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by bonniemuffin 6y ago
I suspect this may actually be an issue of school vs real world rather than scientist vs engineer. Data in the classroom setting is pristine and beautiful; data in the real world is messy and buggy. You have to get burned by buggy data a fe
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by bonniemuffin 6y ago
My cool-headed long-term-thinking self wants to "eat well, go for a run", but my saturday morning self just wants to sleep in and have a donut. Some of us need some form of accountability structure to help our rational selves prev
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by bonniemuffin 6y ago
I executed a major career pivot at age 32 and now that I'm approaching 40, I'm so glad I did. It was hard but worth it. You have plenty of time, as long as you can put aside the feelings that you've waited too long and start
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by bonniemuffin 6y ago
One key factor is the kind of rice. In my experience, the difference in brown rice is bigger than in white rice, so if you usually eat brown rice, you'll get more benefit from upgrading to a Zojirushi rice cooker. It's easy to mak
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by bonniemuffin 6y ago
The fluffy tail makes a surprisingly big difference in the cuteness, although I'm not sure I can explain why.
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by bonniemuffin 6y ago
Oh, yeah, she eats dirt, kisses the dog, and licks the pavement at the playground for some reason, so she's definitely getting exposure to a wide variety of nature's finest "germs", just not the sorts of human-infectious
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by bonniemuffin 6y ago
I'm a little freaked out that my baby is turning 1 year old and has never caught a cold or had any kind of sniffles, because we've been so isolated. Surely I'm supposed to be exposing her to germs to build up her immune syste
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by bonniemuffin 6y ago
Same, I worked in bioscience labs and I also just use spray bottles of isopropanol around the house, just like what I used in the lab. If it's good enough for working with human tissues and infectious HIV derivatives, it's good en
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by bonniemuffin 6y ago
I've been into mindfulness and meditation for quite a few years, and this article is squarely in that arena. However, something that bothers me about this article is its emphasis on work-related productivity as the primary goal of mind
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by bonniemuffin 6y ago
The number I've been hearing is that even early-career positions will have to pay at least $208k base salary (not including any equity) in the bay area, which seems totally out of reach for most companies.
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by bonniemuffin 6y ago
I was in Houston during Hurricane Rita in 2005, and we tried to evacuate. We got on the freeway, sat in the traffic for a while, made it about one exit down the road before we concluded the storm would hit before we actually made it out of
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by bonniemuffin 6y ago
We have a toddler, 2 full-time jobs, and a nanny who comes to our house from 10-4 during the week. I'm an early riser and also breastfeeding, so I take the early mornings, and I feed the baby about 6 times a day, wherever it fits into
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by bonniemuffin 6y ago
I had a stand-alone electric kettle on my countertop for years because I drink a lot of tea, and it's so much faster than heating water on the stove or in the microwave. If I'm cooking pasta or hard-boiling eggs, I'll start b
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by bonniemuffin 6y ago
Totally. When I make Oculus friends, I hate that I have to tell them to find me as [my husband's username] because he signed up on the device first, so now I can never have my own Oculus account. I solved the Beatsaber highscores probl
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by bonniemuffin 6y ago
I'm also WFH with an infant. We have 2 very full jobs, but we have a nanny who comes to our house to help out. It's hard to balance everything, but overall I'm really grateful I get to spend a lot of extra time with my baby d
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by bonniemuffin 6y ago
I love this trend and hope you're right that it grows. A year ago, all of my hours were optimized, quantified, and monetized. My work and social calendars were equally overstuffed, leading to a frantic feeling of being too busy and fal
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by bonniemuffin 6y ago
Having recently experienced raising an infant, let me tell you, getting all my sleep in <2 hour chunks is HORRIBLE, even if I'm getting a pretty reasonable total amount of sleep. I was getting what this article suggests would be a v
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by bonniemuffin 6y ago
I'm a pretty driven, productive person by nature, so I don't need advice on how to fight the day like a battle. I do still struggle with getting sucked into devices, but it takes the form of work eating up all my relaxation time.
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by bonniemuffin 6y ago
I wish there was a good way to sing together over videochat. The lag makes it impossible--if you've tried singing Happy birthday to someone over Zoom, you've probably noticed that it's the worst! Everyone tries to adjust to e
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by bonniemuffin 6y ago
The guys who installed new tile in my shower put in a custom shower niche that incorporated an interesting tile pattern, and I was glad to notice them taking pictures of it when they were done. It was neat to see their pride in creating an
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by bonniemuffin 7y ago
I love this feature! After a lifetime of throwing my socks on the floor, Roomba finally trained me to put them in the laundry hamper. I've learned to keep my floors tidy all the time, and my life is much better for it.
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by bonniemuffin 7y ago
Totally agree. I just checked my order history: I bought my current Roomba 650 in May 2014, so it's been running 4-5 days a week for almost 6 years straight with various simple part replacements. Really great little product, and excell
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by bonniemuffin 7y ago
The article says: "Creole is a long-embattled term, perhaps best defined now as a person whose background and identity is traceable to colonial French Louisiana and/or its Franco-African culture." I have a simpler definition.
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by bonniemuffin 7y ago
Thanks, I sent them a note and got a reply from a human saying she'll pass it on to them. :)
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by bonniemuffin 7y ago
No joke, this song has had a huge positive impact on my life. When I was learning to walk again after a broken ankle, I would put on Eye of the Tiger when I thought I couldn't go any farther, and it would help me walk just a little bit
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by bonniemuffin 7y ago
My employer has an "apprentice manager" position specifically for engineer ICs who want to transition into management. It's a 3-6 month program where you get training and coaching, and you have a dotted-line reporting relatio
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by bonniemuffin 7y ago
My version of "run tall" is "pretend you're riding a pony". Your hips and legs are the pony, and your torso is riding it, and it works for me as a cue to remember that my torso should stay tall and upright. Also whe
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by bonniemuffin 7y ago
Currently the poor are homeless or enduring multi-hour mega-commutes or stuffing a bunch of people into a single studio apartment. Well-located "barely livable wage slave pods" would be a huge improvement for a lot of people. I ag
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by bonniemuffin 7y ago
About 2 days ago, I noticed that Facebook added multi-level reply threads for a small percent of posters, but as of this morning it seemed totally broken for me on the latest ios build. Seems unlikely to be related, but I wonder if it'
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by bonniemuffin 7y ago
I've worked both in a coffee shop and in a FANGish tech role. The coffee shop was much more brutal and physically demanding with long shifts on my feet and unpredictable scheduling -- I don't think I could keep that up as I age. I

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