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by kamaal 2y ago
>>I’ve noticed that long coding sessions leave me feeling more fatigued than they used to. As we age, learning vs getting-paid graph first flattens, then either grows very slowly or not at all. Im guessing that is where the fatigue pa
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>>My short term memory is falling off a cliff. Read the book GTD by David Allen. You are not supposed to store things in the brain, that only causes stress. Brain is to do thinking work, you are better off writing and tracking things
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by kamaal 2y ago
Wrote this a while back on this forum. Long term winning has nothing to do with growth. It has more to do with stability . Just don't fight wars and have smooth transition of power. This more or less guarantees winning on the very lon
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I mean if you are selling detergent, paint or soap its a different argument there. But even in that case you still have to be darn good at distribution, financials, marketing etc. You can't exactly dictate things cluelessly at a abstra
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>>I don’t know man. Can Bezos code? Can he operate a forklift? Most top level legendary CEOs, could. Zuckerberg, Gates, Jack Welch, Edison, Larry Page, Sergey Brin all worked their way up from the floor to the corner office. >>A
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You still need to understand what you are selling, like in a very deep sense. Even if not at the technical levels, you need to understand how the financials of it all works, how to take product and sales roadmap forward. How to hire, fire,
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>>An unused sword rusts in its sheathe. >>I dont think a manager of software engineers needs to code the application he manages, but he should be continually coding something to remain sharp. I'd even go to the extreme of s
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Its strange that its 2025 and we haven't compiled recursion as a design pattern with rules, like a framework, using which all problems that can be solved by recursion can be represented.
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once bitten, twice shy https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/once%20bitten%2C%...
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So basically metal gets rubbery when hot, and stopping something all off a sudden could have inertial forces(moving blades, gears etc) wreck the structure? You have to shut things down step by step, so that rigidity is supplied to the metal
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>>and this distinguishes it from other wacky kinds of space that mathematicians like to try things out in. What other space apart from 3 dimensional space exists? And what does that even mean?
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Thanks for the link. Sometimes I wish Xanadu had actually happened. The moment I opened the article I saw something like |R^3. Honestly speaking I don't really know what |R means. And R keeps showing up all over the article. I will dig
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Agreed that I know very little about this subject. But heat itself can be imagined as a kind of field. For eg: A candle, the closer you move to the flame, every point closer to flame, the temperature is higher. The farther you move apart th
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I thought the strength of most(all?) fields is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the center/source? I think this is called inverse square law. Its also for these reasons making a very large nuke is pointless, af
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>>Software development consistently ranks among the least stressful jobs you can get and it's really out of touch to compare this profession to genuinely stressful jobs. I've done 48 hr on-call work days, and a decade back m
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>>Just one point - there is no way ownership of some home brings actual happiness, you overload the term massively. There was this stock broking platform owner here in India who was going on Youtube for years and telling people to ren
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>>So the cost of ownership will generally be cheaper than renting. Not to mention increasing equity in an asset with time With age your ability to earn decreases as well.
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>>You will spend non-trivial amount of your time, energy and money just to keep it up To up keep your home! You also pretty much up keep your rented home too. And at the end you spend to maintain other people's home. >>Is
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by kamaal 2y ago
Most of what one calls nepotism, or dynasty is simply people thinking about their grandchildren while making these decisions. Why wouldn't you want to leave behind wealth for your kids? They are your kids.
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by kamaal 2y ago
There is a saying in Kannada language ವೇದ ಸುಳ್ಳಾದರೂ ಗಾದೆ ಸುಳ್ಳಾಗದು which means the vedas can go wrong, but a saying never turns out wrong. There is a wisdom in this. Most of the sayings in any culture are largely a distillation of a kind
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by kamaal 2y ago
Im guessing different people have different life priorities. So in some way its not correct to argue a point derived from an assumption/axiom other person doesn't believe in. >>Well, I assume renting is better for your healt
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From where I come(South Indian Muslim), there is a saying that how quickly you own a home, get married and have kids decide the overall affluence you have in life. If eat that frog is a think for daily schedule, there is also such a thing
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Having to pay rent likely makes retiring early, or even retiring itself impossible. Somethings like marriage, kids, buying home just have be done in life as early as you can. Note money is just a number at the end. The idea is not to have m
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>>IIRC they get a 4 or 8 year stint then are expected to leave. If they refuse to leave they get fired? >>Part of the DARPA ethos also is that it’s lean and mean. Program managers have a ton of discretion, but they’re not lifers
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>>he just worked long days every day that afforded a very nice lifestyle. Some people do work jobs where affluence and a nice lifestyle are kind of baked into it. I do know quite a few people who travel for work often, they stay in lu
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Owning a home is always good no matter what the finance influencers tell you. In fact, earlier the better. Its not even the buying vs renting thing, renting is bad, you don't get to own anything at the end of the journey, and often the
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>>How many of their grievances are freedom related though? If people think they are better off economically as a region they will leave. This might look like a economic problem, but its actually a political problem. It literally deals
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>>How do I test that?? >>I code in vim (or nano) with some basic sh scripts (certainly not bash). Though its definitely possible to configure vim/emacs to do anything. Im guessing you stray further away from the unlocking t
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Absolutely agree, but poison doesn't exactly spread like an infection. Plus I guess most herbivorous animals by now do have a fair bit of intuition what to eat and what not to.
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It is dangerous. In most of third world, far right politics is largely based on settling historic scores. To that end, Im guessing this will be weaponised by lots of groups to create content to target minorities. I do believe bulk of the us

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