gotaran

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by gotaran 10mo ago
A bit flawed, but a technical marvel and shows how superhumanly virtuosic Snook is.
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by gotaran 2y ago
I live in NYC as well, and I find the post COVID Berlin-esque Bushwick only scene to be terrible. It's filled with the most dull repetitive music that AI can replicate with a god awful sound system and no atmospherics whatsoever, and w
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by gotaran 2y ago
Google beat OpenAI at their own game.
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by gotaran 2y ago
For certain knowledge work, the job market is much stronger and orders of magnitude better paying in the US. And nah, most if not all of my coworkers have taken two consecutive weeks off, and have taken roughly a total 25 days off the year
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by gotaran 2y ago
Yeah this is why I always take more than a month off between jobs. Besides parental leave and the very rare even for FAANG companies who offer month long sabbaticals once every five years, a month is a hard sell.
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by gotaran 2y ago
I lived in both for more than a decade. I only remember seeing a mouse sized rat once in Seattle. Never saw one in SF. I live in NYC now and see multiple on a daily basis. Exposure therapy helps, but barely. It still scares the shit out of
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by gotaran 2y ago
I’d argue that NYC hasn’t done enough with rats for this reason. And indoor roaches and mice too for that matter. As a New Yorker, it feels unsanitary at best, and psychologically jarring at worst, and I wish I wouldn’t have to deal with se
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by gotaran 2y ago
OpenAI has no clear moat though. If they shut off training, everyone would just move over to a competitor.
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by gotaran 2y ago
$80 a month is a no brainer given the productivity multiplier.
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by gotaran 2y ago
Downsize and move closer to the office
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by gotaran 2y ago
In most of NYC that’s the case
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by gotaran 2y ago
OpenAPI is just pointless abstraction like GraphQL
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by gotaran 2y ago
The ones doing AI research would be working at more prestigious institutions.
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by gotaran 2y ago
I’m skeptical of the caliber of talent at Salesforce given the unusable state of their core product.
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by gotaran 2y ago
I agree. Despite high compensation and a hiring boom, or perhaps because of it, 2020-2022 was the worst time to work in tech. I knew interns in 2012 who could code circles around those bootcampers turned “staff engineers” in 2021. Everyone
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by gotaran 2y ago
React at its core is great. Redux is great too, as vanilla React becomes messy even for moderately complex single page apps. Whatever it’s evolved into now is a different monster.
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by gotaran 2y ago
Modern day Kubernetes and React feels like a make work program
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by gotaran 2y ago
The 4% rule accounts for inflation. The stock market on an average gives you 7% a year in returns adjusted for inflation. The 4% gives you enough cushion in case of economic turmoil.
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by gotaran 2y ago
At least in SF, tenants get pretty generous buyouts when the landlord decides to sell.
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by gotaran 2y ago
I find Japan’s IC card system notoriously confusing here with every line operating its own fare gate, the notion of a base fare and additional fare for a line, and entry gates that require you to first walk all the way out to an exit.
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by gotaran 3y ago
I loved the “luxury” techbro condos of Seattle. I’d take a cookie cutter glassbox any day over my disgusting Manhattan prewar.
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by gotaran 3y ago
If you’re at a FAANG, especially at a $300k+ total compensation, NYC is very livable. In unit washer/dryer might be a stretch, but you can comfortably get a 1BR luxury apartment without much effort in a nice part of Manhattan.
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by gotaran 3y ago
I’d expect a pay raise if I had to accept WFH. I live a 5 minute walk from my office and I get catered lunches.
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by gotaran 3y ago
Kara Swisher is reputable… as far as tech journalists go.
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by gotaran 3y ago
I’m a cofounder at a two person currently bootstrapped startup here in NYC. Do y’all know of any good coworking spaces? No frills, just one where we can work together at odd hours with monitors and some coffee. Even with commercial real est
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by gotaran 3y ago
100% unless they are from India.
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by gotaran 3y ago
I rented a unit in a prewar in Hell’s Kitchen. The basement and trash chutes were roach infested. I had to go through absurd lengths to not get a roach infestation in my apartment. Taking out trash every night (into a roach infested chute),
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by gotaran 3y ago
More mandatory fun. Yay.
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by gotaran 3y ago
Most remote work at CRUD fintech companies will get outsourced. It’s idiotic to pay some Bootcamp grad in Bumfuck Milwaukee a Bay Area salary.
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by gotaran 3y ago
Because Zoom is utter garbage. The competition is so much better.

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