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by papito 5y ago
It's reasonable to assume that even gut bacteria affects your personality, or chronic pain, or anything really that makes you feel .
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by papito 5y ago
It is almost upsetting how much humans are hostages to our hormones. One of the most interesting This American Life episodes was about what happens when you are too high or too low on testosterone, for example. It changes your entire person
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by papito 5y ago
I miss Borland C++ Builder. That was a ton of fun.
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by papito 5y ago
If anyone tells me how to disable Zoom incoming video to save bandwidth and avoid lag, I will give you a dollar.
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by papito 5y ago
Taking VC money and then hiring an unnecessary, inefficient army of engineers with what looks like "growth". That attracts more VC money, until it catches up with the company.
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by papito 5y ago
The CEO just bought a $55M Hamptons crib. These are the people who lobby for "small government" and fewer taxes, because they prefer to shell out money as "charity" as crumbs off the table, claiming that the government i
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by papito 5y ago
The background of this is covered in the new book, Flying Blind: https://www.amazon.com/Flying-Blind-Tragedy-Fall-Boeing/dp/0... It talks about GE a lot as well, as both companies were destroyed by the Jack Welch
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by papito 5y ago
I am also curious as to the chip demand by major cloud providers. COVID accelerated migration to the cloud, I have heard numbers from "cloud people" as much as 5x.
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by papito 5y ago
I think this is more a revolt against unnecessary complexity, which I think is a discussion to be had. I am not solving drastically more difficult problems than I did twenty years ago, yet the amount of complexity, maintenance, and overhead
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by papito 5y ago
You know that phrase, "small government"? A lot of money is spent to convince the masses that if only we had small government, everything would be amazing. The opposite is true. "Small government" means a gutted system
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by papito 5y ago
I hope this is not an argument for more bailouts. A lot of people walked away with riches while ruining the US economy. "I lost $100 but lookit I just got back $15" is not a win, it's just... less of a loss.
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by papito 5y ago
Look at all the massive tech companies that took root in 2000s. Most are tied to privileged kids who won the birth lottery, had access to computers, and the financial cushion to "try shit". Google, Facebook, PayPal, and earlier -
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by papito 5y ago
Google is search/ads. This is their cash cow. Without it, it would have gone under years ago, just like Yahoo, with a bunch of dead-end project that either make no money or go nowhere.
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Midnight Commander is such a great name for a dirty flick.
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For a second there I thought you said "Tom Nichols", who wrote multiple books on the un-seriousness of our modern society (such as The Death of Expertise), which is so fat and happy that it looks to government itself to entertain
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by papito 5y ago
Oh sweet Lord. If some privileged kid who grew up in Westchester went to a good school and then straight to a FAANG company, does not mean they are automatically an irredeemable monster. We all know that AI training data, for example, is no
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by papito 5y ago
I actually don't suggest that people get off the cloud. My gripe is with the devil may care attitude toward costs. I am still very cost-conscious about it (even those most business aren't). Newer engineers just don't think of
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by papito 5y ago
When I work on Linux as my OS, I just install CTOP, and it's all I need to work with Docker. https://github.com/bcicen/ctop
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by papito 5y ago
"Someone introduces a bill" is not news. Most of these die in obscurity. Wisconsin just introduced a bill to undo their slate of electors sent for the long-ago-settled Presidential election of 2020.
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by papito 5y ago
LOL. Priceless. Having these skills is very valuable. Us old farts used to do a lot with what today would be called "bootstrapped". Scarcity is no longer a "problem", except that it is. Scarcity keeps you sharp, efficien
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by papito 5y ago
That was certainly true in 2005, when JS was used more to impress the audience. The modern internet is mostly useless if you do not have JS running. I would imagine you have to turn it on and off all the time because you can't do simpl
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by papito 5y ago
It's like turning your car's engine off because that uses fuel.
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by papito 5y ago
Let me introduce you to the concept of "shareholder value".
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by papito 5y ago
Standing next to a shuttle is a humbling experience. On TV it looks like, well, a plane, but in person, it's just massive . The exit hatch (I assume), the one you would expect an astronaut to exit while fully equipped and layered, loo
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by papito 5y ago
As Scott Galloway put it, Call of Duty alone generates $55M a day, as if it were a door-busting Marvel movie opening weekend, all the time.
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I am reading Davos Man, and all of this is how it's "supposed" to work.
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It's the best place to be - it will be over quickly.
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How you would feel about your life if you were on your deathbed right now is in fact an interesting exercise. Right now. What do you regret doing, and most importantly what do you regret NOT doing? Many people, after they retire, feel lik
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by papito 5y ago
Traveling is an experience, probably one of the most impressive we can have. To travel the world, to experience cultures, places, and food. But I have to buy a one-time ticket, not a private jet. Also, the satisfaction ROI on that one thing
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by papito 5y ago
When I am on my deathbed, I will think back, to that beautiful time when I bought that tricked out gas stove instead of seeing Italy.

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