m0zg

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by m0zg 5y ago
> If you're following this advice, you are either purposefully choosing goals that you do not know how to achieve, which is a problem Over the past 20 years that describes the vast majority of my goals. That's how you get paid
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by m0zg 5y ago
You learn not to give a shit and realize work isn't all there is to life. IOW you develop a more balanced, informed world view. You also learn to not do stupid shit, which saves a lot of effort.
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by m0zg 5y ago
That's what I thought when I was 24. By 34 I bought the house I'm writing this from for what I thought was an extravagant amount of money, and by 44 I'd paid it off. It is now 3.5x the price I paid. That price was 2x of what
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by m0zg 5y ago
The thing that baffles me is, with the kind of engineering and manufacturing prowess that Apple has, they could _easily_ make far and away the best earbuds, earphones, and over-ears in the world, bar none. It wouldn't even be difficult
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by m0zg 5y ago
The correct way to do it, if you can, is, quite obviously, #2. The comp differential that comes from "career" isn't life changing, but the stress that comes with that comp differential is very real and damaging to your relati
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by m0zg 5y ago
Even the guy who invented lockdowns managed to have sex with a mistress as everyone else was locked down: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/neil-ferguson-coronavirus...
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by m0zg 5y ago
I think the issue with Tesla was the lack of technologies that would let it automate to the desired extent. They have plenty of money now, and they still employ tens of thousands of people. Tech simply doesn't exist yet to do what huma
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by m0zg 5y ago
You're describing the future that doesn't yet exist, as though it already does. Tesla _tried_ to automate their manufacturing as much as it could and had to give it up. And it's run by some of the same folks who launch people
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by m0zg 5y ago
> even assuming no braking from the atmosphere "Braking" will commence immediately after exiting the spinner apparatus though. And commence rather unceremoniously. I don't think this is going to carry humans in the foresee
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by m0zg 5y ago
This is, sadly, something the US government is too dumb to copy. More than half the country already had the disease and they pretend it's not the case.
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by m0zg 5y ago
It'll be realistic once China starts building a new reactor every month, which is something they plan to do.
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by m0zg 5y ago
Hardly anyone pays the minimum wage though. We're at a point where "McDonalds" type jobs start at easily twice that.
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by m0zg 5y ago
I hope you realize you're one pebble or pavement imperfection away from breaking every bone in your body at those speeds.
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by m0zg 5y ago
They'd have to be approved to be used though. It's a closed platform.
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by m0zg 5y ago
Without the right "peripherals" they'll just have the same kind of "sex" they're already having - with their dominant hand.
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by m0zg 5y ago
Or you could use the only independent search engine that actually has its own index, and search result quality comparable to that of Google: https://search.brave.com/
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by m0zg 5y ago
Litmus test on whether this is about "health" and "science" rather than mindless compliance: are people who already had covid exempt from the lockdown and vaccination? And if not, why not?
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by m0zg 5y ago
Political will would be to commit to building _many_ reactors in the future, cheaply and safely. Cost overruns are a thing because this is still exotic, bespoke engineering, and it doesn't have to be. In fact, if nuclear is to succeed,
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by m0zg 5y ago
>> Not going to happen I sure hope not. Borrow checker has little to do with memory allocation/deallocation. It's there so that you can't have unprotected mutable shared state.
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by m0zg 5y ago
I kind of wonder if there actually was a systematic study of some sort aimed at quantifying how much time people are wasting on unnecessarily manual wrangling of cloud infrastructure. I know I waste a lot of time on that, even though I try
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by m0zg 5y ago
A few years ago I was visiting in Switzerland, and thought I'd go and spend a few days in Paris. I could not do so because SNCF (French rail, basically) was on strike and it wasn't clear whether I'd be able to get back in tim
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by m0zg 5y ago
Not OP, but I prefer AMD nowadays because they're the underdog and we could use more competition. Of late they also started releasing great products, making it even easier for me to prefer them. If they ever outgrow Intel by a good mar
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by m0zg 5y ago
But can he solve an obscure dynamic programming problem from the interviewer's PhD thesis in 20 minutes on the whiteboard, with a marker that's almost spent? That's a completely different skill than actual software engineerin
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by m0zg 5y ago
I heard from a FB insider that they estimate the half-life of a social networking service to be about 7 years, so they plan with that in mind. Facebook the site might not be there in 20 years, but Meta the company almost certainly will be (
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by m0zg 5y ago
> neither of those is improved by leaving people to sleep on the street. Neither is improved by giving them housing. Housing should be modest, and it should be preceded by forced rehab. Instead, in Seattle, for example, they're givi
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by m0zg 5y ago
I wonder where all this market has gone. I've looked into selling my 7 year old BMW, and best I can tell by surveying craigslist, the prices are not substantially higher than they were before COVID. I looked at how little I'd get
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by m0zg 5y ago
Wouldn't that severely damage China's ability to attract foreign capital, though? I mean, they've already made their printer go brrrr to the point where Jerome Powell would blush, so it doesn't seem like they have a ton
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by m0zg 5y ago
That, or a presidential visit, especially if rep. Swallwell was also in attendance.
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by m0zg 5y ago
Lehman Bros was, relatively speaking, also a "fart in the wind" - it all started with $2.8 billion loss (not even default). Things kinda snowballed massively from there though, over the course of a few months to the point where it
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by m0zg 5y ago
My son is Gen Z. From what he has shown me in his chats his (rather large) peer group is based AF. That's in the bluest part of a deep blue state. I can only imagine what they're chatting about in the Rust Belt.

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