jinonoel

>If China is allowed to gain upper hands on the United States, it will result in broad scale societal problems which I couldn't even begin to estimate. Imagine a world where Russia is allowed to take Europe. Imagine a world where the United States is convinced to stand by as Taiwan is invaded and our chip supply is shut down.

When You're Accustomed to Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression. The world doesn't need to imagine, because we had to stand by while the US launched illegal wars in Iraq, continues the unjust economic sanctions on Cuba just just for election politics, or all the shenigans the CIA pulled in South America in the previous decades. Heck just this month the US has said it will ignore a WTO ruling[1] just because it says so and everyone will have to stand by.

The multipolar world threatens Americans so much because they'll finally have to live like there's another version of themselves in the world.

[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-12-12/supply...

One fact that blew my mind recently is that Cleopatra is closer to our present time than to the creation of the pyramids.

Makes sense. I'm not sure there's a job I wouldn't leave for 3 months free money. Especially if I was confident of my talent and abilities as an ex-Twitter engineer.

I can't wait for inevitable Billions episode about Gamestop. Dollar Bill is probably going to lose it :)

Mesh Wifi.

I used to have 3 base stations scattered around the house with different names and it was a hassle just connecting to the closest wifi point all the time and also switching between wifi points when I move around the house would result in a connection interruption.

My company has been WFH since mid-March. I've loved being able to just start working instantly after waking up and finishing my morning routine, but one thing I've really missed is the 30minute drive home after work. That period of time was effective in resetting my brain from "work-mode" to "home-mode".

It's been hard going from shutting down my laptop straight to playing with my kids, it seems like I'm part-zombie at first and not as lively as I would be later in the night with them.

Was planning on getting a new Mac laptop this year to replace my old 2013 Macbook Pro. Would it be better to get one of the last Intel Macs or wait a bit and get in early on the upcoming ARM Macs?

I really, really miss Dashboard. It was a nice quick way to have access to my stickies, a calculator, the weather, and a calendar all in one place

I had a really good time and learned more than I thought I would during my postgrad studies. However if you would be paying full tuition there's probably cheaper ways to get into AI though.

Had a quarter-life crisis, so decided to quit my job after working 5 years as a software engineer and get a masters degree in a foreign country in 2010. Had to choose a specialization, and chose AI/ML only because I liked reading sci-fi. Graduated in 2012 and was suddenly and accidentally in a great position to ride the AI and data science wave taking over the industry.

Startup 1 (2 years): $0. Acqui-hired for less than total investment raised. I had long left by then but had vested shares which were wiped out.

Startup 2 (6 months): $10k. Mainly from the profit-sharing of the startup incubator, not from actual equity.

A PhD is something I plan on doing much later in life too (35 now), a bucket list sort of thing once I've achieved financial independence and my kids are a bit older.

The hard part I imagine will be hanging out with mid-20-year olds everyday when I'll be in my late 40s already :)

"Why join a startup #1: Acccess to jobs you're unqualified for"

Had a good laugh at this, because it's completely true in my case. 7 years ago became the "data scientist" at a 4-person startup before I even knew what a data scientist actually does. Parlayed that into further data science jobs at somewhat bigger startups. Now I'm Head of Data Science at a stable traditional tech company making good money and this likely wouldn't have been possible without that first startup job.

I really miss the top-right button in classic Finder windows, the one that resizes the window to just the right size to show all it's contents.

>“Perhaps Facebook should consider not aggressively getting more people online through its free internet program, and on its platform, until it has fully realized the scope of various ways it impacts a society, and often the whole nation,”

Imagine the amount of first world privilege you need to have to be able to say this with a straight face. While we're at it how about we don't spread education and vaccinations across developing countries as well, until we "fully realized the scope of various ways it impacts a society, and often the whole nation".