popotamonga

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by popotamonga 4y ago
> "let's catch up" friends seem to wither over time In my experience, at some point there is nothing to talk about anymore, i have some of those long term friends but it's getting to the point where they come by my ho
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by popotamonga 4y ago
DIY ventilation with co2 monitor, some motors to control the incoming air. The amount of air needed to recycle the air is so small it doesn't make a dent on the temperature.
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by popotamonga 4y ago
I took thermal isolation to an extreme (expensive) but i barely need to turn heating on at all. tshirt at home while cold outside. On my old house i had total of 8kwh heaters, had to be near them and 5 minutes after turning them off it was
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by popotamonga 4y ago
For my whole life i sustain 195-200 for 1h. Im 40+ now and run a 10k a day (45mins). Even a very slow 10k (1h) i never go below 170 after the first 5 minutes.
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by popotamonga 4y ago
It works, the following words made me rich: - Great idea - Makes total sense - That's how I would do it - I agree And this is not a joke.
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by popotamonga 4y ago
Fair point. I actually never expected to make this kind of money so i'm just buying real estate for a rainy day.
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by popotamonga 4y ago
Bad prediction i guess? Since 2019 my pay has gone up by triple digit %, at the age of 45.
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by popotamonga 4y ago
Don’t get married depends on country. Some countries won't even let you do hospital visits if you are not family.
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by popotamonga 4y ago
"Reactive" sutff. Bad impact. Programmer for 30 yrs and while it theoretically makes sense, pratically it's all a shitshow so i made a very simple js framework thats all "imperative" like Android (findView, setText,
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by popotamonga 4y ago
Dont think its about the hours but the freedom and being confortable with what you do (no surprises, no pressure).
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by popotamonga 4y ago
Doesnt that decay like exponentially with distance? How can we still get stuff 2bln lightyears away?
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by popotamonga 4y ago
Funny i have no problem doing a 100k, but i tried what you mentioned, i found a nice 1K loop but at 25km i couldn't handle it mentally anymore and never got do it it despite multiple tries.
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by popotamonga 4y ago
In some countries, depending on your max bracket you may or not be eligible for some breaks, meaning the extra $1 can in fact be a bad thing. For example in my country the amount you can deduct on health/education expenses depends on t
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by popotamonga 4y ago
Banned for life with that email/CC. Would be worse if you were a host. Still horrible.
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by popotamonga 4y ago
I just put it on the calendar like any other meeting and just do it. Some days i like it, some days i hate it, but if i were to wait for 'motivation' i would never do anything.
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by popotamonga 4y ago
(x) find and npm package and question nothing, whatever happens happens. If it fails blame the author.
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by popotamonga 4y ago
Customer only realizes 5 years later and you put the blame the customer for not discovering it earlier.
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by popotamonga 4y ago
It's still magic for me how they can get just 1 sheet of paper at a time.
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by popotamonga 4y ago
I make 5x what she makes, what we do is just put it all in the same account, and then each one gets an allowance (same for both) to spend on whatever they want ( for me it's bicycles for her it's whatever). We get along just fine.
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by popotamonga 4y ago
Was gonna ask the same, why are these things so low? With the current super high salaries many people should have 250k in the bank i assume, so an organization should have 50x as much?
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by popotamonga 4y ago
Couldn't they just write all locations say to a public s3 file, maybe separated by geo squares depending on your viewport? client would just keep polling the s3 file(s). Unlimited bandwidth (at a cost yes..)
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by popotamonga 4y ago
In Portugal, the pay is 80% but tax free so in high salaries you end up with a massive profit (taxes can reach 50% easily)
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by popotamonga 4y ago
I worked for companies like these. They Used every trick on the book to make the client dependent on them on maintenance. Including making it deliberatly slow to increase speed over the years.
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by popotamonga 4y ago
Any half-fit cyclist can do way more than 25kmh sustained on flats. From 30 up it becomes way harder. I'd put it at least at 30.
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by popotamonga 4y ago
No, the opposite. I want all the content to enter my brain faster and fully focused.
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by popotamonga 4y ago
I watch everything at 1.5 movies seasons etc. Stuff is too slow i just want to absorb it.
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by popotamonga 4y ago
it actually works, now he goes out with friends and stuff, before was 12h/day stuck playing LoL
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by popotamonga 4y ago
i rerouted his computers connections to a linux box that adds a random 100-1000ms delay on packets and limits bandwidth. I guess we have bad internet kid, maybe if you get a job we can afford better internet. It's ok he'll never f
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by popotamonga 4y ago
Happened to me. My doctor as a kid would just prescribed antibiotic for everything thing,no matter what. How can there be such bad doctors.
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by popotamonga 4y ago
I run one, with ads for betting sites (which give you lifetime earnings for a % of what the person bets). Runs on autopilot basically, generating 80k/yr and growing by 20k every year. Google never penalized me.

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