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by jghn 1y ago
> In the US you can fire an employee for any reason at any time On paper, yes. In practice, especially in a larger company? It's often a long journey that involves a lot of energy on the part of the manager. And then of course you
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Maybe. I've been coding professionally for a few decades now. I have always looked stuff up constantly. It's a lot more seamless now due to first search engines and later the ever improving autocomplete. To be honest, I think half
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At the population scale in the US "The farmers" as in the stereotype of the rugged, individual American by and large does not. That's part of the point of this article. BigAg farms? You're absolutely right.
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Unfortunately "the farmers" is simply a marketing gimmick along the lines of "the children". It is used to evoke a specific image and implied set of ideals. And because of that we have to deal with all kinds of crap legi
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> That there’s no gold watch and pension waiting for you if you invest your conviction and identity into a job. Anecdata, but middle of the pack Gen-Xer here and I never once believed that to be true.
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I agree with you that the real rubric is that I'd expect the candidate to be able to explain everything they did and why. For the most part I don't care how they got there. Was thinking about this recently in a conversation about
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> They want to be able to afford things on their own through their own hard work They don't seem to mind being on Medicare. I suppose one could claim that they don't view this as charity/welfare, but then I'd claim th
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Before Moneyball there were other controversial stats, largely driven by Bill James. By and large they had the same footprint you're describing. In any particular game they were such a small effect as to be meaningless. But of the cour
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This was the issue with the common meme of "moneyball". It was never about optimizing the specific stats the A's originally used. The whole point was to zig when everyone else was zagging to save money.
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Reverse sear is a similar situation, but not sous-vide.
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> "Searing the meat seals in the juices" -- every chef on every cooking show. I could be wrong on this but I think Kenji was the first prominent writer to debunk this. I bring it up given the context of who all we're talki
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The point I was raising is that I don't think it's the self taught angle itself that is the causal factor. As an example, there's lots of things I'm self taught at but also terrible. However, someone who already has the
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I think one needs to be careful with statements like this. Is it the case that those who outperform tend to be self taught? Or that those who are self taught tend to outperform? I can easily see why the former is true. The latter seems a lo
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I added that genre to popular science books as things on which I will no longer waste my time reading. In both cases they're just collections of cool sounding anecdotes without much redeeming value beyond being brain pleasers. And in t
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> Sometimes people find the style, trend, or community they like and just go all in on it. People tend to imprint on the in style of their 20s & early 30s and anchor on it for the rest of their life. For example, it's why all o
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Also "medical device" is a broader term than most people realize. For instance: a blood draw or tissue biopsy, followed by DNA sequencing, followed by data analysis, leading to a report for personalized cancer treatment.
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I'd take that a step further. I don't know how anyone who read it back at that timepoints would not have immediately pictured the static associated with not getting a signal.
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> and it's the canonical FP language Don't tell that to the Haskell crowd. I feel like at least half the time this topic comes up on HN someone jumps out of the woodwork claiming lisp isn't fp because it doesn't do s
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Ive seen this a few times in the past but for a different reason. What would happen in these cases was that internally there’d be some cascade of calls to microservices that all get collected. In the most egregious examples it’s just some p
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oh hey I probably remember you as I do kind of remember knowing that the head trainer was TK! I multi-factioned for a while (shame shame!) and had a low level character in the DC. The way you all did mechwarrior training was so much more ha
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I really wish this series had kept on going. I felt it had promise
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I nearly failed out of school a few times because of 3055! And over time I worked my way to be a faction leader for one of the IS houses. That was basically like working a full time job but obviously no pay. Which wasn’t great as someone wh
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There were several, all based off of the same live action map/cockpit/etc code. The granddaddy was 3025, followed. T 3056 - these were attenpting to portray the entire BT universe. So you’d sign up, join a faction, be assigned to
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by jghn 1y ago
I was an avid non-washer until experts like Kenji [1] started weighing in. You definitely have to hold off washing them until the last moment to avoid sliminess. Although I don't find the time added to be all that consequential in the
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There's a really good podcast [1] that dives into the background of English. It starts off even further back, talking about PIE and how that affected all the earlier languages of the region. And then starts tying the pieces together on
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this is also why cooking advice shifted from "don't wash mushrooms" to "wash mushrooms". If you're cooking your mushrooms properly you'll boil off all the water anyways, so it doesn't matter. It'
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Not only is it still going but it's possible to dust off your ancient account. An old guild mate reported that he had recovered his account originally closed ~2000. Sadly, of the two accounts I had back in the day the only one still re
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I hated EQ for me the reason was it was not UO nor was it even trying to recreate the vibrancy & real world that UO's designers had gone for. *BUT* I also recognized that EQ represented a game that was much more aligned to what a n
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> why didn't the Dems come up with such a candidate? For one thing, the GOP have had a successful campaign over the last 50+ years to win the framing war. They're now able to present themselves as the plucky outsider who'l
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In a past life I worked at a nonprofit. In an attempt to woo higher quality engineers we bumped our salaries as high as we possibly could. It worked to an extent, more mission driven people would come from Big Tech to join us. But despite t

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