matrix87

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by matrix87 2y ago
I have no interest in using postman after they trashed all of my requests and subsequently tried forcing me to tie an account to it it's literally just an http client with a UI, better luck next time
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by matrix87 2y ago
sometimes it amplifies preexisting issues and forces you to deal with them, at least that's what they did for me
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by matrix87 2y ago
the taste is really horrible and the lemon doesn't go well with it
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by matrix87 2y ago
You shouldn't compare mega doses for shrooms vs acid, they both hit very differently shrooms feel kind of weak until you get to mega dose territory I wouldn't recommend a shroom mega dose either, it feels too chaotic to take anyth
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by matrix87 2y ago
> but never have this acquaintance seemingly think of me if I’m not directly asking them to hang I've noticed sometimes in certain relationships it settles into one person usually doing the initiating. every relationship is differen
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by matrix87 2y ago
I mean, maybe the ones making the prejudiced hiring decisions. But everyone else, no I can't blame them
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by matrix87 2y ago
I used to think this way because I did them and had some bad trips... it made me more antisocial than where I was already. In hindsight, it forced me to recognize that problem I don't think every bad trip is some kind of tough love, bu
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by matrix87 2y ago
SSRIs + side effects are probably more dangerous (and less effective) than lsd
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by matrix87 2y ago
Edit: And I will say, they've shown me a great deal of hospitality I see a lot of negative feelings in the comments here. If anyone is having negative feelings they should be directed to corporations who have artificially engineered th
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by matrix87 2y ago
I'm not really holding any of that against them because moving to a new country with a different culture is hard
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by matrix87 2y ago
> Indians bonding to go to Indian restaurants during lunch break, so now most of the colleagues follow suit I mean, if you're going out with a group, it's usually majority vote anyway And frankly they have good food
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by matrix87 2y ago
something weird on my team is that most of them (around 40) are from the exact same province in india just seems kind of bizarre to me, like deciding to only hire people from Florida for a team in California
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by matrix87 2y ago
I just remembered, Irvin Weil has a bunch of Dostoevsky lectures for free on YouTube. He provides a lot of good info and speaks really well. A lot of it is biographical and historical context
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by matrix87 2y ago
Probably Brothers Karamazov I didn't really understand what it was trying to tell me when I first read it, the ideas just sort of ruminated. I read it when I was either 19 or 20, was completely at odds with who I was then but helped me
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by matrix87 2y ago
thanks for checking the edits, personally it's probably going to be easier to pack my shit and go somewhere less bad
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by matrix87 2y ago
It seems like it's vague on purpose and whenever I ask my manager about it he just sort of non answers (pretty sure he's afraid to ask the skip manager)
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by matrix87 2y ago
I forgot to add they don't pay us anything extra for time outside of business hours. It's a salaried position
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by matrix87 2y ago
It's salaried unfortunately
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by matrix87 2y ago
Just a question for other people who have been in industry longer. I'm somewhat new, wondering if my company's oncall is "normal" or abusive My current company has a rotating week of oncall. Happens every 2 months or so.
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by matrix87 2y ago
> Additionally, paging someone when they should be sleeping is also abusive. My current job does this, they expect you to respond to pages at 4am You're telling me this isn't a thing other places?
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by matrix87 2y ago
> Often, the on-call engineers are pulled into working on production features or long-term fixes from previous issues, leaving little bandwidth for proactive system improvements. the way my company does it, on-call rotates around the tea
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by matrix87 2y ago
It might bring more profits but it also has brought a lot of reputational damage, at least in this case
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by matrix87 2y ago
it's dubious whether it would pay off long term given the stigma of being a felon. whatever return there is, probably not enough to account for the mental distress involved
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by matrix87 2y ago
> but if you asked me at that time how to convert 12/13 to decimal I probably wouldn't be able to do better than a rough approximation lol now I kind of want to try this at the butchers and see the response I get
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by matrix87 2y ago
> If this is the case, question what will happen when the students you describe graduate. Maybe, they will get a reality check. I just went to whole foods the other day and the butcher didn't know how to convert between fractions an
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by matrix87 2y ago
Idiomatic maybe in alt right circles. I've never seen anyone else use it as a figure of speech like this
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by matrix87 2y ago
> And then the web billionaires won’t even need to toss those few shekels at artists. Why say "shekel" here instead of "dollar"? Or any other currency? Given the context of the article, the choice of words is either e
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by matrix87 2y ago
Idk, compare it to a forum like lobste.rs that has a much more strict filter for what's allowed. Personally I find lobste.rs a lot less entertaining because it's too on-topic and has a stuffy feeling
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by matrix87 2y ago
I don't know why you're implying that high salaries and unionization are mutually exclusive
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by matrix87 2y ago
I wonder if they regularly do this and then re-create the same jobs just to keep people in fear or else, at this point there would be no domestic jobs period

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