Mezzie

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by Mezzie 5y ago
I unironically feel like the best way to communicate with co-conspirators would be through snail mail, if you could put up with the delay. Oh, and don't forget to do all of this while not altering your normal habits at all, because sud
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Am I weird for thinking that sounds fun to do?
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Yeah, it's insane how quickly this changed. I'm 33 and I started programming as a child and that's very unusual in my age group/a bit older. I had a father who knew BASIC, the official HTML, CSS, and JS documentation, an
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Since they like Lego, could you get them into Roblox or Minecraft? MC you can teach them some basic comp sci/computer/tech things using red stone, and there's a peaceful option if you/your kids aren't into fighting
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by Mezzie 5y ago
This is why I rotate my social media/news consumption habits every couple of months. I go from right to left, select a particular bubble to wade into for a while. Then I stop. Switching up your bubbles on purpose makes you more aware o
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by Mezzie 5y ago
It's hard to know whether my experience or Tao's is more representative. There's selection bias going on with regards to people's conception of a typical child prodigy since people are going to be more aware of successfu
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I'm so glad this isn't just me.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Eh. It depends on the kid and their circumstances. I was a child prodigy (I'm a much less impressive adult), and since I was from a rural area with divorced parents without much time for me, I spent plenty of time in 'normal'
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Amazing provided people shut up. I'm also 5'3" so I'm comfortable in airline seats.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I never understood opting for music. MRIs are so loud; the last thing I want on top of it is competing noise. How is that not sheer cacophony?
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I get an MRI once a year and I frequently fall asleep because nothing puts me to sleep like mechanical white noise. It's kind of a problem because I try to move or jerk awake, which ruins the MRI. My MRIs take forever. I feel terrible
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I hope that the episodes are properly archived somewhere so that in the future when our emotions cool, we can examine this more objectively. Spotify may have the legal right to pull the episodes, but this clash has cultural significance and
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I work for a company that's related to politics and we use DW and the maps are so good for us. It's also great for non-tech savvy people; everybody at the company can use it, which frees up tech staff's time for other stuff.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Thank you for this. I often feel poorly about myself because I've created so little (especially since leaving school), but between 13 and 31 I didn't have financial stability or basic safety, and even now I'm a disabled perso
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I'd also put some video game art in this category. Translating art from the real world to the screen loses the awe, but art created for a digital environment can easily awe.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Disagree, as somebody who is both. (Albeit not AMAZING at either). Lots of art forms/media involve rules or creative restrictions. Off the top of my head at 10:30 in the morning, I can think of: - Sonnets/villanelles/other fo
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Ha, I had a very nerdy upbringing. My grandfather was obsessed with TVs and ran a side repair business, and then in turn my dad got into micro-computers and PCs. On my mom's side, we've got a bunch of engineers and sci-fi nerds.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I'm your polar inverse: I'm 33 but started coding when I was 4, I've just never worked as a developer (at least not on a team; I've done freelance), and I'm debating making the jump as inflation starts creeping up.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Can confirm; AOL is (sadly) still used. They're our fourth-largest mailbox provider by subscriber numbers.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I'm speaking from the POV of those who go into the trades. I'm from a very working-class/blue collar background, and most people who choose to be plumbers aren't choosing that over being a lawyer, doctor, or even a groce
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Have you noticed a difference depending on when they got into web development/whether they trained for it? One thing I'm noticing as I'm looking for tech jobs as a tech person who hasn't ever been a tech employee befor
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Also I'd say that it starts out pretty well and your earning potential increases quickly , which for a lot of people matters a lot. I'd echo what you say and say the trades can be great if you also have a talent for the business
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Those still aren't most Americans. Most Americans, well over 50%, will not see that kind of income at any point in their life.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Best hope you don't get sick. And nobody in your family gets sick or dies. That was my plan until I got MS at 26. Oh, and hopefully everything progresses as you foresee. For example, I chose a college (back in 2006) and borrowed 2k my
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by Mezzie 5y ago
> It seems to me like in the past there were a lot more entrepreneurs and technical people with significant seniority. It feels like the age of the crowd is much younger now, and let's be blunt... there are reasons that stereotypes
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by Mezzie 5y ago
> Now it seems that more of the contrarian (and even mainstream) takes are just repeating talking points. This is the main thing to me. If someone disagreed with me here 15 years ago (I wish I still remembered the account, but oh well),
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I think that those of us who put substantial effort into tech and tech-adjacent things before we were 18 are another group entirely. We cheated and put in the time before we realized this was supposed to be difficult. I also think that (d
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I work in communications and I thought it was hilarious.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Oh, there's a reason that I said 'recommended' past tense. ;)
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by Mezzie 5y ago
> Maybe when RMS said it, he set an age in his mind of some precocious post-pubescent teenager. As somebody who recently had to go back and reread a lot of rms related discourse after several years not thinking about him, I think it&#x27

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