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A fine read indeed. This quote in particular resonated: "Many who have ''plied their book diligently," and know all about some one branch or another of accepted lore, come out of t…

Successful people are very often full of shit - since perception is hugely important in any human endeavor, the people who have attained success must have mastered bullshitting (in…

> This is what happened with the United States hundreds of years ago. United States started with a bloody revolution in order to secede from Britain. To get some territory for your…

> Others would take the USPS as proof that a strongman president can switch such services on and off at a whim, for political reasons. When was it done?

The State owns USPS and it's not so bad. Before phones were introduced, it was the main channel of communication.

> There's not much knowledge about "what it was like to work for Sun 15 years ago." Based on these stories, the tech companies from 1990s and before seemed much more fun than caree…

> Staying for years around an area that gets "only a month" of excessive PM2.5 particles and smoke is unwise and you will soon become someone with an existing respiratory condition…

In general, all environmental problems that people create stem from using technology - i.e. without technology (starting with the most basic ones, e.g. mastering fire), we are harm…

> I can do as a CS engineer to help solve the big problems of our time, such as climate change So far, technology has only created environmental problems. I don't think environment…

In Poland, the rule is that basically if you and sibilings can afford to pay for the nursing home of your parent, there is no state assistance. The state only kicks in if the famil…

Propaganda is just old-school name for PR. All large organizations do PR (or propaganda).

It's just someone's prediction. Could be true, could be false. Maybe the singularity will happen in 10 years, maybe in 10000 years, or maybe it's actually impossible for us humans …

> We happened to be born 99% of the way from the beginning of humankind to the end of death, but we just barely missed it. Ekhm, citation needed?

Presumably you could also do a lot of embedded software work that solves similar problems as controls?

I wonder if it's possible to take a cheap Android phone and turn it into a desktop? I.e. connect keyboard, mouse, external monitor, install Linux with X?

Please don't do this. We don't need Twitter any worse than it is already.

Being seen as pariah/weirdo in an environment you spend 40+ hours per week in does not like the best working arrangement...

> What I have done is transition to an area in which my skills can be used to make money for me and others. Money is both good and bad. Thee bad part is that it attracts a ton of u…

> I legit font get where most of the purported US wealth is concentrated, most US cities are dilapidated Isn't this because US cities (esp. the dilapidated ones) are in big part st…

I suspect that all sufficiently complex fields are extremely susceptible to fads, egos and cliques. It's the worst in humanities, since they deal with hopelessly complex subjects (…

What about the stories of tenured professors being essentially managers and grant-chasers for their unit? Doesn't sound low-stress to me.

Even if it isn't, old games eventually just stop running as Microsoft releases newer versions of Windows. So, even "owning" the install files is not a long-term solution. I think w…

> What is fragile? We have had specialized roles for the entire history of society and it hasn't caused anything to crumble. I'm not a historian but I can imagine that a medieval s…

It's missing the bit where he explains that doing good work is in many fields (in precisely the ones that people are attracted to) is not enough to sustain yourself. You need to be…

Even 386 was absolutely crushing A1200 in some respects. In Amigas, you had to set every bit of a pixel separately, which didn't hurt for 2D games with static art assets (which you…