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by parpfish 2y ago
I laugh to myself whenever I read some disclaimer that says “ask your doctor” because… how? I’m supposed to call the office, wait six to nine months, and then ask about a mild health concern I had that’s long past?
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by parpfish 2y ago
But AARO is still in the department of defense. We need an agency that has nothing to do with the military
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by parpfish 2y ago
One thing that bugs me about the UFO/UAP disclosure folks is that they assume all military secrecy is part of some sort of coverup and not just normal military protocols. Disclosing things that the military deemed anomalous reveals a l
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by parpfish 2y ago
oR god tier talent and a bunch of other god tier talent that decided to coast and cash their fat checks
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by parpfish 2y ago
that's part of what i like about whiteboarding interviews -- you can get realtime feedback and discussion the pros/cons of your solution in realtime
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by parpfish 2y ago
one of the biggest problems with coding challenges for me is the conflict between providing a good solution versus making a strong impression. do you show them a quick'n'dirty solution that ignores edge cases but shows i'm a
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by parpfish 2y ago
Do you want to be: - Rich and respected -> doctor - Rich but not respected -> lawyer, software - Not rich but respected -> professor
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by parpfish 2y ago
a lot of doctors were a bit “off” before med school starts. Many of premed kids I knew in undergrad (or the high schoolers aspiring to premed) weren’t motivated by scientific pursuits or an altruistic desires - they just had to be the best
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by parpfish 2y ago
Floating flowers rule, land flowers drool
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by parpfish 2y ago
> I do not expect industry to solve the problem industry created in a way that doesn't create more problems. but it's not one "industry" that has to change their mind, this'd create a whole new secondary industry
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by parpfish 2y ago
Id also add that one way to make your team better at feedback is to invest in developing a rapport between team members. Especially if there are remote employees. It feels very different getting feedback from somebody you talk with frequent
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by parpfish 2y ago
I love doing vacations that start/end midweek. It’s nice to buffer either end of the trip with short work weeks, midweek travel can be less frantic, and being able to spend weekend days at your vacation destination often lets you do mo
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by parpfish 2y ago
Even within cultures there’s stark variation. Some people think highly of themselves and need direct feedback to cut through their self delusion. Other people are very insecure and will interpret helpful feedback as a direct insult. Being a
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by parpfish 2y ago
i heard a legend that car thing was supposed to be released much earlier when it may have had more of a market, but production was delayed because all of their real world testing was in sweden and their first model was unable to handle dash
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by parpfish 2y ago
I think part of the problem is that they decided to use the computers for every class instead of using computers in classes about computers. Tell kids to do open ended history/english research on a computer, they get sidetracked and wa
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by parpfish 2y ago
Clicking around and sometimes typing is enough computer literacy for most jobs.
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by parpfish 2y ago
i think part of the reason computers swept into classrooms so quickly is that we had a generation of old folks seeing their jobs get computerized and they (correctly) felt that computer-literacy would be essential for a huge swath of the wo
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by parpfish 2y ago
i'd love to have a distraction-proof workstation that would force me into my IDE or whatever design doc i'm working on and block out everything else. but it's not possible because the job requires all these gateway-drugs-to-d
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by parpfish 2y ago
I don’t think that this algorithm can handle slash chords like G/C (G over C) and would instead label it as Gsus4. The former gives a lot of important context to voicing which can by important if you need a particular sort of motion in
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by parpfish 2y ago
i wish there were more resources for caregivers tending to family with mental health issues. unlike a physical illness or disabilities where there are clearly defined caregiving tasks (e.g., helping with mobility, bathing, administering med
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by parpfish 2y ago
Agreed. Rewriting the joke was unjustified.
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by parpfish 2y ago
data engineer gives data science a run for their money when it comes to ambiguous job expectations. I’ve seen it mean anything from “distributed computing expert” to “knows SQL”
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by parpfish 2y ago
I was thinking something similar. I like the google auto-ai summary for little trivia facts and objective things (who played so and so in the movie? How heavy is a gallon of milk?) this is stuff that is verifiable and could theoretically ju
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by parpfish 2y ago
Isn’t that true of almost everybody from startup to FAANG? Watson crushed it on jeopardy 15 years ago, but where did that lead go?
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by parpfish 2y ago
What’s the status of IBM these days? They are treated like an obsolete dinosaur in my tech circles, but they’re so big that I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that they are actually cutting edge in some areas (particularly in capital intensiv
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by parpfish 2y ago
i'm surprised he didn't bring up the ad with the parents playing with the new iphone in bed and make comments that their kids overhear and think something sexy is going on. i hate that ad because: a) they're not really even d
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by parpfish 2y ago
exactly. control was amazing but had never really connected it to backrooms, but it makes sense. that final set piece synced up to the song was one of the best things i've experienced in a video game. i didn't know it was explicit
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by parpfish 2y ago
i fell into a managerial position once, and i was the lovey-dovey wanting everybody to be happy type. i was bad at it, but there were two major factors that lead me down that path: 1) I didn't want to be a manager and it was the path o
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by parpfish 2y ago
Interesting connection here to modern creepy settings leaning on liminal spaces and run-down early 90s stuff in analog horror. The new scary settings are run down Chuck E. Cheese’s and empty office buildings.
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by parpfish 2y ago
Yeah, that’s not really what comes to mind for me when I hear about “literacy”. The standards they use to measure literacy aren’t just about being able to read words, but being able to reason with the information. I’m curious is they can re

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