justonceokay

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by justonceokay 5d ago
It’s not really a story with a beginning and an end, but I guess I just got so fed up with how anxious the industry was making me. I put up a good fight for over 10 years at different companies and in different roles, but just couldn’t find
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by justonceokay 5d ago
I went through this and ended up becoming (through a long and twisted path) a maintenance super for an apartment building near my house. Maybe an overreaction but every day is a blessing compared to the mental anguish I experienced making c
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by justonceokay 10d ago
That sounds nice but in practice it’s probably not super helpful. Yes you could make a special case for reducing “+” over integers. But in python you can generally not promise that all the inputs are strictly integers, and you can’t even pr
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by justonceokay 10d ago
That’s very nice but that isn’t the price you would sell it for, especially if you were trying to make it your livelihood
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by justonceokay 11d ago
If you watch The Price is Right episodes from the 80s, it is clear that household items have only had mild inflation. Many items are prices a little lower than today but not outrageously so. On the other hand, the quality of the items is of
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by justonceokay 24d ago
When visiting Seattle for the first time my mom was simultaneously outraged at the lack of plastic bags and the recycling bins everywhere, and also in awe at how clean the city was. Never did the two thoughts cross each other in her head
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by justonceokay 24d ago
When I was in school 15 years ago, BGP was described to me as a sketchy game of telephone. “Oh yeah you want to route to a 129.37.x.x address? I know a guy who knows a guy. Said he’s the owner of the whole 129./ block. In fact, he’s my
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by justonceokay 25d ago
I think you overestimate the number of people that can work from home. For society to function the majority of us have to actually go to a physical place and do something real with our hands and our time.
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by justonceokay 1mo ago
So did you take them and have a bad time? Because they definitely work for me and I doubt a placebo could have such a large effect on the 48 hour stomach pains I used to get alongside my frequent panic attacks. I find it funny that people c
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by justonceokay 1mo ago
You’re making the mistake of thinking there’s a top down process. That’s not what’s happening. It goes like this: “if I close my public restroom then all of the people asking for a public restroom will have to go across the street and they
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by justonceokay 1mo ago
Classic xkcd on this topic https://xkcd.com/882/
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by justonceokay 1mo ago
To quote Billy Joel: “you can get what you want or you can just get old”
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by justonceokay 1mo ago
There were a lot less meetings cause you would just walk over and talk with someone. Of course that’s still a meeting but it meant that people generally had more free time to connect and often problems would be resolved in five minutes righ
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by justonceokay 1mo ago
Absolutely. When I started working at Amazon in 2014 it had a reputation as a company with a very bad work life balance. On the other hand, all communication was done through email and conference call (no cameras). Most people who worked la
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by justonceokay 1mo ago
Always be wary of “of course” and “just” as they tend to hide a lot of complexity. It is not obvious to me that society would keep on going without change if it were not for the technology that we are all exposed to and expected to use.
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by justonceokay 2mo ago
Tends to look strange, though spiraling around the edge twice before doing the usual lines will make your life easier, as you mentioned.
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by justonceokay 3mo ago
There’s the cost of supplies used during transport. Also the cost of maintaining potential supplies like blood even if they go unused. EMTs may make $23 but they are also getting benefits and have other overhead, making their real hourly co
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by justonceokay 3mo ago
Absolutely. We live in a time of unprecedented wealth, stability, health, acceptance, and knowledge. Don’t listen to the daily news, compare our situation to past generations and different times. If I had a Time Machine I would not use it t
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by justonceokay 3mo ago
Where are you that the average person wants to go back to farming?
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by justonceokay 4mo ago
Anecdotally I know of an engineer in the Excel team. They would keep around a list of low priority security bugs. When they wanted to do improvements on the system they would attach it to one of the security bugs “nearby“ because the change
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by justonceokay 4mo ago
How do you justify that your intuition about what echolocation is like tracks with what a bat actually feels?
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by justonceokay 4mo ago
One of the seminal papers of the 20th century. And like any truly good philosophy paper the argument is very clear and a real head-scratcher.
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by justonceokay 4mo ago
Reddit is fun for a while but there is a strong “lowest common denominator” problem that plagues almost every subreddit.
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by justonceokay 4mo ago
You might be surprised to hear that there are great engineers who are also good at people skills.
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by justonceokay 4mo ago
> I think I have just too strong of a mask for anyone else to truly pierce. And a flair for the dramatic!
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by justonceokay 4mo ago
Aren’t soft skills much more important than hard skills when it comes to building a team?
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by justonceokay 4mo ago
You don’t have to be poly to bring “relationship anarchy” to your current relationships.
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by justonceokay 4mo ago
This is a feature of every instrument. Even with piano you have to start pressing down a key slightly before you want to ring out or you will be behind time.
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by justonceokay 4mo ago
I programmed for 15 years and I like watching the dumpster fire. This is one of the better managed forums on the internet, so even though I don’t do that job anymore it’s nice to check in.
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by justonceokay 4mo ago
I am a handyman and have a lot of weird, specific physical skills. Like being able to paint around an electrical outlet, caulking, leveling concrete, juggling, cartwheels, tying cherry stems in my mouth, etc. The life of an embodied worker.

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