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Yes, please.

Fully agreed. I'm curious to learn though how your approach changed in particular.

what's stopping all those people you fired from starting new law companies

This is beyond naive. We've got plenty of successful businesses in front of our eyes, what makes any of us work for them instead of starting competition? Maybe lack of appetite for risk, lack of means to take on some substantial amount of it, lack of perfect timing, bills, children and parents to support, accumulated momentum in another profession and no skills to run a business, no meaningful connections?

The list goes on and on and to think you could just start a business regardless of your circumstances, and even more so, try to make this hypothetical sound as an answer to the very real issue of increasing job insecurity is just pure malice.

And even more importantly, how do you make a living teaching?

When I was young, in my teens, I already knew a bit about programming but of course nothing about the industry.

These beautiful metaphors by Brooks, from books like inmates running the asylum, etc - they made me romanticize the industry I had no idea about.

Now, about 20 years later, I wonder to which extent they influenced me to take the path I've taken. Because when I began, it wasn't lucrative or cool in the slightest.

This made me laugh, than you!

I appreciate your situation and opinion but I don't see how this is the answer to my question about mindset changes.

Nice one. I spent about 15 minutes playing, thank you.

A deep and thoughtful piece, thanks for sharing.

I'm wondering at this point what are known methods of overcoming "mindset inequality". Any advice will be appreciated.

If you could only send a text message...

This is lovely.

Thank you for sharing! Saved to bookmarks to read on my free time. Hopefully I'll get some soon :)

Not only performance, I strongly suspect there were issues with implementation too as the apps would just freeze/die frequently.

You got the water cooling before it was cool, minus the thermal paste.

I remember I had a Cyrix 6x86 in one of my first computers that ran windows 95. It was terrible. When I tried to play games or run some apps with non-trivial performance requirements and, I suppose, that used floating point operations extensively, perhaps MMX or some other proprietary extensions, apps would just die. Often with the entire operating system.

He is going to go through System Settings, panel by panel, and adjust everything he can adjust just to see how he likes it. He is going to make a folder called “Projects” with nothing in it. He is going to download Blender because someone on Reddit said it was free, and then stare at the interface for forty-five minutes.

Brilliant. Thank you for that.

https://gromov.com It's a custom build dynamic website, which is a rarity this days, meant to have a commenting system and other 'advanced' features. However, as time went by I realised you need A LOT of traffic for people to engage with your stuff on your own platform. Now, I suspect, it's mostly endlessly parsed by bots - and this, quite frankly, made me abandon the idea of posting my thoughts to a 'broad' internet.

Oh wow, my apology - didn't know that and didn't notice the length of the hexademical number. TIL.

There's a typo with 'ULL' string suffixes in the hexadecimal numbers in the first code example.

Good project, nice write-up.

However, to me as a person with an anti-library as well, this kind of defies the purpose of having it in the first place. I can't say I browse my books too often but when I want to find something, I'd rather browse physical things on a shelf rather than some out-of-date UI with fetched thumbnails. Of course the organization happens in physical space too: this is why we have shelves, labels and such.

Obviously no judgement or criticism for the author, just sharing thoughts.

Me too. It's phenomenal, especially the first book and the pilgrims' stories. Such a moving mix of religious mystics, science fiction and the dreaded AI. The second one builds up the tension and the last 2... are good.

Or, even more likely, a bad solution for a non-existent problem.

It's such an irony that for such a topic, website content is actually overflowing on a mobile safari and gets out of the container so the website appears broken.

I came to comment that at least something good happened to the otherwise cursed project... but you made me reconsider.

Antibiotic resistance is a problem for society. Infection is a problem for the individual.

Unfortunately not necessarily. For many chronic conditions an individual may very well develop an antibiotic resistant bug. There's even plenty on YouTube about standard penicillins and strep bacteria that start growing right inside the antibiotics. Look it up, it's fascinating.

It seems to me that since airlines can't force you on a plane except for taking your luggage hostage, you're free to drop as long of a 'tail' as you wish. I'm wondering whether they'd put you on a black list or something for doing this consistently.

Sorry to hear that. Sounds like not a lot of fun!

Of course I can understand it from their point of view. But this doesn't make it any more sensible to me as a consumer of their services.

In the aforementioned situation I wasn't trying to exploit the airline, it was a simple mistake that happened and could be easily alleviated. But the rigid processes, precisely the ones where accountability sinks, made it impossible for the humans involved to correct the mistake.

I still stand by the ridiculousness of that. If not the logistics quirks per se, then the fact that this completely unrelated matter dictated the resolution of the situation against common sense and my interest.

What makes this even worse is that presumably the PR department of that very company had to be involved later and they still spent their employees' time and money to compensate me for the mistake that could be corrected for free.

It's generally to protect revenue because buying A-B-C instead of B-C can be cheaper, and hoards of people used to just segments to save money. So they just assume everyone is trying to cheat them.

Isn't it ridiculous in the first place that flying A-B-C is less expensive than B-C? These are the pricing games airlines deliberately play to make more money out of nothing.

Leaving aside the no-show rule, which doesn't make much sense to me, this situation is a good example of an accountability sink.

The intermediary I booked the tickets with made an obvious mistake and showed the wrong airport code. Maybe the airport opening was meant to happen earlier, and the intermediary had already updated their emails or something like that. They refused to do anything meaningful and did not even acknowledge their mistake.

The fact that I was compensated by the airline that had nothing to do with this mistake is even more astonishing to me, although they were obviously protecting their brand reputation.