pair of glasses between your prescription and 0 in 0.25 diopter increments, and slowly work your way down to 0). I started at the beginning of quarantine, and it's a

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