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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
"But what I've found is that a lot of the toxic positivity types still hold a lot of negative emotion. However they can't express it without some justification. That justification usually comes in the form of attacking someon
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
Are you referring to smarm specifically? I don't really believe there is such a thing as toxic kindness when that kindness is genuine. Smarm, on the other hand, is disingenuous by definition and can be extremelly toxic.
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
I have a couple of years on the author, but he's right. I think it's similar to what happens on reddit or any community that seems to attract the "my IQ is north of 125 and I know it" crowd. I'm guilty of generating
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
I prefer to think of it as "express your contradictory opinion only if you're absolutely sure this is the hill you want to die on." ... Most of the time it's not such a hill.
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
Then it sounds like she's found balance in her career. She also has several valuable skill sets she can leverage to attain another position if her current employer does not adequately value her contributions. It's hard to argue a
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
A chance to hone her soft-skills while becoming a more productive engineer. It does a lot more good for her career prospects than doing the bare minimum and relegating her scope to code monkey.
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
Been a software engineer for about 5 years now. One of the best roles I ever had for my professional development was as a sales engineer. Working in a different role at a MAMAA now with less customer interaction. Yet, learning soft skills l
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
"Any pressure I've had to lose weight or whatnot has come from me. All female partners have said that they don't care about my weight, and some actually like some belly to rest on." Same. I work out as a hobby and for ps
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
I support the jobs the methane will provide
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
"I think that for platforms like Twitter and Facebook, perhaps it may make more sense to end up a situation more like newspapers, where you have more reputable papers like the NYT, WaPo, and WSJ that have stricter rules, and then you
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
Then came the internet echo chambers and that authority shifted.
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
Manipulators tell you how special, wonderful, deserving and smart you are. The socially conscious tell you how weak, falliable, unspecial and prone to folly you are. The socially conscious have a really, really tough sell. At worst it becom
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
"But what if at some point they decide to be as "open" as OpenAI (ie., not)?" Aisde from some of the academics and the "gain and share knowledge for knowledge's sake" types they hire why would they care? F
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
"I’m hoping for the best, too, but let’s not continue the tradition we’ve had during the pandemic of saying “you’re worrying too much” and being wrong." The problem is anything that works will always look like an overreaction. But
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
Hehe, nice. \m/
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
"We're trying to avoid that hell here, and you pushed this thread straight into it." Was it I who pushed this thread into a flame war or the other commenters? I only intended to point out that education, by its nature, change
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
"An idea only worthy of medieval scholasticism." If that were so there wouldn't need to be education in the first place. Change comes kit and parcel with learning and experience. Just learning _how to learn_ to truly grasp ar
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
Yep. Because an array is an object which has a 'truthy' value '![]' evaluates as 'false'. Simplifies to a statement similar to 'false == false'. A little useless arcana for those interested. Well, not
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
Say what you will about JavaScript... I use it constantly not because it's well-designed but because TINA (there is no alternative). [] == ![]; // true. Go ahead. Run it in your console...
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
"Everyone laughing at PHP hasn't tried it for years, I'd bet." God I wish that was true... It's not that the language is necessarrily bad. It's the sludge of legacy code I've had to deal with and teams tre
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
"PhD's with sales skills..." Sounds expensive.
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
"Helicopter Ben" I think you mean Papa Jerome "Money Printer goes BRRRRR..." Powell. At least Bernake had a cap on the balance sheet...
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
"Given that Japan is mysteriously inflation-proof, why doesn’t the government take advantage of that by monetizing the debt?" It incentivizes moral hazard along with policies that could trigger hyperinflation or inefficent allocat
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
Good read. This is from 2008 and hindsight is 20/20 but theres a couple of disturbing omissions that have started making themselves apparent. The piece emphasizes how all of this "cogitive surplus" is going to promote sharing
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
"When is that coin coming our way?" My guess is around the time central banks start issuing it.
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
Won't somebody PLEASE think for the children!
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
"... I am strongly convinced that the current society-wide policy of treating university education as expensive vocational training is a horrible and costly mistake whose main function for the overwhelming majority of students right no
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
"freed from vim." ... Does not compute.
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by 0x4d464d48 5y ago
"That gives the team a sense that it’s a process that is evolving to meet their specific needs, rather than evolving to meet a dogma." In my experience the most dogmatic organzations tend to just cargo cult their methodology. Ther

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