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by actusual 4y ago
I think there is a large gap between "go solve this large engineering problem, how is up to you" and "here are pre-groomed tickets, do not deviate from them". Do you disagree?
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by actusual 4y ago
Accounting has a clear career path though...english doesn't. Unless things have dramatically changed since I graduated college.
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by actusual 4y ago
I was the other way. I knew exactly what I wanted to do, but my university had extremely competitive programs, so getting into the CS program was nearly impossible, even if you were already admitted to the university.
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by actusual 4y ago
> Very few people answer to no one and the rest get told what to do, all too often, throughout their lives. I don't know about this. I run a team of ML engineers, and the ones who require being told what to do in order to be product
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by actusual 4y ago
What do you mean they aren't being ridiculed? Biden's approval rating is literally worse than Trump's was -> https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/?...
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by actusual 4y ago
Additionally: - Use a python script to switch heating from my heat pump to my gas furnace when energy prices invert. - Have live monitoring of my HVAC pressure health so that my servo controlled actuators don't bork my system.
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by actusual 4y ago
Python would like a word...
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by actusual 4y ago
Nah, you're not. I just gave up on mine and have a schedule. I also turned off "pre-cooling" because it would just kick on at like 6pm to "cool" the house for bedtime. I also bought several temperature sensors to us
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by actusual 4y ago
This isn't completely true. What you're talking about are called "echo chambers" or "filter bubbles", and there are ways to make sure they don't negatively impact users. Additionally, studies have found th
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by actusual 4y ago
On an unrelated note, I wish that author's who aren't Gibson would write novels set in Night City. I love Gibson, but often find his stuff hard to follow, and would love an escapist level novel set in a Gibsonian setting.
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by actusual 4y ago
> And instead we're congratulating ourselves on building electric status symbols Isn't this how you drive change? You have to give people the desire to change before they can actually change...unless you think authoritarianism
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by actusual 4y ago
I'd actually go one step further and say that these ARE needs, if the goal is to live a fulfilling life that is worth bringing children into...and what are we if not tools for propagating the human race?
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by actusual 4y ago
Woof..."Smart" is a really charitable way of describing this. > Come up with a good headline. A big idea that hints that here is something your reader really, really wants (and can get from you). So many words for such a simple
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by actusual 4y ago
I'm confused about what you are trying to imply with your question. Either you are making an argument for "Netflix/AirBnB are considered tech companies, so why not WeWork?". Or you are saying that Netflix/AirBnB are
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by actusual 4y ago
> Progressive causes are near and dear to my heart. I am a feminist and staunch Democrat. As a federal public defender turned law professor, I have spent my career trying to make change in a criminal legal system that is riven with racis
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by actusual 5y ago
Sometimes I want to work in an office, therefore I don't value my "life outside" (whatever that means). What an odd conclusion to jump to...
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by actusual 5y ago
The measure of "harder to quit" actually takes into account more than ones physical ability to actually give something up, all else equal. Social acceptance, availability, the time horizon for negative health impacts, and money al
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by actusual 5y ago
Cool, why?
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by actusual 5y ago
666 cm
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by actusual 5y ago
> So tell me, what harm have I done to myself by sharing this information? This is irrelevant. The conditional probability of my willingness to post this information, given your willingness to post this information, is equal to the the p
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by actusual 5y ago
The QFC (Kroger owned grocery stores in the PNW) by me had to close early this past Sunday because it ran out of people to run the store. I had been there earlier in the afternoon and the site of bare shelves and lines as long as the entire
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by actusual 5y ago
and only 10 months ago...
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by actusual 5y ago
I'm curious now...got any source for you "Mafia in the USA runs health care and show girls" statement?
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by actusual 5y ago
Vile hatred? It's a joke website. Also, if you truly believe in a technology and its future, doesn't "everyone hating it" just widen the inefficiency gap for some folks to make a bunch of money on a technology they are c
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by actusual 5y ago
> By purchasing an NFT you have the right to say that you are the person that purchased that NFT. Tell me more....
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by actusual 5y ago
There is no such thing as "emotional addiction" or "physical addiction". There is addiction, and some substances have withdrawal symptoms when discontinued.
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by actusual 5y ago
Or that the culture surrounding them pushes people in that direction? I do shrooms with people who work in tech (just did them last Wednesday). We talked about the intersection of "intelligence" and "emotional vulnerability&q
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by actusual 5y ago
You are a civil servant, why are expecting outsized profit from running our country? Our current political climate attracts folks who are excited to become wealthy and famous from running our country, when we should want people who are exci
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by actusual 5y ago
Why can't I use the back button on this website? It just goes back to the same site. I've noticed this behavior across other websites lately as well, is this a new design thing?
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by actusual 5y ago
This is a really interesting point. While some "social media" hubs are much more toxic (think 8 chan), their reach is largely neutered because the upside just isn't there for the average citizen.

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