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by qwerpy 4y ago
100% Tried management for a few years, dealing with the prima donnas and the deadweight on the team burned me out. Wasn’t getting paid more than I was as an IC, so it was not worth it for me by a long shot. As an IC I just have my own probl
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by qwerpy 4y ago
As a suburban homeowner/parent, house prices have little bearing for me. I hope to live in my house for decades, so the sell price in the distant future doesn’t matter. It’s the “quiet and peaceful” part that I care about. West coast c
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by qwerpy 4y ago
Yeah what the other guy said. Keeping my toddler's room humidified at night uses several gallons of water per week, which would be pretty annoying to have to manage over time. Boiling tap water really shouldn't have any health ris
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by qwerpy 4y ago
I was noticing my air quality monitor showing awful AQI after running an ultrasonic cool mist humidifier. Turns out it's the minerals in tap water atomizing into fine dust in the air. I don't know how harmful it actually is but I
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by qwerpy 4y ago
I also didn’t know what the answer was for a long time. I count myself lucky that I lucked into the path that led to the best outcome for me once I did figure it out. Relentlessly pursued money for the first decade and a half of my career.
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by qwerpy 4y ago
I use cloud storage to store the kdbx file and sync it across a PC and my phone. It’s pretty awesome 99% of the time and just works. Once in a while you get a merge conflict and it’s not so good.
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by qwerpy 4y ago
Sorry, best I can do is leave the heated seat on for a little too long.
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by qwerpy 4y ago
> I look up and I see colleagues in their 40s-50s. 20-30 years of experience in the industry, with the performance of their RSUs they probably easily have $2m+ net worth. I really don't understand why they don't quit. I'm
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by qwerpy 4y ago
That's sad and somewhat surprising to me, as someone in a similar situation. Pretty much all of my friends are also in FAANG and all of them either completely sympathize or are also actively working on their early retirement goals. My
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by qwerpy 4y ago
As a Tesla driver, I'm sorry and I don't like it either. I turn it off for normal driving but when using autopilot, it force enables the auto high beams. Arguably I shouldn't be using autopilot at night but ironically I was d
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by qwerpy 4y ago
I debated really hard between trading in my Y for an X so I could have a bigger car for my growing family. Decided to keep the Y because the X just didn't add enough space to make it worthwhile. Not to mention the unnecessary doors (ro
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by qwerpy 4y ago
What’s your conclusion? It’s hard for me to make generalizations. The ones who work at my high end FAANG company are all hard-working and driven. But they’re the cream of the crop.
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by qwerpy 4y ago
I have to say I really appreciate you taking the time to put all these thoughts down into words. As a father it captures a lot of what I'm feeling these days. People are quick to attach moralistic judgments onto facts and statistics, b
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by qwerpy 4y ago
Yeah you’re right, I was just making fun of software engineer hubris. I’m slowly learning some of those skills on my own because it’s fun to learn and not be blocked on finding a dependable contractor. Nowhere near the point where I can
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by qwerpy 4y ago
The emphasis on easy to clean and maintain is something that I wish houses today had. To me it seems new houses are optimized for fast and cheap construction, but as someone who actually lives in the house and wants to continue to do so for
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by qwerpy 4y ago
I think what they mean is that people who live in nice neighborhoods and never have to deal with the practical effects of high crime, are often the ones calling for defunding the police, building low barrier homeless shelters in less well-o
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by qwerpy 4y ago
Was really helpful for me to read this comment. I'm entering my 40s, have young children, and am still relatively healthy but I start to notice old age stubbornly pushing for a foothold. The aches and pains take longer to go away and s
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by qwerpy 4y ago
Love it. My best friend was bullied by the class jerk for being Indian. Unfortunately for the bully, my friend and I had been practicing martial arts together for years, and my friend knocked the guy out in the middle of class. The story sp
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by qwerpy 4y ago
Chiming in with my anecdote. Took all honors classes throughout high school, so I pretty much never mixed with kids outside of that bubble. Was one of the few Asians in my high school in the small midwestern town, so I'm sure there was
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by qwerpy 4y ago
I’d be fine with this as long as people then don’t decry the eventual <thing> deserts as discriminatory.
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by qwerpy 4y ago
Trying to figure this out myself. Bought a steam deck and love the idea of it, but haven't had consistent time to play it in between all the family and work obligations. One problem is I like to play games that require quite a bit of f
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by qwerpy 4y ago
Keepassium. Free, has some limitations that don’t affect me.
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by qwerpy 4y ago
Good questions and I think they show some of the blind spots I have. I don't share my passwords database. Right now my wife and I do have a very limited number of shared accounts but I set up the same system for her and we simply dupli
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by qwerpy 4y ago
I just got around to checking my HN replies. Thank you so much for writing this out. I'm at least a decade+ from having to put these plans into motion, but I'll refer back to it from time to time.
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by qwerpy 4y ago
I've seen so many interesting password manager solutions over the years, but I have yet to move away from a Keepass file hosted on cloud storage. I can read and write to it using apps from every device I use: windows and linux PCs, iOS
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by qwerpy 4y ago
Wow, so what does it take to get into the top schools as an Asian? My (Asian) kids are going to face the same challenges when they apply for college. When the time comes, I'm tempted to ease off the whole tiger parent thing, let them h
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by qwerpy 4y ago
Became a dad at a similar age and have the same regrets. Then again I met the right woman very late as well. There are some benefits though. Finances are well established and early retirement is within reach, so I have the freedom to quit a
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by qwerpy 4y ago
Total comp and work life balance are all I care about for my job. I put in my 40 hours so that I have money to pay the bills, support my family, and have some fun hobbies. The only reason I wouldn’t work for FB is the poor work life balanc
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by qwerpy 4y ago
Seattle-area parent here. I grew up in near a small city in the midwest, but even there we had 3 levels of classes for nearly every subject, and a gifted program. It was awesome. My classmates were all smart and hard-working, and I entered
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by qwerpy 4y ago
schroeding also covered this in their reply to your comment, but "just create a new Google account" is much harder than it sounds. I did this for my Sony TV out of a vague paranoia of Google having access to my living room (I de-g

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