itsmemattchung

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by itsmemattchung 3y ago
Damn, what combination of: an insane pain tolerance, high levels of curiosity, big desire of beauty. I wonder how many other people this procedure was tested on?
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by itsmemattchung 3y ago
Been experiencing intermittent frustration. Just last week, with uBlock origin installed, YouTube was preventing streaming almost every video I attempted to play. This week, have not received the ad blocker notification.
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by itsmemattchung 3y ago
> I’ve tried to start reflecting on what forces are motivating me when I take on extra work, or jump into an incident, or engage in glue work. After that, though: what’s next? I just recently completed an Reiss[0] assessment, a scientifi
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by itsmemattchung 3y ago
> clown school Please please please elaborate on this. I can probably guess what clown school is but ... what's the motivation here?!
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by itsmemattchung 3y ago
> As a precautionary measure, the hospital followed mandatory reporting statutes and my wife and I temporarily lost custody of David. Thanks to our incredibly effective defense lawyer, we were cleared of all charges within two months, du
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by itsmemattchung 3y ago
> They say everybody essentially writes about themselves, in this case very true. Can you elaborate on this? Curious what you mean about how (in this instance) the OP is writing about themselves?
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by itsmemattchung 3y ago
Can relate to both you and the OP. More specifically, I too have tested out (and retested) almost every project management tool and often, every few months or so, tugged at mixing it all up, thinking I'll (re)discover some magical tool
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by itsmemattchung 3y ago
> * How to feel my emotions and not suppress them or push them away. And why that matters in everyday life. Yes!! This is huge. Feeling emotions is so critical and a fundamental skill learned in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). And if
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by itsmemattchung 3y ago
Parent of 3 (soon to be 4) year old here ... Thanks for sharing. First off, I think it's normal to experience the feelings of regret when first having a child. Those first few months (maybe even years) can actually feel worse: less (so
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by itsmemattchung 3y ago
What an eye opening experience! Getting laid off can feel like an emotional rollercoaster and it's great that you were not only able to ride that wave but also, as you mentioned, reprioritize your life in such a way that you no longer
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by itsmemattchung 3y ago
Generally agree that rabbit holes (or as my wife calls mine: black holes) can be conducive to learning. But I suspect that there's diminishing returns. At some point, you may end up spinning your wheels and reaching out for help does n
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by itsmemattchung 3y ago
There’s a I’me assumptions that were made here. To clarify, we set the budget together.
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by itsmemattchung 3y ago
I’m no longer sold on talk therapy. And I recently discovered other modalities that significantly moved the needle for me. As someone who spent 5+ years in talk therapy, I’ve been getting DBT (dialectical behavior therapy) treatment for abo
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by itsmemattchung 3y ago
Issues can be categorized into three buckets: my challenges, her challenges, shared challenges. We're working through many of these with our couple's therapist but here's the gist: 1. When wife would spend beyond our defi
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by itsmemattchung 3y ago
Wife and I have been together for 8+ years and finances is still the #1 area we struggle with (more than sex, more than children), an area we are actively working on improving. When we first had our hiccups, someone suggested we divide our
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by itsmemattchung 3y ago
The testimonial section is absolutely hilarious: > Sally always says things that make me feel special, like: "You're so cool, you're different, you're not like other Black people!"
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by itsmemattchung 3y ago
Cannot believe I watched this until the very end… such an amazing, funny video. On the real, TIL that Python just introduced the case/switch statement. Thank goodness
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by itsmemattchung 3y ago
I can still hear the words of my first IT manager from 15 years ago, in his French Israeli accent: "I can tell how smart someone is by the questions they ask." Wasn't quite sold on his assertion back then. Now, I cannot agree
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by itsmemattchung 3y ago
> When looking at the cloud resources, we noticed many On-Demand EC2 instances with relatively low CPU utilization, which can be expected considering they don't have customers yet. As a software consultant myself, I'd probably
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by itsmemattchung 3y ago
> I think there’s something about being an empathic person in an environment that values systems thinking You took the words right out of my mouth. That's exactly how I am feeling these days.
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by itsmemattchung 3y ago
> I've personally never really felt like I've cared enough about anything this much. Because of this, I've always felt like I'm missing something in life. I would love to be passionate about something as much as Junnn
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by itsmemattchung 3y ago
That's amazing. As someone with a non-linear journey into tech, love hearing about people like this. Insane that he's been able to write Linux related YouTube content despite never working in industry.
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by itsmemattchung 3y ago
> Dominion alleged that Fox staff, from newsroom employees all the way up to Murdoch, knew the statements were false but continued to air them out of fear of losing viewers to media competitors on the right. Better to ask for forgiveness
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by itsmemattchung 4y ago
I don't understand humans. It's easy to say "The United States" did this but really: people (working for the US government) did this. How do the employees releasing the chemicals — on their own people — justify their own
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by itsmemattchung 4y ago
> There is no finish line. There is no winning, no losing. There is a finish line, but I think the goal post moves over and over and over again. Historically, every time I set a goal, I would think to myself, "once I do/get&#x2
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by itsmemattchung 4y ago
Is there an accompanying textbook for your course or only the papers that are listed?
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by itsmemattchung 4y ago
Ex-AWS here and echo what you said. Although there are some outliers (like myself, in terms of non-linear path) at AWS, most SDEs more or less traveled a similar paths: 1. Undergrad CS -> FAANG 2. (International) Undergrad {CS, Math, Com
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by itsmemattchung 4y ago
> I'm chewing on a lot of blog posts about this Care to share some of your favorite findings?
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by itsmemattchung 4y ago
> How terrifying is that, busting ass from your 20s to mid to late 50s Agreed. I'm all onboard with delayed gratification. I'm onboard with "putting in the work." But waiting (literally) decades before living it up...
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by itsmemattchung 4y ago
> The main warning I might just give to people is to keep proper distances between work and personal life I've been thinking about this a lot lately. As a millennial, I've tied so much my self-worth into my career and recently,

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