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by qurren 2mo ago
Yeah, I am casually looking. This job is already way better than my previous job at Amazon, where people were more actively sabotaging each other. At my current company there is actual teamwork, at least :/ and my entire set of peers
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by qurren 2mo ago
I'm already unfazed at that part and don't care. What devastated me this week is that I was slogging so hard for the past several months trying to deliver on what I was asked to deliver on, only took 1 week of PTO out of the 4 w
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by qurren 2mo ago
> In large corporate environments with multiple international customers, code is most of the time not the hardest problem. This is true, and this is the thing that makes me want to not be part of this dumb system anymore. If leadership o
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by qurren 2mo ago
This. Let me know when I can pay for a Chipotle meal or rent in mission statements. Until then saving up money is important.
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by qurren 2mo ago
And outside of a handful of New England towns, wherever that kind of city planning exists in the US, those parts of town are inhabited by half-dead zombies on meth whispering threats at you as you walk by. Not a pleasant experience. That&#x
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by qurren 2mo ago
Venturing outside your field is also part of what drives discovery itself, not a post-Nobel symptom, because you see the new field with a fresh set of eyes rather than textbook-brainwashed eyes. A lot of discoveries are made by someone who
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by qurren 2mo ago
I think the logic here is backwards. Nobel Prize winners won the prize because they had unorthodox ways of thinking that led them to an actual discovery. I'd think that it's quite normal that 1 out of 10000 unorthodox beliefs en
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by qurren 2mo ago
The more innovative companies in the US tend to have generous vacation policies. I think what the article is really about the rest of the country. In Europe, even service industry people get 4-6 weeks off per year. In the US service indus
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by qurren 3mo ago
> Returns like that are not asymmetrical and can only be produced with leverage That's not generally true. There are sometimes highly asymmetrical strategies driven by market inefficiences that are not widely known. They're not
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by qurren 3mo ago
Would be extra awesome if there was a navigation app that used this map
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by qurren 3mo ago
What NAS drives can support anywhere near 25 Gbps?
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by qurren 3mo ago
I often enter it in the wrong direction. Like let's say elevator is at 5, I am at 1 wanting to go to 3, and before I arrive there is already someone else at 1 wanting to go to -1. I'll get in with them going DOWN so that it doesn&
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by qurren 3mo ago
Human reviewers were not what they were made out to be. They would approve you if you cited them, they would disapprove you if your work questioned the validity of their work.
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by qurren 3mo ago
Because with the alternative they'll require you to "confirm your e-mail" instead of just picking a password
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by qurren 3mo ago
Not really. The car is a non-negotiable, like food, unless you live in Boston/NYC/SF or something. The robot is not.
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by qurren 3mo ago
Most consumers don't think like that. Businesses do. Part of the reason is upfront commitment is scary and risky for personal money, but not scary for a business.
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by qurren 3mo ago
If you can even afford 20K you're in the top 10% of the US population. It's not a very big market, and even selling to that market is hard. Probably only 10% of that 10% will actually buy, and all of a sudden you're selling
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by qurren 3mo ago
Yes, but: 1. 80%+ of Americans can't afford house cleaning services. I'm a software engineer in silicon valley and even I clean my own house because I don't think I can afford it. My rents have gone up by more than 5K in the
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by qurren 3mo ago
Cars are an absolute necessity in the US unless you live in one of the small handful of cities that have viable public transit. Different thing altogether. Robots aren't a necessity, and for a price tag in the tens of thousands, most p
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by qurren 3mo ago
I'm bearish that they'll be economically viable in the house for a very long time. For businesses the bar for adoption is very low: If the thing can work repetitive jobs for 24 hours a day and replace 3 shifts, the purchase bar is
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by qurren 3mo ago
The part I'm most opposed to is requiring a full KYC, using "verifying age" as an excuse. My Gmail account has been active for >18 years, that should be enough proof.
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by qurren 3mo ago
Those photographers you speak of (95%) are using Lightroom and Photoshop and you wouldn't be able to build a fork business for them. The 5% who use Darktable are likely comfortable with CLI tools.
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by qurren 3mo ago
Doesn't really matter in this case. Doesn't matter enough for people to pull out their wallet. You can re-fork from clean OSS and re-implement any time while you sleep, using whatever AI subscription you already have.
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by qurren 3mo ago
It's a pain in the ass to maintain when it has dependencies on older stuff while I upgrade the rest of the system
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by qurren 3mo ago
Honest answer from me: Probably not, because vanilla Claude Code already does a great job of maintaining my forks with open-source main, and also handles the packaging and installation beautifully. There is a huge overlap between (OSS users
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by qurren 3mo ago
I've used Darktable for almost a decade quite happily, but recently am moving off of it because they made one MASSIVE blunder with the new shitty color grading and white balancing tool that never gets any of my images right, all the
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by qurren 3mo ago
I also wonder whether this leasing thing is also a covert way to get people to be subject to more tracking. If you own a device you have a legal right to do anything to it you want, including jailbreak it or install your own OS that execute
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by qurren 3mo ago
I went to an Uzbek restaurant in SF a couple weeks ago called Sofiya. Highly recommend. Food was so good that I want to visit the country now and probably will within the next year.
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by qurren 3mo ago
If you're in an American home, you typically have one of the following 4 setups for a stove: (A) 36" range (B) 30" range (C) 36" countertop cutout (D) 30" countertop cutout. That's about >95% of US homes. Th
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by qurren 3mo ago
https://www.impulselabs.com/ achieves this by storing energy in a battery. 120V15A in to charge, 10kW out for short durations. I don't have one, but it's an interesting concept. That said, I don't know what&#

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