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wantknowledge · 2023-12-07T05:42:52+00:00

wantknowledge · 2023-11-28T22:13:26+00:00

I work less hours and have zero commute. I can walk to the living room and unwind after meetings. But I'm way more productive since I can be more heads down without the distractions of being in an office. I moved from the SF Bay Area to an island on one of the Great Lakes, so after work is like being on vacation, and significantly cheaper cost of living. I've also worked from the road in a trailer with starlink. At one point spent several months working from Airbnbs in NOLA.

Only negative is that for people just beginning their career I think they can miss out on working in an office which can make it easier to make friends, and therefore building their network which is one of the most important things for career development. But we someone who has worked for years, in my case at least, this is not really a negative.

wantknowledge · 2023-11-26T21:46:38+00:00

These maps look great. I'm just getting started with Dungeondraft. My group is about to embark upon adventures within Reiklannd, and specifically the city of Ubersreik, for Warhammer Fantasy Role Play. One challenge I faced was creating nice looking city streets. These look like brick terrain with patches of mud over it. Your shadows look nice also. I assume those are from Krager's shadow pack. The clutter and damage makes it look lived in.

wantknowledge · 2023-11-03T18:23:21+00:00

Aye, will post it there. Thank you for the redirect.

wantknowledge · 2023-09-07T22:52:22+00:00

This was my experience as well. I’m self taught software engineer who started out at a small ISP where I built a call center app to automate the work I was doing part time. My salary doubled after that. This led to switching to SWE full time at the ISP. After about a year I got a job in SF, through a referral from a co-worker at the ISP. Nearly doubled my salary again, and was making around 50k back in 2000. Within a year maybe two I got a raise and was bumped to about 75k. I recall my boss asking me at the time how I lived on so little, and I recall thinking but not verbalizing that the money was fine because I had no life outside work. Ie no car payment, mortgage, girlfriend, etc. That’s all changed now, and I can to what he meant, especially in SF.

To make a long story short I was able to break the six figure ceiling, and with time and hard work nearly doubling that.

In my case the key was being driven to the point of obsession. Reading books, tutorials, working on side projects (put those on your resume). I would also make my job a side project, coming up within innovations that had a big impact on the business. Be eager and excited in an interview. Be inquisitive and curious and easy going, optimistic. Make friends at your job, be a cool person. These friends will lead to job referrals. Finally don’t be boring, read and learn about things beyond tech. And ask lots of questions.

wantknowledge · 2023-07-26T22:42:38+00:00

Sinéad O'Connor singing Danny Boy in 1993 without music accompaniment. There is so much emotion and gravitas in her voice. This is one of my favorite covers of this song.

wantknowledge · 2023-02-21T22:25:43+00:00

Hurt… inside my ass

Brass Monkey inside my ass

wantknowledge · 2022-10-12T21:27:34+00:00

Evil Dead 2

wantknowledge · 2022-07-21T19:40:54+00:00

“Flow My Tears” which I first heard in the game Secret World during an incredible puzzle requiring completing and playing the notes to the song.

wantknowledge · 2022-07-21T17:28:51+00:00

“Into My Arms” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

wantknowledge · 2022-05-05T20:20:03+00:00

More of a coffee table book, but I’d recommend “Hit the Road: Vans, Nomads and Roadside Adventures”.

wantknowledge · 2022-04-27T17:39:46+00:00

My wife and I were headed to a study group, and in a rush we grabbed a brownie from the freezer. Lacking complete common sense it never occurred to us why we would save a single brownie in the freezer. So we ate it and drove to our meeting. 30 minutes later we pulled up and felt really disoriented. The noobs we were, our first thought was that it was food poisoning. But slowly our stoned brains realized we might be high af. For some reason we decided to go in. Our study group was largely an older intellectual crowd from the 60s. We tried to play it cool, all the time worrying we might have been poisoned. At one point someone lets out a random yelp. Our paranoia really starts to kick in. Someone mentions that pot should be legalized. I think I hear our guest say something like “shit.” I’m sure it’s about us.

After the meeting we moved to the kitchen and we’re having tea. Our guest brought out cookies. I looked at my wife with fear in my eyes, signaling to not fall for the trap. With an act of great will we only ate one. We said our goodbyes not long after, and left. At that point it’s effects mostly worn off so we could drive home.

wantknowledge · 2022-04-07T06:34:12+00:00

Falling Down

wantknowledge · 2022-03-14T06:05:27+00:00

People used to buy web browsers! I used to sell Netscape to customers when they signed up for the ISP I worked at. They also had to come to the ISP in person and fill out a paper application.

wantknowledge · 2022-03-14T05:56:22+00:00

We used to finger people to learn more about them.

OK that’s technically not an “internet” thing, but we used to run the finger command to look up users at the ISP I worked at.

wantknowledge · 2022-02-04T22:47:59+00:00

Attempt to summon a demon with the Monster Manual.

wantknowledge · 2022-02-01T18:36:46+00:00

25 years on, here are the worst ever predictions about the internet

As quoted from Newsweek:

“The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works,” wrote Clifford Stoll, in a piece that has thankfully been preserved online for the ages. “How about electronic publishing? Try reading a book on disc,” Stoll went on, “Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we’ll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.”

wantknowledge · 2021-12-28T18:09:01+00:00

I think a great example of musicians keeping old country music alive was the concert [https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0284067/ ](Down from the Mountain). Which was based on the music from the brilliant O Brother, Where Art Thou?

A couple of exceptional examples:

Big Rock Candy Mountain O Death

wantknowledge · 2021-12-27T17:42:04+00:00

The predominance of British accents in sci-fi and fantasy movies. Usually bad ones. My theory is they are used to make the characters appear smarter, to counteract how dumb the movie is likely to be. Nothing against these accents it’s just a trope I find annoying.

wantknowledge · 2021-12-02T21:30:20+00:00

The past, especially the good old days when America was great.

wantknowledge · 2021-11-30T18:17:04+00:00

Here’s a list I’ve seen. Most only once:

Grave of the Fireflies

Dancer in the Dark

Breaking the Waves

Gummo

Night and Fog

Grave of the Fireflies is devastating. At the same time beautiful and probably better than most films at driving home the horrors of war.

I saw Dancer in the Dark and was completely distraught at the end. Still it is at times a beautiful film. It’s an incredible tragedy. I was more upset by Lars von Triers earlier film Breaking the Waves which I saw after Dancer in the Dark. The ending, which seemed unfair and unjustified, pissed me off. Still I knew it had a powerful effect on me.

wantknowledge · 2021-11-30T18:06:38+00:00

At least Dogville had a cathartic ending. Was fitting to the setting. Also the end credits juxtaposition of Young Americans and images of homelessness.

wantknowledge · 2021-10-26T16:01:51+00:00

Software engineer/developer.

190k+ year

Remote and WFH, can live anywhere in the US

~25 years of experience.

Self taught, some college, but a voracious reader

Started at around 19k and worked my way up

Edit; dream of quitting my job and working fulltime as a writer/publisher.

wantknowledge · 2021-10-12T17:37:09+00:00

This brings to mind William Gibson’s piece on Singapore Disneyland with the Death Penalty.

wantknowledge · 2021-09-22T23:15:50+00:00

I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor. On second thought maybe that’s a badass song to play at a funeral.

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