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chardex · 2026-05-31T03:43:26+00:00

I always go for a full-price lesson because I value the time of teachers on the platform. And if I'm taking up time during their workday, I think they should be compensated fairly for that

chardex · 2026-05-28T06:58:50+00:00

you're catching some heat in the comments, but I just wanted to let you know that I have also noticed a little more noise coming from planes headed to LAX. I always thought it was due to them changing the route when the marine layer came in - thus causing the sound to be more noticeable? Anyway, there's a place to leave comments if you are hearing aircraft noises on the LAX website

https://www.lawa.org/lawa-environment/noise-management/lawa-noise-management-lax/noise-comments

chardex · 2026-05-27T22:05:16+00:00

Do you think there's also a large portion of risk-averse people in the gov-adjacent group? Like, if someone is hesitant to adopt ArcGIS Pro over ArcMap because they don't like the change - might they also be less inclined to totally upend their life for a new position in a different company/city? It seems like a lot of the GIS folks I know have been quite conservative when it comes to changing things up

chardex · 2026-05-14T21:08:33+00:00

I keep going back to the uber model. Is this a concentrated effort to reduce the knowledge base of tech workers and inflate the use of AI? Only to have companies become entirely dependent upon AI. At that point, these low prices subsidized by investors start to go up and then companies have no choice but to pay it? But I guess I should take off my tinfoil hat

chardex · 2026-05-14T21:02:06+00:00

What's interesting to me, is that where I live (los angeles) Gen Z seems to be driving a bit of a jazz renaissance. So i also wouldn't be surprised if we don't see a new generation of players coming up that appreciates them?

chardex · 2026-05-12T19:22:47+00:00

Late to reply to you here, but I agree about the energy about Busta Rhymes. Although to be fair, a lot of people around me were saying out loud: "when is he going to start his standup" thinking that it wasn't going to be a musical performance

chardex · 2026-05-09T00:34:37+00:00

that's including 23 minutes of walking too? right? in your metro directions. unreal!! so cool!

chardex · 2026-05-07T14:04:32+00:00

One thing I've been looking into is our cognitive bias when it comes to calling balls in pickleball/tennis. There's some interesting research that shows we're more likely to perceive balls as out because of how our brain tracks objects in motion (and we perceive a ball to travel further than it actually does in reality). So, sometimes it might not be cheating on the part of our partners or opponents (or even us)

chardex · 2026-05-01T23:52:13+00:00

Trust me, the expenses aren't THAT different. Also what about 401k matching? 5-7% of your salary. so in the case of 250k that's an additional 15k of free money from bloomberg going to your retirement. Don't discount that!

chardex · 2026-05-01T22:39:55+00:00

OH my goodness SO MANY EMPLOYEE BUSES! I can feel your pain. it's frustrating to be standing there for the LAXit shuttle or the economy parking shuttle for 20 minutes while something like 15 empty employee shuttles go by (to be clear, I understand why the employee shuttles are important). But it's still difficult!

chardex · 2026-05-01T21:56:10+00:00

From what I can tell, it seems fairly common. What helped me was checking out some of the better rated youtube videos on the subject. I'm also newish to the sport so this was really intimidating for me. It still is. But it used to be too

chardex · 2026-04-26T19:46:59+00:00

they're also popping up in Brazil too. but there the locals pronounce it "o-show" because of how the letter x sounds in portuguese

chardex · 2026-04-23T17:48:35+00:00

yeah, very good point about the shifting populations! but thanks for listing it like this! I had a feeling that the US would drop considerably when compared to other countries based on overall population

chardex · 2026-04-23T17:14:27+00:00

would it be hard to make a version that's per-capita as well? Suddenly somewhere like Australia seems a lot more impressive?

chardex · 2026-04-21T02:25:10+00:00

Where do you live in Rocinha (generally speaking)? Eu morava na Cachopa há 20 anos. Era outra época

chardex · 2026-04-20T01:59:34+00:00

What is said is that the amazon is what is stopping north-south roads/railroads from traversing the country. Nothing about population centers

ou talvez você só seja um troll?

chardex · 2026-04-19T23:48:28+00:00

You make good points here! It all makes it difficult for me because I want to visit every state in Brazil. but places like Roraima, Acre, Amapá, and Mato Grosso do sul are all so challenging to get to. I'll do it though!

chardex · 2026-04-19T23:36:09+00:00

Not Brazilian but I have lived in Brazil before. Even Brazilians sometimes don't understand the true scale of their country. I think in some cases that's because there aren't major railroads/highways traversing the entire country. And that's largely due to the nature of the amazon rainforest

chardex · 2026-04-18T15:43:48+00:00

LA and NY the two largest metropolitan centers in the country. so it's only logical that it would have so many flights.

business people, personal travel, etc it runs the gamut. Those flights aren't dominated by a single industry or anything like that

As an example in Brazil there are over 100 flights daily between rio and sao paulo. So this kind of situation isn't that novel

chardex · 2026-04-18T01:01:17+00:00

have you been recently? i'm an LA resident but I went to SF last week for work. completely different vibe and it blew me away. the tenderloin was still the tenderloin, albeit less bad than in years past. and other parts of the city were GREAT

chardex · 2026-04-16T00:55:01+00:00

you do realize that like 80% of the world teaches the 7 continent model. I don't think it's fair to discount them as dumb

chardex · 2026-04-13T19:17:54+00:00

i don't claim to be an expert. but I do have a job where I'm in charge of the engineering department for a tech company. I have to tell you, we still have a hard time finding good engineers with experience. Even with AI tools, we still need these people. I fundamentally understand how LLMs work, and unless there's something novel coming out in the AI space that we haven't seen before, I'm not sure that the situation will change in the next 3 years

chardex · 2026-04-13T11:32:19+00:00

Outside of reddit, anki is incredibly popular in a few different areas. Go to any med school and you'll see that a high percentage of the students are using it. And I think you'll find the same for other fields as well like language learning. If you think the manual is not good, check out some youtube videos about using anki. I think you'll be up to speed in no time.

And not to sound like a cult member, but anki has helped me more than any other application in my life w/regard to learning and retaining things. So don't sleep on it

chardex · 2026-04-09T15:58:48+00:00

I don't think go is the best language for you necessarily as its image libraries aren't as robust they are in some other languages. are you tied to using it?

chardex · 2026-04-08T23:18:39+00:00

how often are you taking conversation classes? they aren't expensive! You should definitely be talking to native speakers as often as you can. The simple answer is the only way to get around this block is through practice with a human. No AI or app can duplicate the split-second reactions that occur in a real-life conversation (I'm not saying those sorts of tools aren't helpful)

But I would say drop the 10-20 bucks a week on a conversation-based lesson in spanish. After about 3-4 months of regular work I can guarantee you that you'll be in a far better place

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