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I assume so that they can break the record again later on.

I like and see the value of corpspeak. Take “bandwidth”, for example. It’s superior to “time”, because it implies that something else has already filled up all the available time. Plus, by definition, bandwidth = [unit of work] / time. So if I don’t have bandwidth for something, I imply that something else needs to be removed from my workload to be able to do the thing.

Having an arsenal of phrases is not a bad thing per se; as with technology, it depends how one uses it.

If I'm a Go developer, or changing jobs because I want to use Go, of course that it is in both mine and my future employer's best interest to set expectations if I'm gonna work on Go or on ASP.NET.

I probably wasn’t clear enough. I don’t feel guilty because of my life style, I feel like I’m in a trap. What would happen with me and my family if power grid goes down for a week? What about a month?

The point is, we can probably have best of both worlds if we accept lifestyle change (IMO simple life close to nature is an improvement, not degradation) where we enjoy the benefits of technology, but not being dependent on it.

Think living in a village, spending very little, eating non processed, locally grown food, working remotely, driving a car maybe a couple of times per month to visit friends and do some shopping and that’s it.

I’d like to do that not because I feel responsible for climate change, inequality or whatever, but for personal security, longevity, and quality of life reasons.

Edit: side effects of this lifestyle are less co2, less pollution, resilient local economy and much more.

This is exactly what I’ll try to change in next 5 years. Have a sustainable baseline: my own food (or at least 50% of it, other 50% locally grown within ~10km) and energy independent (for heating and cooking), and treat everything else as a luxury that can perish any time now. I don’t want to give up my remote work, car and (occasional) luxury vacation, but would love to be able to sustain myself without it. Current life-style (apartment, frequent food orders, total dependency on the power grid) is a ticking time bomb (which might not go off in my lifetime) and feels like all-or-nothing gamble.

I’m from Serbia, and know for sure that during the NATO war against Serbia in ‘99 our military was residing in (some) schools. It makes sense if you think about it. If they were better at information warfare, they would have written “children” on some of the buildings.

Is lowering the salary and receive high dividends illegal in Holland?

Yes. I have two daughters, and my eyes get wet and my throat closes every time I remember that scene. But then, it turns out that most likely I'm manipulated. I say most likely, because I'm not sure anymore, and I don't want to get invested anymore and research what is true and what is not.

There’s also the feel of being played and deceived when something you had strong emotional reaction (i.e. Ukrainian father saying goodbye to his daughters) turns out to be propaganda and part of information warfare.

The more emotionally intensive the news are, the more skeptical I am towards it.

That’s how the world works, unfortunately. NATO did the same thing in Yugoslavia back in 99. No one was held responsible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ni%C5%A1_cluster_bombing

It would be great if you could get a correct (or close) answer every time if you made a guess, and where you made an error. I assume you would get better after a while and would be even more fun.

Can someone tell if this would be a good personal/societal strategy: once you had covid, or fully vaxxed, it’s much better to be among other people, to be exposed to the virus and continuously train your immune system.

Which book would you consider his best? I’ve only read House of Suns, and it was great.

Life as we know it.

Just wanted to mention that! In Serbian (and most other south Slavic languages) we use a word слон (slon) for elephant. I was always wondering why is that, how can we have native word for the animal we could hardly had chance to see. However, there’s some evidence that (south) Slavic people lived somewhere near India. And India is mentioned a lot in some of the tradional folk poems. There’s even a town in Serbia called Inđija. Really interesting stuff, but not sure how credible that theory is.

One of my most experienced and respected colleagues likes to say: “when it looks like I’m not working at all that’s when I’m working the most”.

Good for them. But I guess there will also be some people judging and complaining how it’s not fair that they can afford to follow their dreams.

As someone living and working in the developing country I say: please profit from my work! I started my software development career making 2.5EUR per hour. Now, 10 years later, I can find consulting gigs in EU/US market for 40-50EUR which is really great for me, and stl affordable for the clients. Win-win, right? What is wrong with that?

So what? I’m putting >50 hours per week so that in 20 years my kids could have more than one shot in entrepreneurship.

This is exactly how I studied for hard (theory-heavy) exams at the university! If this would cover >90% of what can come up on the certification exam, I would be willing to pay! Please take my money!

You realize that Naval is a person of color?

Well now that I’m so used to a level of privacy that locked iPhone provides (notification details are hidden), I just don’t mind having the phone relocked each time. It’s a trade-off that works for me.

Also, it wouldn’t surprise me if significant percent of users actually checks their phone at least one in 15 minutes. This would mean that their phones would be at unlocked almost all the time.

What ROI? There are tweets more information dense than articles, articles more valuable than books.

Wow, just yesterday I was thinking and discussing about how and why to ban tiktok for my kids, but this is great example of the tech being used to create something amazing! Really melts my heart when I see how humans can create marvelous things together, spontaneously!

Exactly this! I was hoping to get more suggestions along these lines. Because the first thing I thought was that if I hard-ban something they'll just learn how to do it without me knowing, especially if it is something their peers are doing.

So, we need to "gracefully" ban this; that is, if it needs banning at all.

The alternative is to embrace it and show how to use it properly.

And then, there's this addictive nature to it - the app is designed and tuned to provide dopamine hits; how to fight that?

I wouldn't allow my kids to use this app in a million years.

And how would you ensure / enforce this? Honest question, because I'm in that situation right now.

In that case, “mutes yourself” would be more appropriate.

I’d like to see a “benchmark” about M1’s support for real world dev setup (docker, brew, libraries and so on). And when can we expect the full support

And these three sentences would be?