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by saulpw 1y ago
At least 10^7 people have refinanced their homes at lower rates, while only 10^5 people have won the lottery. So refinancing is substantially more likely than lottering.
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by saulpw 1y ago
You can refinance your mortgage when interest rates are lower.
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by saulpw 1y ago
Interest rates for home-ownership are a ratchet, though. If they ever go down (and they do fluctuate over the course of decades), and you are financially stable (this may or may not be the case at the right time) you can generally refinanc
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by saulpw 1y ago
I dunno, I've done it myself, and I would say that it's qualitatively different than other "banging your head against the wall" software development. At least it's an order of magnitude more painful, due to lack of
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by saulpw 1y ago
There will be pressure to make it easier to discover plugins, install plugins, install plugin dependencies, manage plugin options, uninstall plugins, verify and validate plugins, etc. It's all well and good to punt these problems to &
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by saulpw 1y ago
Just use your own well! Sheesh.
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by saulpw 1y ago
The main challenge with any creative effort, including and especially programming, is motivation. "Easy coding" gives you small mental wins that build your dopamine circuits and give you something to chase. When people say that
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by saulpw 1y ago
Writing and coding use different parts of the brain. Writing is for creating a model to communicate about human things, and coding is for creating a model for communicating about computer things.
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by saulpw 1y ago
People are more fearful when there is no reason, when it is arbitrary or capricious.
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by saulpw 1y ago
Almost all of the builders, mechanics, landscapers, chefs, etc that I know are also employed by corporations. If the only 'real jobs' are independent contractors then I guess we're all house slaves.
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by saulpw 1y ago
Not to detract from your larger point, but if he had gotten a 'real job', it's almost certain the tab for that job would also be picked up by high-net-worth individuals and corporate benefactors. Except that job would be in
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by saulpw 1y ago
It's not about compilation, it's about interactions, and leaky abstractions.
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by saulpw 1y ago
I think the main thing that makes this workable is "The library is usually a small, flat collection of atomic functions." I find that it's the hell of transitive dependencies--you as a developer can reasonably vet a single la
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by saulpw 1y ago
The hamburger menu "About" and "How To Recognize Skin Cancer" both go to a 404 page that's a copy of a company website called "Revessa Health". Is this your company?
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by saulpw 1y ago
It would be better than living your entire life in a literal cage on earth. But I think it would be worse than even being a slave on earth. A slave can touch grass and hope to run away. A person born on a generational ship would be effec
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by saulpw 1y ago
> a human-readable size—18k loc or so. I agree in general with the principle that there is a 'human-readable' size, and that it's around some 10k-30k LOC, but I'm curious how you came up with that specific number. Ha
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by saulpw 1y ago
Eventually. But there's a period of time until that's the case, which makes it worthwhile. Kind of a regulatory arbitrage in time.
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by saulpw 1y ago
That's the way they feel. Why do you think it shouldn't be that way?
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by saulpw 1y ago
I'm not sure why you bother yapping about it yourself. It's too human. Just give an LLM a list of lowercase bullet points and have an AI voiceover read them. It'll be 10x more efficient.
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by saulpw 1y ago
I tuned in to a random spot at a random episode, didn't see any coding but did get to hear you say: "I'm a person who hates art now...I never want to see art again. All I want to see is like, AI stuff. That's how bad i
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by saulpw 1y ago
There's rich, and then there's 10x rich, and 100x rich, and 1000x rich, and 10000x rich, and now even 100000x rich. Millionaires are fine, billionaires are bad, and hectobillionaires are supremely terrible. I think once someone g
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by saulpw 1y ago
The OP was saying it's $1k/mo. That's a 5-10% raise, which is a bit more than nothing.
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by saulpw 1y ago
It can be extremely temporary though. You can only do so much in 30 days, whereas some of these 'emergencies' are indefinite and can last years.
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by saulpw 1y ago
Mac only.
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by saulpw 1y ago
Linux was created in 1993, when the computing world was still understandable by a single human. This is no longer the case, hence why we haven't seen any new (hacker) operating systems since then.
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by saulpw 1y ago
> When was the last time anyone actually used their "mobile phone" for actual real phone calls I called my mom yesterday (to her landline), and then I sent a text message to my friend from a parking lot to let them know I'
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by saulpw 1y ago
If it's nihilism, it's not enlightenment! There is still/more meaning in impermanence.
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by saulpw 1y ago
Consider that some people have gotten past it, and that it's not a "cope". Enlightenment is real even if it horrifies you because you aren't there yet.
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by saulpw 1y ago
It's a joke about having children diminishes their father's sexual attraction to their mother.
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by saulpw 1y ago
It takes about that long for the message to embed itself into the generational psyche.

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