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by bootsz 8y ago
"The games people play, the roles and reputations they chase and entertain, the fleeting pleasure they derive from solving intricate problems, is all fun for a while. Ultimately though, if you do not solve anything worthwhile, if you
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by bootsz 8y ago
The author of Thinking in Systems is incorrect. The author is Donella H. Meadows: https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-Meadows/dp...
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by bootsz 8y ago
I'm in the northeast, and I've found them to be pretty common. But I've interviewed a few places that did not do them.
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by bootsz 8y ago
Yes, the system sucks. That said, there are ways you can deal with it. Everyone's situation is different, and I don't know yours. But there's basically two main approaches you can take: 1) Don't devote much time to stu
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by bootsz 8y ago
Yeah. If I was paid the same for the actual output I produce I estimate I could hold the equivalent of at least 3 desk jobs simulatenously and triple my income. I suspect the same is true for many people. Large companies are not very effi
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by bootsz 8y ago
Seeing studies like this publicized constantly, it's hard to take nutrition science seriously. I know bad journalism is partly to blame though. All this affirms is that we still know nothing really. Someone should make a matrix of all
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by bootsz 8y ago
> The problem is that the culture of mathematics and the culture of mathematics education--elementary through lower-level college courses--are completely different ... I've had many conversations with such students [...] who by the
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'Talent Wants Transit': Companies Near Transportation Gaining the Upper Hand(npr.org)
328 points by bootsz 8y ago|317 comments
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by bootsz 8y ago
Exactly
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by bootsz 8y ago
Part of the problem is that capitalism seems to require perpetual growth. The "economy" is only "good" when things are growing and expanding, which means more people, more consumption. We need a way to maintain equilib
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by bootsz 8y ago
You clearly misread what I wrote. I was referring to the “no-knead” method which was popularized starting in the late 90s to mid-00s, and built upon by Robertson. No one is claiming kneading is new; it’s ancient. We can debate over what c
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by bootsz 8y ago
Yeah seriously. Seems to really be scraping the bottom of the barrel for ways to make fun of tech workers
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by bootsz 8y ago
I feel conflicted about this piece. On the one hand I'm excited to see someone do an in-depth analysis of the phenomenon of engineer-types gravitating toward sourdough baking (which is something I've been noticing for a few years
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Do You Even Bake, Bro? How Silicon Valley Fell in Love with Sourdough(eater.com)
8 points by bootsz 8y ago|7 comments
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by bootsz 8y ago
> It's that I have a desire to eat dramatically fewer calories on a low-carb diet Precisely my experience as well. While it’s true that really no one type of nutrient is universally bad or evil and technically weight loss comes d
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by bootsz 8y ago
I wasn’t trying to imply they weren’t, but I see how the wording of my comment could make it seem that way. I was commenting on the perception of “whole grain” based on supermarket brands marketed as such. Traditional baguettes are by far
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by bootsz 8y ago
Are there mechanical slicers out there that are affordable for home use? Last I looked the cheapest I could find was like $1,500 USD.
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by bootsz 8y ago
Soaking/extended autolyse is definitely helpful. And just using a lot more water overall. Also if you have a coarse-ground flour you can also sift out the bran, soak it separately and fold it into the dough later, which allows the glu
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by bootsz 8y ago
What do you use for a grinder? I’ve been itching to get into milling my own flour for a while. I hear it takes the bread to a whole new level.
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by bootsz 8y ago
Or make your own :) It's time-consuming but quite therapeutic
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by bootsz 8y ago
I'm not really making a case here one way or another about what people should eat, just trying to explain the gap observed between what people think they are buying and what they are actually getting. I don't think we should ca
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by bootsz 8y ago
> “The public we were serving, in a broad sense, said, ‘We’re organic, we’re healthy, we’re vegan, we’re whole-grain,’ and then we’d roll out these whole-grain breads. … Everyone would say, ‘Woohoo!’ and then they’d show up and say, ‘I’
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by bootsz 8y ago
There's also different kinds of boring/tedious though. I'd argue it's much easier to learn to enjoy washing your dishes at home than it is to enjoy slogging through trying to grok horrible legacy code. Maybe that'
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by bootsz 8y ago
Check and check. Coffee definitely help me with grinding through boring mental tasks.
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by bootsz 8y ago
Totally. When you're new to the profession it's like you have this huge shiny new hammer and everything looks like a nail, so you want to build new custom software to solve every problem, because it's fun. But I feel like aft
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by bootsz 8y ago
> 4. Smart people get bored easily. Being smart is not exactly the same as being curious, but if you have both these qualities you might find yourself becoming easily bored with executing the same behaviors over and over. Some types of
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by bootsz 8y ago
Exactly. Surely we can figure out ways to incapacitate without killing. There are already options (eg tasers). If for some reason the existing tech isn't effective enough, well then too bad, that's what you get until we invent
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by bootsz 8y ago
> A man who came outside to face police, however, had done nothing wrong and did not know about the swatting call. As he stepped onto the porch, police told him to put up his hands. When he unexpectedly dropped his hands, he was shot and
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by bootsz 8y ago
> It's difficult to make your own ketogenic meals solely via your own grocery shopping You might need to just spend a little time researching recipes . I have 3-4 that I cycle through. Also, there's always just straight up me
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by bootsz 8y ago
> He was right, of course. What these athletes do was rather interesting, but the people themselves were only fast swimmers, who did the particular things one does to swim fast. It is all very mundane. When my friend said that they we

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