Afton

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by Afton 5y ago
Right?! 80 degrees and sunburns? No thanks, I'll take my 52 and overcast thank you very much. You think I live here by accident? I wonder what the internet provider is in Forks,WA...
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by Afton 5y ago
As a non-SF resident, doing useful research inspired by 'google the current DA' is pretty laborious. I found https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Chesa-Boudin-San-Fra... which seems sensible on the fa
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by Afton 5y ago
> It's only possible in jurisdictions where DAs and/or Mayors can get elected without an endorsement from law-enforcement, and look at SF for an example of what police do when one slips through the cracks. As someone who doesn&
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by Afton 5y ago
It's simple , it's not easy. > other people are eating less and losing weight. No, they're not, and that's my point. Look at smoking that you mention. Smoking was unbelievably common a few decades ago. It's now
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by Afton 5y ago
That last sentence "USA fat people are overall uninterested in being thin" is pretty tone deaf. I would say that they are fundamentally failing to achieve their goal. Many have given up since they've tried (however unsuccessf
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by Afton 5y ago
You think the answer to the headline is "no"?
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by Afton 5y ago
I think you have a narrow view of philosophy. Very little modern philosophy has anything to do with that kind of question.
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by Afton 5y ago
Haha, when I had been a software dev for a year, I interviewed at MS and they asked what my biggest success was. I said it was convincing an architect and 3 FTEs that they didn't need to spend 2 months on a 100% solution, given that we
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by Afton 5y ago
It's funny because while I don't consider myself "good at math", I'd always learned math by learning the fundamentals, and deriving what I need at exam time, since I find memorizing leads me to (a) go insane with bo
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by Afton 5y ago
There is no optimum number. There are optimum numbers for specific goals. List your goals, your hormonal and diet context, some genetic factors, and then people could propose optimal reps for you. Unfortunately, a lot of exercise studie
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by Afton 5y ago
This is one of those 'true but' statements. I think it's actively harmful to provide it to beginners who don't have the context to understand what that means. Vanishingly few beginners are running a routine long enough o
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by Afton 5y ago
Goals goals goals. The implicit assumption is that your goal is to develop something specific over time. You want to get stronger, you want to get bigger, you want to increase your endurance, for example. Since those specific goals are so
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by Afton 5y ago
Speaking for Microsoft in the 2010's: pretty hard. First you get pip'ed and have lots of uncomfortable discussions with your manager. You'll be encouraged to leave on your own. Eventually you'll be told to leave. They wa
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by Afton 5y ago
Meh. I had a friend go to Amazon. He loves it there, and he's an IC, not a psychopath, just a genuinely nice guy. He doesn't deny the stories we hear, they just don't happen to/near him. And of course, he's done ve
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by Afton 5y ago
That seems like a strawman. The complaint is that he described himself as a professional engineer while his license had expired. As in, during that period, he wasn't a licensed engineer, and therefore shouldn't have called himself
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by Afton 6y ago
Aren't you describing a Nissan Leaf? I can't really speak to the repairability, because even though I've had it 2 years, I haven't had to do anything but charge it. Oh, once I had to put more air in the tires. Great litt
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by Afton 6y ago
Yes. E.g. https://www.hss.edu/conditions_understanding-addiction-versu... Which makes you wonder how much drug use would be merely 'dependence' if we had free and easy access. I suspect it is a drug-by-drug case
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by Afton 6y ago
Another option is that you have one of a handful of atypical neurologies for which caffeine is a form of self-medication. Again, the problem is availability, and we've decided in this country (and most countries) that caffeine should b
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by Afton 6y ago
I feel that addictions are only a problem if they are a problem. As far as we can tell, non-crazy-quantity coffee drinking isn't bad for you, might be helpful for some things, and tastes delicious. The only downside is that I have to b
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by Afton 6y ago
Also Peter Watts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)
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by Afton 6y ago
I don't see how this is related. I subscribe simultaneously to 'qualia is a real problem' and 'free will is an incoherent term'. I think whether you think a perfect simulation of a person has subjective experiences
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by Afton 6y ago
Is this really how you view it? Like, you think that people are plotting how to induce scarcity in the market so that they will work harder? That doesn't seem like a useful framing of the problem.
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by Afton 6y ago
I do. Why am I wrong to advocate for them having pleasant conditions?
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by Afton 6y ago
> fish fMRI studies Link for those curious about this comment: (Neural Correlates of Interspecies Perspective Taking in the Post-Mortem Atlantic Salmon: An Argument For Proper Multiple Comparisons Correction)[ https://teenspeci
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by Afton 6y ago
Well, both, but they are fairly decoupled, just like for 'regular' software developers. Pay is based on willingness to move (and get that sweet, sweet signing bonus), and willingness to negotiate. Essentially: If you are an amazi
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by Afton 6y ago
Incidentally, I think being in QA and being a good engineer is a recipe for a very good career. A surprising number of QA software developers are... just not very good developers. Working with a good developer that just happens to specializ
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by Afton 6y ago
I think that there are fewer likely culprits than you might think. Most lifting coaches end up heavily relying on only a few cues per exercise, because there aren't that many common pathologies. So something like this could be useful i
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by Afton 6y ago
The comment you are replying to explicitly gives an example where compound movements weren't generating results, because of compensation by other muscles. This is the sort of thing a real trainer would provide (but a big-box 'trai
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by Afton 6y ago
My experience with buying quarters was 'so-so' enough that I stopped. Even when the meat was good enough, I found that I felt like I was being ripped off. There is just so much opportunity between the farmer and butcher to cheat
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by Afton 6y ago
Yup. This seems like the right spot to plug this excellent article that has made me many 10s of thousands of dollars over my career: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/ Good thing pa

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