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by ska 2y ago
It’s not folly if you have enough to manage your current and future needs. At some point doubling your wealth won’t even move the needle on fulfillment - for almost all people. The point is of course for everyone. And in the other directio
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by ska 2y ago
Have you done the math on this? At your current expenses, you can live indefinitely on the proceeds of pretty safe investments of the 5.5mm, and still hit 10+mm by the time you are “regular” retirement age… It’s probably too early for you
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by ska 2y ago
Oh, I wasn't meaning to suggest that all problems are solvable by throwing more resources at it, that clearly isn't the case. But it's super common for a team to be asked to do something fundamentally outside their scope, and
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by ska 2y ago
“Figure it out” can work well, but only if it is predated by “what resources do you need” and a reasonable solution about that. If the “why can’t we do X” is “because we’re a team of 4 and already overburdened” there may not be any practic
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by ska 2y ago
I think that’s about right on focus, I brought it up more for the “modern c++” aspect…
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by ska 2y ago
Martin, interesting; have you had a look at https://github.com/taskflow/taskflow ?
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by ska 2y ago
This isn’t really true in my experience. They may be leery of hiring from outside the industry.
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by ska 2y ago
In the other direction, I’ve hired engineers out of aerospace into medical devices and can confirm it’s a pretty easy fit.
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by ska 2y ago
Except for a very narrow set of hyper-specializations, pretty much every experienced hire varies from posting, in my experience. Sometimes you need to hire one of the worldwide N top in X. You probably don’t post this. Most of the rest o
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by ska 2y ago
This just isn't true in my experience. A really good experienced generalist can make a huge impact, and many places recognize this.
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by ska 2y ago
Sports, weddings, other commercial stuff, sure. "Pent up demand" doesn't mean consumer demand though, could be lots of nikon invested folks that were waiting for the first post SLR one.
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by ska 2y ago
"The big draw for me was that my phone wouldn't work." There isn't really a shortage of other options with that feature (though it's shrinking); granted they mostly don't have people waiting on you. Personally
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by ska 2y ago
The CEO mentioned that helps, but there seems to be more than that going on. Another factor is possibly pent up demand for mirrorless with all the bells and whistles.
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by ska 2y ago
"and not spend the extra money to try to weigh exactly who is causing the most wear and bill them separately." To the contrary - that's a good reason to subsidize the construction of of infrastructure, but having some sort of
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by ska 2y ago
Oh, they all use version control. It just looks like "conf_paper1.tex" "conf_paper3.tex" "conf_paper_friday.tex" "conf_paper_20240907.tex" "conf_paper_last_version.tex" "conf_paper_fin
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by ska 2y ago
Part of the problem is that git is a fairly poor fit for these workflows. I spent time getting some mathematicians working together via version control rather than email, it was a bit of a mixed bag even using something simpler (e.g. svn).
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by ska 2y ago
This addresses a nearly orthogonal issue.
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by ska 2y ago
why is that ironic? Many ways to increase bandwidth come at the cost of latency...
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by ska 2y ago
Part of what you found painful about gnucash is probably that it handles cases like this properly. Not saying it (gnucash) is perfect - far from - but a certain amount of effort is I think a side effect of having both proper accounting pra
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by ska 2y ago
I've done this in gnucash, but i don't know if it would be worthwhile for just that.
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by ska 2y ago
Isnt' why splits exist though? I've never found that to be onerous, and I did run a small business on it for a while. Then again I'd never trust rules to do everything right anyway, so I'm reviewing at least once to re
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by ska 2y ago
20 years for a hardware startup to get really going isn't unusual. One of the other reasons VC likes SAAS. Hardware startups are cash intensive and slow boils, typically.
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by ska 2y ago
From what i can see as an admitted outsider, payment rails are more complicated than they look, and most of the crypto partisans arguments to "replace" functionality are a mix of 'ignoring that part', or 'we don&#x2
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by ska 2y ago
Sure, but there are also microcontrollers with a lot more space. This probably won’t ever usefully target the small ones, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t useful in the space at all.
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by ska 2y ago
This is how typical courses in eg physics are supposed to work. You read the material before a lecture, the lecture gets everyone on the same page and hopefully answers some or all of your questions, then you solidify by a) doing all the e
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by ska 2y ago
> Don't drink anything at all the rest of the year. That doesn't really match my observations ,or NIH data https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohols-effects-health/alcohol-to... There the majority (18 and over, a
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by ska 2y ago
> If I do pay, do the authors of the paper get my money? In general, no.
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by ska 2y ago
Typography aside, the frustration of this early career network engineer is palpable and understandable. The open call job situation has always been a mess, but automation and the internet growth has just made it messier. It's worth re
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by ska 2y ago
A counter is: this 4 day string of 23 emails could have been a 15 min meeting.
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by ska 2y ago
I don’t understand the distinction you are trying for here - email is also async.

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