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by gen220 3y ago
Related – not all maps are some variation of impressions and depressions on a flat surface! I think I first heard about these here, the idea keeps bubbling up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Islands_stick_chart
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by gen220 3y ago
As somebody who’s lived half their life in each, both are exaggerations. Most New Yorkers aren’t cynical. Most Bay Area folks aren’t toxically positive. But it’s silly to imagine that the urban infrastructure doesn’t influence peoples’ psyc
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by gen220 3y ago
I think people are latching on to the magnitude of your claim rather than the direction and therein missing the point. FWIW, as somebody who meets your criteria, myself and my network of people from that time offer much credence to your cla
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by gen220 3y ago
It does feel like coinbase will be the last domino to fall. If you came from the future to tell me that coinbase would be shut down 5 years ago, I wouldn’t have believed you. But after the last few years (NFT stuff, allowing sketchy coins a
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by gen220 3y ago
What an incredible story – unfortunately for their investors, it reflects very poorly on them. It reads like there were quite a few prima facie yellow/orange flags that merited deeper due diligence.
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by gen220 3y ago
I remember a year ago (peak “labor shortage” in the food industry), visiting a middle sized, remote New England town. We went to a Chili’s where there were 2 wait staff to service ~100 seats, maybe 40 of which were full, and it was as chaot
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by gen220 3y ago
Just curious, not snide: what language fits this criteria? C/C++? Using Python 3.7+ in a way that completely ignores Pip, because the stdlib is now quite expansive?
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by gen220 3y ago
I just tried the prompt "Give me a description of 10 different families that would be a representative sample of the US population." and it gave results that were actually pretty close to normative. It still was biased for male he
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by gen220 3y ago
Oh no quite the contrary, I think we agree! :) Sorry, my comments on Vital came off differently based on the context of the paragraph. My guess is the GP's comment on being made to feel uncomfortable happened at MetroRock – it would be
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by gen220 3y ago
I don't have a direct answer, but the "Acquired" podcast did a two-part series on Nvidia in 2022Q1, it's a good/deep answer to why they are the way they are. part 1: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes&
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by gen220 3y ago
Correcto, it's meant to live at-rest in plain text files. When you exec the `ledger` binary, you point it at a collection of ledger files, and it parses them into memory to perform whatever operations you request (report generation, et
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by gen220 3y ago
That makes sense! For context, Vital is a climbing gym where Google employees are arguably the target demographic. It’s a strange, Equinox-y vibe. Metrorock Brooklyn is in a neighborhood that used to be working class, then was basically an
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by gen220 3y ago
I mean, practically speaking most people in climbing gyms are humble and open to others. But there are always individuals in any positive environment who will over-extrapolate the good elements into gatekeepiness and virtue signaling. I don
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by gen220 3y ago
Well, I'm not going to tell you what's good and bad for your business, but for what it's worth Ledger supports all of those things. Whether it's right for your business or not is up to you and your customers, but you&#x2
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by gen220 3y ago
Where did you climb in NYC, just curious? I've climbed here for a couple years, and found it to be really welcoming and inclusive of people from all backgrounds, tech included. I mean, if you show up as a "[stereo]typical tech-loo
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by gen220 3y ago
Agreed that it'd be nice to have a less ethically-ambiguous alternative. Since you seem to be pretty knowledgeable in this space, are you aware of any competitive FOSS engines and/or browsers built around those engines?
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by gen220 3y ago
If "better" incorporates "battle-testedness" and portability, I'd advocate for considering Ledger's format. (Or beancount's. It's almost identical and has more accessible FOSS parsers + generators) It
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by gen220 3y ago
Yep, Chromium.
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by gen220 3y ago
IDK if they’re ready for the limelight, but if you’re an internet enthusiast and on the market for a non-Mozilla non-FAANG browser, you should check out The Browser Company’s Arc. No affiliation, just a happy user for the last year or so. A
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by gen220 3y ago
Hey! I'm also building an HTMX-powered RSS reader, although it's more a side project than a research project. Good luck, it's been lots of fun for me so far! I've also found the productivity of a "strong" decou
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by gen220 3y ago
I used Kanboard for a year or so and still host an instance. But I haven't stuck with it. I just could never get other people to use it collaboratively, unfortunately in 2023 it's too ugly and doesn't pass the sniff test – es
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by gen220 3y ago
Really appreciate the thorough deep dive! In your research, did you find any populous corner of California, the American SW, or the U.S. in general that has a good story to address problems like these? Out east, it seems like upstate NY h
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by gen220 3y ago
Not sure if you're aware, but some fines in some jurisdictions actually work this way [1]. [1]: https://www.euronews.com/2023/01/04/finlands-progressive-pun... .
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by gen220 3y ago
You can visit one city to capture this experience. Berlin was largely destroyed in WW II, many neighborhoods in the west and east were redeveloped with the support of the US and USSR, respectively.
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by gen220 3y ago
Gypsy housing used to be the mecca for this kind of activity. They changed the name (reasonably so!) to Ghostlight Housing, but it looks like it was suspended by an admin in 2022. If you generally search the web for "NYC housing facebo
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by gen220 3y ago
There's two sides to the coin of recognizing "un-winnability". One is frustration, the other is a sense of peace that comes with recognizing that there's no marginal reward to trying so hard. Just avoid the obvious scams
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by gen220 3y ago
Those places still exist out in bushwick / east williamsburg. If you hang out with the right people, or go to the right facebook groups you'll find them. The living or working arrangements are often illegal, so they aren't vi
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by gen220 3y ago
You should do a roadtrip! Dystopia US has some nice pockets. Affordable is all relative, of course. It's pretty much impossible to "win" in housing unless you're investing major sweat equity, or factoring-in intangibles
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Great Plains Shelterbelt(en.wikipedia.org)
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by gen220 3y ago
The recent Shopify memo re "Main Quests" and "Side Quests" applies. I'm hopeful GitLab can turn it around, but at this point it feels like GitLab might be going the way of Jira.

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