Good article. Verified by years of observing my own and others' failures and successes. Do-Learn is a great positive motto. Compared to the nihilistic break things, or fail fast, etc.
Must say, it was a bit long. At the beginning, and after looking up the author, I confess to thinking "Oh no another pretty face influencer". But it built up very well. My respect level increased a lot when I saw Olin College of Engineering on her bio. Had checked it out for my daughter and came away very impressed by their approach. Most all American engineering colleges are so full of theory and so little doing, when it should be the other way around. Kudos.
The "Swedish model" for sex work is that selling sex is not illegal, but buying it is. Which looks good on paper, but drives pretty much the same behavior of pushing sex work underground as the normal reverse model.
There is plenty of empirical evidence from the 1800 to 1930s showing how a deflationary currency affects the economy. Amongst other things getting stuck in permanent boom and bust cycles wasn’t that great.
> But the same criticism can be leveled at Treasury bonds
Not to the same extent. Bond returns are usually barely above inflation. e.g. back in the second half of the 1800s you’d get 4% interest 1.5-2% average deflation (since the economy was growing due to technological progress/etc. yet money was relatively very scarce)
I used to be the one that in big meetings would ask the 'dumb' questions a lot of people undoubtedly had in their mind, but wouldn't dare to pose. I didn't care that some people would find the question stupid, since it would make other people happy for not having to speak up themselves while still getting the info they needed. It would as well make some people happy for establishing a slightly higher place in the pecking order. At least i would gain some karma and maybe even some admiration.
Over the years I did this less and nowadays I mostly only speak when asked so in rather big meetings.
How did this come to be? I found that people who feel that they belong in the higher ranks of the social pecking order sometimes don't like this behavior and actively try to make you look bad. As I'm quite sensitive and am generally a people pleaser who thrives on getting external validation (I'm working on it...), it did not feel good and I feel it wasn't worth the trouble...
You seem to have confused the comments. I'm an employee living in one of the highest CoL areas in the world. But I know quite a few who run small businesses here and make use of that fact to the fullest extent. They can charge insane amounts of money for minimum quality work that wouldn't even put enough food on the table, let alone afford any luxury at home elsewhere. In the countryside I imagine you'd actually need to bring some talent or do quality work as well and not just make use of unsaturated business markets in overeducated areas.
> In the US, "resorting" to something to make money is Plan A, B and C.
The idea of “resorting to OnlyFans” to support yourself is a myth, regardless of the country.
OnlyFans isn’t a platform where anyone can sign up and start making a lot of money. The median creator maxes out at a little over a thousand dollars in a year from what I recall.
Only a very few creators collect a lot of money. It’s similar to other social platforms where the majority of content creators get very little interaction.
So this idea that people are “resorting to OnlyFans” to support themselves isn’t supported by the realities of the data and the payouts.
That is a wild false dichotomy, to assume that the alternative to buying custom adult content would be to have a baby. Plenty of people don't want babies, don't feel like they're in a financial situation to support kids, don't want a relationship, etc.
I live on a houseboat just after paris in Meudon, facing Boulogne, we go paddle and swiming with the kids since they are 5 years old. The thing is to avoid going to the river the days after big rains. It is a very pleasant area along the Saint Germain Island (bras mort de l’Île Saint Germain)
> You think it always will be? What can the new iPhone chips do locally?
I suspect we're a decade off from being able to generate Veo 3, Seedance, or Kling 2.1 videos directly on our phones.
This is going to require both new compute paradigms and massively more capable hardware. And by that time who knows what we'll be doing in the data center.
Perhaps the demands of generating real time fully explorable worlds will push more investment into edge compute for consumers. I know robotics will demand tremendous low latency edge compute, and NVidia has already highlighted it as a major growth and investment opportunity.
Which is what you must do if minimizing downtime is critical.
And, of course, your disaster recovery plan is incomplete until you've tested it (at scale). You don't want to be looking up Postgres documentation when you need to restore from a cold backup, you want to be following the checklist you have in your recovery plan and already verified.
I would argue that systems languages (C, C++, Rust, and Zig standout) are the most “fulfilling” (in my experience).
The reason being that the methodologies are far more orthogonal. A uint8 directly represents a byte in memory, doing a memcpy is equivalent to a blit, etc. You spend far less time trying to wrangle a JavaScript Number type into acting like a byte/word/etc for a bitshift operation for a simple ADC. A very simple example that you’ll run into in the first day of writing a js emulator.
That all being said, if the language can paint to some surface and has the memory size to handle the machine you’re emulating, they’re all roughly equivalent. So the answer becomes “whichever language you’re most comfortable with is the one writing an emulator in is most enjoyable”.
I've seen a lot of young people wearing the silver and gold versions of it. I think there's a vintage trend, just like with the cyber shot cameras, but they're not really full committed to the black rubber ones.
Yes and then try to avoid interaction so soft skills are minimized. I don't wanna work with a bunch of politicians or bullies or victims etc. I just wanna get the work done. success is achieved as a team. Through cooperation. Not through channels that create conflict.
Ah yes, the echoes of the rather daft "Nordic Model". Itself an outgrowth of an alliance between mostly second-wave feminists with a carceral streak, and social conservatives.
> But it's impossible to build a legal system where there is a 100% overlap, and it would most likely be a broken society in other ways.
I strongly disagree with this one.
It's not that hard to not define loopholes and exceptions. Really, a simplified tax system without such should be the goal, and then the circles so match.
If you are a US citizen then US tax will apply to you wherever you are. People form other countries switch off their home tax if they do not meet residency requirements.
There is no capital gains or wealth tax at all in New Zealand, but only for domestic investments. For offshore investments there is a deemed return that you treat as income, so if your wealth is tied up in illiquid stock then it can be dire.
Its funny. Generally, people in the startup world frowned on this bill because of the cuts to essential services. Nonetheless, we’re thrilled about the expansion of QSBS. Perhaps there’s always a silver lining.
I'm decently sure you have to compile separately for each architecture, and if you elect to compile for multiple architectures up front, you'll have excruciating compile times. You'd think that would be annoying, but it ends up not really mattering since AMD completely switches out the toolchain about every graphics generation anyway. That's not a good reason to not have forwards compatibility, but it is a reason.
The reason I'm not completely sure is because I'm just doing this as a hobby, and I only have a single card, and that single card has never seen a revision. I think that's generally the best way to be happy with ROCM. Accept that it's at the abstraction level of embedded programming, any change in the hardware will have to result in a change in the software.
He did last year, alongside mayor Hidalgo and others, such as Tony Estanguet, who is a former athlete and was overseeing the olympics and the minister for sports.
Why not just compare the incidence of sickness at the swimming event vs other triathlon swimming events and see if 2(or whatever the number of competitors affected was) is abnormal and work from there?
Must say, it was a bit long. At the beginning, and after looking up the author, I confess to thinking "Oh no another pretty face influencer". But it built up very well. My respect level increased a lot when I saw Olin College of Engineering on her bio. Had checked it out for my daughter and came away very impressed by their approach. Most all American engineering colleges are so full of theory and so little doing, when it should be the other way around. Kudos.