matwood

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by matwood 2d ago
> I used to use Nikes, then something happened Same. The original Nike Free's were amazing. When mine wore out I bought another pair and they were terrible. I kept trying different versions and none were like the originals. They wer
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by matwood 3d ago
> responsibility to shareholders to maximize profit while sacrificing all other values This is not required to meet fiduciary duty, although it is a common misconception. The company officers and board have pretty broad leeway to run the
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by matwood 3d ago
Yep. It’s pretty wild. And the clothes are not exposed to crazy high heat. If I ever go back to the US, I hope I can find one of these there.
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by matwood 5d ago
Same! It's a great reminder to stop scrolling and close the app.
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by matwood 5d ago
It’s one of the bigger LGs.
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by matwood 6d ago
I live in the EU and have a heat pump clothes dryer. It takes a little longer than hot air, but it doesn't heat up as much and destroy clothes. It also doesn't take special voltage/plug. Any regular plug will work. All it nee
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by matwood 6d ago
That’s the exact conversation. We were talking about speeding up a development process and I used the classic saying in the context that some things just take time. It shook me a bit because I don’t want to make anyone feel uncomfortable, b
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by matwood 8d ago
You reminded me that I had a person at work get mad that I used the phrase “9 women can’t have a baby in 1 month”. They couldn’t explain why other than I’m a man and can’t talk about women. So it’s not wild Twitter takes.
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by matwood 29d ago
As I said, motivation is fleeting. It's what gets you to take the first step. Discipline keeps you walking until it becomes a habit. It's not much different from starting a business or making a piece of software. Motivation kicks
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by matwood 29d ago
You could say that. Discipline is how the habit is created and kept. The first thing I tell people is that exercise isn't easy. It's not supposed to be. Outside of all the health benefits, one of the biggest benefits of exercise i
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by matwood 29d ago
It's not about motivation, it's about discipline. Motivation is fleeting, and if someone only exercises when motivated it's going to be hard to keep going. Discipline is what will get a person to exercise enough that it becom
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by matwood 29d ago
> actual athletes Probably need to define. Are we talking about professional athletes or just people who have a lot of training experience? Exercising hard for a person who has never trained is very different than someone with years unde
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by matwood 1mo ago
> but it is likely that the USD will lose reserve currency status To what though? Even if we accept the US and USD have issues, there is no other currency even close to be able to step in.
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by matwood 1mo ago
I had people on teams who wrote like pre-LLMs.
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by matwood 1mo ago
The problem with talking and arguing is that many people push/flood the discussion with low-quality arguments. This puts it back on the person trying have a good discussion to keep correcting or defending. A public example of this is T
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by matwood 1mo ago
Hard work and productivity are table stakes. Connections are the next step.
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by matwood 1mo ago
Yep. Much like shopper cards and browser fingerprinting, it doesn’t take much to de-anonymize the data using the intersection of items.
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by matwood 1mo ago
Interesting. I always thought it was opioids that were the main problem in Europe.
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by matwood 1mo ago
In most cases you have the causal effect of PE incorrect. By the time PE comes in, the company has already peaked and is on a downslope. The original owners know this, want to get out and sell. Blaming PE is like blaming vultures for the ro
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by matwood 1mo ago
Yeah, people act like this style is new, when it absolutely is not. There's this weird romanticism of the time pre-LLMs where people imply all writing/code was perfect, and only now it's slop. EDIT I also read your linked com
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by matwood 1mo ago
Most companies would be best served picking MySQL or PG and only adding something else if absolutely necessary. Every piece of software added increases complexity.
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by matwood 1mo ago
Others are almost never as dumb as you hoped, and you’re rarely ever as smart as you think.
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by matwood 1mo ago
For the kids out there, calling a number for recorded information was common in the 90s I guess? Movie times was a big one. Where I was locally, multiple surf shops did 3-4x daily surf reports. The later was a bit funny because if one of th
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by matwood 1mo ago
I'm fine if leaders talk about mission and vision as long as it's to inspire and not in lieu of money. The right amount of money is table stakes. The problems start when leaders begin replacing money with mission, and people buy i
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by matwood 1mo ago
I agree with you mostly, and it’s important for everyone to understand. With that said, not everyone maximizes for only money.
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by matwood 1mo ago
Straight to unhinged speak is definitely refreshing /s
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by matwood 1mo ago
> OpenAI, even after raising this much capital, had never anticipated that something like this could happen yet keeps digging it's own grave. Hubris.
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by matwood 1mo ago
I'm not religious, but this quote often comes to mind in these situations, "he who is without sin, cast the first stone." Clearly everyone else is perfect, and only these authors had faults.
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by matwood 2mo ago
> The end of interest-based 3rd places A good jiujitsu gym is pretty amazing for this. It's a melting pot of people from all socioeconomic and political groups. It's great exercise, can be done at any age, and at any level. It
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by matwood 2mo ago
Thank you for your comments. In short, it's complicated. The other piece which you didn't mention that other people bring up is cutting off the 4B-8B in military aid to Israel. In the past that might have given the US more leverag

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