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by wnolens 5y ago
Similar: How to get into cool/cutting edge technical roles without on-call duty? Nothing makes me want to leave this industry more than having to plan evenings and weekends around on-call shifts I didn't volunteer for and get shuf
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by wnolens 5y ago
I'd call them "intrusive thoughts", like a (silent) voice in my own head that tells me something demeaning about myself (not actually it, but similar to "I'm a racist".) But when faced with the real world manif
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by wnolens 5y ago
Maybe not exactly the same, but I'm dealing with artifacts of a bad LSD trip even years later. I wish I hadn't done it.
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by wnolens 5y ago
If you don't like something about your job/org, speak up and let management know. If nothing happens, try to spearhead some change. It's your job! Sometimes the lower levels can see value that upper levels can't. If you
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by wnolens 5y ago
I noticed at age 33ish my energy for all this stuff dropped off. Life just got more complex and my body became less resilient. If you require a deadline to do something I'd wonder if you don't want to do it that badly. Which is ok
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by wnolens 5y ago
Is it physical energy or will/motivation? If energy, then I'd question your sleep, diet, job stress level, then fitness level (in that order). If not, then I'd question your device addiction/attention span degredation an
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by wnolens 5y ago
I didn't mean it's literally barren land or that it's impossible to inhabit. I meant there are few desirable places to reside (to me and anyone I've ever known) on the basis of access to jobs, culture, major hospitals, h
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by wnolens 5y ago
Before you bought the house, were you renting previously at 1800/mo? Rent and mortgage may be similar for the same exact space, but rarely in cities do people rent entire houses. There is usually significant lifestyle inflation that co
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by wnolens 5y ago
Yes, I think that's it. There's not many places to actually live in Canada, so demand is sky high anywhere within a few hours of the major city centres. Then long stretches of nothing. Yukon is cool, but it's not super cheap
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by wnolens 5y ago
I've been watching it a while and I agree that the last 2 years are all interest rate driven. But before that, and after the rates rise again, we will still see incredibly expensive home prices compared to the salaries of Canadians. Th
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by wnolens 5y ago
I would love to find out what I'm missing (honestly, I spend a lot of time thinking about it). I'm working on publishing it as an interactive page. ETA soon. The principal residence sale tax free thing is a huge deal in Canada, so
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by wnolens 5y ago
Houses in the GTA are about 1.6M, resulting in about 7k/mo all-in. Chances are you're not paying 7k/mo as a renter, so it's a bit of apples-oranges. The house costs more, but you get more. You'd have to rent out par
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by wnolens 5y ago
I like the conclusion, but I've created some elaborate financial models to compare buying versus renting (+ investing the difference in S&P500). And so have a few very intelligent friends. It almost NEVER works out in favor of buyi
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by wnolens 5y ago
Yeah this sentence hit me. If I really think about it (or frame it as such), A LOT of my stress in work AND life is from wishing that non-existent paths existed.
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by wnolens 5y ago
For years I completely cut out news because it was too noisy. Nowadays I catch up once or twice a week by reading https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events to get world current events. And http:/&#x2F
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by wnolens 5y ago
Nothing about "celebrities" please. I really don't care what one of the Kardashians is doing, or what Ben Affleck thinks of XYZ current event.
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by wnolens 5y ago
Past the marketing, it's all at the very end (though poorly worded): > graph of open source [software] on‐chain creating a map we’ll use to guide value redistribution... compensated without direct payment Perhaps what they mean to
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by wnolens 5y ago
> Sure, I work at Microsoft 365, because I had to. It was join Microsoft, or be dependent on my dad for money. That's a false dichotomy if I've ever seen one! And out of the blue.. the author seems ashamed but trying to justify
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by wnolens 5y ago
The bicycle is a real pinnacle of beauty among human invention. When I think about the concepts of "function" and "form" in design, they are at peak marriage in a bicycle (I need not even point to a specific era). I&#x27
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by wnolens 5y ago
I don't get that much out of him. He starts off sounding very profound, but then makes a statement that doesn't compute. And then his arrogance makes him unable to explain himself further (see youtube clips).
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by wnolens 5y ago
Cool, wanted to build similar a few years ago. But didn't get past prototype phase because I was basically re-implementing google calendar + one or two small features that I only needed once per year. One feature I really wanted (which
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by wnolens 5y ago
That's wild. I get ghosted all the time by recruiters. They message me on LinkedIn, I reply, crickets.
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by wnolens 5y ago
Apparently your long and hard thinking skipped the economics part.
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by wnolens 5y ago
:)
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by wnolens 5y ago
Does the math pan out when compared against salary increases in tech? I happily DIY things, but for the joy of self sufficiency. USA software engineer bias: At several 100k raises possible (which you receive every year going forward), even
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by wnolens 5y ago
I share the concern of others, so won't waste more space here. But I'll ask for results/case studies :) What are some trades you/others have made by using this tool which resulted in gains? Describing successful uses of
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by wnolens 5y ago
He can't decide for people what the best course of action is, only give them to tools if they wish to go down this rabbit hole. It's meant for the financially mostly-literate and curious, not your mom/dad. It's for every
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by wnolens 5y ago
yes, cool way to think of it: low/no-code hardware.
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by wnolens 5y ago
What a beautiful labour of love. Thank you, I'm inspired.
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by wnolens 5y ago
FANGetc. | US | zero benefits | 15-20% of the job Hate it, but am well paid so mostly just shut up and try to make the experience better for myself and colleagues. If ever a shift gets bad (up late fixing something, or spurious alarms in th

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