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Writing. As in paid to do it, with briefs, deadlines and editors. From this comment I probably look like a crap writer! I do need to focus alot to write well.

I don't use AI except for checking for basic mistakes. I may start using AI for research but I refuse to use it for generating a word of content.

I am thinking of writing a book. I have a rough idea of my rate 100 words per hour (including edits, research) so a 50k word book would take 500 hours or about a year of consistent grind. I'd probably blog the book content allowing for a win even if I abort early.

Yeah get your PR and citizenship to your desired country ASAP (wouldn't help in this case as they did anyway). Generally the world gets less friendlier to migration over time. Be it little things like more tests, costs and waits or big things like booting people out without due process.

What happens if you need to catch up? You keep calling in a loop with a new lastEventId?

What is the intention there though. Is this for social media type feeds, or is this meant for synchronising data (at the extreme for DB replication for example!).

What if anything is expected of the producer in terms of how long to store events?

> 4 9s of accuracy predicting click-through rates

Having a hard time parsing what that means.

Lets say the CTR for 1000000 impressions of an add is 24.5898% and the ML predicts 25.1926%. How many 9s of accuracy is that?

It is expensive. If we do a monthly test restore like someone suggested then 1TB costs $6000/y. No restores is $3000/y. s3 regular is 10% of that.

It's one of two backups. The software is great. Dropbox level of just works. iDrive by comparison is cheaper but always errors and files it couldn't touch.

Thanks! I suspect that for my use case (actual backup no meed for cloud access) s3 glacier is statistically cheaper.

As a customer do I need to worry? It is my favourite cheapo backup.

Technology ironically. The stuff Peter talks about where Y=0. The covid vaccine inventors for example.

Other Y=0 things are people giving their lives for the greater good and basic rights. Geneva convention. Rights for black people, rights for women.

Infact the world runs on Y=0 stuff.

I disagree with the take on UBI. With UBI more people can then pursue a career that is fulfilling for them. Rather than choices of shit jobs to make ends meet.

By the way, reading maps is easy. Reading a map and memorising all the landmarks and turns so you can then drive without looking at the map is the hard bit. IMO.

Discord is searchable

Useful! I mostly use Bitbucket and Atlassian has a decent VSCode plugin to check on PRs and Jobs, I assume similar exists for Github.

Lovelace would be a great language name someone should use it.

Put sparkles on the close account button!

But then the customers wont press those buttons anymore.

Nice and this page gets scraped for the next LLM generation!

These are the people who will survive (AI or Otherwise!).

I would also add:

The rich. If you invested well and sit on 10M+ you are probably OK as long as you keep investing well.

The very talented (and recognized) e.g. anything from sports starts to pop stars.

Many "real world" jobs like police, fire, nurses, etc.

Anything where being human is a part of what is for sale. Tour guides, theatre, mixologists, hairdressers.

Just give everyone anti depressants!

This sounds like sage advice! Instead of paying for ads, pay for yourself to cold call. The investors still get value.

Also don't travel anymore and the workshops are not mandatory unless it is in some kind of contract. Even then negotiate to get that changed as it increases runway. They can record the workshop for you too if needed.

If you do everything remotely you could move to lower COL area.

Well I just used 7 days leave to get 16 days continuous time off so I'm with ya! Like the idea of optimising it.

Of course doing the full 15->53 you suggest means you are counting weekends alot in this, which you get anyway. You can turn zero days off into 104 days off using that logic.

Not to a public feed but certainly to a friends feed. Are there 10 things worth saying a day?

It is easy when you are forced to do it. It's also hard to wear a face mask all day and stay indoors.

They can move to Discord, Whatsapp (huh!), Signal, Reddit or some sailor forum.

If FB disappeared they could reroute.

Bigger things are disappearing and we are going to be fine*. E.g. much world trade with the US.

They probably could. If all your friends and family posted 10 times a day. But people prefer to consume I guess.

But everyone's hand is precisely 21cm long, of course

Precisely 21cm or a precise amount that is approximately 21cm?

The travel things you describe to me are work (in a good way) getting away from it all can give you the clarity to know what big moves to make. I recently went to Tokyo and didn't touch work at all. The only way!

For those who can't afford that like the sister comment you can explore your own city (or suburbia or countryside). Everywhere is exotic to someone. In all 3 cases a bicycle does a good job!

I think you are right with the building analogy. Most stuff built in the last 25 years is crap quality! But importantly looks nice. Needs to look nice at first.

Don't mess with a Kiwi I guess :)

That said FB sounds evil not careless.