Aromasin

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by Aromasin 7y ago
One of my close friends joined the team as a programmer not long ago, and he's said that since then the team has grown massively. Say what you will about their way of investment (ridiculously overpriced ships and whales throwing ten&#x
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by Aromasin 7y ago
I've played all his games and they're all fantastic. EXAPUNKS is probably my second favourite, but I'm an EE engineer so SHENZEN I/O is especially satisfying to me. Zachtronics games are my vice. As a recovering self-con
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by Aromasin 7y ago
SHENZEN IO was my favourite by a mile. Although looking through a datasheet half-written in Mandarin to understand what was going on, at 2am, to then go into work at 6am and look through more datasheets half-written in Mandarin - well, I sw
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by Aromasin 7y ago
Not OP but from my experience with government workers in the UK, who routinely work the same job from leaving school until retirement, their time spent there seems to be inversely proportional to the quality and quantity of their work. If I
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by Aromasin 8y ago
And yet Hammond thought it was quite appropriate to recently raise the 40% tax cut-off to £50k [1] giving an average increase of £390 a year to that bracket, a 1% cut in corporate tax [2], and all the while overall funding for the police ha
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by Aromasin 8y ago
I did call through 101. I was only roughly summarising what they said. I asked if they would come around to inspect the damage and I think the exact reply was something along the lines of "Unfortunately we can only do police call outs
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by Aromasin 8y ago
Now I just get unsolicited dick picks via Apple AirDrop.
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by Aromasin 8y ago
They won't even investigate if you've lost something now. I had my shed recently broken into, and multiple tools stolen. Their response was "This isn't an emergency. We don't have the resources to follow this up. I
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by Aromasin 8y ago
But how are you meant to fight off bandits with your sword arm if you're travelling on the right hand side of the road?! Utterly irresponsible. /s
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by Aromasin 8y ago
This seems like an American phenomenon. I'm planning on handing in a notice soon, and from asking around it seems like 4 weeks minimum is the standard in the UK. A 2 weeks notice only happens when you leave on really unfriendly terms.
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by Aromasin 8y ago
I think in part it's due to very few native English speakers being multi-lingual. Rudely correcting someone on their second-language is a faux-pas for most people in the UK. From my experience, people will try to be helpful and constru
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by Aromasin 8y ago
Guess all this data gets shafted if you live in the UK but drive a left-hand side vehicle though!
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by Aromasin 8y ago
My attitude is, do everything I can and take personal responsibility for everything I do. If in 50 years we've reached the tipping point, at least I won't be filled with regret of things I could have done differently. Blaming corp
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by Aromasin 8y ago
You've really wandered onto the wrong website if you don't like academics. At least as far as the UK is concerned, in my time in the Aerospace Defence industry every single person I've worked with has been an academic in some
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by Aromasin 8y ago
Losing 5-9% of a species genetic stock is still a massive loss in my eyes, no matter what way you look at it.
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by Aromasin 8y ago
Unfortunately I think the people that will suffer most from mass-automation still don't believe that their job can be automated. Speaking to taxi drivers, to them it's a foreign concept sometimes spoke about briefly in the news th
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by Aromasin 8y ago
Honestly it varies massively - I play it by ear, as it's normally interrupted by going out to dinner with friends or dates. I fast once every 10 days minimum (arbitrary number, but it keeps me disciplined). If I've had a few weeks
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by Aromasin 8y ago
My parents, baby boomers themselves, are starting to see the effects of this. Funeral after funeral of friends and family dying in their early to late 60's - almost always due to heart disease, liver failure or some sort of cancer. Eve
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by Aromasin 8y ago
Submission rules: "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual c
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by Aromasin 8y ago
The unfortunate consequence is that there seems to be no sign of further breeding after this point, despite the adult penguins surviving. I think they're insinuating that the catastrophe is on-going.
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by Aromasin 8y ago
Anecdotally I found my performance to - both in the gym and in the office - increase not decrease. From athletes and academics I follow on social media, they also say the same. I've read a few hypothesis as to why this may happen. In a
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by Aromasin 8y ago
I'd be interested to see if there's a study comparing inflammation in India to the West. Closest I've found is a study on rising rates of IBD there, I assume as they begin to adopt a Western diet [1]. [1] https://w
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by Aromasin 8y ago
I've been incredibly tempted to do an electricians apprenticeship, so it's cool to hear someone from an academic background that's actually done something similar and gone into a trade. My study was Electrical and Electronic
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by Aromasin 8y ago
They have a wonderful knack of appearing biased to Labour or Conservative, depending on whether you're Conservative or Labour supporter.
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by Aromasin 8y ago
I don't necessarily mean as a career path. More-so as an out-of-work hobby to keep me occupied. By buying a good domain name, that would probably give me the kick I need to do something with it!
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by Aromasin 8y ago
I also need to write it down, but not immediately upon hearing it per-se. I find that when I write, I often zone out and leave my muscle memory and a slight sub-consciousness to do the work - nothing actually goes in. If I just listen, it f
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by Aromasin 8y ago
Many of us did just that, and we had one classmate who recorded the lecture using a high-def camera to replay later, but all it took was one difficult to read segment and the notes became illegible. The lecturer also got incredibly aggravat
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by Aromasin 8y ago
I've been umming-and-ahhing over an entrepreneurial endeavour for a while now. I'm very tempted now to just go out there now and see if I can get a good domain name. Letting the domain make the business decision for me seems fun.
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by Aromasin 8y ago
Reminds me of the Japanese idea of 'Ikigai' [1]. Basically what you describe - most careers end up fulfilling you in one way, but leave you devoid in another. [1] http://theviewinside.me/what-is-your-ikigai/
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by Aromasin 8y ago
I know many people from various cities around Europe that would quite happily jump ship to an American city if given the opportunity (at least, prior to number 45). I think it's more of a 'the grass is always greener' situati

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