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by mikrl 3y ago
I’ve heard of managers who are so inclusive of trans women that they talk down to them and give them menial clerical tasks (as an engineer) as if they were cis women.
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by mikrl 3y ago
>UW is like one of those 1960's, concrete block kind of Soviet Utilitarian places The way I came to appreciate the aesthetic of UW was to realize it is a school of the 20th and 21st centuries, whereas the Ivies are schools of the 18
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>Where do they find the time to play like this? For me it started in university when I had more unstructured time and continued post graduation because I found it more interesting than most TV, video games etc. Feels surreal to see “norm
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by mikrl 4y ago
>they should do it all at once When I was last laid off, the meeting was concurrent with my friend on another team. I was not laid off by my manager but my 2x skip; other members of my team were laid off, presumably at the same time, by
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by mikrl 4y ago
There is a giant portrait of him as an older artist on the side of a building downtown Montreal. You can see it pretty well from the mountain looking S.E. IIRC a good spot was the Ave Du Museé at the top of the stairs to Pine.
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Lake Huron also has the #1 and #2 longest freshwater beaches in the world (8.7mi and 7mi) , both fairly close to Manitoulin island!
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>Mass media did a number on them IMO the same can be said for every generation of women that came of age from the 1990s until today, but yea heroin chic and size zero culture really hit Gen X women. In fact it’s so bad, that even male zo
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by mikrl 4y ago
The market is certainly different. Microsoft/Zenimax/Bethesda owns Doom and Quake.
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Then you attach it to a graphics engine…
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>Accelerators are about relationships, signalling, prestige, advisory, networking Interesting to see this after reading the ‘nice vs competent’ threads because everything you mentioned is a soft skill, and correlated with EQ/SQ, nic
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Show HN: Django-LLM (manage langchain in Django)(github.com)
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Same and so it is with most of my favourite people to work with: those who are very technically competent, collaborative and with amazing personalities. Unfortunately, this is a losing strategy in corporate environments and you will be outc
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by mikrl 4y ago
Are we not already insane? Do you not see sociopathic tendencies in our industry already? Has our humanity not already been tested by existing and conceptually simpler technologies?
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- if you ride after a night drinking I was at my local bar here in Ontario and a gang of older fellows (boomer/Gen X) roll up on electric stand-up scooters. Some drunk zoomers started laughing and giving them shit and flexing their tru
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A coworking space I visit has a little (digital) foot pedal for their water fountain
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Two words my friend: Jimmy Savile. He had the fawning press coverage, the money, the hype and the connections covering for him despite people calling him out for being sketchy. Granted SBF wasn’t as bad of a sex pest but still, it’s probabl
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by mikrl 4y ago
Judging by how some of these EA types turned coat only when the FTX collapse hit the mainstream, I suspect that these so-called altruists have the moral scruples of your typical corporate snake.
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Yea you can really optimize it with some thought. Make the same stir fry but with a different sauce. Refried beans can make burritos, tacos or bowls. Chicken is endlessly versatile in stews, curry, schnitzel, etc. I too would like a menu ma
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by mikrl 4y ago
>The problem is that smoking is pretty much 100% bad Bad FOR you, yes; bad as an experience, no. It tastes good and facilitates socialization. >social media has some good sides in that it allows you to keep in touch with family and fr
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by mikrl 4y ago
In undergrad I used to play crusader kings for hours and get super (too) invested. These days I jump on Doom Eternal (hurt me plenty) for maybe 15-45 minutes at a time, chew through a horde of demons with glee and can easily walk away to do
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by mikrl 4y ago
No it is not. You can exclude mediocrity while also being exclusionary on other axes. They are unrelated issues. In fact, I’ve even heard of exceptional people being abused/bullied for belonging to the wrong group to the point of being
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No one wants to write html_page.html, but html_page.js?? Now you’re talking.
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Servers love tip out. They can make hundreds a night and possibly even what a junior SWE can (pro rata) if they’re good. If you want fierce resistance from servers - ask them to split tips more equitably with the kitchen - offer to abolish
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by mikrl 4y ago
>All that gets me is friends Are you signalling that you’re looking for friends or partners? IME women don’t react well to crudeness or excessive directness but with a silver tongue you can flower up “hi I’d like to escalate” and as long
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by mikrl 4y ago
That is one thing I noticed about North American social culture, the relative lack of [semi-]public spaces to just exist. In the UK there are countless nooks, crannies, parks etc to just kill time with people. Even the pub is an institution
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That’s some doubleplusgoodthink. Having more words for concepts leads to crimethink, ante-vapourisation.
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I recently saw this myself. Woefully under-utilized talent before the layoff, followed by a drastic headcount reduction. Those affected ranged from “yea I can see why” to “complete footgun letting this person go, GG” For me personally, bein
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by mikrl 4y ago
>This is Eastern bloc level authoritarianism. Police are out of control Outside of the Polish martial law I don’t think my family ever risked arrest for walking to a cake shop as kids. Cannot comment on the USSR, but I highly doubt the a
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by mikrl 4y ago
Minecraft is also stupidly accessible. The only dwarf fortress players I know IRL are also skilled with and interested in computers. Normies aren’t sinking 6 weeks (what it took me) to ramp up on DF, and certainly wouldn’t have in 2013
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Some of those look straight out of the NSDAP which itself went from countercultural, to mainstream, to destroyed in a hail of fire and steel.

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