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@TopHatFox One way in is hustle. Build something kind of cool using GIS or whatever it is you're interested in. Does not need to be practical but I would hit these points (but I'm taking a wild guess at what you're going for, you'll have to adjust): - ship it (so something actually published and us...

My personal solution to prevent being "fired" by my cleaning lady is to pay solidly above market. Golden hancuffs work! I know because I'm in one at my current place of employment and I see how effective they are on me - hence I try to overpay everyone I hire too. It's a cheap way to buy a...

Funny, nowadays I don't feel like I'm really living unless I'm spending the night in a tent or in my car. I'd be sort-of-interested in that, but unfortunately my body is terrible for that (it gets sick easily and has trouble regulating body temperature) which make camping a viable option only in a ...

In fact, if that's my fear I'd learn to live in a tent. For most people it's not a matter of "learning". Dealing with discomfort is not a matter of learning and, for most people, living in a tent just sucks, and the discomfort caused by it is far greater than the discomfort of a couple ex...

Any situation in which you allow yourself to hold responsibility out of proportion to authority/dominance/ownership/very-clear-well-boundaried-contract is somewhat likely to devolve to resentment which is the ultimate stoke killer. Very few contracts have well-defined boundaries. For example, I jus...

Interestingly, some of the geology companies have given the feedback that my resume is too overqualified/fancy. Finished a few gis/coding interviews, so maybe that’ll go somewhere. I showed the interviewers sample projects and they seemed to be impressed. I honestly might quit trying to find work &...

If you take out the crazy, and leave just the self-sufficiency: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ted-kaczynski-an-interview-with-ted-kaczynski Thanks, that's a great interview! Especially interesting to me was the part where he said that he wanted to live like this since his early teens. I f...

The most up to date stats show how rapid the progress is currently with many countries increasing the proportion of EVs in new car registrations by 100%-200% or more over last year: https://i.imgur.com/vhO4oWE.png The chart says "plug-in", which could mean it includes plug-in hybrids, whi...

I'd be curious to get the thoughts from any active MtG players on the forums. I used to be semi-serious about competitive MtG play during University (meaning - I regularly traveled across Poland for tournaments, and also occasionally to other European countries for Grand Prixes). I have dropped it ...

While I was not feeling well, I started playing around learning python and opencv. My 'apprenticeship' application is to build a device that records vehicle speeds and saves an image of vehicles travelling faster than a certain speed. I am using the Pi 4 with a camera from my front window. It is wo...

Hmm, if you're going to criticize Wendell Berry on this journal, you're going to need to do a better job of it; this strikes me as a rather lazy ad hominem attack that seems to be entirely irrelevant to whether or not Berry's The Unsettling of America is well reasoned and/or worthy of suggestion. A...

I just spent the better part of a few workdays getting through your journal and I just wanted to say thank you for all the inspiration. Also, if you are still looking to add to your long reading list, I'd like to suggest Wendell Berry's The Unsettling of America . Interestingly, Czesław Miłosz (one...

unemployable wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 06, 2021 2:40 pm

Nefarious Limited Partnership? Nobody's Little Pony? C'mon, bud. It was hard enough to figure out ML = Machine Learning. I guess I'm illustrating the problem of being out of the workhorse for so long.

NLP is Natural Language Processing, basically ML done on text.

I really doubt that, in 15 years, ML/NLP will be in any way as hot a market as it is now. There will just be a new fad that's the hot thing of the year. ML will still exist, but will now be a mature field, requiring a strong CV (years of experience, no signs of losing faith in the corporate system e...

What if your labor, which can currently be commodified at $25/hr., can be commodified at $100/hr 20 years from now? I think there is a tendency to catastrophically depreciate skills upon retirement. A strategy that included periodically once again selling skills if/when pertinent markets hit relati...

I don't think it's necessarily required to learn how to make your own jam or repair stuff. It's not possible or desirable to learn how to literally do everything yourself, so you get to pick and chose what interests you pursue. Once you escape the frame of the comparative advantage of doing somethi...

Working a job also limits future earning potential. It's weird to me that there is not an extremely successful FIRE entrepreneur. Maybe it's MMM? I'm surprised someone didn't free up all that time and have the major mindset shift to not want to work all the time, only to start a business doing some...

(quote from J+G post) Everything we've ever done relies on this insane web of interconnected global commerce. Dirtbag living even more so depends on the global commerce and the incredible wealth America has to offer. For example, take eating other people's garbage as a way to not pay for food - if ...

Ego wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 26, 2021 1:23 pm

If the "work" of T1 work is psychologically 4x or 6x harder dollar-for-dollar than T2 work then is it irrational?

For me, it's because the 4x or 6x multiplier is not nearly enough. My post-tax hourly wage buys 100 pounds of tomatoes. The modern economy is just that efficient.

If you are a coder, your location, social skills, personal hygiene all have exactly 0% impact on the quality of your work. (A tangent) It's not true that social skills are not important for coders. Modern coding is a highly collaborative process, with lots of interactions with people. That's BTW th...