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A bit flawed, but a technical marvel and shows how superhumanly virtuosic Snook is.

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I live in NYC as well, and I find the post COVID Berlin-esque Bushwick only scene to be terrible. It's filled with the most dull repetitive music that AI can replicate with a god awful sound system and no atmospherics whatsoever, and while I do appreciate the lack of dress code / door policy / bouncer aggressiveness, it feels like a brutal slog to endure without drugs, and a miserable long ass train ride on the L train back to the city.

I miss the pre COVID Vegas style nightclubs in the Meatpacking District. Yes, crowded and aggressive bouncers who make up the door policy on the spot, but once you're in there's mesmerizing lighting and visual effects, top notch sound systems, the glitziness of bottle service, and the euphoric albeit predictable drops of EDM.

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Google beat OpenAI at their own game.

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For certain knowledge work, the job market is much stronger and orders of magnitude better paying in the US.

And nah, most if not all of my coworkers have taken two consecutive weeks off, and have taken roughly a total 25 days off the year excluding holidays.

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Yeah this is why I always take more than a month off between jobs.

Besides parental leave and the very rare even for FAANG companies who offer month long sabbaticals once every five years, a month is a hard sell.

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I lived in both for more than a decade. I only remember seeing a mouse sized rat once in Seattle. Never saw one in SF.

I live in NYC now and see multiple on a daily basis. Exposure therapy helps, but barely. It still scares the shit out of me a few years in.

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I’d argue that NYC hasn’t done enough with rats for this reason. And indoor roaches and mice too for that matter.

As a New Yorker, it feels unsanitary at best, and psychologically jarring at worst, and I wish I wouldn’t have to deal with seeing rats scurrying around on a daily basis. But there’s been no tangible public health risk so far.

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OpenAI has no clear moat though. If they shut off training, everyone would just move over to a competitor.

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$80 a month is a no brainer given the productivity multiplier.

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Downsize and move closer to the office

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In most of NYC that’s the case

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OpenAPI is just pointless abstraction like GraphQL

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The ones doing AI research would be working at more prestigious institutions.

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I’m skeptical of the caliber of talent at Salesforce given the unusable state of their core product.

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I agree. Despite high compensation and a hiring boom, or perhaps because of it, 2020-2022 was the worst time to work in tech. I knew interns in 2012 who could code circles around those bootcampers turned “staff engineers” in 2021. Everyone at my series B employer turned into a “manager” or “leader” overnight. Being a shitty B2B SaaS meant that sales ran the show and our product was absolute dogshit.

2023 was awful too because everyone stayed put — we somehow avoided layoffs — even though they were absolutely miserable.

Now in 2024, I’ve just started a job search and things seem much better. There’s actual innovation now and I feel a sense of optimism about the future of tech that I haven’t in 10 years.

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React at its core is great. Redux is great too, as vanilla React becomes messy even for moderately complex single page apps.

Whatever it’s evolved into now is a different monster.

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Modern day Kubernetes and React feels like a make work program

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The 4% rule accounts for inflation. The stock market on an average gives you 7% a year in returns adjusted for inflation. The 4% gives you enough cushion in case of economic turmoil.

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At least in SF, tenants get pretty generous buyouts when the landlord decides to sell.

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I find Japan’s IC card system notoriously confusing here with every line operating its own fare gate, the notion of a base fare and additional fare for a line, and entry gates that require you to first walk all the way out to an exit.