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by ptmcc 5y ago
I know your frustration and pain, but as someone frequently on the other side of the equation trying to seek out answers, it is often difficult-to-impossible. Just this past week I was working through some infra setup challenges, I had to p
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by ptmcc 5y ago
If you're closing on a house you will probably use a wire transfer not a cashier's check, and online banks readily offer wire transfers.
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by ptmcc 5y ago
The thing is that a lot of people buying houses right now can afford them. The income divide is growing and the gulf between the economic haves and have-nots is widening. The supply of housing, particularly in desirable areas, is still co
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by ptmcc 5y ago
Structure, guidance, accountability, connections. At least theoretically. It's wonderful that so much material is free, but it's an overwhelming amount of information for the uninitiated. Some people can self-motivate and self-tea
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by ptmcc 5y ago
Au contraire, as a developer staring at screens all day I think it's very important to invest in high quality displays
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by ptmcc 5y ago
I was referring to my derailleurs being traditional cable-pull mechanical instead of electronic, not e-bikes. I think human-powered bikes are still the assumed norm, but the surging popularity of e-bikes may start challenging that soon, esp
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by ptmcc 5y ago
Di2 (and SRAM's equivalent AXS) has been getting aggressively trickled down the groupset line and the price has been dropping precipitously. It's a bit obscured by the ongoing supply chain issues, though. Electronic shifting will
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by ptmcc 5y ago
Indeed it's a heck of a lot easier to not eat 500 calories than to burn off 500 calories. Running a 5k doesn't even burn 500 calories for most people, but you can eat that much in snacks without a second thought. To really make a
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by ptmcc 5y ago
Prices may possibly rise, very true. We as a society/economy have gotten hooked on cheap goods. Perhaps too cheap in some cases. It's also possible that certain businesses and products we've grown accustomed to, at the prices
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by ptmcc 5y ago
That's in the ballpark of pretty much every effective vaccine ever deployed. They are never 100%. This misconception seems to have gotten prevalent with COVID and the mRNA vaccines being "only" 90-95% effective. That is stagg
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by ptmcc 5y ago
Totally, anyone counting non-public equity toward their total comp is deluding themselves. Including the private companies trying to spin it as compensation. They are lottery tickets, barely worth anything.
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by ptmcc 5y ago
> you cant pay rent with total comp stock/equity Sure you can, you just sell it as it vests. Which is the commonly-recommended thing to do. At a public company RSUs are so liquid they are damn near as good as cash. Once you're
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by ptmcc 5y ago
I quite like math, but I hated the college-level calc series. I had to struggle to just pull of a B average, even though I thoroughly understood the concepts. I went on to apply calculus and diff eqs in higher level classes quite successful
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by ptmcc 5y ago
My experience is the same as yours. When I rode the same regular routes on my gravel bike on slick 38s vs my road bike on slick 25s (up from 23s, as big as I could fit!), the road bike felt faster but GPS data didn't really back it u
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by ptmcc 5y ago
Critics of FIRE really like to hone in on the "RE" part, but most people I know who are aspiring toward the goal are much more focused on the "FI" part. It's not so much that you can retire to sitting on your ass at
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by ptmcc 5y ago
I think part of it may also be that us "older" folks are not fooled by the startup glitz, and would rather work somewhere with a little more stability and work-life balance. I did the startup thing a bit, it was fun, but I'm
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by ptmcc 5y ago
I can't imagine applying to that many jobs as an experienced dev. My last job transition I narrowed down my search to 3 companies that I was interested in enough to apply & interview, based on combination of compensation, culture,
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by ptmcc 5y ago
As of yet, nothing. But this is still a good and necessary first step at removing an asinine prohibition. There is still no plan or funding for building out municipal broadband services, but it opens the door to having that discussion that
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by ptmcc 5y ago
For sure. I feel like I'd be a lot more enthusiastic about work (in general, but especially remote work) if I, and my coworkers, had a normal social and family life along the way. It'd be a lot less exhausting and monotonous.
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by ptmcc 5y ago
Yep! They ditched the touchscreen for 2021 (in my CX-5 at least), along with the whole infotainment overhaul. It's a big upgrade over the previous system. The screen is large and very good quality.
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by ptmcc 5y ago
That'd be about expected TC at any FAANG or FAANG-adjacent company, once your RSUs start vesting. Obviously that's top of the market, but it exists.
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by ptmcc 5y ago
Washington state passed a law making this sort of balance billing illegal, effective Jan 1 2020. It's a huge problem nationwide, though, and ultimately needs to get addressed at the federal level. It's absolutely insane and fraudu
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by ptmcc 5y ago
It's not as extreme as that, but Mazda is very good about this. They ditched the touch screen entirely for a rotary knob only infotainment interface, and physical buttons and switches for effectively all controls. Still has a big high
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by ptmcc 5y ago
This is correct, it's over 250k in gains . Important distinction that may be getting intentionally muddied.
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by ptmcc 5y ago
One of my favorite and most impactful classes I took in high school was auto shop. I was one of the lucky last few years (early 2000s) it was even offered, before being dropped entirely. Among all my other AP classes, advanced math, science
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by ptmcc 6y ago
I don't believe it. I do believe that 34% of polled workers said they would quit rather than return to the office, but I do not believe even a majority of them would actually go follow through on that threat. Especially if you filter
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by ptmcc 6y ago
Something that was beaten into us as history majors was to be highly skeptical of anyone suggesting that an historical event was "inevitable". It's easy to look back on the past and think that you see "obvious" tren
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by ptmcc 6y ago
Yup, my team has a backlog of hundreds of bugs, perf issues, and technical debt that we developers would love to spend months digging into and fixing. There's a high likelihood we already know about any given bug that gets filed. But t
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by ptmcc 6y ago
Precisely, there's zero linkage to the physical world from an NFT unless it's recognized and enforced by some sort of central authority. At which point it's orders of magnitude easier and more efficient to use a centralized d
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by ptmcc 6y ago
Apple's reputation is for relatively poor work-life balance, plus living under a heavy shroud of secrecy even internally is tiring. But like any huge company, "it depends".

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