This would be nice as a monthly post
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#432Looking forward to quitting programming after 25 years to become a writer and student of social science stuff.
It'll be a scrappy life but I'll be much happier
It's kinda always what I wanted to do, nobody told me it was a thing that one could do so it was always a fantasy. Well I'm done dreaming
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#434I've accumulated a few synthesizers the past few years and wanted to start making d&b, trance and acid. But having frozen once I actually sat down to play I realised I didn't know wtf I was doing, so ive recently picked up piano lessons. I can't believe that I'm slowly sight reading... totally blows my mind that humams can sight read music
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#435Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank goodness for Obamacare (at least in the mid-Atlantic US). Before Obamacare, individual plans were absolute shit (my individual plan wouldn't have covered my wife's pregnancy with our first kid... her job's insurance did). Thanks to Obamacare, individual plans have the same coverage as employer plans. Without Obamacare I couldn't have started my company which now employs 9 people in well paid tech jobs (without…
Obamacare is utter garbage and costs ridiculous amounts of money. It impoverishes poor people far more than it helps. They should've provided a tax credit to people who pay in with it. Instead they just reduce AGI. What a joke. Honestly the best thing Trump did was make that no longer mandatory or face a penalty. It was a rammed through system democrats did just to pat themselves on the back. Quite literally one of t…
Sorry, but anti-health-care supremacists don't get to do everything in their power to sabotage, strangle, and corrupt something necessary, good, and sensible, just to backflip and whine that it's not perfect, not named after their cult leader, and "not hurting the people it needs to be".
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/8/18173678/tr...
Why is penalizing people you disagree with (or secretly agree with, but just hate) more important to you than saving lives?
If the net effect is saving lives, improving health, reducing poverty, battling pandemics, fighting quack medicine, and advancing science, then maybe the DO deserve to pat themselves on the back, huh?
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#436Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was in a similar circumstance. I drove a city bus in Las Vegas for a year. The experience opened my eyes to many things and changed my life in good ways.
Would love to read a blog post about this kind of experience!
That's good to know. One of my projects is to write up experiences like this I've had.
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#437I programatically create educational videos on fundamental algorithms and data structures, a side project that I'm very excited about. I'm creating the videos using Python and the manim library. My latest video is on insertion sort and you can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF-8RcO_9ds . I am still developing a recipe for the videos, but it is a definitely a lot of fun.
Can you do bitwise stuff pretty please?
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#438Just yesterday I finally had my 3D printer I bought a year and a half ago tuned and serviced by a professional. I bought it as a kit and built it not completely wrong, but it did have issues I'd not have been able to iron out myself. Yesterday, right after the service of the printer, I printed a Benchy and am very happy with the result! Next up I plan on printing a plastic case for a replica of a bus cash register and ticket machine that was in basically every bus in my country when I was a child (Czech Republic, the ticket machine is USV-24C by Mikroelektronika). I managed to buy this ticket machine in a pretty good condition when a local bus company was going out of business and another in a less than ideal condition for parts in case I ever decide to want to work on the real thing. In the meantime, I plan on building a replica of it running on an Arduino or a Raspberry Pi.
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#439I won the IPO lottery and I’m in the middle ground between rich enough to never work again but not quite rich enough for the yachts/mansions/private jets lifestyle. I haven’t worked in 6 months and I’m struggling to find a larger meaning to my life beyond getting yet another tech job. I’ve considered going to college for a math degree, moving to my parents home country, and joining the military (among many other opti…
I was in that middle ground and didn't like it. The worst thing is it was tremendous fun to get there... but not enough motivation to do it again without that incentive.
People who find meaning in being rich, enjoy being rich.
I kind of think riches are an illusion - you should just go directly to whatever you find meaningful in the first place. Which might include a lot of experiences to find out what that is. Essentially: living.
You can still do that - although having to do something is very motivating, even if we don't like it!
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#440Still settling into life in a new country (US->Switzerland) after having moved during the pandemic with a one year old and dog (I do not recommend this, but it might have been our only change) I'm also building a SPAC tracking/info tool at https://stockbase.com/spacs , among other things. Also learning about longevity related things and writing about my learnings at https://longevitybase.com . Yes, I think all sites…
Amazing work, however having burned $ in well researched stock (looking at you HYLN) i decided to go back to value investing