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by asark 7y ago
Powerpoint skills are where the money is, in large businesses that aren't FAANG. And probably even there, somewhat. I've come to this conclusion after seeing a lot of not-especially-smart-or-effective people-person folks with Powe
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by asark 7y ago
> My experience, though, is that it takes about 4-5 days for all the "noise" in your head to start fading away, and then, boom, it's over. ;-) I used to know someone from France who claimed that the French don't consi
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by asark 7y ago
> Was it mindful meditation? Not really. But the effects were the same or similar. I do have a suspicion that a not-small portion of the benefits of a meditation retreat is more about the retreating than the meditation. I'd probably
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by asark 7y ago
I think one kid improved my life quite a bit. At three of them, it's hard to really enjoy time with any of 'em—not impossible, but much, much harder—yet the amount of time, effort, and money they take is way higher. Probably worse
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by asark 7y ago
Yeah, then you're out of luck for a few minutes, if you somehow manage to let that happen.
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by asark 7y ago
Talking sedans? Damn, I can't imagine spending that much on... well, any car, really, but certainly not a normal commuter sedan. Or does that include minivans or trucks or SUVs or "crossovers"?
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by asark 7y ago
I have, in the last year, twice been hired then found myself way under-utilized because the company wasn't really ready to do anything with me, or the thing they hired me for fell through, or whatever. A few years ago I was brought on
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by asark 7y ago
If you ever find yourself in Kansas for some reason, there's an excellent space exploration & rocketry museum in Hutchinson, Kansas, of all places, called the Kansas Cosmosphere. It is very good, doubly so considering where it
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by asark 7y ago
Finally used one. It was totally fine. And kept me from using it plugged in 100% of the time, which is what I'd have probably done otherwise. Not like the touchbar which I have to all-but disable to make a Macbook Pro usable at all.
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by asark 7y ago
If it'd been on the edge I'd have probably used it plugged in all the time, because I've been trained by years and years of shitty battery-powered peripherals to plug them in any time I possibly can. Turns out it's total
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by asark 7y ago
Same. Also podcasts. The whole medium doesn't work for me at all. I'll try to get into some podcast I'm assured is up my alley, make it a couple minutes, then realize I've been zoning out for a solid ten minutes and have
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by asark 7y ago
Meant outside of management. Status among the general public. That's become one of the three main things associated with software development, from what I've seen, alongside "nerdy" and "kinda makes a lot of money,
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by asark 7y ago
I'd take it to mean "not supposed to be there; from outside (the place where the reaction happened)". Webster's 1913 for "exotic" includes: extraneous. Same source for "extraneous" includes: without o
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by asark 7y ago
Don't worry, there's plenty of room in my heart to hate and wish ill upon all the scummy fraud-enabling private dragnet spy corporations.
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by asark 7y ago
I'm from the middle of the US so all my experience is with $200 and cheaper bicycles (maybe $300 adjusted for inflation) since I'm not in the racing "scene" and bike commuting's infeasible outside very small areas (
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by asark 7y ago
$100 would be old-school Apple markup price for 8GB of memory at current prices (under $50 for good, fast laptop memory). Instead they want $200. It's nuts. If their memory and disk upgrades were $100/step—which is still very hi
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by asark 7y ago
Bicycles seem really expensive to me, relative to cars, considering how much simpler they are and how much less total material's involved. Plus they're a whole lot easier to ship. Not TCO, sure, but sheer cost of the manufactured
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by asark 7y ago
I've, in some past article linked on (I think) HN read the answer to this very question as advanced, efficient bearings (so, the ability to produce finely accurate small metal objects).
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by asark 7y ago
There are several really good sentences and/or writing prompts hiding in that gibberish.
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by asark 7y ago
Everyone knows rich single dudes wanna get hitched.
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by asark 7y ago
I write this as someone who loves that book: that sentence is exactly the sort the editor/judge of the contest would probably classify as being kinda bad, yes, but also too likely to actually hook a reader to be a worthy entrant. &quot
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by asark 7y ago
Is there a lower-status job that pays as well as software development? I guess maybe some very experienced skilled tradespeople, but even those folks are probably pretty high-status when around others in their business . Software dev is we
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by asark 7y ago
> It's easy to move. There is no pay difference no matter what project you work on and internal mobility is encouraged and supported. People do what they want to do, and they tend to be extremely motivated as a result. It also helps
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by asark 7y ago
If the point is to more-or-less represent the views of the people, our system does an exceptionally poor job of it, between this and lots of winner-take-all elections + gerrymandering (sorry, other 49.9% of the population, better luck nex
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by asark 7y ago
The US political system naturally stabilizing at two parties has some weird effects, like psychologically/socially pressuring people to accept a bunch of crap they might not otherwise, to an even greater degree than a somewhat more nua
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by asark 7y ago
The associated copy is identical to what it might be if canceling cut you off immediately. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the marketeers would lie, since that's their job ("well we didn't outright say it'd be
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by asark 7y ago
Apple's prices used to be non-insane. Marked up, yes, but not nuts. Wasn't even that long ago. You'd have people post stuff about "look I can get a PC that's just as good for 40% as much, what a ripoff!" but it
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by asark 7y ago
This is one of those things that's so stupid and useless we'd be better off paying everyone concerned—the marketers, the artists, the copywriters, the postal workers, everyone—to do nothing, since the result of their work is actua
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by asark 7y ago
Huh. Wonder what the difference is. Just checked, they seem to hit me with about 1/day, choosing something "relevant" (to what I've been looking at) when possible.
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by asark 7y ago
It has occurred to me that one could probably get a whole year of video streaming services by just getting a month trial, cancelling, then doing it again with the next service. By the end of the year some of them might even be spamming you

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