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gcheong
5y ago
I suppose you could try to get “professionally immunized” each year and get paid for your antibodies and be protected from rabies.
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gcheong
5y ago
I could really use one that takes the tedium of chopping/prepping food without my direct control or supervision.
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gcheong
5y ago
If you're stuck, ask for help. If nobody can suggest a solution then at least you don't have to beat yourself up for not being able to solve the problem either. Conversely if someone else is stuck and you have the means to help th
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gcheong
5y ago
Join a local mutual aid group, or start one (for example: https://www.facebook.com/groups/beingneighborlyoutersunsetpa... ) , and just start helping out however you can. If a problem comes up that can use a technical so
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gcheong
5y ago
What did the Googles of the past use before they got to be the Googles of today? Agile in the purest sense - a couple people hacking something out. I think at the end of the day, a group of capable people with no strictly defined process wi
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gcheong
5y ago
If you're looking to create a highly curated job board then reaching out to companies directly that fit the niche you are looking to serve might be a way to go. You may have to initially make it worth their while in free listings until
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gcheong
5y ago
Perhaps he felt he knew it to the extent that the problems posed weren't completely foreign to him and he felt his solutions were reasonable which was possibly corroborated through either subtle bodily cues of the interviewers or direc
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gcheong
5y ago
The problem is that however distasteful or lacking the current situation is, it’s been adopted by most large companies and is seen as standard now so nobody has any incentive to improve it and it self perpetuates akin to hazing rituals at f
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gcheong
5y ago
If only such disasters weren’t rare to begin with and completely preventable with modern designs!
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gcheong
5y ago
The kind of bird is important. Many more songbirds are taken by cats it’s true but their numbers aren’t in danger. Wind turbines impact mainly larger birds such as raptors that don’t reproduce as quickly. The problem is such that a wind far
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5y ago
I would admit that I didn’t really know much about the existence of mosquitoes that didn’t pose a threat to humans so I think it’s an important article as these species may not be targeted specifically but might become collateral damage if
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gcheong
5y ago
Certainly impressive. I almost get the sense that these robots would be bored out of their minds working in an Amazon fulfillment center.
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gcheong
5y ago
I don’t know but I shudder at the thought of what state the world would have to be in for Feynman to be interviewing at Microsoft or any FAANG company for that matter.
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gcheong
5y ago
try https://www.indiehackers.com/start and https://www.youtube.com/microconf
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gcheong
5y ago
"Sixty percent of cat owners sleep with their cats, which may enhance their sense of security and improve their quality of sleep" Maybe, but now only between the hours of 10pm - 5:30am, for me anyway.
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gcheong
5y ago
"I applied to these companies because I was under the impression that they could be major stepping stones in my career" I think that depends on what you think working at at FAANG is going to get you career-wise. Better salary most
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gcheong
5y ago
I know San Francisco State has something called Open University: https://cel.sfsu.edu/openuniversity/ so you might look for something similar at other places but even so there probably aren't many places with clas
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gcheong
5y ago
Might work well as a patrol of private property in a “release the hounds” kind of way.
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gcheong
5y ago
Standardized and objective are not the same thing.
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gcheong
5y ago
As a candidate I can say I've faced the gamut of everything from online automated assessments to phone interviews that seemed little more than running through a list of "how do you do X" to high pressure white-boarding sessio
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5y ago
Life is full of absurdities apparently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO6YiImtMXM
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5y ago
Then you have to gear up, which takes time, and maybe you only have to go in for a little bit to clear something, and also now you are tethered which may hinder your mobility and could in itself become a hazard. I recall something I read ab
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gcheong
5y ago
I'm disappointed that this is only about expanding factory output, not some technology that would "supercharge" the actual battery output. Will there be enough lithium in the world to meet demand without some major advancemen
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5y ago
They seem to be rather orthogonal. Microdosing is certainly more controllable in terms of how much and what dose so you can optimize the level whereas walks in nature is more akin to drinking herbal tea for an upset stomach. You hope it hel
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gcheong
5y ago
I said should and, if you haven't noticed, the things people have often fought hardest for are changes to society that increase benefits to the people living in them that don't currently enjoy such benefits.
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5y ago
Societies should exist for the benefit of the people living in them. If aspects of it do not serve the people living in them well then they should be abolished.
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gcheong
5y ago
Being good at it seems largely to be a numbers game and having the time to do it, better would be finding a loophole that allowed you to game a contest.
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5y ago
Most people I know working for a startup as an employee are doing it mainly because that was the job they could get at the time they were looking not because they were deliberately looking to join a startup. Whether it’s financially or emo
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gcheong
5y ago
“The discovery, the researchers said, sheds light on the development of early complex social behaviors in Homo sapiens.” My takeaway is that this isn’t looking so much for the dividing line between our species and others in terms of traits
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5y ago
Probably depends on the company: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kink-com/
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