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Garry Newman seems like a really real guy.

Isn't that the point of agents?

Assume we have excellent test coverage -- the AI can write the code and ensure get the feedback for it being secure / fast / etc.

And the AI can help us write the damn tests!

If you're hiring, I know an enthusiastic boot camp grad that loves ruby and can't stand react.

My company has a react team somewhere, but not ruby...

As long as we all agree that Facebook is one of the most meaningful and useful contributions to society, then yes, capitalism determines ideal value.

You missed it. He was saying that amortized costs are cheaper, but poor people can't pay the upfront costs.

This is a pretty apples and oranges comparison. Suppose it takes 30 people to maintain the ship. 70 people are working on it, mostly doing administrative work that makes them feel important. 10 people decided to fuck off and form a band, but honestly we kinda like them. 10 people developed space sickness and are useless. 5 people snuck on board accidently and got shot into space and nobody really liked them anyway. And the final 5 keep talking about their start-up, whatever the hell that means.

We'd jettison them, but we kinda want at least 70 people to run the ship and we have supplies for 100 people that honestly just burn sometimes.

My dad shut off the internet when he went to bed every night. At 7:00-8:00 PM. I presume so I would sleep? 'Videogames ruined your life' was what I heard constantly.

For a while, I had a timer click it back on and off. At some point I learned kali linux just enough to crack the neighbor's WiFi. There was also the time my BIOS was locked, but I found out there was a jumper circuit on the MB that reset it.

I'm now a very successful software engineer with a long history of devop experience. Shrug

Same, but outdoorsy stuff and I had to quarantine with a family member in Houston. I basically went from top 10% athlete level to feeling like a total couch potato. I just went back out this week and it's gonna take about a year to get back.

Relationships are really important outside the business setting too. Often much more important.

Something that a lot of people in the business setting don't seem to understand.

My work friends are just that... work friends. I have to hide large swaths of my personal life from them and they don't usually stick around outside work. Work relationships suck.

Fuck you, I hate cities. Now I can live near the people that are actually my friends and don't have to drive 5 hours every weekend for my hobbies.

I think it'll be okay! ;)

Maybe, but lava tubes are also really boring. Can see we do the karst stuff on Mars?

I'd agree with the hypothesis that a PhD let's you hang out and get paid to do a lot of math. My brain is pretty spent from writing code -- I don't have time to spend doing more math.

So for me, I get stressed when I have less control over my work / time / etc.

The less you make, the more they tell you exactly what to do, when and how to do it and you lose flexibility. There's no trust.

As I've moved up, I'm largely trusted to know what I'm doing. I can basically set my own hours, do what work I think is impactful and nobody really checks in on me. Some days I accomplish very little and nobody cares, other days, I accomplish a lot.

Bonus points in that I have tons of employee protections (I wouldn't be fired without at least a large severance) and I have so much money saved that I don't need to work for long periods of time. My healthcare is covered and my living finances are less than a quarter of my base salary.

I don't know if Denver has any food it's known for. Maybe craft beer?

Mountains are the thing.

The cooler weather in Denver and huge focus on fitness / outdoors beats the pants off Austin for me on any given day. I do indeed want to be healthier and spend time outdoors!

We should probably get to space one day. Doesn't mean we can't solve earth problems too.

Heya, I haven't gotten out to most of the western US apart from a bit of TAG and Mammoth / Fisher Ridge. Working on that cave diver cert :D.

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Caves are generally pretty stable over short geologic-periods. Otherwise they wouldn't be there.

Mines on the otherhand... mines are where you get fucked.

Some caves have a higher level of CO2, ie 'bad air'. You'll probably notice, one of the more entertaining symptoms of this is a 'feeling of impending doom'.

The only place I've seen fast food cost more is in mountain towns -- taco bell was about .50 more.

I have no A/C, run solar power and my heater is extremely efficient. Diesel usually sticks to 2.50ish everywhere right now, but California does get up to 4.00. so that's an extra expense of about $80 a month?

The cost of goods is so low, it barely registers. Housing tends to be the problem.

Just to throw in a wrench, I live in a van and I'm only very rarely in the same place for more than a month.

My expenses don't really change depending on where I park.

Had we reacted better, it's reasonable to believe that we could have contained it properly and not spent as many trillions.

The worse we let the pandemic get, the more expensive it will be.

Heterogeneous forests sustain more wildlife, sink more carbon, are healthier for the land and use less resources than would be the case for a farmed forest.

Cutting down trees and 'reforesting' is unlikely to be sustainable over the long term for a variety of reasons (soil depletion, inefficient water use, etc. Forests are their own resource. You can't simply grow them back.

Just route all your work through your home in Seattle!

What does your company do if the employee is entirely Nomadic? Officially I live somewhere, but I never go there.

I live in a van. Does that mean I'm working around compensation adjustments?

I do trail running, sooooo... It depends and it doesn't make the running less boring.

Suppose that higher incomes are also a matter of culture.

My personal opinion is that the treadmill makes it so much harder!