tricksforfree

NYC feels like a free-for-all nowadays.

Post-Covid I see the following every single time I step outside.

- stop signs are optional

- gas powered mopeds in the bicycle lanes

- e-bike Citi bikers being riding recklessly

- bicycles on the sidewalks

- NYPD nowhere to be seen.

Traffic cameras are easily beaten by tinted license plates. I see them often in NYC.

Question for car owners with massive screens in the console who live in rural areas:

Does the ambient interior light from the screen + dashboard overpower your ability to see the road at night?

Why did you use React for landing page?

One deck is made of wood. One deck is made made of steel. They will behave differently after years of weathering.

Just because they are both both decks doesn't mean they are the same.

That's true. But we know exactly why it can't do it.

How often are calculators confidently wrong?

I've seen this time and time again when attempting to implement a centralized design system across a group of existing apps.

I'm sorry but if someone is trying to get a job with the title, "Software Engineer" in it and they cannot do a nested for loop (the slow O^2 solution) I don't know what to tell you other than that person is not fit for the job.

In terms of basics it's akin to "fizz buzz".

I just interviewed a developer for a senior level front end position and they couldn't print a 2d array to the console. They apparently worked on a large web application and wrote typescript everyday.

What I've known for years, I'm finally seeing first hand: There are way too many people out there that should never have been engineers in the first place.

This is a rebalancing. Those who are competent will always be hired. Those who are are not, the jig is up.

A perfect cog.

It must have been so cool to be a Soviet and have all your work and wealth go directly to the state and only be used for the good of your people. /s

* Quitting daily/consistent Marijuana smoking. It's a wonderful substance but consistent usage will absolutely affect your sleep and leave you groggy the next day.

* Weight lifting 5 times a week.

* Paul Stamets microdose stack (3 days on, 2 days off).

* Big mushroom trip once a month to reset preconceived notions, negative patterns.

* While Product and Project management set silly deadlines, I still work at my daily pace and forget they exist. If we miss the deadline so what? Hitting it doesn't affect if I keep my job or not (large corporation).

You added 5G.

The point is that the ultra wealthy are going to corporatize farmland and the basic building blocks of food generation.

Soon you won't even be able to go to a local farmer to get fresh produce or meat (because meat is murder! /s). You'll only be able to get food on their terms, similar to healthy food deserts in cities that we see directly affect the health of inner city populations.

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They are scrambling as they are part of the fluff of this bubble.

Because 80% of the company was cruft. As it is in most large orgs.

Imagine if you and similar, "driven" folk stayed and made where you're from better.

Imagine if you started small businesses and hired/trained the locals.

Maybe everyone left behind wouldn't have to work at a big box store or just die to reduce the societal burden.

Edit: Not blaming, just food for thought.

6 jobs in ten years?

How can anything of substance be built if the default is to hop?

Richard Feynman - Names Don't Constitute Knowledge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFIYKmos3-s

"Ownership beaten into our heads" is your own baggage.

Some people are handy and enjoy taking care of their home.

Some people don't like hearing their neighbors footsteps above them all the time.

Some people play Drums and don't want to pay/share a small 10x10 room to practice in.

and we'd likely have a healthy housing market if more people were rational like this.

But no, let's take a loan out against our RSU's so we can get a $1M bi-level because the schools in this district are amazing /s. Now a house in North Carolina is worth as much as one in New Jersey.

You can refinance in a few years, however you cannot change what the house price was when purchased.

If the house prices is lower, every extra payment to the principal will drastically decrease the interest over the entire term, much more-so than the initial larger loan/principal.

Lower home price means 20% down is feasible.

Good.

Maybe the people who didn't bail on their communities during covid can finally afford a home.

My comment in no way denigrates the experience of those affected by the Holocaust. It's merely to point out that even, "the people you should listen too" can be very wrong, especially when there's social pressure or regulatory capture behind the mandate.