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by anthomtb 4y ago
Thank you for saying this. All I would add is that the sooner you acknowledge your genetic limitations the sooner you can start training within them. Maybe you won’t look like Schwarzenegger or Ronnie Coleman, but Brad Pitt in Fight Club is
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by anthomtb 4y ago
I have worked with a few folks who did stints with various 3 letter government agencies. My takeaway is that you get to do some very technically interesting and challenging work. But politics, both organizational and electoral, means your c
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by anthomtb 4y ago
I also like writing code in C both professionally and for personal projects. One thing I LOVE about C is the offline documentation for standard libraries. Beej’s guide to network programming is amazing but also reproducible with “man socket
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by anthomtb 4y ago
>Why would let you of a 10X engineer? Because you axed a 400 person division and at least a few of those folks were the mythical 10X-ers. >You'd have to be an idiot. Maybe. There are plenty of idiots in upper management with the
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by anthomtb 4y ago
Proper hand washing. The only good thing about the pandemic. I wonder how many colds I could have avoided by spending 20 seconds soaping up instead of 2.
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by anthomtb 4y ago
I was a cat nut in middle school. The four photos with cars? All guessed within 5 years. The one without a car? Off by 30 years.
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by anthomtb 4y ago
> Companies producing hardware or devices tend to think hardware-first This was my experience. I worked as a firmware developer for a company producing computer hardware. The attitude of management was “the product is perfect then firmwa
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by anthomtb 4y ago
Why does Cannonical stop with high school? Why not go all the way back to nappies/diapers? The questions write themselves: "Please indicate how frequently you cried between the ages of 1 and 2. Cries per day is the desired unit&qu
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by anthomtb 4y ago
The chances of someone being a foreign agent increases significantly if they are from a foreign country. Meaning if you have foreign friends there is a small but non-zero chance that they desire, for their home country, the sensitive inform
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by anthomtb 4y ago
A technical undergrad is definitely not the only path to employability. But it is a well-traveled and straightforward path.
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I think it would, assuming they want to work for an established tech company. They do not say what field their degree was in. If it is non-technical, even a hard science, getting an additional undergrad in an Engineering field would make th
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by anthomtb 4y ago
(Disclaimer: USA-centric advise) I advocate the formal education route here. Figure out the least expensive path to getting yourself a technical undergrad degree. Meaning a BS in Engineering or Computer Science, from an ABET-accredited univ
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by anthomtb 4y ago
Mid 30's, married, no kids here. My social life took a significant uptick midway through 2021, even compared to pre-pandemic. And I can attribute that to one factor: Weddings. Both my brother and one of my sports buddies got married in
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by anthomtb 4y ago
Vanity. Having lost significant body fat mid way through high school, I could not stand the idea of consuming a drug whose side effects included “the munchies”.
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by anthomtb 4y ago
The Art of Problem Solving : https://artofproblemsolving.com/store/book/aops-vol1 Yes, it is targeted towards middle and high school students. Yes, I read it and (more importantly) worked through most of the prob
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by anthomtb 4y ago
My first clearance interview, about 10 years ago, it was all going along just fine. I had the standard litany of "bad" things any early 20-something American guy gets into - a few mushroom trips, an alcohol ticket, friends from fo
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by anthomtb 4y ago
They would revoke your clearance. You would lose the job which required the clearance. And you would never get cleared again (source: happened to a now-former coworker).
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by anthomtb 4y ago
Hiring freezes are not really freezes. It is more like, "try extra hard to justify more headcount." Companies will always have some need for specialized skills and knowledge. Since you are a high achiever in an in-demand field, yo
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by anthomtb 4y ago
Is Microsoft laying off executives too? Or will this only affect the rank and file? IME, if the company does not let go of executives, they are just tagging along with their peer companies on the layoff train. If they do make cuts at the VP
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by anthomtb 4y ago
So...not correct. But how then, do you decide when to drop out? Trying to judge yourself based on the study habits of your peers strikes me an exercise in imperfect information. I would suggest talking to the professor who gave you "em
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> Research careers are not prizes or sinecures, they are positions of trust and responsibility. Scientists are paid for the value they are expected to produce, and if they produce less value than someone else would have in their position
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by anthomtb 4y ago
Nothing relieves a day at the keyboard like the smell of sawdust.
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by anthomtb 4y ago
Are you saying that if you remove the wall surface of an older house the studs would actually measure 2 inches by 4 inches and be made of something other than pine? How old of a house would have this type of framing?
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by anthomtb 4y ago
Along the same lines, adding bedrooms is basically free in terms of additional maintenance. Especially if you are not actively using them. All you will need to do is vacuum/sweep and dust in there once a month, maybe less often than th
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by anthomtb 4y ago
I am getting a ton of adverts for "Velma" when watching YouTube. My YouTube habit is exclusively mountain biking, woodworking and home improvement. I am not sure how targeted YouTube's advertising is but have come up with thr
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by anthomtb 4y ago
Did you miss the first sentence in the post? > If, like me, you struggled to understand the Fourier Transformation when you first learned about it No where does the author imply that he is teaching the Fourier Transform to someone who ha
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by anthomtb 4y ago
Trial and error. I wish I knew a way to find a good therapist without that process. But I do not. And unlike dentists, doctors, counter installers, pet sitters, window cleaners and most other services, folks will not fall over themselves
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by anthomtb 4y ago
> I got into self-help and meditation I know it can be expensive but consider a real live therapist alongside self help resources. Talking out your problems to an actual human, who is trained to listen, can provide the quantum leap neede
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by anthomtb 4y ago
The Sex Education aesthetic is explicitly inspired by John Hughes films: https://www.popbuzz.com/tv-film/sex-education/what-year-set-... I had to go down that rabbit hole after watching Sex Education and thinking
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by anthomtb 4y ago
Nitpicking but Lucent was an American company. A Bell Labs spin-off according to the wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucent . It merged with Alcatel (French indeed) but that was in 2006. Well after the rise of

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