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by phil21 10mo ago
Interesting ginger is discussed. The one thing I will literally eat an entire Costco sized pack of even while on my max GLP-1 dosage was Biscoff cookies. Not much else that I could "eat through" the drug when I was at my peak weig
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by phil21 10mo ago
Oh I totally agree! I have a lot of fun chatting with friends/coworkers who are super into programming as an art and/or passion. I just was pushing back on the “you aren’t into computers if you don’t get intrinsic joy out of progr
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by phil21 10mo ago
I don’t find this to be true. I enjoy computers quite a bit. I enjoy the hardware, scaling problems, theory behind things, operating systems, networking, etc. Most of all I find what computers allow humanity to achieve extremely interesting
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by phil21 10mo ago
I definitely agree that a big part of it is how immobile people are these days. What I meant by hyperscheduled is that typically these activities revolve around setting a schedule in advance for everyone to commit to and plan around. This s
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by phil21 10mo ago
You can be as positive as you want to be, and should absolutely take action and do things to better socialize. But to pretend it’s remotely the same as it was 40 years ago is utterly ridiculous. Now when you do such things like a running cl
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by phil21 10mo ago
This is the standard way of lawmaking, as far as I'm aware. A lobbyist presents a bill to a congressional sponsor, and the congress critter more or less forwards it to committee for vote. Perhaps a staffer or two skim it and suggest ed
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by phil21 10mo ago
Many Judicial opinions are done in the same manner. An attorney from the winning side prepares a draft opinion and a judge reviews/edits it and away it goes. The edits in the couple I've personally seen are incredibly light - more
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by phil21 10mo ago
> Some of the other kids on my street went to private schools and I think they missed out on some of the lessons/bonding I got from interacting with a variety of people in public school. It's good to get out into social setting
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by phil21 10mo ago
You mean a board willing to risk everything and operate at a loss for a decade or more. I doubt such a board would have lasted more than a few years at best. Not to mention trying to change 100 plus years of technical and organizational deb
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by phil21 10mo ago
> You shouldn’t be angry with Musk, you should be angry with Trump/Biden (ignore left/right they both let Asia take Battery and chip technology on their watch). I mean, you should be mad at both. But it started far before eithe
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by phil21 10mo ago
It’s definitely different, but somewhat at the margins. There is a reason people call it “farmer strength” where a moderately in shape looking guy can outlift a body builder looking bro. I know I’ve definitely seen the difference training w
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by phil21 10mo ago
Mostly because I don't trust myself to push cash into the market when there is blood on the streets. Or really ever, for that matter. Both due to thinking "everything is still overvalued" as well as decision paralysis even wh
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by phil21 10mo ago
We are all talking about exceptions to the exception at this point. It's typically uninteresting to discuss... But at the risk of being uninteresting, I know of incredibly niche software projects that were done for a single rich benefa
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by phil21 10mo ago
No, horses and fountain pens do not exist in any real sense today vs. the economic impact they once had. They are niche hobbies that could disappear tomorrow and the economy wouldn't even notice. They used to be bedrocks where the worl
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by phil21 10mo ago
So all the predictable arguments aside... Why is no one talking about the "other grid" capacity here? Natural gas at this scale cannot be delivered by truck. It's piped in direct from fields, typically. When do we run out of
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by phil21 10mo ago
BRK is like a conservative S&P500. It offers enough diversification off the "total market" funds for me that I invest a small but material portion of my "safe money" with them. Sort of like holding boring dividend st
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by phil21 10mo ago
The Celeron 300A was the one most folks would go after for this. I don't recall the exact retail pricing at the time, but they were more or less guaranteed to overclock to 450mhz and be fully stable. Typically retail pricing could be h
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by phil21 10mo ago
Geeks had little to do with it. The geeks and nerds and hackers built the base layer infrastructure for a few decades through the late 90s, then the money showed up and the normies took it all over. The geeks never had a chance, they were t
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by phil21 10mo ago
> My bet is that it will end up being a very good thing for the world at large. I generally agree with pretty much all your points other than this one. While it will be good for other countries to regain sovereignty - and the weaponizati
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by phil21 10mo ago
It's taking away programmers jobs today. I know of multiple small companies where hires were not made or contractors not engaged with simply due to the additional productivity gained by using Gen AI. This is for mundane "trivial&q
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by phil21 10mo ago
To be clear, my comment was in no way intended towards Rob Pike or anyone of his stature and contributions to the technology field. It was definitely a less-than-useful comment directed towards the tech bro types that came later when the mo
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by phil21 10mo ago
CEOs and the C-suite in general are closest to the money. They are the safest. That is pretty much the only metric that matters in the end.
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by phil21 10mo ago
Yeah, this is why I'm having a hard time taking many programmers serious on this one. As a general class of folks, programmers and technologists have been putting people out of work via automation since we existed. We justified it via
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by phil21 10mo ago
The most likely explanation when hundreds of people make the same fuckup is the tooling and/or process sucks. Not that hundreds of people lack basic competence. The most recent analogy I have is field techs in IT work. A company sends
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by phil21 10mo ago
The authoritarian state of KYC/AML might be even more absurd to some. Welcome to our cashless society. It’s naive to think no one would fight back. It may have devolved to useless speculation and gambling for now, but the genie cannot
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by phil21 10mo ago
Almost none. A long time ago a friend and I did the math for sound, photons (status LEDs), etc and it was a rounding error of 1% or something silly like that. And that’s ignoring that sound and photon emissions typically hit a wall or othe
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by phil21 10mo ago
Vibes? I jest a little bit. For my car it’s been message boards with enthusiasts and mechanics who work on my vehicle. Luckily (or not…) mine is a somewhat niche performance car so people tend to nerd out over them. A lot of it though is ig
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by phil21 10mo ago
I certainly get it. But I also am very frustrated with the snails-pace development of closed loop glucose pump system. The tech has existed for quite some time to implement them in theory. Body hackers have already done so a decade ago. I o
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by phil21 10mo ago
Perhaps it’s also the definition of meaningful work changes for an individual over time? What I once found meaningful 20 years ago largely no longer feels that way. Both due to a lack of novelty and personal growth, and seeing how I was so
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by phil21 10mo ago
It’s largely a market signal, it seems. I was listening to a podcast with an ex-GM engineer and he said basically the business end is entirely driven by financing vehicles. Very little profit is derived from selling a car itself, nearly all

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