mrcptthrowaway

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by mrcptthrowaway 2y ago
> A lesson I learned from reading Mark Manson’s “Models” as an awkward stupid teenager who wanted to get girls is that the world is an abundant one full of all kinds of people: some who shun us, others who love us. When someone reveals t
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by mrcptthrowaway 2y ago
Yep, I thought this was a ridiculous statement. Then I got diagnosed in my mid thirties because of sleeping issues. My psychologist needed to evaluate everything about me and diagnosed me as autistic, despite not really having social issues
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by mrcptthrowaway 2y ago
Autistic people have bottom up processing. So when an autistic person gets into software engineering, it's likely that they have a "first principle" style of thinking. Many neurotypicals I see don't have that as their de
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by mrcptthrowaway 2y ago
20% to 30% of autistic people seem to have perfect pitch [1, 2]. Not all perfect pitch people have autism. On average neurotypical perfect pitch people do score higher on the AQ (19) than neurotypicals (12), but much lower than high functio
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Ask HN: Can PowerBI be replaced by Python?
3 points by mrcptthrowaway 2y ago|2 comments
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by mrcptthrowaway 2y ago
Not grandparent but I have an idea. First of all, that's how you see it. That's how I see it. But what about someone else? This comment is going to be a bit rough as I'm going to play act a lot to really drive my point home.
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by mrcptthrowaway 2y ago
Thanks for your reply :)
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by mrcptthrowaway 2y ago
A small word of warning: I'm speaking with brutal honesty, extreme language is used (unfortunately I have to, it's the truth). Throwaway for obvious reasons. I tweaked the parameters a bit, it's representative of my case but