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by endymi0n 5y ago
It depends a bit. Just a good work/life balance isn‘t that hard to find, just choose any decent large company out there. It seems though like you want to have both a good balance AND excellence, fast learning and great colleagues. My h
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> In an effort to prevent his execution, Lee's attorney sought in the post-conviction appeals process to finally have the DNA evidence in the case tested for the first time. [...] Their request was denied. "The reasoning given
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I had the pleasure of meeting him during a a rare inside seminar of the Berliner Unterwelten, where he did a tour of the train track used by his one rail battery car gadget for one of the failed attempts and had a beer with him afterward. H
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Note that both can happen at the same time... I always get a super strange vibe landing in EDON / Neuhardenberg: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fi...
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Any serious blind listening tests for 256kbps AAC on specialized sites such as Hydrogenaudio puts that codec at the border of perceptibility compared to lossless. Everything above is more deeply rooted in belief than it is in reality - or a
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This is spot on and a big problem. And although nobody here including me would shed a tear about Facebook in this case, I am worried about the precedent this sets. Facebook has the deep pockets to either build this through or fight it legal
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...which plays in the same league as any large and modern wind turbine. Minus the proliferation risk of somebody stealing this comparatively small reactor and builds a dirty bomb with it - oh, and you still have to dismantle it and store sa
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This resonates with me. One of the best advice from my organ teacher was to „stop playing the notes and start really listening to yourself.“ Closing my eyes really helped with removing all stimuli that distracted me from actually doing that
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Dust is mostly chemically inert, while plastics aren't: > Results > Numerous animal studies have shown that exposure to nano- and microplastics leads to impairments in oxidative and inflammatory intestinal balance, and disruption
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by endymi0n 6y ago
No questions on the technical implementation, this looks impressive. Nevertheless, I'm getting more and more convinced that the whole multi-cloud topic is snake oil, an engineering self-purpose and basically the ORM discussion of the &
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“If conspiracy theorists become convinced that their facts are fake, they will not abandon conspiracy theories. They will reject the authority of the fact checkers.” – Loosely paraphrased after David Frum https://www.reddit.com&#
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A Fresh Take on the Browser (2008)(googleblog.blogspot.com)
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The German CO2 as currently implemented gives back the credits via the electricity bill (essentially lowering the high taxes there, but could also be a credit). While not perfect, it strikes me as a rather great „90%“ solution since it give
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The only possible answer is: "It depends". I spent way too much time than I can account for on the command line of colocated machines. It's a great learning experience, but you're really on your own. There's nothing
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Telling about what? I was enumerating groups of people who don't particularly value being around other people. Maybe I'm wrong with sociopaths in that regard though, as they might actually enjoy that for all the wrong reasons. I r
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We also _write_ actively over Slack. I write into my text editor as well, I don't feel a difference. I'm staring at the same freaking screen all day, interfacing with individuals that couldn't feel more irreplaceable. Maybe t
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That's spot on from the advice. I'll add that OP — Your biggest issue seems to be extremely high intelligence, paired with a lack of empathy and social functioning, which created a self-expectation of massive grandiosity. But you
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For a company we planned to acquire and integrate, one of our devs was wondering why the search requests the frontend made to their API suspiciously looked like raw ElasticSearch queries. Two hours later that dev sent me a screenshot with o
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That‘s not a feature, it‘s a bug. An unregulated, emerging industry that comes with a baggage of enormous energy use, fraud and money laundering is one thing. Letting it get to a level of „Too big to fail“ where regulation or an outright ba
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Inhaled Budenoside effective in treating Covid-19(thelancet.com)
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Conversation I had with a US guy a decade ago: „Hey now that I‘ll stay in Europe here for some time, I want to get a real feeling for the temperatures here...“ - „Sure!“ - „So what temperature is freezing water in Celsius?“ - „Zero.“ - „Wow
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Welcome to the paradoxical dichotomy in IT: In order to be a top notch (line/product/project) manager, you need to have relevant experience in engineering itself. Also, the higher value for any company is engineers that are great
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Men obstructed from entering female-dominated occupations(liu.se)
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More generally still, look at established, unsexy industries flush with (old) money, such as finance, law, oil&gas, government services, infrastructure, real estate... If you can find a space in there where you can accelerate things jus
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Tax unification is what keeps companies in check. Companies are just providers for services in the territory of any state. If these services don't warrant paying close-to-zero fees anymore, people and states should of course leave for
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The London bus trip that saved thousands of Covid lives(bbc.com)
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Good one, actually most of my employees feel the same way. You might have a bad case of a micromanager there, but here‘s my definition: > Management by walking around emphasizes the importance of interpersonal contact, open appreciation,
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While there‘s truth to that, it doesn‘t bring home my own issue with WFH: It might be okay to much better for individual contributors, but it‘s harsh for me as a manager. Zoom (fatigue) meetings all day, staring at the screen instead of rea
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Thing is, while PhDs are usually by far the biggest domain experts you'll get, the absolute majority of them comes absolutely ill-equipped to lead anything, as university rarely teaches any skills in project, people or resource managem
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That feels a bit like advocating that it was mainly Betamax which changed consumer habits in the 90s since it was technically superior to VHS. It may very well have been the case for a small number of MS centric devs, but for the large majo

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