Superb product and team.
Worth looking into if you’ve done any engineering work around deploying ML models as a or within a service.
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Worth looking into if you’ve done any engineering work around deploying ML models as a or within a service.
We should crowdsource a guide to navigating healthcare in Northern California, it’s utterly fucked up.
Even getting a primary care physician is impossible, nobody is taking patients and the websites of any place (sutter, ucsf etc) don’t reflect any accurate info about who could actually become a primary care provider for you.
The best healthcare situation I experienced was via Cedar Sinai while we lived in Los Angeles.
How about no sound? How about defaulting to silence? Nope…
* audio sounded odd, like it was dubbed but it did match facial expressions. It lacked any reference to culture or geography, like it was made to simply swap out sound tracks in another language. * the settings were minimized: house, hospital, vet… and not much else. This also was unnerving because it felt like it may as well have been shot in another planet.
I assumed the dialogue and the sets lack of references resulted from an effort to make it really easy to just swap audio tracks and launch it in another country with as little work on their end. I understand they’d want to do that but their cookie cutter formula resulted in a terrible movie.
From September 2021:
A new history of modern computing
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/new-history-modern-computing
Skip around it’s various chapters, it’s fun of little details.
Also a fun read, this old article about the silicon in Silicon Valley, it’s from a long dead magazine and it’s titled They Would be Gods:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/l9mi2aqnyf5fp3l/They%20Would%20Be%...
Lastly, the part I enjoyed the most of Walter Isaacsons bio on Jobs, was the adjacent history.
Plenty of people should worry about it. People have to physically remove themselves from these environments in order to seek opportunities for their own children and assure their long term opportunities. Millions of people are being displaced today by the whims of a Russian dictator, and we should assume dictatorship is good and well?
… this makes me wonder if taxes/“cost of doing business” is the true cause (something the author waves away without data, and which I don’t have either :) …
https://www.growthink.com/content/story-jeff-bezos-250000-in...
https://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/23/putting-names...
You will have more time and mental clarity to be present for your life priorities. A new default of not drinking becomes automatic behavior after some time, so if it feels unnatural at first simply give it time. Enjoy!
So maybe there are some of those aspects which dedicated cameras could do better without stepping up the resolution.
Collect all the video at a higher resolution than you can display and then only show the small part which is in the smaller user view field.
I’m not a pro or anything but amongst my family members I tend to be the one who likes documenting the most, and I like the idea of really high quality playback of special moments many years from now.
If you’re an investor looking to tap into underrated talent it could make sense. But if you’re a software developer?
What type of work do you do? How old are you and how far along are you in your career? Are you allocating capital or investing? Are you an IC?
Perhaps if you’re targeting work in tourism and hospitality, when I’ve explored the options as a software professional it hasn’t looked good.
Perhaps things have changed, but after I finished college I considered starting my tech career there 10 years ago and found that the region has never diversified its economy beyond tourism.
A Latin American friend of mine, recent Comp Sci PhD from top US school, just spent a few months trying to find good work based in Miami. He did a few remote jobs with Silicon Valley companies and ultimately moved to Seattle for a job there. This is someone with family in Miami and every desire to live there.
It can be helpful to think about what your n+1 move might look like. You don’t want to be trapped in a place with few or limited opportunities. It’s a place that offers opportunities for people who are new to the US… and for investors or retirees looking for lower taxes… maybe that’s you maybe it’s not.
If you’re closer to retirement and can land a job paying SV salary in Florida, it could be a great quality of life.
And let’s not mention the political climate there.
I thought the test was fun to do, even on a mobile touch screen.
Vertical drag and drop from mobile did seem to mess with it but I simply dropped and reset the piece.
* the disclosures show two slightly different figures for the dimensions of the lot, which one is it? (County mapped shows Width W and another owner provided map showed W-1ft or something like that)
Instead of doing anything to try to figure it out, this title insurance company (also doing escrow) lowered the tier of title insurance they were willing to provide LOL
Because this was a material change, once they saw we wouldn’t go through with the transaction without the best coverage they changed their minds about and said that they’d title insure at the highest level… but only once we pushed them on it…
Nobody did any more work to settle the question than us, who went to the house and measured to determine which dimension was right…
I think this might be at the heart of it.
The article (about how hard actuarial math is) and the insurance buyers make the mistake of thinking that all that matters is downside in case of event X with particular probability P. However, instead you have to think about chances of X AND chances of being able to navigate a system that is outright adversarial to parties that are not the insurance companies.
The “house” always wins…
Have you had to get anything paid out from renters insurance?
Pet insurance seems like a great business to be in… is there anything that requires you to actually have pet insurance? Would it cover costs from your pet hurting someone else? Or is it more to cover pet health costs? Really curious to know the ways it’s similar or not to US human health insurance hah
I distinctly remember this from the interview as well! He simply drops it in there that he married into the family, that it’s a family run company, that the family owns some significant portion of it… “family family family”… it was an odd interview.
> but are you also self-insuring against a lawsuit for damage to the other guy's car?
I guess their insurance company is going to come after me/my insurance company to pay up… yeah without insurance I’d simply hope I could reason things out with whoever.
I’ve actually had to do that in the past. After a minor collision I asked the other driver whether we could settle things directly, and how much he’d feel was fair for me to pay to fix damage to his motorcycle. He named a figure and we drove to an ATM and I paid him that, we still exchanged info in case anything else came up but nothing did. Yes it was scary, but I think it was more efficient and less hassle in the end. This occurred in Los Angeles.
Our cars are fully paid for, and I’m operating under the assumption that it’s possible and for them to lose their whole value and I’d have to get a new car.
Covering remaining damage to myself seems to turn into a health insurance event (I.e. how to cover medical costs) akin to suffering from cancer or another high cost illness.
For both of those it’s expected that I’ll have to tap the piggy bank…
Beyond that, the most dangerous scenario to guard against (if I don’t die) would be something that impairs my ability to continue to be employed, so I do pay for AD&E insurance… I’d hope they would come through, but I’m sure they find their ways to avoid payouts.
Perhaps this matters if I felt like they’d harmed me enough to warrant trying to take them to court. In those cases though, it seems like I’d be handling higher order issues like actually trying to stay alive or recovering enough to get back to work.
It blew my mind at how candid he was about the fact that his business exists due to regulatory mandates. Are there insurance products that people are really satisfied with and trust will pay out in case of event X? I feel like I’m self insuring when it comes to car and healthcare at least. Title insurance when buying a house also seemed like a total “legally required” joke.
Interestingly, the less I need a particular job opportunity the more comfortable I have been with these probing conversations.
I’ve played around with hackRF and it seems like that type of scanning is something you might do in highly sensitive environments.
For the fiber ONT (what I realize now you may be calling their fiber modem) I would love to see a similar attempt to get their hardware out of the loop.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stuff-you-should-know/...