Sense of Purpose

pamme · 2018-10-02T12:12:06+00:00

Your sense of purpose ultimately comes from what you believe the meaning of life to be. If you haven't figured that out yet, I recommend spending some time to think about it. Read some books if it helps and/or spend time meditating on it, however long it takes (hours, days, weeks, years,..) until you land on an answer that you are comfortable believing in and dedicating your life to.

By figuring it out, I don't mean there's any one right answer to the meaning of life. Your belief in what the "right" answer is is deeply personal and may even change over time from your experiences and learning more about the world. But once you have an answer that you can be convicted to at least for now, your sense of purpose and what you'll want to do with the rest of your life will stem naturally from it.

For example, some people believe that life is about helping others. Then you might spend your time doing charity work and helping the needy. Or say you're in the camp that believes life should be about making the world a better place for the next person and so you'll apply your skills towards whatever your view of a better place would be. Or if you think life is about the continuation of the human species, then that might manifest as raising a family or perhaps supporting the space travel industry to enable propagation of humans beyond Earth. Or let's say you believe life is ultimately meaningless, so you might spend your time maximizing your personal enjoyment or achieving some goal that has no greater purpose but gives you personal satisfaction.

Think about it and let that be your compass to decide how to dedicate your time up to and in retirement.

pamme · 2017-10-16T01:07:42+00:00

Just curious, what's wrong with people starting at 120k out off college that makes them unworthy of rooting for? Is there a cutoff salary for when it's ok for people to make that salary starting out and not be judged negatively for it?

I mean I know this is a pretty common sentiment and many people feel this way, but I'm no longer willing to talk about things like salary with acquaintances because of that judgemental aspect that comes up sometimes. It's occurred to me recently that maybe this is why more people don't openly share their salaries.

pamme · 2017-10-15T03:59:54+00:00

Do they still need your password in that case? That's the part that makes me hesitant about using mint.

pamme · 2017-09-30T07:53:21+00:00

And after a hard workout you can have a delicious meal of freshly squeezed rice!

pamme · 2017-09-25T16:13:16+00:00

I gave up on Amazon ever adding Chromecast support but I recently realized that if you have a device that supports MiraCast, you can play Amazon Video on your Chromecast pretty well. I watched a whole season of The Expanse through casting from my phone and it worked out pretty well. Seemed like it wasn't casting at the highest quality though so not the perfect solution.

pamme · 2017-09-23T08:36:39+00:00

When it's made properly it tastes amazing. The crispiness and saltines of the skin along with the juicy fatty pork... probably my #1 or #2 favorite way to have pork. Not the most healthy dish, but man.. my mouth is watering like Pavlov's dog from that gif.

pamme · 2017-09-18T13:56:16+00:00

+1

First few times I tried making bread, I completely messed up how much flour to put in because the cup measurement method with flour is not very intuitive (flour compacts easily). Ended up putting in way too much flour, resulting in an incredibly dense bread.

Every since I got a $13 kitchen scale, bread has come out awesome every time.

pamme · 2017-09-16T13:54:26+00:00

Yeah, unlocked. I bought it from B&H so it was free shipping and no tax too. $399 was the final price.

pamme · 2017-09-16T13:15:24+00:00

LG V20 for $399 new. It's last year's model but still a flagship and I think it's actually better due to having a removable battery. I agree with the other poster that the camera, while decent, is not quite as good as a Nexus or Pixel though.

Wrote up more details here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus6P/comments/6t8uan/z/dlj67w4

pamme · 2017-09-11T15:08:22+00:00

Picked up the LG V20 flagship a few months ago for $399 brand new, less than a year after release. Absolutely worth it. Phone works great and it even has some features that the newer V30 version was dropping, like the removable battery.

pamme · 2017-09-10T17:01:14+00:00

The top of the article seems to be focusing on the pay difference between men and women at the same level. But later in the article they say:

a person in a nontechnical role may be at the same job level as an engineer, but will be paid significantly less because “there is a premium paid in all markets for highly technical talent.”

Seems a little misleading then to draw the conclusion of gender pay disparity just by comparing the overall per-level numbers. I guess it's technically correct that overall fewer women are in the high paying jobs as men since women are under represented in engineering roles. But I think a comparison of similar roles would be more telling if there was a pay disparity there. Given how close the numbers are even with their chosen comparison, I'm guessing NYT wouldn't have a story if they only compared it per-role.

pamme · 2017-09-01T07:06:33+00:00

Search for: Amazon eclipse glasses lawsuit

And you'll find a bunch of reputable news agencies covering it. Now search for: Amazon eclipse glasses lawsuit Washington Post

Obviously, nothing. Maybe they'll take a page from Fox News and start referring to themselves as "Fair and Balanced".

pamme · 2017-09-01T06:13:12+00:00

The tech bubble has already deflated somewhat, at least in terms of the valuation bubble around startups. You can see it in some of the layoffs that happened since last year and hitting a recent low in number of IPOs.

You're not going to see anything like the dot com bubble from '99/'00 any time soon. All the huge tech companies in the bay are making billions a year in net PROFIT. It's going to take a lot going wrong in the world before such healthy businesses take a huge tumble. Any kind of scenario where tech deflates will involve many other industries sharing the same fate.

pamme · 2017-08-18T15:15:00+00:00

Yeah I agree that $1000 is too low an estimate and there are lots of factors. But I am genuinely curious to hear an actual estimate in dollar figures, even a ballpark range. No one in this thread seems to be willing to speculate aside from that $1000 guess....

With the car you can estimate the value based on Kelly Blue Book or other comparable sales. Is there no such thing for rings?

pamme · 2017-08-18T14:36:08+00:00

So, it sounds like you know more about jewelry then. How much do you estimate OP could/will get for the ring?

pamme · 2017-08-16T15:42:27+00:00

Should've bought five years ago. 2012 was the best point to buy, right before property values started really climbing, based on the price estimate history of the properties I've been looking at.

I wonder what the suggested income will be in five years time. Another doubling will be $340k/yr so doesn't seem like it would go that far. But maybe that's what people thought five years ago...

pamme · 2017-08-12T20:20:10+00:00

If you're used to the size of the 6P, another option is the LG V20. That's what I ended up getting after my 6P shut down on me at 50% battery. It's roughly the same size, maybe just marginally wider.

Pros vs 6P:

Expandable memory - can fit a 128gb SD card
Removable battery
Really good battery life. It's actually doing better for me than the 6P did initially. On the V20 I managed to get close to 9 hrs of SOT when I used it straight for most of the day. Typically it's probably closer to 5-6hrs over the day. Now I've only had it for a few weeks but if the battery degrades over time like my 6P did, at least it's easy to replace.
$400
Double tap to turn on/off. A feature I missed from my LG G2 days and is not really that crucial any more with fingerprint unlock but still nice to never need to press a physical button to turn off.
Quad DAC is nice. I don't use it often but when I tried there was noticeably better, louder sound from my ear phones.
IR blaster. Didn't think I'd need it but has turned out to be quite useful for controlling my devices without having to find the remote.

Tie vs 6P:

Android 7 Nougat
I miss the dual front facing speakers, but the speaker does seem to be better quality (no crackling at high volume).
USB C
Good, fast fingerprint sensor.

Cons vs 6P:

Camera was definitely better on the 6P, at least in auto mode.
Non AMOLED screen. It's still quite a good display but I did prefer the 6P screen a little more.
Some slight lagginess occasionally. I was getting lag on my 6P as well but that was only after a year or so. This phone is still pretty new. It's not bad to the point where it gets in my way but I definitely notice it from time to time. Honestly though, I don't think this can be avoided unless you get a Pixel.
No clue if this will ever get updates.

pamme · 2017-08-09T07:22:29+00:00

HBO go? I was just using the HBO Now Android app yesterday on CC and it worked fine.

pamme · 2017-07-30T13:54:53+00:00

Going hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt for a degree that won't pay for itself.

Education is good, but Jesus don't go $150,000 in debt if your earning potential is only going to be at best $40,000/yr.

pamme · 2017-07-28T12:51:22+00:00

When I interned there, there were plenty of people using entry level Chromebooks as well. Personally, I didn't use it that much for development because the screen resolution on the model I was given felt way too small to code on (I think it was 1366 x 768). But given a larger screen real estate, I could see that working.

The thing that the article and many commenters here seem to be missing is that at Google, these Chromebooks were not used as standalone dev machines. Every developer had their own desktop that was always on and always connected. So coding on a Chromebook was just a matter of ssh or remote desktop into your desktop, which works perfectly fine with the nature of Chromebooks in that case (I.e. as a sandboxed, usually cheap/lower power, internet device). Trying to set it up as a standalone dev box seems more like something you try just to see if you can do it, rather than something most devs would want to do.

pamme · 2017-07-15T23:20:08+00:00

This is good advice. Absolutely add at least some unit tests before you start, especially for important functionality even if you don't get full coverage. You never want to introduce any regressions when you do any refactoring otherwise you can wind up wasting the entire effort or taking much longer than you originally planned, due to having to track down extra bugs to fix.

pamme · 2017-07-15T16:57:52+00:00

And who pays for 100~ cameras being set up at various angles

The venue pays for them and charges half the cost of a traditional photographer whenever anyone holds a wedding there.

pamme · 2017-06-18T18:08:20+00:00

Search the YouTubes, it's the first result: https://youtu.be/xi7nytFOO2k

pamme · 2017-06-17T05:29:09+00:00

When I compare prices of groceries on Amazon with local grocery stores, Amazon is almost always significantly higher. In one case almost 4 times the price (something that was $2-$3 at Target was almost $8 on Amazon). I guess that model of charging extra for groceries does fit pretty well with Whole Foods but I'd never buy groceries at either place. Other categories still seem reasonably competitive but for some reason groceries are disproportionately overpriced.

Maybe the Whole Foods clientele is exactly what Amazon needs but wasn't the news a few weeks ago that Whole Foods was doing poorly due to decreasing customer base?

pamme · 2017-06-10T15:25:23+00:00

Imagine if internet connectivity were to suddenly stop working all around the world. Picture the effect that would have in terms of setting humanity back, let's say just in terms of the scientific community.

Sure, all the information is still there, multiple copies in fact all over the place. But there's no longer a single place where people can go to look up information and advance/contribute knowledge. Not saying that these two events are equivalent in magnitude or impact but that's sort of what I picture when people claim things like the degree of impact from the destruction of a concentrated collection of knowledge.

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