Hot take:
I always choose whatever the highest tip option shows.
I think tipping culture is an amazing tool for incentive-aligned wealth distribution.
I think if you got the balls to ask me for a $10 tip on a $21 order, or perhaps for me to tip you for a basic task that should require no tip, you get my money.
If you’re poor enough that you need it, I’ll let you try to exploit me.
It incentivizes the payer of the service to actually pay their salary and lets their employer off easy by paying them scraps?
Okay I’m fine with that.
I have worked in the service industry as a waiter for many years, and that makes me biased but also informed.
Just tip excessively.
Make someone’s day.
Don’t be grouchy or grumpy about it or think you’re supplementing some woke liberal arts degree or some stupid political take.
Just tip well.
Tip very well.
Tip so much that you’re actually uncomfortable.
I will always select the max tip option on any order screen.
Go ahead, take advantage of me.
I always choose whatever the highest tip option shows.
I think tipping culture is an amazing tool for incentive-aligned wealth distribution.
I think if you got the balls to ask me for a $10 tip on a $21 order, or perhaps for me to tip you for a basic task that should require no tip, you get my money.
If you’re poor enough that you need it, I’ll let you try to exploit me.
It incentivizes the payer of the service to actually pay their salary and lets their employer off easy by paying them scraps?
Okay I’m fine with that.
I have worked in the service industry as a waiter for many years, and that makes me biased but also informed.
Just tip excessively.
Make someone’s day.
Don’t be grouchy or grumpy about it or think you’re supplementing some woke liberal arts degree or some stupid political take.
Just tip well.
Tip very well.
Tip so much that you’re actually uncomfortable.
I will always select the max tip option on any order screen.
Go ahead, take advantage of me.
“If you gaze into the abyss,
the abyss also gazes into you.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886
Behold! The first photo of a photon!
(Source: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.203604)
the abyss also gazes into you.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886
Behold! The first photo of a photon!
(Source: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.203604)
imho, the fewer lines of code in a repo to accomplish a task, the better coder you are.
Aim for density (value per line of code) without sacrificing self-documentation of variables and processes.
Less is more with coding.
That can result in using high levels of abstraction, which is okay imho if they’re written well, vectorized, and coded well.
I personally willing to sacrifice efficiency and dependency, if it means I am maintaining fewer lines of code.
To me, intellectual leverage is about wield more effect with less code.
Just my personal opinion.
I bet some purists will vomit reading this, but I love abstraction.
Anyway, back to coding.
Aim for density (value per line of code) without sacrificing self-documentation of variables and processes.
Less is more with coding.
That can result in using high levels of abstraction, which is okay imho if they’re written well, vectorized, and coded well.
I personally willing to sacrifice efficiency and dependency, if it means I am maintaining fewer lines of code.
To me, intellectual leverage is about wield more effect with less code.
Just my personal opinion.
I bet some purists will vomit reading this, but I love abstraction.
Anyway, back to coding.
One of the most environmentally friendly things we can do is build things to last.
Anyone who is so convinced that either society is so horrible or the earth is gonna be destroyed that they think they shouldn’t have children are the most stupid, short-sighted, idiotic people I’ve ever met. I’m glad they’re culling their genetic code; the future of life has no need for those nasty “rational” persons.
There’s going to be a great awakening of persons who spent their whole life “trusting the experts” who are now going to be expected to think for themselves as we tear into the experts.
They’re either going to double down and find rationalizations to continue to trust the experts (99% of them),
Or they’re going to start opening their eyes and think for themselves. The latter may shock them so much that they can’t handle it.
They’re either going to double down and find rationalizations to continue to trust the experts (99% of them),
Or they’re going to start opening their eyes and think for themselves. The latter may shock them so much that they can’t handle it.
It’s great that America is finally going after potential carcinogenic food dyes.
If the data shows they’re safe, great!
Let’s at least do the studies. Good science welcomes more studies.
If the data shows they’re safe, great!
Let’s at least do the studies. Good science welcomes more studies.
Ability to write good code is a clear mark of intelligence. I don’t care about all the fancy language surrounding different types of intelligence, verbal IQ, whatever. Can you write code? Can you do advanced math? Can you solve advanced physics equations? If not that’s okay, but don’t claim you’re smart. There are very clear objective criteria. Yes Einstein was smarter than Mark Twain.
My quantum mechanics professor in college taught us that quantum entanglement cannot be used to communicate faster than light because you cannot control what state the particle collapses into, you only know that the entangled particles will collapse to the same state
If we ever want to terraform other planets as we colonize the galaxy, we should practice greenifying deserts on Earth. Practice makes perfect!
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In an alternate universe:
The Cage:
Unknown: “My screams have gone unanswered. It’s cruel. It’s dark, I’m alone, and nothing seems to work.
My cell has wooden bars that are just out of reach for me to climb out, as if they’re teasing me with how close freedom is.
The worst part is they treat me so well during the day, to lull me into a false sense of security, only to abandon me to the darkness at night.
I try to sleep, but sometimes the fear is overwhelming. I wake up in a cold sweat screaming.
Nobody comes.
Sometimes, they come in to comfort me, but only briefly, as if they get a sick pleasure from giving me brief comfort, only to throw me back in my cage, indifferent to my suffering, leaving me to my own devices.
They’re playing with my mind, sometimes giving me all the food, warmth, and love I need, only to leave me alone at night.
I cry and cry and cry.
I scream and scream and scream.
Nobody seems to hear.
Or worse, they hear and don’t care.
It’s terrifying. I need this to stop.
I guess I can just try to pass out and wait for this to pass, only to wake up the next day and do it all over again…”
New Parents: “So, Jill, you think the baby will sleep through the night tonight? Should we try to comfort him again or just let him cry it out?”
Unknown: “My screams have gone unanswered. It’s cruel. It’s dark, I’m alone, and nothing seems to work.
My cell has wooden bars that are just out of reach for me to climb out, as if they’re teasing me with how close freedom is.
The worst part is they treat me so well during the day, to lull me into a false sense of security, only to abandon me to the darkness at night.
I try to sleep, but sometimes the fear is overwhelming. I wake up in a cold sweat screaming.
Nobody comes.
Sometimes, they come in to comfort me, but only briefly, as if they get a sick pleasure from giving me brief comfort, only to throw me back in my cage, indifferent to my suffering, leaving me to my own devices.
They’re playing with my mind, sometimes giving me all the food, warmth, and love I need, only to leave me alone at night.
I cry and cry and cry.
I scream and scream and scream.
Nobody seems to hear.
Or worse, they hear and don’t care.
It’s terrifying. I need this to stop.
I guess I can just try to pass out and wait for this to pass, only to wake up the next day and do it all over again…”
New Parents: “So, Jill, you think the baby will sleep through the night tonight? Should we try to comfort him again or just let him cry it out?”
I can’t wait until every eight year-old child understands the math of quantum mechanics. Future generation better be so much smarter than us.
I get extremely sad that my son will never meet his grandfather. My son would become a different person if he had interactions with his grandfather, and my father would have become a different person if he had interacted with his grandson. Similarly, I would have become a different person if I had ever met my maternal grandfather. But alas, death never comes at an opportune time. And sure we carry the dead with us in our hearts, and our descendants get trinkets and snippets of interaction via the survivors, but nothing beats a pure one on one interaction with a relative. This post is not meant to be a lament nor depressive (although I’m very sad about all my family members who have passed) but rather a reminder to maximize family time with those who are still here.
Peter Thiel: "I got vaccinated 3 times and I don't think I should have got vaccinated. I don't think it works in any way. It probably has all these bad side-effects, and 3-4 years ago that seemed too crazy and too un-scientifc for me to question the vaccines, and now that doesn't even seem controversial."
You know, people laude these rich, successful people as some of those to look up to, as individuals to listen to and follow.
But hey, guess what, maybe they’re not that wise.
Maybe they got duped by propaganda.
Maybe more people should have listened to the supposedly unscientific idiots who didn’t jump to take the COVID-19 vax.
Maybe there were a few people like myself with STEM PhD’s who had better instincts than the world’s leaders and heroes.
Maybe courage was in short supply back then and people should have thought for themselves more.
It pisses me off how in hindsight, Peter Thiel regrets his decision but still discusses how it was unscientific to be covid-vax-hesitant back then.
How many people you know, or perhaps yourself included, took the covid vax and regret it now? Did you not have the courage nor integrity to listen to your heart?
This post is not an attack on those who took it and right now have no regrets (like pretty much my whole family). At least those people made their choices out of what they believed in and not fear or peer pressure.
Shame on all the institutions who pushed it (some colleges still required it even this year). But also shame on everyone who gave in because they feared for their livelihood or got duped by peer pressure. People like that, who didn’t have the courage to follow their hearts, made this an uphill battle for the rest of us.
Peter Thiel and your ilk, too little too late. Maybe re-evaluate how you make decisions.
Rant over.
You know, people laude these rich, successful people as some of those to look up to, as individuals to listen to and follow.
But hey, guess what, maybe they’re not that wise.
Maybe they got duped by propaganda.
Maybe more people should have listened to the supposedly unscientific idiots who didn’t jump to take the COVID-19 vax.
Maybe there were a few people like myself with STEM PhD’s who had better instincts than the world’s leaders and heroes.
Maybe courage was in short supply back then and people should have thought for themselves more.
It pisses me off how in hindsight, Peter Thiel regrets his decision but still discusses how it was unscientific to be covid-vax-hesitant back then.
How many people you know, or perhaps yourself included, took the covid vax and regret it now? Did you not have the courage nor integrity to listen to your heart?
This post is not an attack on those who took it and right now have no regrets (like pretty much my whole family). At least those people made their choices out of what they believed in and not fear or peer pressure.
Shame on all the institutions who pushed it (some colleges still required it even this year). But also shame on everyone who gave in because they feared for their livelihood or got duped by peer pressure. People like that, who didn’t have the courage to follow their hearts, made this an uphill battle for the rest of us.
Peter Thiel and your ilk, too little too late. Maybe re-evaluate how you make decisions.
Rant over.