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by rm445 5y ago
Really interesting article about enabling longevity and success as a software developer, but it matches my view on all kinds of skilled work: whatever your employment arrangement, treat yourself as an old-fashioned professional. Like a doct
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by rm445 5y ago
Not sure the problem is just wear. The SD card seems unusually likely to be destroyed by power cycles or brownouts. I don't feel on especially solid ground saying that - although I've experienced dead (micro) SD cards myself. It&#
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by rm445 5y ago
That state versus trait distinction is really interesting. I have a very negative view of people's self-perceived traits - for many people, it seems more important to have a story to tell that makes them a unique person, than to be rat
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by rm445 5y ago
There are places in those and similar countries where that sort of income will let you own a house and car, raise a family and pets, even fit in a fairly cost-intensive hobby such as sailing/horseriding/cars/light aircraft if
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by rm445 5y ago
I was admiring the Sagrada Familia one day about ten years ago, and was astonished when a chap in a high-vis vest walked past me and started chipping away modifying some stonework with a chisel. He didn't look overly enthused, just get
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by rm445 5y ago
That's a crazy story. My guess would have been, not that the product never worked, but that the delivered version was hacked together in the last 24 hours before delivery and never made it into source control. You know the technical de
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by rm445 5y ago
Close my Mac, take it somewhere, open it up - there everything is. Close my work laptop, take it to the office, open it up - it's hot to the touch, stuck on the Dell high temperature warning screen, and needs to cool down and reboot. O
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by rm445 5y ago
France too. It's a shame to eat McDonald's in a country with so much great food, of course, but getting a burger covered in blue cheese served with a beer is a bit better than the standard experience.
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by rm445 5y ago
What's really weird is it's a world of about 200 "people" (sovereign states), completely without outside authority. Historically it has all been about power, with international law having a minor role - but it seems conc
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by rm445 5y ago
Seasonal agricultural labour has been a problem in the UK for literally centuries, since the move away from subsistence farming and the beginning of the industrial revolution. Traditional solutions, as well as migrant labour, include benefi
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by rm445 5y ago
Yeah. I guess most people have a complex list like that. In many ways we're actually spoilt for choice when it comes to communication. And the forum we're on right now is quite excellent. It would just be nice if the big sites wer
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by rm445 5y ago
Interesting. What you say makes some sense for keeping sane where the Internet is one big room of people shouting, but for preference I'd prefer the total opposite. I would love to be part of small social media groups with bonds of fri
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by rm445 5y ago
How about using a look-up table for small numbers (say up to 12x12), left shifts for powers of ten, and decomposing larger multiplications into summation of those operations?
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by rm445 5y ago
The nice thing about calories in minus calories out is, IF you maintain a calorie deficit, the laws of physics of the universe guarantee you must lose weight. The laws of physics are a pretty powerful thing to have on your side. But that do
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by rm445 5y ago
Do you really think anyone reading this is going to think you're anything other than an obese person with polite friends and a mild case of self-delusion? Of course, there are many nuances. Your musculature (though surely if you were a
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by rm445 5y ago
Bear in mind that we're talking about metallic tungsten here, not tungsten carbide (WC). It's a little slow and expensive but it can be machined in fairly conventional ways, using tungsten carbide tipped tooling. Tungsten has an e
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by rm445 5y ago
My guess (as an engineer but not in that field) is that some sort of breakthrough is needed or it will be a long slog. The general problem of robots navigating arbitrary spaces will probably be solved by wider advances in machine learning.
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by rm445 5y ago
The foundations are understood, in a 'chemistry is just the Schrödinger equation' kind of way. Any amount of research and engineering is still needed to make machines which can move themselves effectively, be energy-efficient, and
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by rm445 5y ago
Interesting point about car PCP financing at the end of the article. I bought a car through a PCP a few years back (a new 2013 Mazda) and it seemed fairly humane: - Nominally 0% interest (albeit we paid sticker price of the vehicle with no
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by rm445 5y ago
It was undercut by supermarkets. In the transitional years when milk float services were still around, they were the more expensive option. Refrigeration makes sense as the underlying driver - freshness and locality became less important. T
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by rm445 5y ago
We're at the bottom of a deep gravity well. The vast majority of us are never getting out of the well - unless you're talking about after a population collapse. Thankfully, we're based on replicators - we could colonize the g
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by rm445 5y ago
Something not in the comments yet - many people who are motivated by money build businesses around money, the finance sector. It's a way to stick to what you're interested in, and makes it fairly easy to 'keep score' if
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by rm445 5y ago
I took it as: Estimate the costs and pick the option with the best expected value (but apply judgement).
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by rm445 5y ago
The headline does say 'preschooler'. Minecraft is awesome for kids probably around 6+.
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by rm445 5y ago
It's probably a technology dead-end of sorts: it is unlikely to scale, either in the sense of becoming a common mode of transport, or in becoming a more fully-fledged spacecraft. Personally I think it's a beautiful system and an e
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by rm445 5y ago
Jokes aside, the USA seems to have an enormous amount of local democracy with significant powers. The side most obvious to outsiders is where it seems to work badly - the bad sheriff who keeps being re-elected, quirks like dry counties. But
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by rm445 5y ago
It does tend to make one worry that all the tools will be hideously un-unicode aware and mangle any non-ASCII documents. I would like to imagine that in this day and age that isn't the case, but the name works against it.
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by rm445 5y ago
Not to defend the tone-deaf comments, but in some circumstances there's maybe part of a point? When you're aligned with your work, when it's meaningful and aligned with your personal goals, hard separations between work and l
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by rm445 5y ago
This isn't the kind of article people have questions about - everyone is ready to jump in feet-first with strongly-held opinions! I thought the article was fascinating and thought-provoking, I hope all the strongly-worded opinions aren
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by rm445 5y ago
That's a fair comment. I don't think my comment reflects a fully rational decision and I could just use an app and log in. I don't need to have Reddit on my phone, it's entertainment I could take or leave. However I do

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