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"smart" in terms of navigating society and understanding where value is. What things are worth learning vs not learning, what kinds of skills are worth taking risks for etc. "smart" in terms of just having a degree and believing that being credentialed = intelligence is completely orthogonal to the point I intended.

A stupid person will fall for get rich quick schemes. A stupid person will believe grinding it out at a job they hate will eventually lead to something better. A stupid person will lack the will to try hard enough to better themselves.

My biggest hurdle as a mostly back end engineer with a shaky but workable knowledge of react is creating a page that doesn't entirely break moving from desktop to mobile. Like most things today, there are hundreds of "valid" ways to do this with each JS tutorial / dev seeming to have their own preferences that are seemingly completely arbitrary to me.

Excited to learn more about this! Dig the design for his page as well - wish I could hire a designer / dev hybrid for $300-400 to make a single page site like this! (inquiries welcome)

If Biden follows the playbook he had with Barack goodness knows he'll give the boys in blue and black whatever they want when it comes to surveillance of private citizens.

Interesting! Thanks for the info!

I never had a drinking problem, but quitting alcohol altogether has resulted in nothing but positive outcomes.

It's curious how my friends from college are largely in two groups now (not correlated to intelligence or motivation);

A) not really that interested in alcohol and focussed on work

B) focused on work but drink every night and still "party" all the time

This is seemingly an American phenomenon that's incredibly regressive and also seems to negatively affect women more than men. For whatever reason, women also seem more susceptible to the trap of drinking and partying excessively.

Very interesting to see how they bailed on using an IHS over the two dram modules ON the processor die! I love how you can see "reach" engineering solutions in apple products, it's clear that they realized the ram would be too large to fit under an IHS and just decided to go with what ended up in the M1 Mac Mini. Very much hoping apple starts allowing even third party nvidia drivers again for latest gen GPU's...

Does anyone have advice for taking a simple project like this and hiring a designer to make it look a bit more polished?

Wow, OneItemStore is awesome. Any chance there's a way to peak at the source? I'm just starting to dip my toes in front-end anything and simple projects like OneItemStore still seem quite daunting.

It's not hard - work in the office will always be paid more than remote work because communication in the office requires less inertia and is more efficient.

I've also been curious about this, specifically how to apply a set of labels to what is essentially a time series of frames.

I wouldn't be surprised if JaneStreet open sources an internal tool soon-ish. They've actually been writing a number of custom plugins and modules for WireShark to support internal custom protocols and seem to have a lot of features they'd like that aren't currently present in WireShark.

Articles like this are almost infuriating, in most cases it's lazy journalism highlighting a problem or grievance from an angle or statistic some journalist finds "interesting" without giving any thought to a reasonable solution.

The only solutions I've seen are "everyone should travel less" basically making the proposition that poor people don't deserve air travel or making grandiose claims about building huge high speed rail networks. The rail networks bit is ironic since building them wouldn't solve any energy production or distribution carbon emissions and would likely just take money that should be spent on research into promising renewable sources.

I do however love dogs owned by responsible dog owners (since I don't live with them) and think dogs / pets in many cases are amazingly loving companions!

Much like human children, dogs who have responsible and mindful owners are amazing. I'm honestly kind of sad I'm allergic because it seems like it would be incredibly fulfilling to have a well trained and obedient furry companion.