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by dottjt 2y ago
While not quite the same, my partner was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer a few months ago, a few days after my daughter's 1st birthday. I think one thing I worry about is my daughter possibly not growing up with a mother. Like how that w
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by dottjt 2y ago
I think you'll find those same people were wasting an equal amount of time in the work place as well. They just find other ways. I know one guy who was writing their novel at work, because it only requires a computer/is discrete.
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by dottjt 2y ago
Won't there be more jobs for people maintaining and servicing the data centers? Amongst all the other AI infrastructure?
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by dottjt 2y ago
Thank you for clarifying, but I was responding to the commenter. Not the article
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by dottjt 2y ago
As someone who was once a young weed smoker, I get the sense that this is more correlation than causation. I know as many failures as I do successes from this position. Those who have been failures were going to be failures anyway irrespect
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by dottjt 2y ago
This is actually an area that I find a little frustrating. Generally to produce music you need to use a DAW. Ableton, Logic Pro etc. What sucks is you can't easily just assign a lyric to a note. Like it's just not a feature they p
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by dottjt 2y ago
I don't know if this is a silly train of thought, but won't Pompeii just get buried again in the future? Is it a waste of time to try and unbury it?
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by dottjt 2y ago
It's that "in almost every case" that's the problem. The whole point of insurance is to cover that case where it does happen, irrespective of how unlikely it is. Case in point, my partner was diagnosed with a very, very,
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by dottjt 2y ago
Again, public transport is usually not feasible if you have a severe medical condition.
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Not if you're poor. $9 daily would be quite a lot for poor people, especially since radiation is daily. Furthermore you often have no choice but to use paid hospital parking due to mobility issues, as opposed to cheaper parking near th
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by dottjt 2y ago
Yeah, but why should one have to pay more to use roads they have no options but to use?
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I think an issue with this kind of policy (not necessarily in Manhattan) but in other cities is that often there is no alternative other than to drive to the city. For example, my partner needs radiation for her cancer and the hospital is l
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by dottjt 2y ago
I agree with your rebuttal in response to that other person's comment, but ultimately I do think those programs are regressive for the poor, at this very point in time. I guess the question becomes, should those poorest suffer for the
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by dottjt 2y ago
The reason is growing inequality. Those are just symptoms of it.
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As someone who's been doing React since the beginning, I would agree that it's hard starting out. However, I think any new paradigm is difficult starting out. Recently I've been learning OO for work and I've been finding
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by dottjt 2y ago
Growing up I didn't really know my father. He was an alcoholic and spent his time with his friends drinking when I was young. My parents separated when I was around 8 years old and I haven't seen my father since, even till this da
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by dottjt 2y ago
I think you should pursue anything you're interested in. I don't have the best singing voice, but after a few years of learning how to sing, it's like I finally "get it". It used to be this very mystical thing, but
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by dottjt 2y ago
Thank you, that was helpful.
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by dottjt 2y ago
My partner is undergoing chemo for stage 4 sarcoma and co-incidentally, my 13 month old happened to get sick on the day my partner started (around 2 weeks ago) Looking after a sick toddler by myself, whilst also trying to juggle WFH has bee
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by dottjt 2y ago
Thank you. Did any readings or practices help you?
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Thank you. I can relate to everything you're saying. I think what's been helping has been reading about death and what that means and potentially feels like. I think part of the issue is that the topic of death is so misunderstood
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It's been a very weird 6 weeks. It's like, everything was fine. We had our normal suburban life. Things were going great. We had just celebrated our daughter's first birthday. Then it's like, you realise that everything
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by dottjt 2y ago
Hopefully it can help people with Sarcomas. My partner was diagnosed with stage 4 sarcoma about a month ago and life as I know it has been flipped upside down.
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lol post flagged
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by dottjt 2y ago
I found out a week ago that my partner has stage 4 sarcoma. The prognosis is poor. It's been difficult because we have a 1 year old toddler, so naturally we can't go out and do something big without it affecting them. Furthermore,
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by dottjt 2y ago
I think once I started using databases it made other note-taking tools seem primitive in comparison. It's hard to explain why, but it just allows you to organise and categorise hundreds of notes seamlessly. I also really like how it tr
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by dottjt 2y ago
This is not to be taken as mental health advice (merely an anecdote), but yesterday I was thinking about needing therapy to deal with my issues and I had the thought to use ChatGPT. Wow, it was absolutely incredible in providing me with wha
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Ask HN: Do you consider coding "work"?
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by dottjt 2y ago
I think another side-effect of this is that parents no longer want their active grand parents to participate in looking after their children. All their ideas about how to bring up children are completely outdated by modern standards, so it&
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by dottjt 2y ago
You say it with cynicism, but ultimately React jobs pay better vs jobs which require only common HTML/CSS skills. Why wouldn't programmers want to pursue better paying/more readily available jobs?

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