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You should aspire to be merely useless since by your own admission, you're even less than that. Every one of your posts is some dumbass movie villain cliché - "who cares that I'm a…

That’s the spirit

Keep working hard and maybe one day you’ll be one of those upper echelon sociopaths.

Ah the meth dealer’s ethic: “I just sell the stuff, they choose to smoke it.”

Unless you want to be one of the deservedly despised faces of a future economic crisis, you might want to get out now.

No shit.

The charlatan also “predicted” we would achieve herd immunity in April 2020. https://www.wsj.com/articles/well-have-herd-immunity-by-apri... His Twitter feed is a cesspool of motiv…

Please explain why it is a straw horse.

It’s a false choice. Without a shutdown, do you think everyone will just start going back to restaurants? Will all businesses bring everyone back, filling up the elevators? The pur…

Ah, I hadn’t thought of the journaling idea. I do try to start and end my day with brief/debrief note taking to create more continuity in my intentions and memory, but that doesn’t…

Much the same experience here, including the difficulty with memory which I find to be the most insidious thing. What have you found helps it, if you don't mind me asking?

I saw this in person yesterday at Siggraph and it works perfectly. No perceptible flickering, fully opaque images (when the alpha mask is on), cap touch, good color fidelity. It’s …

I still don’t understand the derision. An athlete is indeed a useful analog. They speak of ‘winning,’ but we tend to assume they mean ‘be the best at the sport,’ not ‘be the most v…

I used an ESP8266 and not the Pi for this, but a really really great m/c project is a wireless fan controller for a smoker or kamado (big green egg-style) grill. I made mine from s…

If I hadn’t started this startup and had time, I would want to start making this right now

When athletes speak in a competitive tone and express a desire to win, does it offend you?

> “I think the downvotes (that's what gray means right?) are people's way of saying that the personal narrative that defines your life is so boring that your job is the only place …

I’ve said this before in another thread, that it baffles me how so many people in this community, who I presume are terribly rigorous about their degrees of certainty with various …

To my mind that isn’t a meaningful distinction. If an artist is doing no harm, and is meanwhile enthralled by his work and his individual notions of beauty or truth or excellence, …

Most of us admire artists and musicians who have totally devoted themselves to their craft, and we don’t condescendingly pity their “unhealthy work life balance”. My hero growing u…

I and my closet colleagues have the same attitude and can’t exactly say where it comes from. I feel incredibly lucky that my work is capable of fascinating me, and I want to become…

I had a similar experience until I realized how many other hobbies exist among friends and family that I could apply the knowledge to. I worked with my brother and cousin to add “p…

I think it’s a safe assumption that driver alertness positively correlates with lives saved. But it’s hard to market this product with the sort of rhetoric that would optimize for …

Let’s withdraw the Nobel from Einstein while we’re at it.

As of this morning, I am still unable to reliably start my docker+machine autoscaling instances. In all cases the error is "Error: The zone does not have enough resources available…