michael_leachim

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by michael_leachim 3y ago
that thread is horrible. Somehow no one there sees that people die after retirement, maybe it makes sense not to retire at all? as for me, I don't know where I am going to be one year from now, not talking about 30 years. It makes sen
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by michael_leachim 3y ago
Some time ago when money were cheap it made sense to grow, now when money are expensive it makes sense to shrink. I don't get why people get offended by it. we are not living in a "fair world" whatever that means. You can die
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by michael_leachim 3y ago
thank you, that makes sense to try, the economy is dead though, I probably won't be able to find anything in a year with all the layoffs happening.
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by michael_leachim 3y ago
I still have to try, what I have to lose? I am still going to run out of time sooner or later, I should make it worth it. Otherwise what is the point.
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Ask HN: What Should I Do?
4 points by michael_leachim 3y ago|4 comments
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by michael_leachim 3y ago
> It may be possible for there to be an alien civilization so different in capabilities, goals, and mindset that we comprehend them no better than ants comprehend us. But I have a hard time believing that they would be so different from
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by michael_leachim 3y ago
> The point is that ants don't comprehend any other animals, neither those more nor those less complex than them, nor even those as complex as them (beetles). In contrast, we have at least some comprehension of all other animals on
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by michael_leachim 3y ago
> hundreds of light years that is next to nothing, observable universe is 93 billion light-years around 0.1 stars per cubic light-year (Google response) universe is humongous and very very sparse, our current limit is light speed. >
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by michael_leachim 3y ago
come on, light years are several orders of magnitude less than something that we could detect, cosmos is a wast wast space
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by michael_leachim 3y ago
> Why can't ants comprehend beetles if they are "similar or same" could you elaborate please? i can’t say that i understand your statement
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by michael_leachim 3y ago
> Why can't ants comprehend beetles if they are "similar or same" this one is tricky how do we define similarity? ants to ants is easy because we can assume they are the same or the difference is negligible.
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by michael_leachim 3y ago
second this, it looks insane I can barely endure 3 minutes shower and my average is 40-50 seconds especially when it is -13 C outside
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by michael_leachim 3y ago
Do ants comprehend humans? No they don't. Ants can comprehend only other ants. By this logic we can interact only with civs that are similar or same as us. How much detectable technological signature we emit for others to detect? I am
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by michael_leachim 3y ago
100% second this, thank you it is hard to say almost 99% product is not engineering but what it enables company to do. In a sense this division is psychological: either company cares about engineering and makes it a priority or it doesn&#x
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by michael_leachim 3y ago
thank you, so it more dependent not on a type of company but on how the company runs itself. It can have its main product not in software, but it can bet on R&D in order to outrun their competition. And the other way around is true too
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by michael_leachim 3y ago
I agree that AWS is a software org, I am interested in E-Commerce in this particular case. Thank you for response
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by michael_leachim 3y ago
thank you, I've got something to think about.
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by michael_leachim 3y ago
thank you, maybe it is easier to understand when you ask whether business will halt and die if the system you are responsible for is down or suddenly absent or it is going to be a mild inconvenience. I think, defined like this makes it les
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by michael_leachim 3y ago
What category is Amazon? (the marketplace). It looks like a third category (company sells something else, but it has a software component supporting it). I am asking because I am working in a company with similar business model and I am try
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by michael_leachim 3y ago
would love to read that, I find immune system fascinating.
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by michael_leachim 3y ago
idk, most of life is about a subtle dance between chaos and order, from DNA mutations to the flashes of activity inside brain to complex behaviour of ecosystems and human interactions. somewhere in there there is a free will, that is neithe
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by michael_leachim 3y ago
I am dying to know how it was possible. Do you have a reference to nutritionist or perhaps a meal plan? Where can I learn more about such things?
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by michael_leachim 3y ago
I am sorry if that sounds condescending, in reality I question my engineering ability almost every day. There is a lot of things that I know horribly less than any engineer worth their salt.
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by michael_leachim 3y ago
that looks like I am a good candidate for Amazon, lol. but on a serious note, the good solution is sort of obvious and in general you encounter much more interesting problems on a daily basis, but than again I am working in Clojure where w
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by michael_leachim 3y ago
we've had nightly air raid alerts for the last two years. Now there are less of them, but I don't know what the future will bring. I think russia is preparing their winter campaign of terror again, so we will see. When it is 3 in
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by michael_leachim 3y ago
Isn't it obvious? Your mind has limited capacity for diffucult mental work. After you have used it all, you need time to restore yourself. You can use several strategies: * Smooth it out: work less on a productive day so you can w
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by michael_leachim 3y ago
10/10 but the difference is obvious, you just have to look into their eyes. PL designers are a bit weird and not of this world. Serial killers have this spark in their eyes that is really difficult to hide.
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by michael_leachim 3y ago
cool, I enjoyed reading article and playing with visualizations. I liked it a lot. How can I learn to design a hash function? It is possible to understand that stringSum is bad compared to murmur3 by evaluating it against test cases, but
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by michael_leachim 4y ago
hi, it is an interesting thought. Would you mind telling how one can start getting into it for a typical backend dev with 10 y.o.e? thanks a lot
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by michael_leachim 4y ago
Trying to predict future based on the past is foolish. I will try to do my best based on what I register about our times. My prediction is not about a 2023 specifically, but mostly about the next 10-20 years. Although, as the rate of chan

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