Swizec

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by Swizec 13d ago
> Were magazines insanely more expensive at the time? What gives? The standard of living was much lower and people’s expectations of reasonable income were lower too. It was common in those days for blue collar workers to do 12 hours of
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by Swizec 14d ago
Every snowflake is unique but snow is still just snow. Life’s funny that way. You can’t predict what an individual will do and yet predicting what a crowd will do is so easy we have entire engineering and social disciplines based on manipul
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by Swizec 14d ago
That’s the best part! We’re all NPCs in other people’s stories _and_ the main character in ours. You can do and be absolutely anything or anyone you want. Just gotta bear the consequences and that’s it. Wanna live a homely life surrounded b
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by Swizec 15d ago
> The frequent rain and mud makes it to the rim brake shoes and diminish braking power I'll never forget when I was a kid (13 or so) going for a ride in the city during a downpour, slamming on the brakes because a pedestrian stepped
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by Swizec 15d ago
> The most surprising thing my adult ADHD diagnosis revealed was that as I began telling friends that I had been diagnosed positive they told me they had known that since they met me. These were childhood friends. As someone with peer re
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by Swizec 16d ago
> This is like asking if anyone in the Tour de France has credited training wheels for their success. And yet every F1 driver credits gokarting for their career. Laying the groundwork in your early years makes a big difference. My career
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by Swizec 22d ago
I hate that the overpriced polishing cloth was legit the best screen cleaning thing I’ve ever used. One wipe and my ipad was perfect. These days I use the cheap microfibers I got for the motorcycle and yeah it works but scrubbing my device
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by Swizec 22d ago
> For the first part, I suspect that money, and the safety net it provides, is a bigger impediment to entrepreneurship than its collegiate advocacy. An old HN comment captured this perfectly, it’s my favorite analogy of entrepreneurship
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by Swizec 27d ago
> time "In this house, we believe in uv & PEP723. Also, no fucking localized imports, no just-in-case try/except." My point is the all knowing all seeing big brain super bot should already know how to write good code.
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by Swizec 27d ago
We are talking about a thing that's consumed all human knowledge whose superpowers are summarization and understanding. Why the fuck are we writing all these .md files!? I resent everything about this. But I write the .md files because
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by Swizec 1mo ago
> Hope he died quickly, instead of having to deal with the pain of multiple bones crushing from the article: “skull broken in 61 places” Doubt you’d stay conscious long enough to notice
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by Swizec 1mo ago
> When I pointed to the other agent and said “your friend over there told me to do the opposite, that’s why it’s in there!” they just sort of scowled at me. Recent fun experience in Amsterdam: security line was moving veeeery slowly. Alm
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by Swizec 1mo ago
> I find it odd that others need music or talking to focus. most of the time I prefer silence. I need music otherwise my brain starts playing music instead of ruminating on thoughts. I also need to keep my body occupied. At least doing t
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by Swizec 1mo ago
> All of these things are strong covariates Yeah it turns out having positive multipliers on your inputs leads to better outcomes. Who knew!
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by Swizec 1mo ago
> > It's been shown to be strongly correlated with success in general > Has it? I was under the impression we could hardly define, much less measure that. IQ has a strong positive correlation with life outcomes. Economic and o
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by Swizec 1mo ago
> instead rerouted in an area that was close to some Bronze Age remains and urns To be fair, in the UK (and much of Europe) bronze age remains are everywhere. But there’s only 1 fictional Dobby grave. Like farmers will regularly dig up a
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by Swizec 1mo ago
I've been trying to keep all URLs backwards compatible forever on swizec.com and it's surprisingly hard. I _think_ anything from 2010 onward should be good. The domain started in 2005. Unfortunately I'll never know for sure.
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by Swizec 1mo ago
> As thinking individuals we can and should use our awareness and courage to make biggest "good" choices we can bear to. That’s the cool thing about incentives, we follow them whether we realize it or not. “bear to” is where th
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by Swizec 1mo ago
Now that you spell it out, I guess this just binary search. You need O(log n) weighings because each weighing splits the search space in half. So I was wrong it’s not an information theory question, it’s just comp sci algorithms. I got my c
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by Swizec 1mo ago
> I also got this riddle, in 2015. I couldn't solve it. Tbh, I think it's a terrible question. There isn't really a step-by-step problem solving process, but you just need to have a "leap" to realize you can weig
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by Swizec 1mo ago
This matches my experience. Just Talk To It is the best method for working with LLMs if you're an expert . I've seen this at work (as eng manager/lead/principal/whoevenknowsanymore) – all the big APIs give you stat
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by Swizec 2mo ago
I find the most practical distinction of scifi vs fantasy is that scifi calls it credits and fantasy calls it coin. This classification has never steered me wrong. But honestly categories never quite work at the edges. Some of my favorite b
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by Swizec 2mo ago
Zach is good people. I still can’t believe I met him at a random meetup in SF once and he walked up to me to say hi and I didn’t connect the dots until many hours later that he’s the Zach whose blog I’ve been reading on and off my whole
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by Swizec 2mo ago
> Tobias Lutke /../ has most recently advocated for a pay-to-play version of democracy where wealth determines your ability to participate He’s just looking at america post Citizens United and wishing he could ull the same shen
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by Swizec 2mo ago
> Eventually I never really looked at the folders but it never bothered me as I don't really see them Most people don't read most newsletters. Some people read some. This Saturday I sent an email. It has since been opened by 26
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by Swizec 2mo ago
> Owning your own home does not align with the density required for a city to function Much of Europe would like a word. I grew up in a block of flats where everybody owned. 16 apartments, around 60 people, lived on the footprint of a ty
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by Swizec 2mo ago
> We can't prove a program will always halt, but we can check it halts in a specific execution. The computer scientist says “The halting problem cannot be solved, I have proven it” and the software engineer goes “30 second timeout,
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by Swizec 2mo ago
I didn't say it was intentional, it's the result of millions of little decisions that all make total sense in isolation.
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by Swizec 2mo ago
> how some group would go about preserving a problem like homelessness, even unintentionally Simplistic version: San Francisco spends roughly $100,000/year on each homeless person. In services, salaries for people working on it, ren
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by Swizec 2mo ago
> Is "medium growth" for the next 4 years really the worst people can think of? At this point anything less than "medium growth" will crash the economy. We'll have bigger problems if that happens (think 2000 or 2

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