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by gyulai 5y ago
Maybe companies are afraid of handing too much bargaining power to the employee: 20hr weeks basically mean you can get a whole second 20hr job. After a while of truly getting to know both jobs, you will likely leave the worse one. You cou
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by gyulai 5y ago
Video game music is actually designed to increase your ability to concentrate on the game. I highly recommend listening to some as you're coding. You can get it at Bandcamp [1,2]. Trance music also works, especially Goa Trance. Bina
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> marginally more confident goes a long way ...not sure. My own piece of anecdata here is that healthy self confidence is not really correlated with better career opportunities at all in our industry. If anything, maybe even the opposi
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That's why, at this point, I only buy mobile devices that meet milspec or are otherwise ruggedized. A mobile device that doesn't look like it would be right at home on a battlefield or a construction site is just not for me. Why
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My point exactly. The dictionary editors must have noticed that "environmental crisis" entered into common parlance, and didn't fit the pre-existing definitions of "crisis", so they had to invent a new definition t
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We will never know since we can't measure the magnitude of an outcome that never happened. Adverse effects from fearmongering, however, did happen.
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I really don't think we should call the "environmental crisis" a "crisis". For example, smoking probably causes more deaths than Covid. So, while it may be perfectly true that things like smoking and pollution are
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We're not even squarely on the other side of Covid yet, and I'm already sick and tired of the "worse than Covid" trope.
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I have the old remarkable and use it without its cloud features. Even though, according to its documentation, it's supposed to be able to handle EPUBs, I have, for some reason, never gotten them to work. I have also kind of "stan
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Can you provide some pointers on the tech stack you use for producing these? Do you have something similar to https://github.com/standardebooks/tools ?
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This is great! Thank you so much for putting in that work. Suggestion: It would be really great to have PDFs formatted for smaller paper sizes. With these PDFs, the font is going to get really small when reading on a remarkable or simila
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This article frames management as being quite an adversarial process, framing it as managers vs software engineering ICs. It seems to say that it's quite natural that as an SE manager you'd have no actual SE experience and that m
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I wonder how robust those findings actually are, especially for high-functioning persons in the ADHD spectrum where the symptoms are not clinically debilitating. I'm thinking now of how f-MRI is notoriously difficult to get right in me
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BTW: adhd_thraway Can you provide an e-mail or other way to reach out 1:1? There might be an opportunity for a collaboration here.
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Couldn't agree more. I don't see it as a reflection of my own mental state or mental health at all, just as a reflection of the fact that it's time to start looking for a new job. I think that it is quite common for software
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If there's a program to create work environments for people who experience mortal battles with burnout, procrastination and self-doubt when things are stale and there's nothing to do but boring forms, then that sounds like somethi
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Reducing the "overcomplication" problem to a "communication" problem doesn't help, because it suffers from the same shortcoming where these Dunning-Kruger-esque paradoxes are concerned. All too often the pattern is
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> If everywhere you go smells, maybe it's time to check your shoes. ...well it could also be the fundamental attribution error I mentioned earlier. The very way this thread is unfolding reflects my initial point: From the outsid
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I'm often reminded of the saying by H. L. Mencken "Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong." Now, I do agree that 80% of al
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One particularly prominent special case of this is when one engineer makes a snap judgment about another engineer's work that it's "overcomplicated". Oftentimes this means that the person making the judgment hasn't
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I put a lot of effort into figuring out this conundrum for myself two years ago and never got to a solution. I used to live in a large city and basically off of fast food. I then moved to a rural area and then got a diagnosis that means I
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Good point.
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Though: Software Engineering is not doing all that well on the mental health front either, as far as professions go. See [1] which I found kind of shocking, though I don't know what those numbers look like for other professions or in
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I'm in the process of attempting this. I'm taking some classes at law school, but I'm only studying towards the Bachelor of Laws, not towards the kind of university credential that you need as a prerequisite for being allowe
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Project Gutenberg lost favour with me when they basically said "U.S. Copyright is the only copyright law that matters on the internet, so screw you Germany" and geoblocked the entire country. This must have felt like such a slap
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Was just going to say the same thing. ...I might have phrased it in a snarky way like "Do overpayed SWEs in the U.S. realize just how lucky they were for having come out of an American vagina?" It's a good thing I don'
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I guess, when such administrative procedures are decided, then the kinds of considerations that go into it have to do with whether the document is more to your advantage or more to theirs. In a high stakes situation where the document is t
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I think the author of this tool is totally missing the point of the print/sign/scan legal hoop that one sometimes has to jump through. The law sometimes requires certain documents to be "in writing" and there is, unfort
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...or you can go the other route and make a very deliberate decision that there is one specific piece of hardware that you're going to support and not be sidetracked into developing drivers for a huge array of hardware. For example, I
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I've managed to resist getting a smartphone for as long as possible. This got to be impossible for me at roundabout the year of 2018 with some of the developments in the 2FA space. For example two of my banks now make it impossible t

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