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redisman··on Germany’s move to legalise cannabis expected to create ‘domino effect’
Edibles and vaporizing are essentially smell free
redisman··on The Supreme Court’s Latest Decision Is a Blow to Stopping Climate Change
Is it fast enough to stop a huge economic and biological burden hitting our children? It’s sad how short sighted the majority of people in the US is today. Small sacrifices could lead to hugely greater quality of life for everyone’s grand children but everyone is special and deserve everything they desire right now.
redisman··on The Supreme Court’s Latest Decision Is a Blow to Stopping Climate Change
Letting states choose how they hit their CO2 allotment is totally fine as long as there is a universal per capita CO2 goal for the whole country. If there is no cap then self serving states will simply emit as much as is maximally profitable
redisman··on Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds
When things get nasty and it’s clear the good days are over it’s usually those most able to leave (the actual best employees) who get the message
redisman··on Driverless robotaxi fleet paralyzed for hours in San Francisco
> One battery to explode and can easily do 100 casualties

That’s definitely not true. A 66KWh battery is not a tactical nuke

redisman··on Condemning the Deployment of GPT-4chan
Gives me very low confidence that these people understand society at all. And they’re supposed to be the gatekeepers? According to… themselves I’m guessing?

Ah yes a pompous letter where we list all of our impressive formal accomplishments will surely get these rubes to take their hands off of our toys

redisman··on Goldman Raising $2B to Buy Distressed Celsius Assets
Why is FTX more connected to Wall Street than coinbase? Only one of them is public
redisman··on Goldman Raising $2B to Buy Distressed Celsius Assets
Funny I remember warning people on various reddits many months ago that there is no risk free 10-20% investment and asking where is this yield originating from. Let’s just say people weren’t very receptive. Greed is a hell of a drug
redisman··on Goodbye, shitty Car extends Vehicle object-orientation tutorial (2011)
Even in games composition is much better and what pretty much every engine forces you to use these days. It’s a lot more flexible too as you can compose a new boss out of ten different components rather than having to refactor a crazy tree of nonsense
redisman··on Goodbye, shitty Car extends Vehicle object-orientation tutorial (2011)
I disagree. Teaching people to think about abstractions wrong is not in any way helpful. Everyone I know including myself had to spend years writing bad code before realizing that this way of thinking is counterproductive. It reminds me of this quote from Kung Pow

Don’t worry about Wimp Lo, he’s an idiot. We’ve purposefully taught him wrong… as a joke.

Composition is an infinitely better method to teach if you have to teach OOP. That way you don’t need to unlearn what you thought was the right way but is actually useless at modeling almost anything.

redisman··on Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you
I tried it but they seem to be for people with longer torsos
redisman··on As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick
It’s a terrible anxiety medicine as probably the most common side effect is anxiety.
redisman··on As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick
I believe it metabolizes differently. Even as an daily smoker/vaper at one point who never ate edibles, 10mg would get me very high.
redisman··on As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick
I’m sorry but why don’t you just put less weed in if it’s too strong?
redisman··on The Evolution of THC Vape Cartridges
What would be something close to a pen in convenience and guaranteed no heavy metals?
redisman··on Samsung expected to announce mass production of 3nm chip next week
I wonder how this naming scheme continues and why are they skipping over half the numbers given that this set will soon run to 0. 7nm - 5nm - 3nm - 1nm. What’s next?
redisman··on AI Wrote and Performed a Jerry Seinfeld Routine [video]
Pretty good! Almost a little bit Mitch hedberg fused with Seinfeld
redisman··on Why am I no longer qualified to be a Brex customer?
They were marketing hard at one of the coworking spaces I was at which was full of tiny companies that didn’t make Much revenue . Couldn’t they figure out the math doesn’t work out prior to doing all this work and then backtracking ?

I’m guessing they were just chasing vanity metrics for a funding round

redisman··on Nuclear is back on the table for a green future
Controversial opinión: we should invest heavily into nuclear and renewables as they seem to synergize quite well
redisman··on Nuclear is back on the table for a green future
But then you presumably need to build these extra power plants that can use that fuel?
redisman··on Low economic growth is a slow-burning crisis for Britain
US and China both have very well off coasts where a large part of the economy’s value add happens in large cities. I don’t think that is lost in the hinterlands in either places. Ever heard of the “coastal elites”?
redisman··on Things you're allowed to do (2020)
I’ve met some well dressed druggies in the PNW and they’re not any more fun to talk to. One guy I remember had some big exit and then decided to just do drugs constantly and “adventures”. He was high as fuck and couldn’t hold on to one coherent thought
redisman··on The Great Decentralization? Geographic shifts and where tech talent is moving
Especially if we get a recession and tech employment is hit in a major way. We could be back to square 1 soon.
redisman··on The Great Decentralization? Geographic shifts and where tech talent is moving
Immigrants aren’t dumb. The problem is that westerners have no idea what a median persons life in Africa or South America is like
redisman··on The Great Decentralization? Geographic shifts and where tech talent is moving
The smoke sucks but as for heat, I’m not sure you can avoid some hot days anywhere in the US
redisman··on The Great Decentralization? Geographic shifts and where tech talent is moving
I am amazed by how many people from Southern California move here and buy a house immediately. Only to scuttle back after the first year. Give it a test run first guys.

Personally I come from a much colder climate than the PNW so I enjoy how mild and lush it is all year. And I find rain to be cozy.

redisman··on Stop Interviewing with Leet Code
No it’s totally right. Going in cold is basically impossible. You have to be ready to regurgitate leetcode answers, “approved” system designs, STAR stories about your career that show various BS story arcs. And of course pretend like you’re not just regurgitating for… reasons. It’s all a bizarre cargo cult acting session at this point. Big companies even send you a study guide these days ffs
redisman··on Stop Interviewing with Leet Code
I never did a CS degree so much of the learning was decently useful but it also took me years
redisman··on Ask HN: Anyone else quickly losing confidence in Amazon?
As long as the manufacturer has a Amazon store set up that you buy from it’ll be fine
redisman··on Toyota is making replaceable hydrogen cartridges to power your home
At least in the US with 1900s rail infrastructure most trains run on diesel(?). In Japan or China I’m sure they run off electricity already
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