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by lee 1mo ago
A friend of mine runs a 6 person company where they specialize in maintaining WordPress sites for SMBs. It's definitely a viable business!
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by lee 4mo ago
There is a saying I've heard: "Silicon Valley is powered by Waterloo Grads" The problem with Canadian innovation is that our best and brightest tend to complete their education in Canada, then emigrate to the US. The brain dr
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by lee 6mo ago
In an interview, Yann mentioned that one reason he left Meta was that they were very focused on LLMs and he no longer believed LLMs were the path forward to reaching AGI.
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by lee 2y ago
This is a war of attrition. Russia is expending its soviet cold war materiel. Its trade embargo is seriously undermining its ability to continue to fight. It may be sooner than we think that they'll run out of weapons and equipment s
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by lee 2y ago
You can probably expand your user base to Canadians by also adding a "touching snow" feature.
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by lee 2y ago
From the article: "...explains this rate of muscle decline is significantly higher than what is typically observed with calorie-reduced diets or normal aging and could lead to a host of long-term health issues..." The warning isn&
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by lee 2y ago
I think it's the opposite. I think quality often comes from evolution and iteration. There've been so many projects where I get stuck because I want to maximize quality, so I get writer's block. The worse, is that sometimes y
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by lee 2y ago
Have you optimized for sleep and exercise? If you haven't, there's no other drug or behavior that can boost your cognitive abilities without first optimizing those two things.
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by lee 2y ago
I'd still prefer to have an intern. However, it's because I'd empower the intern to use Claude or GPT to be even more productive.
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by lee 2y ago
I've experienced being on teams where PRs and commits happen infrequently, resulting in massive PRs and merges/rebases that constantly have conflicts. The spirit of pushing small incremental changes on a team really helps address
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by lee 3y ago
I love this game! It's really satisfying and addictive. Nice work. One suggestion: I have a friend who is color-blind and has a hard time seeing the red and green numbers. Maybe add a visual indicator? Thanks!
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by lee 3y ago
If we're being pedantic, you'd need to eat 500 extra calories over your what your body burns daily. But over a 6 year period, you would definitely accumulate 300 pounds of extra weight this way.
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by lee 3y ago
I'm totally fine with this. Content is paid with your eyeballs or with money. If you're not willing to pay with your eyeballs, then you shouldn't get the content. I think that's fair. In China where copyright laws aren&
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by lee 3y ago
I have a similar anecdote in my career as a developer. At the height of the financial crisis I was just 2 years out of school and working for a small startup. Our first child was just born, and I got fired from my job as they discovered I w
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by lee 3y ago
One of the positive things that came from the pandemic for me was that we were forced to work remotely, and that gave me an opportunity to nap at noon. It's made such a big difference in my life in that I no longer feel completely dead
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by lee 3y ago
I'm in a situation where my partner loves to acquire things whereas I have a minimalist mindset. I have felt like every item I own is a burden, and when I live in a house where the vast majority is "owned" by the both of us,
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Naval for Kids(mtrajan.com)
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by lee 4y ago
For me it, the drive to be more disciplined stems from the fact that I live my life so compulsively and I want to experience more things in life that require discipline. As an example, video games and mindless doomscrolling eat up an inordi
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by lee 4y ago
It feels like so many of these complaints on your list are things that have existed for decades in western culture. I'd argue things are getting better. Greed has always existed. Anecdotally I find people less loud these days compared
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by lee 4y ago
If you've been in the industry long enough to experience working on a variety of different projects and teams it's an easy sell to understand the concept of a 10x programmer, but the 10x programmer also isn't as exciting or &
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by lee 4y ago
On the feed I was watching it showed that only attacker's hand was passed the line. Hands and feet are exempted for the offside rule.
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by lee 4y ago
I discovered the 12 hour walk from a podcast ( https://12hourwalk.com/ ) where the idea is to really contemplate and analyze your life by walking alone, without any music or distractions, for 12 hours. I've yet to try i
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by lee 4y ago
I'm pursuing my passion to climb mountains. I grew up in Alberta and my favorite childhood memories are of camping trips in the mountains. I always dreamed of climbing peaks. I never had the opportunity financially to pursue that as m
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by lee 4y ago
I LOVE listening to Tool while on psilocybin. This song especially gives me frisson even when I'm sober. There's something so beautiful about listening to the right music on psychedelics.
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by lee 4y ago
I worked for a company that adopted SAFe and sent me to get certified as a SAFe Program Consultant. So I worked to set up "Agile Release Trains" and coached a few teams that had never used any Agile methodology before. I can abso
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by lee 4y ago
My kids are older now (10 and 13) and I really enjoy these years than when they were younger whereas my wife really enjoyed them more in the earlier years. That period of enjoyment really varies between individuals, and I think in the aggre
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by lee 4y ago
> Or because you are just better in being a parent and biological getting satisfaction out of it? It is totally this. We are biological creatures and we cannot escape that. Love, sex, friendships, relationships, parenting, happiness, and
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by lee 4y ago
When the trains are running smoothly no one celebrates the train engineer.
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by lee 4y ago
Why do you care how others powerlift? If someone wants to do an ultra wide sumo DL or quarter squat 500 pounds how does that effect you?
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by lee 4y ago
Dr. Huberman had her on his podcast. She dives into a lot of her work. https://hubermanlab.com/dr-anna-lembke-understanding-and-tre...

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