Ironlikebike

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by Ironlikebike 2y ago
In my last job, we observed ByteDance scraping TBs of OS testing data using the restful API that our OSS community front-end was using to serve it's CI result to the OSS community. The scraping was so relentless it was causing performa
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by Ironlikebike 3y ago
If you're a UK company (it's doable but) it can be a pain holding your bank account in dollars (which you'd want to do if your main customers are in the US and if you're paying your employees in dollars). Last I checked,
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by Ironlikebike 3y ago
Having had a mouse infestation at my cottage that took over a year to resolve, this would have been a great way to keep the critters out of and off the bedding during that time. I suspect for keeping guests and migrant workers in barns and
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by Ironlikebike 3y ago
For me it's really an intestinal gas issue that's forcing my stomach to compress, such that when I lay down, the acid makes way to my esophagus.
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by Ironlikebike 3y ago
I have a wealth of experiential data on this, validated as recently as this previous July over a two week period. Like clockwork, if I take my Vit D supplement in the evening (like before bed), I will have almost zero REM sleep and will wak
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by Ironlikebike 3y ago
I take Ibuprofen, and only when I can tell there is a problem (like when I've been up several times on preceding nights). It also seems correlated with junk food and alcohol. I generally have a very clean diet, and if I slip, I general
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by Ironlikebike 3y ago
Parent is correct. It might or might not be prostate, or my intestines putting pressure on my bladder.
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by Ironlikebike 3y ago
Indeed, when I have intestinal gas, it pushes my stomach 'up' and exposes my esophagus to the acid.
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by Ironlikebike 3y ago
I just use Ibuprofen when I know there's an issue. It's not ideal, but it works.
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by Ironlikebike 3y ago
Benadryl does nothing to me except kill my deep and REM sleep and leave me "sleeping" but conscious. I'm exhausted the next day. I only take cetrizine.
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by Ironlikebike 3y ago
I have always had insomnia and have to maintain very good sleep hygiene. Here's a few things I have found that help me get to sleep: - No exercise after 18:30/6:30pm - Absolutely avoid Vitamin D and Vitamin B supplements in the ev
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by Ironlikebike 3y ago
I was recruited directly out of a feeder school (University) for this company after focusing my undergrad course selection on operating system topics. Compared to twenty years ago, there are significantly fewer operating systems which means
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by Ironlikebike 3y ago
My experience has been the complete opposite. When I was in Uni I was required to take an assembly language course and was told it was foundational but I'd never use it in industry. Straight out of Uni in 2001, I became an operating sy
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by Ironlikebike 4y ago
> Time to get rid of people they don’t want, without them look bad since everybody is doing it, and also they’ll have an excuse if financial results aren’t very good. This is IBM's classic modus operandi. I worked there from 2001 -
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by Ironlikebike 4y ago
Metabolic syndrome isn't so simple. You can sugary calories in small doses throughout the day, lose weight (through caloric deficit), and still develop insulin resistance because your body is constantly saturated in insulin. The theory
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by Ironlikebike 4y ago
I recently read a book on managing forests "A Landowners Guide to Harvesting Your Woods" and one of the salient points in the book is the fact that the majority of woodlands in the northeast are now privately held, (relatively) sm
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by Ironlikebike 4y ago
Every new piece of paperwork that requires an additional face-to-face hand off or brings in a new entity provides another avenue for corruption to occur and a place for money to disappear. I've had employees (in Brazil) who don't
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by Ironlikebike 4y ago
> “I’m a person who doesn’t drink alcohol.” This is very interesting. I have gradually become this person because I don't tolerate alcohol well anymore and it doesn't bother me to say this to myself or anyone else. Yet on the o
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by Ironlikebike 4y ago
> Tip #6: Make new friends, cut back on the old ones I've been told this is one of the hardest parts, because those old friends are often the ones encouraging and reinforcing the addiction. Finding new friends can be hard, especiall
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by Ironlikebike 4y ago
My understanding is that payment processors find themselves enforcing the Overton Window lest they run afoul of present legal trends. There's a sliding scale on what is or is not acceptable for them to be facilitating and it changes co
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by Ironlikebike 4y ago
I'm curious what they're going to do, long term, about their use of PFAS (the alleged forever chemicals) in waterproofing. Apparently they've been trying to reduce usage or find alternatives, but the alternatives aren't
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by Ironlikebike 4y ago
> If the layoffs are NOT based off of performance, as the CEO says: Performance motivated layoffs are where a company decides they're going to do a reduction solely to cull underperformers (like what IBM has done historically with t
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by Ironlikebike 4y ago
> he's been able to climb up to a engineering manager in a shorter amount of time than I've been working as a SWE If you want to be an IC, don't short change your accomplishments. Eng Mgr is not a promotion from IC, it&#x2
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by Ironlikebike 4y ago
> Trees only have a finite lifespan. Even "wild" forests reach end of life stage and that's when responsible logging and forestry management can promote healthier forests. I absolutely agree with you. In the book "A L
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by Ironlikebike 4y ago
Letting a tree grow to complete maturity is a gamble. Many of the US's classic native tree species are under incredible stress (or nearly wiped out) due to the rapid spread of parasites and disease, e.g., oak wilt, emerald ash borer, D
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by Ironlikebike 4y ago
If it's hot in the kitchen (I ferment on the counter so I don't forget about the ferments), I ere on the side of caution and use quite a bit of salt. After a few days I taste the brine. It should be starting to sour. If it's
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by Ironlikebike 4y ago
"That knowledge about GitLab left a weird and confused taste in me. It gives me an impression, that is if a free tier user becomes inactive, they're no longer valuable for GitLab and can be treated as second-tier." GitLab has
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by Ironlikebike 4y ago
Just because they don't broadcast that they're doing it doesn't mean it's not happening. I think companies embrace moral relativism and attempt to stay within the Overton Window (or at most dabble near the edges). It&#x2
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by Ironlikebike 5y ago
Impostor-syndrome is very very normal (I'm 20+ years in the industry and still have it), so rest assured you're not alone. What's most important is that despite negative self-talk you're able to learn the ropes at the pa
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by Ironlikebike 5y ago
We did quite extensive digging into the ToS and there was nothing explicitly forbidden about what he had done and they refused to point to any rule he had violated in particular. If they've updated it, it must have been in the last 4-5

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