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> this has never been a society friendly to the common person. Nope, and in fact the American Dream is exactly this - it's saying that if you work hard / are lucky / have talents / have connections / have resourc
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Pick your poison - would you rather have too many hills or not enough hills? Turns out limiting hill making is complex, and requires an even bigger hill that calls the shots
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How did you get into that role? Was it an internal transfer or did you just apply for a position?
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There are tons of middlemen / services directly in between the consumer and the medicine or doctor the consumer ultimately needs (including insurance). Almost all of those middlemen are trying to maximize their own profits. The industr
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I quit my job and took 6 months off to get out of my last rut. I think this is something I will start doing every 5 years or so. I thought I would always hate working, but the long break is exactly what I needed May be harder depending on t
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Computer science is not exactly related to googling cryptic error messages, but IMO every undergrad CS major should have a tools/linux basics class of some kind
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There are many different types of intelligences or smarts Skill is a form of "functional intelligence", where skill = talent + grind. The more talent, the less you need to grind, but combined the two are killer. To me, "smart
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The people who are good at algorithms are grinders. There is a tiny percentage of geniuses who don't need to grind algorithms. The rest of the people who were good at algos before leetcode became widespread were also grinders In fact t
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Big boring non-tech business that are slow to adopt new tech are moving a lot of their stuff to the cloud. So if by > complex backend, large-scale distributed systems you mean AWS/cloud then you are gonna be juuuuuuuust fine for a w
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As always, the best way is to already know them or have a shared connection with them - have a wide network. Do you have frequent social interactions with other professionals? Off the top of my head (and from personal experience) some ways
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It seems more of a place that finds you if you are doing interesting work
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I wonder if this has to do with your > Old Life: Attorney All the lawyers I know are basically married to their jobs. I think workaholism is just part of law culture
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And that's the big barrier. Rails/python are immediately productive and you need minimal knowledge to start reaping benefits. Of course once you start doing complex things you need to obtain that knowledge but it can be a gradual
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People create a $BETTER_ALTERNATIVE Having created a $BETTER_ALTERNATIVE, people then assign to it the powers of creation Once the creative powers of $WHATEVER get misassigned to $BETTER_ALTERNATIVE, other people are made subordinate to it.
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> There is no way to make it politically neutral and hard to game? No. Psychiatry, like politics and law, depends much on the personal beliefs of the human in charge. Look at our supreme court. Justices are supposed to be impartial, but
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From chatGPT: "What is the mom test?" The "Mom Test" is a term from a book by Rob Fitzpatrick titled "The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you&
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It's this. Networking is "building relationships". It's very important because we are humans and are social creatures. You can get away without having relationships sometimes, but that's playing life on hard mode
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This is why everything now is either free with ads or is a SaaS
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Western in the early 18th century referred generally to the cultural reaction of (mostly Western) Europe to the enlightenment that was happening at the time. Russia did not have that movement, so Peter the Great attempted to "Westerniz
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Our universe is actually just a poorly written flaky integration test that failed to return early on error and is gonna keep running until the entire test finishes
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> "Russian soul" is secretly adoring and mimicking the West Pretty sure it's not secret at all. St Petersburg founded in the 1700s (and then made the capital of Tsarist Russia) was literally an attempt to westernize Russia
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I expect it to be an upside down parabola. From my experience, top performers in school were either very smart or worked very hard, or both - two skills necessary for software engineering achievement. The other side of the parabola are smar
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Sounds great for enterprises who have strict regulatory or security requirements Get laptop with all your company's business software preinstalled and maintained via cloud. Great for non-devs who mostly use email and office
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ruby on rails has been able to do all of this with remote forms for at least 10 years now
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> no one wants to work [hard] anymore Is the same quote as "the youth are all rude and don't respect their elders". In other words, always has been. There are several groups of people who work hard: 1. people who must in o
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You can also be more empathetic with ask culture and soften or make the request more obvious to say no to. Instead of saying "can you do x" you can say "i know you're busy so no pressure whatsoever but if you're ava
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I go to the gym for personal health and long term strength gain, so a notion of pushing myself some percent amount is irrelevant. Easier to stick to a simple, rough workout plan. I'm not a pro athlete so what the article talks about do
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This seems... like a terrible idea on the surface. The cost of LLM hallucination in a time critical crisis situation seems immense
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> it just gives a free pass to any behavior. Totally disagree. I am not free from the consequences of my actions. I'm simply saying it's a waste of mental energy to drag yourself down based on events that happened in the past.
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We moved to be closer to family - don't know how people do it without help. Those people must be mad > I'm no longer sold on the nuclear (American) family — just mom and dad – raising children. It's not tenable with the co

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