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by 2devnull 3y ago
Is there evidence that stress can occur and not lead to a vicious cycle of inflammation and autoimmune disease? I am a big fan of Mate, but I think his ideas are oversold if not by him then by many he has “helped”.
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by 2devnull 3y ago
Ah, well that settles that. /s
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by 2devnull 3y ago
No offense but you sort of prove the parent’s point. People who work on computers professionally but don’t use open source because “it’s too complicated to get going” are making an error. Adobe’s UX being addictive is the point.
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by 2devnull 3y ago
What you’re referring to has a name, the Executive Branch. The problem with accountability is that people are misinformed.
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by 2devnull 3y ago
When I used to hear people ask those kinds of questions I just assumed they had learning disabilities of some sort. I never really felt “held back” by other students as much as by the curriculum or by ability grouping or the large class siz
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by 2devnull 3y ago
I think you’re right. I’d just love better data. I used to do the typical Silicon Valley commute and arrive at work unable to focus for an hour or two because mode switching so quickly know it’s a thing. What I wonder about is why is it mor
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by 2devnull 3y ago
“was not paying attention and nothing to do with their intelligence” You might be surprised to learn that people with an iq of 80 have a hard time paying attention to much of anything. My point was not to quibble over the likelihood of a cl
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by 2devnull 3y ago
// this code looks wrong but was mandated by the pm in the 3/3/22 memo. I do not endorse
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by 2devnull 3y ago
Metaprogramming can do the opposite: make obscure, complicated and lengthy code much more readable and easier to maintain. It’s clear when it does this. Agree that “clever code” is silly but also important to remember that people need to en
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by 2devnull 3y ago
The 4 reasons all boil down to reason #3, money. “Coffee is for closers.”
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by 2devnull 3y ago
It’s all relative. In a class full of high iq (>150) people, many questions would be seen as dumb that wouldn’t be seen as dumb by a class full of people with learning disabilities. The spectrum is wide. Everything alas is dumb. Never as
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by 2devnull 3y ago
I agree but would also note that your proof isn’t very fullproof. You can pull 4 students and send them to a tutor under any condition, and those students will come out ahead. You prove only that a teacher with a 4 person classroom of stude
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by 2devnull 3y ago
Being away from a bad family environment and around non-threatening people for a few hours every day is a huge benefit to many people. But there are also good families, where children thrive and can learn well remotely or through homeschool
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by 2devnull 3y ago
If reviews “have some signal” then wouldn’t it be more clever to learn to make use of that signal rather than dismiss as entirely worthless?
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by 2devnull 3y ago
He can’t even say that.
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by 2devnull 3y ago
Meetup is an example. There are many.
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by 2devnull 3y ago
Are you Microsoft?
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by 2devnull 3y ago
Expectation management. Be predictable in your output even if it means being a bit worse on average. If you occasionally perform miracles, don’t be surprised when people show up asking for more miracles.
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by 2devnull 3y ago
“you are a bad programmer” There it is: the false dichotomy of “good” vs “bad” programmers. No, programmers exist on a multidimensional spectrum and performance is contextual.
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by 2devnull 3y ago
You are judging yourself and others in the wrong way and have bought into the falsehood that people are good or bad based on performance. You therefore take criticism as a threat to your virtue. Don’t judge yourself or others by performance
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by 2devnull 3y ago
“Apple probably made tech cool for normies” It felt like that, but I suspect it’s not really true.
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by 2devnull 3y ago
I’ve learned from gpt. Did it teach me? In the same way books teach me things, yes, it did. I could have learned the same things on my own with much more reading, but you don’t always know what to read when working on a problem. Gpt has r
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by 2devnull 3y ago
Tech companies have (historically) optimized on talent acquisition and therefore have to listen to, and appear to take seriously, the wishes of labor. Other industries don’t cater to the demands of labor. Everyone is replaceable, but not so
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by 2devnull 3y ago
Current readers. But the core readership from say 15 years ago?
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by 2devnull 3y ago
Right. Schools will become more like tech job interviews. Let’s be frank, that’s what higher education is anyway. An employment filter. So students will white board their term papers and do other absurdities totally removed from any actual
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by 2devnull 3y ago
My theory is that many “educated” people were never taught to write properly. Gpt is teaching people what they should have learned in grade school: how to write clearly.
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by 2devnull 3y ago
If it weren’t for gpt all we’d be talking about is layoffs so thank you very much i’ll take ridiculous ai talk over the alternative.
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by 2devnull 3y ago
“and then they randomly drive straight into a highway divider at full speed on a clear day with no traffic” If you don’t think this is a difference in degree rather than kind, you probably overestimate human reliability or underestimate mac
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by 2devnull 3y ago
I like the idea that DFW is such a good writer that his words cause death. That would be a great plot device.
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by 2devnull 3y ago
I might be moving to Montana soon.

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