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by padolsey 4y ago
Agreed. I love art that challenges our perceptions of reality, society, even that which questions urbanism as a form of aesthetic pursuit. But this is just absolutely poo. A self-indulgent stain of hubris.
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OOC what are the most pronounced ideologies you observe in it?
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by padolsey 4y ago
Have you interviewed at a FAANG-like company before for a L5+ position? You may be surprised by the process.
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by padolsey 4y ago
Strange to presume all domains are equivalent. Stock-picking and math-savant-esque talent are very distinct from almost every domain where one would value tenured expertise: surgery, aeronautics, civil engineers. Goodness me: consider your
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by padolsey 4y ago
> human brain can hold ten years of programming information to be absolutely absurd. Wow, so this seems to completely discount the very idea of expertise? Do you believe it simply doesn't exist. Strong dunning-kruger vibes coming fr
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by padolsey 4y ago
Hmm, this isn't really a "howto" post. It's the authors' disdain and insecurities masquerading as one.
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by padolsey 4y ago
I'm probably one of those people who waxes lyrical about bookstores but don't really find myself in them nowadays. To me it's a special experience tho. I experience them like museums and there are very few left (!!) that are
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by padolsey 4y ago
Agreed. But I also understand the anxieties. I'd say a very significant % of programmers are not creating complex systems; they're coding up mostly CRUD UIs that have a great deal in common. It's getting to that inflection po
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by padolsey 4y ago
That's beautiful. Thank you.
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by padolsey 4y ago
Too tired to type a cogent paragraph. Just that I have seen lives saved by SSRIs.
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by padolsey 4y ago
Why not both? We always seem to try to dichotomize and categorize incredibly complex systems for some reason. Surely there are many components to the symptom clusters of depression and anxiety. Life circumstances can matter, exercise can ma
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by padolsey 4y ago
Can you articulate how your brain allowed you to escape from that trap? Did K affect you on some low-level inarticulable level? Sincerely curious. Nihilism is a struggle for me!
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by padolsey 4y ago
WFH is wonderful because you can go from sitting in lotus to standing with a gentle sway to lying down to barefoot yoga all without raising any eyebrows. Eg. I love lying on my belly with a pillow propping up my chest and my laptop in front
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by padolsey 4y ago
Ok, very curious of others' metrics and hueristics for actions that are defensible. Mine are probably composed of: - Net degree of suffering imposed (+ nth-order suffering imposed on eg. family) - Thus, nervous system pain recept
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by padolsey 4y ago
Performance Summary Cycle. From experience, the psc culture within fb/meta is intense, internally competitive (even within teams) and heavily focuses on quantifiable gains (e.g. often tech-debt or ethical-minded features are forgone fo
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by padolsey 4y ago
> We just don't notice it outside our area of expertise. This is a common trope - and has a name - "gell-man amnesia", that people raise again and again, but I don't think it's the whole story. There are differen
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by padolsey 4y ago
So, to me, this is just calibrating against a continuum. Right? I think of this as binary-searching a kinda normal'ish distribution? I'm not good at math so I had a hard time once the OP article got into differential equations
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by padolsey 4y ago
Honestly I would always go full-frame if I can afford it. The staying power of APS-C seems to just be a price-based competition between the big players. Full-frames have gotten sufficiently petite as well, and at the end of the day simply o
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by padolsey 4y ago
Can't tell if you're being sarcastic or needlessly abrasive. Anyway, it doesn't really matter how supposedly intuitive something is if the actual experience of using it results in the pain expressed by the author's frien
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by padolsey 4y ago
Oh agreed! Sorry about mixed terminology. Though they don't really provide "equality of opportunity" either :/ People w/ more privelege, at the starting line, will have more supposed 'merit' and therefore
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by padolsey 4y ago
>medical issues that have since been treated And what if they haven't been? Disability isn't usually a temporary thing or even necessarily medical in nature (crucial to see disability as a distinct axis from illness!). Hiring w
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by padolsey 4y ago
how would a ML model find applicants with any kind of disability unless it was freely volunteered in a resume/CV? A few off the top of my head: (1) Signals gained from ways that a CV is formatted or written (e.g. indicating dyslexia
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by padolsey 5y ago
I would love a return to that historic ideal, though it just wouldn't be economical on its own. It would end up being a loss-making add-on to some larger enterprise.. perhaps a bookstore or a locally funded community centre? I'm r
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by padolsey 5y ago
This is cool. Reminds me.. I have always liked the idea of opening a cafe (who hasn't !?) but I'd struggle with the modern behaviour of peeps sitting for hours taking up a plug + wifi in exchange for ~£$4. Hugely uneconomical for
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Visa and MasterCard suspend Russian operations(bbc.co.uk)
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by padolsey 5y ago
It was never intended as a definitive _thing_. I don't think anyone believes it has an exact definition. Just like good writing. There is no canonical good. Shakespeare and Hemingway are both "good" but absurdly different. Bu
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Tbf the website doesn’t state it’s for those with depression
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It seems that some people are misunderstanding the value in these questions and the insight they lend. It seems potentially very useful for those with various types of executive dysfunction or mental illnesses that prevent them from either

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