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by beat 7y ago
Yes, I really want to give up my evenings for weeks to practice to impress people who clearly do not give a shit about what my job actually entails, by doing stupid crap tests that have nothing to do with the actual job. I'd be damned
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by beat 7y ago
What if the job doesn't really involve coding? That's true of rather a lot of senior/lead level software engineering jobs. Security analysts, devops engineers, architects, and others may never write code at all as part of the
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by beat 7y ago
She learned it, in college. Her job isn't to write code. And I can't even remember the last time I implemented a damn binary tree. It's not that it's difficult. It's that it's stupid. edit: Let me put it this w
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by beat 7y ago
Data point: A friend of mine with 20+ years of experience in programming and security (she's been a code-level security analyst for the past decade plus) was asked in an interview the other day to implement a binary tree. Why the fuck
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by beat 7y ago
Under $100: Investing in bullet journaling. $20 for the book, $15-$20 for each journal I go through, and getting a little nerdy about pens, but still cheap. Bullet journaling changed my life . As a lifelong ADD sufferer and disorganized pe
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A Bizarre Form of Water(wired.com)
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by beat 7y ago
Or as I like to say, English can absorb words from any other language, simply by mispronouncing them.
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by beat 7y ago
More to the point, rushing execution in order to meet economic promises, and arbitrary cost-cutting, are symptoms of large systems. Capitalist, socialist, same diff, when it comes to the behavior of bureaucracies.
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by beat 7y ago
"Also, criticizing socialism is not magical thinking. It's been a proven failure over and over." That's just partisan nonsense, platitudes disguised as criticism. You need to do a lot better than that. I could come bac
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Or they don't have insurance at all.
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by beat 7y ago
Access to the best doctors isn't a function of how they're paid for now, unless you're saying the current system is giving them slack in their schedules by keeping patients away. Meanwhile, people are being denied access to g
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by beat 7y ago
Yes, but. Highly socialist systems are working well in other countries. Interestingly, they seem about as effective as highly capitalist systems in other countries (except, of course, for the American system). So I don't think "so
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by beat 7y ago
Let's put it another way... subjectivist says that falling onto concrete hurts more than falling onto pillows. Objectivist says you're falling at the same speed either way, so the difference in pain must be your imagination.
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by beat 7y ago
When it comes to sensory aesthetic experience, I don't think there's any such thing as a true objectivist. Acknowledging the limitations of scientific method for testing personal experience is itself a "subjective" thing
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by beat 7y ago
Those who fear "socialized medicine" often fail to recognize just how socialist our system already is.
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by beat 7y ago
First, it's unlikely that an influx of new patients due to opening networks and increasing coverage would lead to doctors dropping existing patients. On what grounds would that happen? Second, you're at best arguing that we should
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by beat 7y ago
That's a far, far better statement of the problem. We have a system that is subject to both federal and state law. But I'm not convinced that it's a total explanation, either. Necessary but not sufficient.
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by beat 7y ago
Your argument is grounded in the idea that the US is somehow an exception to the economic behavior of other first world nations, due to size or diversity or whatever. But is that actually the case? Counter-argument... this isn't simply
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by beat 7y ago
You realize that's a terrible argument, right?
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by beat 7y ago
As a liberal, this sort of thing drives me nuts. It's like my side has completely ceded the ground of both economic liberty and economic opportunity to conservatives, because neoliberalism has made "capitalism" such a dirty w
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by beat 7y ago
"Employment-based insurance covers approximately 60% (180 million of the 310 million) of insured individuals, but enrollment is highly correlated with income. In high-income households (family income >400% of the federal poverty le
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by beat 7y ago
Yeah, learning real sql is a very useful skill. At one employer, I became the "sql expert" because I knew the difference between inner and outer joins. Which, if you know sql, means you know next to nothing. But knowing next to no
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by beat 7y ago
Amanda Palmer covered this well, in her song A Mother's Confession (which should make any parent cringe). It starts with her baby, whom she thought couldn't roll yet, rolling off a changing-table shelf and landing on the floor.
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by beat 7y ago
Ok, since I brought up THD as a bad measurement, let's take a look at what, exactly, is being measured. A standard THD test measures harmonics generated from a sine wave at 1khz, into a resistive output load. So, how much does a 1khz s
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by beat 7y ago
You're misrepresenting both schools here. First, the "objective" school consists largely of internet loudmouths who have never done an actual A/B test. They're saying what seems intuitive to them, and imagining it&#
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by beat 7y ago
I think that's a lazy argument. Context matters a great deal, and "blind AB tests" don't mean what you think they mean. I play guitar, and have recorded/produced numerous albums. When I'm playing, I can easily
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by beat 7y ago
First thing to do... close those tabs. They are the enemy . The human mind can only concentrate on a few things at a time even when "multitasking", and it cannot concentrate on anything else when working on a complex, concentra
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by beat 7y ago
As a random suggestion from someone who did manage to not get his children killed despite ADD... look into bullet journaling as an organizational system for parenting duties. Ignore the endless art-project nonsense on the internet, read the
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by beat 7y ago
I can relate on the family stuff. My (adult) daughter inherited ADD from me. Which means she and I understand each other in a way that her mother and her twin brother do not understand us. At least they've learned to just let us do the
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by beat 7y ago
I like that early on in the story, he hits on the difference between subjective experience and objective theory when it comes to the sonics of hi-fi amps. There's this thing that "objective" dudes on the internet think, and t

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