ghaff

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by ghaff 6mo ago
>servants and house personnel Which you mostly don't need today. You may have a lawn guy, take your car to a mechanic, and use a washer/dryer to do most of your laundry.
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by ghaff 6mo ago
By working and investing. More successfully at some points than others. But you’re totally right that different people are better set up and more or less inclined to move on from a job than others.
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by ghaff 6mo ago
And that 4 figure advance from a publisher won’t go far either even if you earn it out and get a few royalties.
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by ghaff 6mo ago
I “retired” about a year ago. Back to actively doing some tech industry analyst stuff with some folks I know. Keeps me as busy as I care to be.
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by ghaff 6mo ago
It’s not totally risk-free income (but what is) but a decent pile invested sensibly makes for pretty good passive income depending on your goals.
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by ghaff 6mo ago
There are plenty of city centers that aren't super-expensive but probably don't have a lot of great local employment options and maybe aren't generally considered desirable--and don't have a lot of great transportation o
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by ghaff 6mo ago
Radio followed by television has done a lot of homogenization even if you don't have the more formalized received pronunciation you had/have in the UK. Even something stereotypical like a "Boston accent" was mostly a Sou
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by ghaff 6mo ago
Yeah, when I lived there, a lot of native New Orleans dialect had a lot in common with Brooklyn to my ears. Started work there at the same time as a school classmate who grew up in Jacksonville. Spent a lot of time doing engineering work on
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by ghaff 6mo ago
Yep. I was lucky and lucky I had a network. Lots of people probably ended up working at Starbucks or, at least, working in at best peripherally connected occupations that paid a fraction of what they were making or what they expected to mak
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by ghaff 6mo ago
I won't disagree. A lot of people got marginal jobs--maybe associated with the industry or maybe not. I was luck enough to have a network but I knew plenty of people who just faded away.
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by ghaff 6mo ago
Yeah. I was lucky enough to connect with someone I knew in a tech job--albeit one that wasn't that great paying especially after a pay-cut at the worst of the downturn. It eventually translated into a very good end of career job but a
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by ghaff 6mo ago
I'm sure you'll find a variety of answers. Often mid-management jobs in possibly tangentially related industries. Basically retired early, or pursued a hobby business, if they could afford to do so. In my case an industry analyst
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by ghaff 6mo ago
Post dot-com, a LOT of people basically left the industry. They may have continued on in somewhat adjacent roles but people can only afford to keep looking for the sort of employment they had for so long.
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by ghaff 6mo ago
In fact, a lot of educational spending is local. I think something like 65% (maybe more) of my town's property taxes go to K-12 education with a decent chunk of the rest going to emergency services. There are various grants at the stat
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by ghaff 6mo ago
I live in New England and did a weekend sea kayaking trip to the San Juans for reasons I don't really recall when I was in the area anyway. My recollection was that it was fun but, as someone for whom Maine was just a few hour drive aw
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by ghaff 6mo ago
If you bike, probably.
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by ghaff 6mo ago
Yeah, and there's a folk/world music festival there every late July--though not sure how much of the museum is open that weekend.
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by ghaff 6mo ago
Acadia is a bit of an odd setup with a patchwork of private and public land (along with some of the recent additions from the Rockefellers). But, while many areas on the Maine coast are very nice I'd still argue that Acadia in unique.
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by ghaff 6mo ago
I did Angel's Landing at one point and I'm glad I did but wouldn't do again. Observation point is my favorite but I don't think my old route is open any longer though you can still apparently get up there by another trai
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by ghaff 6mo ago
Canyons can be a challenge. To maybe paraphrase some signage along the way. Down is optional. Up is not. Going down to the river makes for a very long day. I've boated (part raft, part other) down the canyon but I've only hiked do
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by ghaff 6mo ago
Yeah. I went through Bryce in the winter and you couldn't do a lot of hiking below the rim. The trails just weren't signposted or set up for it. Beautiful from the rim with the snow but the canyon itself wasn't really accessi
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by ghaff 6mo ago
I visited Zion a fair bit when I had pretty regular business travel to Vegas. Probably wouldn't go back today. The shuttle is something of a nightmare if you don't pay to stay in the park and I think my favorite hike is still clos
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by ghaff 6mo ago
Voice assistants were going to be this revolutionary new category. I think Amazon was going to populate a whole office tower in Boston with Alexa engineers at one point. There have been incremental improvements here and there but, to a firs
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by ghaff 7mo ago
Especially, pre-web and pre-blogs there's a great deal of tech industry history that largely doesn't exist any longer unless it was especially notable and/or some author decided to spend a year or two writing about it.
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by ghaff 7mo ago
Those two books are probably the two best about tech projects I've ever read. I worked at Data General as a product manager for about 13 years and know many of the individuals although I joined a few years after the book was written.
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by ghaff 7mo ago
Honestly? VMs are a level of complexity I haven't felt a reason to fuss around with at home for at least the past five years. Just not interested. I'm told that Kubevirt with Kubernetes has also been a winner among customers post
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by ghaff 7mo ago
You hopefully can adapt to what you need to. That's not the same things as switching to something you find awkward and you don't find to have a particular, if any advantage.
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by ghaff 7mo ago
As I say no dog in hunt and don't actually have a Linux laptop any longer since I had to send it back to my company--from whence I'm sure it went straight to recycling. Maybe I'll buy an older refurb Thinkpad at some point.
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by ghaff 7mo ago
>What you are used to. Absolutely. I've given using a tablet (with keyboard) as an alternative to a laptop when traveling and it sort of frustrates me for a lot of things. But talking to people I know who have largely switched over,
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by ghaff 7mo ago
"Pretty well" is doing a lot of work. I have no horse in the race. I just run native on MacOS or Linux. Haven't run any Windows in a number of years. (I don't really game much and would just use my Xbox if I really wante

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