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by octokatt 2y ago
Consider moving to a different internal department if you haven't; sometimes, a silo of a company gets stuck in chainsaw mode, and the best way to deal (as an IC) is to find a different silo.
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by octokatt 2y ago
A single tree won't, but a forest (aka, a system of trees growing and dying, to be replaced by more trees), will sequester CO2 meaningfully better than an open field. You're missing the forest for the trees, my dude.
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by octokatt 2y ago
It sounds like you enjoy books, the problem is convincing yourself you deserve to take time to read them. To quiet that anxiety: > The habit of reading is a meaningful way to meditatively intake large portions of information. Reading h
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by octokatt 2y ago
Speaking more broadly, try taking the test with someone who knows you well. When I was tested for autism, my interviewer requested my wife be there specifically to help answer some things which I did not understand fully and didn't hav
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by octokatt 3y ago
We need both efficient businesses, with their large economies of scale, as well as efficient markets, which reward innovative efficient businesses by allowing them to get larger. The trick in any attempt to create economic policy like taxes
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by octokatt 3y ago
I appreciate how making useless stuff is fun as a hobby, and enjoying that play is important. Even crows enjoy their sleds [0], that’s how important play is. Needing to complete a project for the sake of your continued survival/payche
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by octokatt 3y ago
My take away is "humans enjoy living in spaces designed to be comfortable for humans". This criterion can be failed in cities and suburbs, though the failed state looks like miles of concrete versus... miles of concrete, actually
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by octokatt 3y ago
This is a really underhanded way to get disabled people who have trouble working in an office to leave en mass. The same for new parents, people struggling to care for elderly family members, and aging workers. Does anyone know of an organ
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by octokatt 3y ago
> This seems weird to me because they mainly just argue that abusing kids is bad, which I think is an extremely uncontroversial opinion. This shouldn't be a controversial opinion, but it is. Corporal punishment is still legal [0],
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by octokatt 3y ago
Not pictured, but to Break Into Silicon Valley, definitely don't be disabled. If you struggle with chronic illness or general health issues, you'll be left on read. If you can't hustle the twelve-hour day, even if "most
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by octokatt 3y ago
https://archive.is/4W99o
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by octokatt 3y ago
They removed participants with childhood-onset obesity to control for this discovered factor being innate. While this study needs further follow-up, it’s a good starting point to uncover more of the psychological/neurological effects o
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by octokatt 3y ago
I put all of the big monthly bills on to a airline-points card, which also breaks down spending into bill categories. Every three or four months, I go through and check to make sure the amounts aren't increasing -- if they are, I redu
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by octokatt 3y ago
I’m taking a New Year’s Resolution to remove as many subscriptions from my life as possible. So… I’ll be working on making a solid homelab again.
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Washington Post Union on Strike(docs.google.com)
3 points by octokatt 3y ago|1 comments
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by octokatt 3y ago
Open letter from the union staff. Coverage below: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/washington-post-st... https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/07/business/media/wa
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by octokatt 3y ago
You did it right. Kudos for making the smart decision -- you can't buy home.
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by octokatt 3y ago
I worked at an insurance company where a giant COBOL mainframe squatted in the middle of their data systems like a toad* . During the last major attempt to remove the system, they got close. A team of good engineers worked over two years p
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by octokatt 3y ago
> Under Chinese law, blacklisted defaulters are blocked from a range of economic activities, including purchasing aeroplane tickets and making payments through mobile apps such as Alipay and WeChat Pay [...] > “I thought my son was go
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by octokatt 3y ago
Couldn’t find the original link, but here’s news coverage for a game called September 12th. > In this Serious Game you need to kill terrorists shooting missiles. The action uses first person perspective in order to enhance immersion. The
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by octokatt 3y ago
They do: https://nanowrimo.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/191758964889... I remember there being a group out there that had the same competition but trying to tweak a good LLM to write a novel in a month, but
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by octokatt 3y ago
This ask unintentionally sets up a vote between Emacs and vim keybindings, and I'm looking forward to seeing which wins.
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by octokatt 3y ago
Can confirm, worked at Cash App, they vastly overhired. Teams were tripling in size, trying to keep up with growth, and then managers got used to the idea of "if you have too much work, hire more". It's funny the article cit
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by octokatt 3y ago
I agree. Monopolies are great for the monopoly, but inevitably cause less competition, and thus less innovation. It's really weird watching hackers defend the idea of monopolies like Google now, at the expense of FOSS. It makes me wo
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by octokatt 3y ago
+1 for this article, I've seen the same a lot. Having played and run D&D for 30+ years, I've found the biggest power fantasy for players is never throwing a fireball or killing a dragon. Usually, it's just being powerful
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by octokatt 3y ago
I swear start-ups try to hire for Judas Goats as often as possible, normalizing long hours and "giving your all".
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by octokatt 3y ago
It's the Protestant Work Ethic combined with Puritan/Catholic Guilt that really gets you.
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by octokatt 3y ago
The above link is a PR-based article, the harder science stuff is linked below [0] [1]. > The measurements showed a tensile stiffness of 86 GPa (gigapascals) for the material and a tensile strength of 1.57 GPa. > “The bio-based CNFs f
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by octokatt 3y ago
I need more websites like this to exist.
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Second Major Chinese Real Estate Developer Files for Chapter 15 Bankruptcy(cnn.com)
16 points by octokatt 3y ago|0 comments

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