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get on Urbit, it's early but it feels pretty weird

You have to learn a new language to do anything, people are publishing weird sci-fi on it , there are raves and parties , it is self selecting a lot of weird people

Yea I’ve been waiting for this. Feels like the biggest innovation in search in a long time . Can’t wait till the community builds a goggle to remove all built for SEO sites

is programming a bell curve though? seems more bimodal

the median programmer struggles with fizbuzz

Some companies have both, One of the back doors into getting a fang job without being elite at leetcoding is to find staff style position at a fang and then transfer into a line

there is consumer choice on the market though, you don't need to buy a mach 10. If you want to go cheap , you can buy electric clippers that will probably last a lifetime for $30 and sport a short beard

I didn’t get a negative tone from the paper, it seemed mostly positive to me , just calling out a handful of areas ( like relative positioning ) where Dall-e fails .

Wages need to go up. Also I think there will be a big push to open up immigration to nurses and doctors over the coming decades

Kind of weird that the usa prioritizes software developers over healthcare workers in the immigration system .

Getting a bit pricey now but lots of tech workers in the small towns 1-2 hours from Austin . Like Bastrop , liberty hill , Lockhart , etc

how would that work? the point of the SEO spam is to fill up a site with 'content' and then sell ads or affiliate links to make money on that site

You can't really make money by commenting on Reddit, they are very agressive about affiliate links and banning

ooh this is really good, granted I'm biased because I am already a Brave user

Also its not just reddit they are integrated with, if I search 'best catfishing austin' I see they've pulled our local fishing discussion board thats like an old school php forum and a great resource.

That forum is nowhere on the front page of google for this search , instead there are lots of made for SEO 'magazines' there

If both jobs are new to you, it’s very difficult to know what will be easy or hard from the outside. I’ve had jobs that I thought would be high stress actually be easy and vice versa

its amazing to me how stable the list of 'best' CS schools over the years

The sub-genres of CS have radically changed over the years , there often is no overlap between them , i.e. computer security vs computer graphics vs quantum computing , yet the top schools remain the top schools

Urbanists way overstate the importance of induced demand and make it seem like gospel truth that adding roads is pointless

I went down the rabbit hole of induced demand studies a few years back, the evidence for the idea that adding lanes or roads does not reduce congestion is pretty weak. There just aren't that many roads being built, theres a ton of confounding factors ( population growth ) , and even some of these studies like the A&M one in this wikipedia are mixed.

i tried for 3 years of self study plus some weekly in person lessons. Heavily grinded anki , did pimsleur, michel thomas , duolingo.

Overall i would say it was a failure, got to where I could read almost anything , but completely failed at being able to have real-time conversations.

I think for me I would need immersion to really get to the next level. Like I would need a french person to live with me for a few months.

It’s pretty rare on earth too, 10 million species but only 1 has space flight and the others aren’t anywhere close to developing it!

I don’t think it’s fair to say we ‘have antivirals’ yet, the supply is so low and is not expected to really ever be enough for worldwide demand on the current ramp plans

We really need another warp speed project to produce these antivirals

Things look good now because omicron is mild, but no guarantee that all of the next variants will be mild . If one of them is severe we will really wish we had warp speeded the antivirals

> You might need to do a lot of manual spam fighting initially

This is why I am very hyped on Brave search's goggles feature , it will let you share exclude / include site lists to use w/ the search engine. Hopefully it will empower these niche communities to curate a list of non-spam sites ( like the ad-blockers do with ads today )

its interesting to see catholic tick up a bit as protestantism continues to decline

Anecdotally in christian circles there is a sense that the liberal churches are in big big decline , like methodism , anglicism , other liberal protestants. But churches that are more conservative ( baptist non denom, latin mass catholic ) are growing ( especially amongst the young ).

> Because the change is small, an updated vaccine doesn’t need Phase III trials and/or regularity approval. So, this whole process should take a max of 6 weeks.

This appears to be incorrect, Moderna says it needs 60 days to just get into trials (https://twitter.com/megtirrell/status/1464225637590310938) . The FDA has not said what the approval process will look like, but its safe to say it will be non-zero

What do you mean by ‘found in the wild’? Covid has been found in wild deer populations and in various animals in zoos

Interesting, anyone have a feel for how big crypto.com is vs coinbase or binance now?

I'm follow the crypto world moderately closely , but never really hear about crypto.com except in expensive brand advertising like this

I think Brave search will be a significant improvement once Goggles is implemented: https://brave.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/goggles.pdf

The main problem with search today is the plethora of built for SEO sites low content sites , what we need is good enough search w/ a banned list of sites maintained by the community so these types of sites can be removed from the index. I think the goggles feature will allow that.

if you've never had a coding job before, the best thing you can do for your resume is work on a project that looks like a coding job

This could be a very professional open source project like mozilla, where you can help triage tickets and fix small bugs and get mentorship and tasks from other senior members

or the crypto space is a good area to do this, there are tons of daos, coins, and tokens that could use frontend help and you could basically treat it like a job, spend a ton of time on the project and end up with a great resume section + some recommendations probably or leads on getting a real job

their statement a couple weeks ago made it sound like the business was fine and they were just pausing due to a labor shortage... what happened in the past 2 weeks to make this radical shift?

i think it can work , but you need to expect pretty slim margins. You basically need to offer a very fair price on very safe houses and make your margins by cutting out the realtors fees.

very tough to build a model like this to purchase homes cause you hit a really rough adverse selection problem

even if your model is 99% great , the 1% that you overvalue are going to be the sellers that come to you and agree to sell you their homes because your offer is too good to be true

Also Tron, Tron is basically a metaverse I would say

I think hacker culture died in the early 2000s , it used to be that there was no money in hacker culture so it kind of attracted a certain person who wasn't interested in money or where it wasnt their main thoughts.

Now there are so many ways to make money , startups, Fang salaries, crypto, so money kind of dominates the thoughts

I have a theory that the current generation will kind of rediscover hacker culture when they hit their 40s and 50s and become financially independent and are no longer motivated by money and there will be a big resurgence.

Crazy how much old software had ties to universities ( tamu Linux, BSD, wuftpd ). Are there any modern examples of this or have universities gotten out of the software game

A language with significant white space seems suboptimal for a device with a small screen .

I remember fondly my wall of text no indentation TI basic programs