I did a few flights in college but never got my license because there wasn’t an instructor light enough to meet weight requirements with me lol. Do you have yours? If so, how long did it take you?
I did it back in college too. We had a great club that really catered to students. It was $ 14 for a 2000 ft tow, and $99/yr for a membership, that included all glider rental for the lower performance ships (Schweizers). The instructors were volunteers, but you had to wait. There was a signup sheet, and the first one to get to the field got the first flight.
Weight wise I was skinny back then and it wasn’t a problem. I soloed my first full year and got my license the next year.
I had watched the first half of it a couple weeks ago and it does indeed sound pretty interesting. WiFi HaLow is a long distance capable variant of WiFi and Reticulum is a mesh network protocol.
If I had more people buying into MeshCore, I might push it to doing something like this, but at the moment I think this sort of setup is beyond anything more than just some simple testing in my case.
“By 2018, several Y.C. partners were so frustrated with Altman’s behavior that they approached Graham to complain. Graham and Jessica Livingston, his wife and a Y.C. founder, apparently had a frank conversation with Altman. Afterward, Graham started telling people that although Altman had agreed to leave the company, he was resisting in practice”
You can subtly see residue of this frustration in Dalton and Michael’s videos when Sam Altman comes up. It’s only thinly veiled that Sam was a snake while at YC.
No. I figured it was almost completely if not completely about OpenAI. These things tend to be quite lengthy and I do not have an hour to devote to reading things that don’t directly impact me or my family of profession these days.
The author mentioned they’ve been self-employed for 15 years, then proceeds to make a bunch of claims about traditional employment, like being “your professional development being structurally supported,” but it’s important to remember the variance in normal employment, too.
When you’re valuable in a certain position at a company, trying to grow beyond it is like swimming upstream in a raging current. The pigeonholing that happens when you work for a big company is not to be underestimated.
I was about to say something similar. It may be true that the ideal image of the entrepreneur is the exception rather than the typical for the self-employed, but I would say the same for the image the author paints of the career employee. For every self-actualized employee with an enriching network, meaningful work, and supportive surroundings there are many more who are just trying to make ends meet in a meaningless, toxic, soul-sucking environment. The grass is very much greener on the other side...
As a counterpoint to the negativity in here. I purchased one of Angela Yu's basic webdev courses a couple years back and it springboarded my coding ability. I left it rather quickly to just build random stuff I wanted, but still, it was the spark.
Angela Yu course is good, told my brother about it and he had hard time figuring some stuff out cause some pieces were outdated (he has zero experience)
Same here; I've gotten a lot of utility from Udemy. Actually kind of got me a job (tbf, the manager I'd known for years and he'd've hired me regardless, but I was able to actually DO the job he wanted me to do basically day 0, even when he was willing to hire me and let me learn as I went).
There's some crap there; I've returned a couple courses not to my liking, but by and large I've been happy with them.
No there aren't. There are not billions of people motivated for the total elimination of all advertisements everywhere. The vast majority of humans do not care one way or another, and most of those who dislike advertising probably wouldn't support banning them entirely.
> The vast majority of humans are not benefiting from it and are therefore motivated against it.
The vast majority of humans do not benefit from you, personally, owning a car, but that doesn't mean we're all motivated to call a towing company to your house.
You must own shares in Google. The vast majority of humans are motivated against inequality. Advertising creates a larger wealth gap. The fact that you're annoyed by me says a lot more about the type of person you are than anything else. And no I'm not "trolling". Grow up and reconsider your insane position.
The vast majority of humans don't consider advertisement to be as fundamental a form of inequality as you seem to.
The fact that you can't comprehend my disagreement in good faith demonstrates that there's no point in continuing this conversation. No, I don't own shares in Google, nor am I insane. I think you're the one who needs to broaden their horizons a bit. Good day.
I think, if given the conscious choice, people would choose to not have ads as they are now. The point is, that choice is not given, and most people don't know how to eliminate them from their lives, or that they even have a choice
A lot happens in the world because people are passive, or prioritize their attention on other things, not that they are "okay" with it. If it was made easy for them, they'd choose it.
Lobbying ensures such choices are taken away from people, outside of the envelop of actionability by most people.
My wife also likes ads. It drives me crazy. Half of the time she’s on instagram, she’s paging through ads. At least we have agreed to minimize our children’s exposure to ads. For example if there’s an educational show only on YouTube I will download it and they watch it offline. We will never buy a kitchen appliance with ads on it.
Back in the day, I chose to buy the Kindle with ads to save a few dollars. (I think it was $10 cheaper; looks like it's $20 now[0].) I 100% found this a worthwhile trade-off, and so did thousands of other consumers.
Sure, in much the same was as lack of food spoilage an upside, not the big metal box I put the food in. But since one is a direct result of the other, we typically treat it as an upside of the thing causing the upside.
To me, the kind of speed that matters is maximizing the rate that your idea/product/work contacts reality. This is only indirectly explained in point 2 at the bottom of this post.
Indiscriminately espousing raw speed for every step is a perfect recipe for burnout.
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