That sounds nice but in practice it’s probably not super helpful. Yes you could make a special case for reducing “+” over integers. But in python you can generally not promise that all the inputs are strictly integers,…
That’s very nice but that isn’t the price you would sell it for, especially if you were trying to make it your livelihood
If you watch The Price is Right episodes from the 80s, it is clear that household items have only had mild inflation. Many items are prices a little lower than today but not outrageously so. On the other hand, the…
When visiting Seattle for the first time my mom was simultaneously outraged at the lack of plastic bags and the recycling bins everywhere, and also in awe at how clean the city was. Never did the two thoughts cross each…
When I was in school 15 years ago, BGP was described to me as a sketchy game of telephone. “Oh yeah you want to route to a 129.37.x.x address? I know a guy who knows a guy. Why don’t I just take those pesky packets off…
I think you overestimate the number of people that can work from home. For society to function the majority of us have to actually go to a physical place and do something real with our hands and our time.
So did you take them and have a bad time? Because they definitely work for me and I doubt a placebo could have such a large effect on the 48 hour stomach pains I used to get alongside my frequent panic attacks. I find…
You’re making the mistake of thinking there’s a top down process. That’s not what’s happening. It goes like this: “if I close my public restroom then all of the people asking for a public restroom will have to go across…
Classic xkcd on this topic https://xkcd.com/882/
To quote Billy Joel: “you can get what you want or you can just get old”
There were a lot less meetings cause you would just walk over and talk with someone. Of course that’s still a meeting but it meant that people generally had more free time to connect and often problems would be resolved…
Absolutely. When I started working at Amazon in 2014 it had a reputation as a company with a very bad work life balance. On the other hand, all communication was done through email and conference call (no cameras). Most…
Always be wary of “of course” and “just” as they tend to hide a lot of complexity. It is not obvious to me that society would keep on going without change if it were not for the technology that we are all exposed to and…
Tends to look strange, though spiraling around the edge twice before doing the usual lines will make your life easier, as you mentioned.
There’s the cost of supplies used during transport. Also the cost of maintaining potential supplies like blood even if they go unused. EMTs may make $23 but they are also getting benefits and have other overhead, making…
Absolutely. We live in a time of unprecedented wealth, stability, health, acceptance, and knowledge. Don’t listen to the daily news, compare our situation to past generations and different times. If I had a Time Machine…
Where are you that the average person wants to go back to farming?
Anecdotally I know of an engineer in the Excel team. They would keep around a list of low priority security bugs. When they wanted to do improvements on the system they would attach it to one of the security bugs…
How do you justify that your intuition about what echolocation is like tracks with what a bat actually feels?
One of the seminal papers of the 20th century. And like any truly good philosophy paper the argument is very clear and a real head-scratcher.
Reddit is fun for a while but there is a strong “lowest common denominator” problem that plagues almost every subreddit.
You might be surprised to hear that there are great engineers who are also good at people skills.
> I think I have just too strong of a mask for anyone else to truly pierce. And a flair for the dramatic!
Aren’t soft skills much more important than hard skills when it comes to building a team?
You don’t have to be poly to bring “relationship anarchy” to your current relationships.
That sounds nice but in practice it’s probably not super helpful. Yes you could make a special case for reducing “+” over integers. But in python you can generally not promise that all the inputs are strictly integers,…
That’s very nice but that isn’t the price you would sell it for, especially if you were trying to make it your livelihood
If you watch The Price is Right episodes from the 80s, it is clear that household items have only had mild inflation. Many items are prices a little lower than today but not outrageously so. On the other hand, the…
When visiting Seattle for the first time my mom was simultaneously outraged at the lack of plastic bags and the recycling bins everywhere, and also in awe at how clean the city was. Never did the two thoughts cross each…
When I was in school 15 years ago, BGP was described to me as a sketchy game of telephone. “Oh yeah you want to route to a 129.37.x.x address? I know a guy who knows a guy. Why don’t I just take those pesky packets off…
I think you overestimate the number of people that can work from home. For society to function the majority of us have to actually go to a physical place and do something real with our hands and our time.
So did you take them and have a bad time? Because they definitely work for me and I doubt a placebo could have such a large effect on the 48 hour stomach pains I used to get alongside my frequent panic attacks. I find…
You’re making the mistake of thinking there’s a top down process. That’s not what’s happening. It goes like this: “if I close my public restroom then all of the people asking for a public restroom will have to go across…
Classic xkcd on this topic https://xkcd.com/882/
To quote Billy Joel: “you can get what you want or you can just get old”
There were a lot less meetings cause you would just walk over and talk with someone. Of course that’s still a meeting but it meant that people generally had more free time to connect and often problems would be resolved…
Absolutely. When I started working at Amazon in 2014 it had a reputation as a company with a very bad work life balance. On the other hand, all communication was done through email and conference call (no cameras). Most…
Always be wary of “of course” and “just” as they tend to hide a lot of complexity. It is not obvious to me that society would keep on going without change if it were not for the technology that we are all exposed to and…
Tends to look strange, though spiraling around the edge twice before doing the usual lines will make your life easier, as you mentioned.
There’s the cost of supplies used during transport. Also the cost of maintaining potential supplies like blood even if they go unused. EMTs may make $23 but they are also getting benefits and have other overhead, making…
Absolutely. We live in a time of unprecedented wealth, stability, health, acceptance, and knowledge. Don’t listen to the daily news, compare our situation to past generations and different times. If I had a Time Machine…
Where are you that the average person wants to go back to farming?
Anecdotally I know of an engineer in the Excel team. They would keep around a list of low priority security bugs. When they wanted to do improvements on the system they would attach it to one of the security bugs…
How do you justify that your intuition about what echolocation is like tracks with what a bat actually feels?
One of the seminal papers of the 20th century. And like any truly good philosophy paper the argument is very clear and a real head-scratcher.
Reddit is fun for a while but there is a strong “lowest common denominator” problem that plagues almost every subreddit.
You might be surprised to hear that there are great engineers who are also good at people skills.
> I think I have just too strong of a mask for anyone else to truly pierce. And a flair for the dramatic!
Aren’t soft skills much more important than hard skills when it comes to building a team?
You don’t have to be poly to bring “relationship anarchy” to your current relationships.