topkai22

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by topkai22 3y ago
It’s hard if you do those things, too. I had my best luck with sports and volunteerism. Since I have kids, coaching youth sports has also been a great way to develop a group.
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by topkai22 4y ago
737 max can do 4000+ miles in on paper. That puts all of Mexico, most of Central America, and a good chunk of the Caribbean in range I believe.
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by topkai22 4y ago
Incredibly, his eponymous law has held out long then him. RIP.
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by topkai22 4y ago
I don’t follow the industry that closely, but I know TerraPower (a Bill Gates vehicle) is actively doing things, including building out molten salt reactors.
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by topkai22 4y ago
Only if there is zero market segmentation going on. My area is seeing a large number of new units go up, but they range from developments with no units below $1.5M to where all units are below $600k. And even if you saw uniformity in the ho
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by topkai22 4y ago
When I was reviewing resumes I would generally also look at an interesting candidate’s LinkedIn as it often provided more detail than the resume itself. For me, I was mostly looking for more detail on a candidate’s experience. Links to proj
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by topkai22 4y ago
California has a reputation for growing high water use crops in low water areas. California can still provide epics amounts of food for less water usage, it would just be a different mix of products.
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by topkai22 4y ago
Except people found don’t like wearing glasses all the time. Source: I wear contacts
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by topkai22 4y ago
The most hilarious bad ChatGPT output I’ve gotten so far is asking for driving directions. It completely just makes stuff up- it spews major street names but the directions are nonsense. It really reveals some fundamental limitations of lan
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by topkai22 4y ago
About 8 years ago, I moved to a new city with my wife and went fully remote. It looked different for me- I was with a consultancy and started by out flying out to customer sites every other week, gradually fading to one a quarter or less be
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by topkai22 4y ago
I remember going to a muppet exhibit at what is now the museum of popular culture in Seattle and finding out that the muppet Henson most identified with was Rowlf. I also learned that Henson did some delightfully bizarre commercials. My fav
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by topkai22 4y ago
So many problems missing in the analysis: - No analysis of last mile logistics. I am not a logistics expert, but I know enough to know that last mile logistics dominate costs. How does this setup improve the issues with the transfer of cont
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by topkai22 4y ago
A lot of creative outlets are faddish for production, even if they remain commercially viable. For a while podcasting was having a moment, with big names like Serial making a splash. Now TikTok and short form videos are having their moment.
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by topkai22 4y ago
Interesting. I found going remote (which happened 6 years pre-pandemic) forced me to develop better local networks. It took a while (and having kids helped) but I ended up with a bunch of truly local friends and neighbors through sports, ki
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by topkai22 4y ago
Why? When I worked in support and services at my big tech company, everyone below staff level had to have a roommate at our annual conference. My wife’s business encourages people to double up as well.
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by topkai22 4y ago
Do not quit your job without at least a written offer. It is 100% an issue for resume reviewers, hiring managers and interviewers. I have seen plenty of candidates passed over for exactly this reason. My brother quit his (admittedly bad) jo
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by topkai22 4y ago
As a new grad I don’t think you need to do much different. At my Megacorp the college hire budget is separate from everything else. Even during the strictest hiring freeze college hiring continued. I would advise shifting expectations a bit
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by topkai22 4y ago
Knowing when to quit also means knowing what your objective is. Many of the OP’s examples have seem to have “make great art and gain status” as the objective. If your objective is “maximize income”, than your stopping point is well after
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by topkai22 4y ago
You’d wish, but in my experience individual performance is only a small factor in layoffs. In one layoff I survived, our GM (with 1000+ people) was told who was being let go a day before the event. That involved 100+ people. People with abo
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by topkai22 4y ago
I've lots of concrete houses on journeys to tropical climates- in my case, some Carribean islands and to a lesser extent SE Asia. The older ones were typically block built rather than panel built. I could also be confusing concrete&#x2
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by topkai22 4y ago
Wood has really good longevity- in the US it’s not hard to find 100+ year old houses all over the place in older settled areas. In Buffalo, NY about half the single family homes for sale are over 100 years old, and they mostly appear wood b
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by topkai22 4y ago
I was talking to a (housing) developer friend who is also into many of these technologies last year. In short, 3d printing and modularization can reduce cost, but not as much as I would have thought 10 years ago. Framing is only 1/6 of
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by topkai22 4y ago
In my market (smaller western us city), there are roughly 730 detached single family homes in the market. Only 25 are less than 1000 sq feet and none of those were built in the last 40 years. It’s not that there aren’t any options that size
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by topkai22 4y ago
Yeah, I did that for the first one for a month because I couldn’t get in to a mechanic for weeks. After that, I searched “how to replace a window regulator in <my car>” on YouTube and then figured out how to do it myself. Turns out it
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by topkai22 4y ago
EVs have less maintenance costs than ICEs in general, but they have particularly less maintenance requirements during the for the lifespan rental companies keep their cars, often less then 30k miles. During that time you are really just loo
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by topkai22 4y ago
Peers exclusively. I’ve rarely worked professionally on projects that were open source compatible, and when I program on my own time I haven’t sought feedback because, frankly, that’s me time.
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by topkai22 4y ago
That is a perspective with support, but I don’t believe it is commonly held. I’ll posit that the vast majority of people are happy at the the fact they exist and so feel there is some degree of obligation to those that enabled that to happe
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by topkai22 4y ago
Get used to writing your code twice. If you were writing prose, almost any methodology recommends that you revise and edit your first draft, often multiple times. My first pass at an implementation is for me to understand it and solve it. I
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by topkai22 4y ago
So far, the Nevada Tesla Gigafactory stuff is still considered an enormously successful endeavor. Probably the exception that proves the rule though.
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by topkai22 4y ago
The entire worldwide industry is dealing with a pathogen (bird flu). There is a large upfront capital capital cost to acquire industrial scale chicken raising equipment and facilities, plus time to raise the new chickens (6 months from hatc

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