johnrob

I thought you made the rotation aspect quite clear. Everyone plays both roles and I’m sure when a bigger issue arises everyone becomes aware regardless. Personally, I like this because as a dev I can set expectations accordingly. Either I plan for minimal disruption and get it, or take the on call side which I’m fine with so long as I’m not asked to do anything else (frustration is when your expected to build features while getting “stuck” fixing prod issues).

We are human animals. Our bodies need healthy food and regular exercise. There’s a case that diet and exercise are worth willpower capacity, possibly more so than anything else. That’s just the reality we exist in?

This sounds a lot like programming, from 10k feet.

Living a healthy life requires discipline and a certain amount of humility. Both of those traits are hard to maintain after a financial windfall IMO.

Since the training data is basically the “source code” via this reasoning, does that mean there are trade secret claims (source code theft) to be made against GenAI companies? The argument would be that sites like SO, Reddit, etc implicitly grant permission to read the “code”, but not to “run in production”.

Is grip strength really a proxy for doing resistance training in general (people who do full workouts having stronger grip)? Just speculation on my part due to forearms not really being a major muscle group.

There’s this tacit myth that it’s possible for the lower end homes to get cheaper while, simultaneously, the middle/high end homes continue their regular 6% (or more) YoY gains (on which owners’ financial health depends).

I think this belief gives hope that affordability can improve even without new inventory.

In reality, the entire stock (low to high) moves lock/step as if they are chained together. Gaps cannot exist because buyers will eagerly move a little up or down (in quality) based on pricing changes.

I heard this one recently: “All mushrooms are edible. Some only once.”

I’m a little confused as to what “Index” refers to here. Is it a data structure providing key lookup, or is it a single entry within one of these structures?

Couldn’t this just be an email or text based service? Why a mobile app?

Build more homes.

Any area that wealthy people are attracted to pretty much has this problem now. It’s the same exact story playing out in each locale. The core issue is important so on one hand I’m happy to see press coverage, but on the other it’s literally the same article that I’ve now read over 100 times. Will we ever do anything about it??

Fair question: if the world is already overloaded with compelling content, do we still need to be creative? Maybe the core issue is not (directly, at least) the creativity loss, but rather the struggle against FOMO.

Autism diagnosis are based on nothing more than behavior. The facts here are that one child behaved in a manner consistent (enough) with the criteria for ASD. After treating a fungal infection, the child’s behavior changed. I think it’s a stretch to associate fungal infections with autism. There are probably many ailments that could trigger typical ASD behaviors.

If you look at it from 10k feet, it’s a credible investor promising a pre-stated amount of money and a quick yes/no answer, with minimal song and dance. This is practically non-existent elsewhere. The high equity cost is the premium for skipping the traditional process.

Edit: I should also add that YC is trustworthy as well (easy to underestimate this part).

For better or worse, the wealthy are the thought leaders of society. Their values trickle down to the middle and lower classes. When we see them consume at a high rate (per capita), it sends a message that “what I can afford to consume is ok to consume”. So the masses end up throwing away hoards of cheap single use plastics because it’s convenient and not expensive.

The issue with mass consumption by the wealthy is how it influences the behavior of the more impactful middle and lower classes.

In the Steve Jobs biography I was originally shocked that he and his wife had hours long debates about whether or not to use a drying machine (vs hanging laundry outside). For a long time I never saw what he was fighting for, but now it makes sense to me.

If you want to transfer the asset to another party (the main purpose of crypto currency), that requires effort from the community of miners. Would that satisfy the condition?

If a LLM somehow had access to insider data, and decided to trade on it, how would this be policed?

Only upon reading your comment a second time did I realize you said “no kids”. What you wrote after sounds exactly what life can feel like for an ambitious hacker (side projects!) confronted with the massive quantity of household work that young children bring about. Passenger is a word I use a lot - my mind hasn’t changed from before kids, but at times it feels like I’m just on the sidelines watching everyone else do stuff, while I change diapers and wash dishes.

I’m not anyone to be giving out psychological advice - but given my high “overhead of life” I’ve found it a convenient time to focus on physical health. I just need 30 minutes a day for exercise, and then it’s just a matter of eating healthy. Kids may take my time but they can’t force junk food down my throat! My time will free up down the road - and I think your “muse” will also return with time. Which is why I figure now is a great time to instead focus on health (low opportunity cost wrt side projects). You may as well start with that, and if we believe a lot of what’s written these days, it’s entirely possible that improved diet and exercise might clear and focus your mind too (that would be house money if so). But at least when your drive returns, hopefully the new healthy habits you’ve gained will stick.

Last thought - if you can’t think of anything else interesting to work on, I’d recommend blogging about a subject matter you find interesting. Just my 2 cents.

Could you request a multi-year payment plan for the 2022 tax owed balance?

Didn’t Nash (mathematician) prove that collusion is possible without explicit coordination (a form of game theory perhaps)?

This is not a scientific argument, but if you build up conditioning safely, i think running should be excellent for you - especially if sprinting is involved. My take is that it’s a natural movement that evolution has prepared you for. Just my 2 cents.

Surprised that is possible in the age of compliance for certifications (PCI, HIPPA, SOC2, etc).

The challenge is that while we (ideally) all strive to reuse that bag 50 times, we may fail unintentionally and end up a net negative.

It’s easy to overlook one aspect: because of the skill and work history of the retired techie, they have the option to re-enter the industry and earn higher income if needed. That is a big security blanket.

Sounds like a misuse of relative return (growth rate). If you gain 100% today, then lose 50% tomorrow, you are back where you started. Absolute numbers give you the correct answer: x -> 2x is a gain of x, 2x -> x is a loss of x, so expected value is zero (x is a hard number not a ratio).

Without debating the merits of said concept, the effect would be to (finally) boost the supply of housing, and find a way to transition (decouple?) stored wealth from real estate assets to something else.

I wish there were a named concept for doing the exact opposite of the example habits you’ve listed here. Right now (literally right now), anyone who can reduce/avoid using gasoline should do so to minimize the price increase levied on those who need it to drive to work. If you did this - not only would nobody reward you, I’m not sure anyone would even be aware of your deed. This is a challenge and opportunity for humanity.

I’ve been able to hide the modal wall via the chrome DOM inspector (right click on parent element in markup view, click “hide element”). Not a great experience but if you really want to see a tweet it works.

I find JSON “array of arrays” to be a better solution while also remaining human-readable. Especially when formatted as one array per line, analogous to CSV.