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by phil21 4mo ago
> being less sedentary and leaning about maintenance calories and how calorie surplus and deficit works? Because it's useless advice that doesn't work in practice. As witnessed by decades of failure, with the only thing turning
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by phil21 4mo ago
> In my experience, while people know all these things, execution still requires knowing all the "gotchas". In my experience, people that think they know all the "gotchas" don't really know as much as they think
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by phil21 4mo ago
Great? When I worked landscaping I would plow through 2-3 double quarter pounder meals every lunch break. And then a dominos pizza or three when I got home for dinner. Plus a gallon or two of full sugar soda throughout the day, and snacks.
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by phil21 4mo ago
Who is lying? I was fat because I ate too much. Why I ate too much is uninteresting to me. I also don’t have some moral hang up over it. Give me that easy button all day long so I can focus on shit in my life that actually matters. If it ma
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by phil21 4mo ago
I dunno. It’s not universal, but I have a newfound joy when it comes to food after being on a GLP-1 and losing about 100lbs. Sure, I don’t get the instant giant dopamine spikes from binge eating $30 worth of Taco Bell or a couple large pizz
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by phil21 4mo ago
Pretty much everyone in my life growing up and into young adulthood preached about how you needed to buy a house because it was an investment you could use as a retirement account. That I resisted this was seen as kook behavior as I kept re
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by phil21 4mo ago
It's about both. My mother is fully aboard the "a datacenter ruins the local town" train. She is looking to sell her small farm and move, but she's literally asking AI if a datacenter is planned in every town she's
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by phil21 4mo ago
ES Enterprise Sales for an on-prem license might have been the worst sales experience I ever was part of as a customer. We were already a very technically self-sufficient org just wanting to get under a support contract. They made it so imp
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by phil21 4mo ago
You slip the doorman $50 to hold tracking numbers of packages you're having sent to random units in the building. Or just promise him a unit at MSRP for his help. These sorts of things are pretty cheaply routed around for those making
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by phil21 4mo ago
Certainly interesting! Much closer to what I feel is actual green power w/o the greenwashing such as the PPA's other facilities tend to use while actually just buying from the grid as a whole to deal with the "hard" part
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by phil21 4mo ago
You can have all the technical competence in the world, but if those competent people are not allowed to build things your society simply is inept at building stuff in the end. It's a choice society has made. It's certainly not un
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by phil21 4mo ago
Your power storage is the Uranium fuel, which is a better battery than batteries. Much denser and lasts longer. In a sanely designed grid you overprovision non-reliable renewables like solar and wind to provide your peak daytime usage and n
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by phil21 4mo ago
> What this tells me is that like most hyperscalers, Microsoft is not price sensitive on the electricity side, What this should likely tell you, is that you are missing information and have an incomplete picture of the situation. Or it c
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by phil21 4mo ago
> From perspective of your tenants, that money still goes into a void, no matter how nice you are. Not true for everyone. I was quite happy to pay my previous small time landlord. We had a very productive business relationship, at least
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by phil21 4mo ago
> If a landlord can charge 1200 instead of 1000 why wouldn’t they? They’ll charge the maximum they can get away with, costs are irrelevant This is rarely true. Only universally true for large corporate landlords where there is an entire
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by phil21 4mo ago
Yes. The moment you move from daily IC work to management your skills begin to atrophy. Even if you are magical and somehow they do not - you are not keeping up/practicing on the newer developments. If you are doing your job as a manag
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by phil21 4mo ago
Complete opposite experience. Moved to the Apple ecosystem including the watch, and the seamlessness of how airpods work with them all had me give away all my other earbuds - even though the airpods do not have the best sound quality. The c
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by phil21 4mo ago
This is a great way to lose what's left of public support for libraries. Going (more?) elitist is really not the way to go here. Your average person should be able to find utility in a library. University libraries of course might be a
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by phil21 4mo ago
Yeah, Codex basically gives me unlimited tokens for my use-case under the Pro plan. Just keep it the same price and keep or increase usage limits and I'm quite happy. This lets me mess around with random experiments as I "catch up
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by phil21 4mo ago
Maybe. We will see. I think computers are incredibly cheap compared to humans. These models and infrastructure to run them are going to only get more efficient in time. Right now we are still using (for the most part) entire hardware archit
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by phil21 4mo ago
I've come to the conclusion that if I ever start my own thing again I will 100% ban all standing recurring meetings. Maybe an exception for projects-in-progress with a firm end date, but I'm on the fence on that one too. Zero high
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by phil21 4mo ago
Inflation absolutely stimulates spending. Especially if it's predictable and people are paying attention. Peak COVID it was obvious inflation was going to hit hard in some sectors. So I loaded up on durable goods like HVAC, hot water
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by phil21 4mo ago
> I think the entire definition of technical debt has changed. I’ve been sceptical of these tools and still approach their output with caution. This very well summarizes my current thinking on the subject as well. And most of my career h
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by phil21 4mo ago
> GPUs do not last forever, either. I've read here, and heard from others, that they aren't even living up to their 5 year depreciation schedules under production load, closer to 2-3 years People said this about GPUs during the
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by phil21 4mo ago
I dunno, I’ve never leased space in a datacenter without considering it an investment. And one I expected to perform significantly better than either the risk free rate or just passive investment into the stock market. Same reason I invest
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by phil21 4mo ago
Yes, and they need to be flexible via public policy. If two generations from now some 10acre plot of land made into wildland is now surrounded by skyscrapers it probably makes a whole lot of sense for there to be a means for the local popul
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by phil21 4mo ago
Such contracts should simply not be legal. Past owners should in generally speaking terms not be able to limit development and land use decisions of future owners. It’s no longer your land. You sold it. Want to privately limit rights via co
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by phil21 4mo ago
> It's outrageous that I'm paying an extra fee to export energy to a neighboring state to power a datacenter. I don’t find anything outrageous whatsoever about building out transmission to strengthen regional interconnections.
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by phil21 4mo ago
Solar and wind would make it worse. What matters is peak capacity. Using the grid as a free battery for when your intermittent sources of energy go away against your fairly constant loads only makes the grid weaker overall. The best part of
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by phil21 5mo ago
> Meanwhile the sharpie would take 1 minute. And eventually be missed/ignored by a rushed ground tech and fail again. Other than making it easier to blame someone, labeling is just a short term interim fix for such things. You desig

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