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by dimal 3y ago
As a person who also has experience with mental health services, I fully agree. People seem to have this misguided notion that when they tell someone to "seek professional help" that the "professional" they seek will act
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by dimal 3y ago
If you find it hard without some recorded guide helping you along, that’s exactly why you should consider meditating without a guide. Guided meditation is like riding a bike with training wheels. You don’t fall, but you’re not really riding
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by dimal 3y ago
Not yet. I was working up to it at my last job, but I was laid off. What I’d love to do is something like John Ousterhout’s software design class. He admits that he based the format on an English writing class. People would write code, then
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by dimal 3y ago
It’s been a long time since I did it at school, so I think what I do with code is more “informed by” that process than a duplication of it. But one specific thing I remember was that you look at context. One example I remember from school w
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by dimal 3y ago
I suppose I am. I think I’ve so fully internalized that idea that I forgot it’s not my idea!
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by dimal 3y ago
I have a crazy theory that when we read code, we actually read it as a narrative, because that's how our brains are wired. And we can't help it. It's baked in.[0] Good, readable, code tells a story. (Here is the protagonist(s
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by dimal 3y ago
I still think it's literature, just that most of it is trash literature. But then again, I was an English major and was trained on how to dissect literature. I realized a while ago that there was a book and a method I learned in Englis
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by dimal 3y ago
> The weakness of this study is we didn't follow up with people. We only knew if our candidates got hired, not how well they did after they were in the door, as employees I’m sorry, but then your study doesn’t show anything useful.
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by dimal 3y ago
Useful AI, a room-temperature superconductor, a cancer pill, and now net-positive fusion. Did we just crack open some secret alien tech? Maybe a time-tracker left their toolbox behind?
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by dimal 3y ago
Oh wow. I've been using Phind and loving it, but I was thinking that you should integrate it with the editor. And then that's exactly what you did. This looks incredible. But, I gotta say I'm a bit upset about the privacy iss
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by dimal 3y ago
I’m sure there are historians or historical societies that would love that stuff. Please don’t trash them. I’d recommend that you go to the AskHistorians subreddit and ask who would want them. I’ve seen people ask similar questions there an
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by dimal 3y ago
At what point do we say, “Ok, we’re revoking your corporate charter. Please wind down your operations and liquidate your holdings.” A corporate charter isn’t supposed to be an eternal grant. If the corporation continuously breaks the law —l
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by dimal 3y ago
Personally, I love redux-saga. It took me a little while to wrap my head around it (but 1/10th the amount of time as RxJS), but it is _really_ nice to be able to write complex async logic in synchronous-looking code that's also re
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by dimal 3y ago
I tend to agree. Observables are incredibly powerful, so they seem like they _might_ be a good fit for some use cases where you're dealing with streams of events. And even then, you have to be really determined to not make a mess. For
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by dimal 3y ago
A quick google found this [0], a citation from 1943. Seems to check out, but the source says it's kind of a joke term. https://www.sciencenews.org/archive/brooklyn-syndrome
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by dimal 3y ago
This looks great! I’ve been pretty underwhelmed with the UX of the other VS Code extensions, for just the reasons you list. This looks a lot like how I imagined an AI extension should work. Gonna try it out.
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by dimal 3y ago
I agree. But there are a lot of places in the US that check 90% of those boxes at a fraction of the cost of the Bay Area. There are a lot of great second-tier cities that are very welcoming to people of color.
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by dimal 3y ago
Flipside: Staying in an expensive metro area puts you at risk to maintain your quality of life and pay mortgage/taxes/insurance on everything, when a lot of hybrid jobs don't pay enough to cover those expenses, and are also a
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by dimal 3y ago
Or maybe, “Why project-based learning succeeds at some things, for people with certain personality traits, and performs less well for some things, for people with other personality traits”. A less catchy, clicky title, but more accurate.
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by dimal 3y ago
I’ve used the Ship of Theseus metaphor before but never considered using it as a verb: “Theseusifying”. Love it. I could even abuse the word more by twisting it into other forms: “This refactor is a one aspect of the larger Theseusification
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by dimal 3y ago
I’m starting to feel the same way. React’s big selling point when it came out was that it was “easy to reason about”, and that was true at the time. With hooks, server components, and 10,000 different strategies for managing state and side
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by dimal 3y ago
> I have two methods for estimating project size: > (a) break things down into subprojects, estimate them, add it up > (b) gut feeling estimate based on how nervous i feel about unexpected risks > So far (b) is vastly more accur
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by dimal 3y ago
I think all the mega fires a few years ago simply removed a lot of the fuel and provided fire breaks. It’s not possible to burn millions of acres every year indefinitely.
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by dimal 3y ago
Here’s what I do: once I’ve gotten something working, I don’t put up the PR immediately. I let it sit for a day, then I look at it the next morning with fresh eyes. Inevitably, I find things to clean up, improve, and refactor. Maybe you’re
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by dimal 3y ago
I don’t know. For staff engineer interviews I’ve been on, they seem to want technical proficiency and team leadership. They want the full package.
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Yeah, probably. I’m not sure exactly what the pixel density is, but it’s 1440 vertical pixels. Maybe try a resolution media query to toggle the antialiasing?
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by dimal 3y ago
Looks really cool. FYI, the Silkscreen font on the website is completely illegible at smaller sizes like in the menus. Looks like a rendering glitch. Might want to choose something a little more legible.
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by dimal 3y ago
You use "review" in quotes, but I don't see that word used in reference to the 30 day policy. This is what I see: > Any data sent through the API will be retained for abuse and misuse monitoring purposes for a maximum of 3
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by dimal 3y ago
Isn't this what Google search does? Yet Google Docs, Gmail, etc are all OK?
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I'm kinda confused by this. Every company already keeps their data in Google Docs, Notion, Slack, Confluence, Jira, or any number of other providers. When you sign up for one of these services, there's always a compliance step to

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