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by Psychlist 6y ago
A small, flat-bottom, glass-wall kettle. That way people who always fill the thing completely aren't being as grossly wasteful as they might be. The glass wall helps other types see exactly how much water they need. The flat bottom mea
92.
by Psychlist 6y ago
Buy a week or maybe two worth of "outfits" and hang them in sets. That way you can wear something slightly different every day without having to think about it. This is especially so for women, but even for guys those subtle signs
93.
by Psychlist 6y ago
Rice cooker is hard to overstate for me. Aside from the obvious use in sterilising covid masks, I eat a lot of rice and use it as a slow cooker as well. Used with a mechanical timer I can set it to soak rice for a few hours and have it cook
94.
by Psychlist 6y ago
100x this. First correct, then make it shiny if necessary.
95.
by Psychlist 6y ago
you say 'frozen" but I think you mean "stolen". When someone offers to forward money to me in exchange for a small fee, we sign a contract, then they keep all the money that's at best fraud but in reality theft. Now
96.
by Psychlist 6y ago
You refuse to use https and only visit sites that still support http-only viewing?
97.
by Psychlist 6y ago
You mean like ThePirateBay does?
98.
by Psychlist 6y ago
Next time you're in a bar try explaining to the bouncer that they should be killed, violently, right now. I suspect you'll find out that whatever free speech rights your local jurisdiction grants you don't allow you to stay i
99.
by Psychlist 6y ago
Yes, if that's what it takes. Flip it around: Imagine you have a tattoo. You're publishing the one tattoo therefore "free speech" means you have to publish all the tattoos? Should you be obliged to allow a big "Ki
100.
by Psychlist 6y ago
Interesting. I immediately thought of ligatures to generate variation but hadn't clued that the common ones would be obviously similar. As someone who can't repeat my own signature the same way twice a handwritten font is somethin
101.
by Psychlist 6y ago
Except for all the Samsung devices that don't, of course. Mine periodically says "security update available", I click "install", it says "install failed" and that's the end of that. There appears to b
102.
by Psychlist 6y ago
Panasonic 12V battery drill from the days when NiMH batteries were a new exciting upgrade! Form factor the same and I could use the new batteries in my old drill. But when that drill started to fail I cut the handle/battery mount off t
103.
by Psychlist 6y ago
For people who write code rather than novels it would be really handy to see a corpus from github or somewhere.
104.
by Psychlist 6y ago
I'm cheap so I have multiple small SSDs rather than a single 8TB+ one. The OS lives on an NVMe SSD which has not much else on it. Largely because my "home" directory is actually a toilet where every misbehaving application du
105.
by Psychlist 6y ago
One IDE I used likes to dump hundreds of megabytes of binary crud in there, with names suggesting it's an actual copy of the IDE rather than anything useful. Run two or three configurations of the IDE and goodbye at least a gigabyte. I
106.
by Psychlist 6y ago
Multiple 4k monitors help, but IMO the limitation really is "all the code can be displayed at the same time".
107.
by Psychlist 6y ago
We have a Labview program for our circuit board tester and it is a bit of a nightmare. At least with visual coding it is obvious, literal "spaghetti code". My only experience with Labview was in another job writing a DLL that it c
108.
by Psychlist 7y ago
> salary, and quality of life I like to calculate dollars per hour worked when comparing roles, and I use a fairly generous overtime multiplier (ie, 35 hours a week base, then time and a half for the next 10 hours, then double time the n
109.
by Psychlist 7y ago
> the only surefire way to hire is to bring people on temporarily and evaluate their performance in 1-3 months In countries that have decent leave policies this might be possible for people who have jobs, but it would be expensive then a
110.
by Psychlist 7y ago
I've had that advice myself. and they were right. Once my resume and application was cleaned up I found better jobs.
111.
by Psychlist 7y ago
I've had very similar experiences with Delphi, Jade and embedded C developer interviews. It makes me wonder why other companies don't actually care whether I can write new code, only whether I can replay algorithms. When interview
112.
by Psychlist 7y ago
Ah, so it's pretty much useless unless you need access to them right now and have the time to spend. Useful to know, if annoying.
113.
by Psychlist 7y ago
Is there a way to search just for things that are actually downloadable? My first 20 choices are not and it's getting a bit boring.
114.
by Psychlist 7y ago
I suck at those interviews but here's a few real life job situations I've been in: - sitting at my desk with the board of directors on speakerphone. They asked questions, I wrote SQL to find answers, while they tried to come up wi
115.
by Psychlist 7y ago
What you do sounds like a reasonable interpretation of top grading. It's also what I'm used to, largely. Where it gets tricky is with people like who are older and have "done interesting things". I did short contracts fo
116.
by Psychlist 7y ago
What worked for me, after my boss just put up a stock ad and got hundreds of replies then decided that they couldn't cope and handed the problem to me. First spam all the applicants and say terribly sorry there's been a transition
117.
by Psychlist 7y ago
Grr! That's how you should be interviewed, but then they fscked it up at the end. How frustrating.
118.
by Psychlist 7y ago
This is part of the reason why I've only consulted into big companies, and only briefly. It's not just that I am not that sort of person, it's that I don't like being around that sort of person. Software engineering is a
119.
by Psychlist 7y ago
In Australia and Aotearoa there seems to be a solid correlation. I've worked with a few mediocre degree holders and possibly one competent non-degree holder. But I've experienced the opposite as a matter of course (not that I assu
120.
by Psychlist 7y ago
I kind of agree, and the overall thrust is right. But a degree is a useful shortcut in many cases. Or maybe I've just not worked with any non-degreed experts yet. The trouble is that when those points aren't true they can be disas

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