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811.
by parpfish 2y ago
One search feature I wanted was a way to look up a list of all flights leaving an airport on a certain day. In the early stages of vacation planning, it’s be fun to see a list of all possible direct flights to evaluate my options, but the u
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by parpfish 2y ago
The problem with reviews from individuals (trusted friends or complete strangers), is that for major purposes they only get to deeply evaluate a single product. So they could tell you if they are happy with the fridge they bought, but they
813.
by parpfish 2y ago
If people can’t make a career doing science, science doesn’t get done. It’s one thing to optimize an abstract pursuit of knowledge, but you also gotta remember that you need this to be a job people are willing/able to do.
814.
by parpfish 2y ago
Just had an idea that may help the moderation AND encourage higher levels of discourse — comments are not published immediately. When I was doing peer reviews, it would often take a day or more to read a paper, think it through, and then wr
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by parpfish 2y ago
> Tenured prof here. Yeah, but every pre-tenure or postdoc is like “I can’t fight the system right now, I need to publish enough to still have a job two years from now”
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by parpfish 2y ago
Agreed. Journals have a hard time getting quality reviews from known scientists working in the field. Opening it up to randoms will be a nightmare. Remember all that hype around LK-99 room temp superconduction a few months back? The substan
817.
by parpfish 2y ago
The whole thing gives my anxiety. Writing a paper and dealing with the inane requests from three reviewers was already frustrating and stressful. Now you open up a never ending review process of random people making demands (“unless you do
818.
by parpfish 2y ago
I’ve been seeing this print my entire life, but last year was the first time I realized that there were boats and Mount Fuji. I was always so captivated by the claws on the wave that i never looked away from them
819.
by parpfish 2y ago
People on HN either hate exercise because they associate it with the old nerd vs jock battles OR they are absolutely obsessed because it’s just hacking on a big blob of meat
820.
by parpfish 2y ago
I’ve run into a leetcode once over the course of five job hunts. There’s always some sort of screener that may use a leetcode style interface, but the problem is something like fizzbuzz/write a function to say if a number is prime&#x2F
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by parpfish 2y ago
Congrats and welcome to living your life! I know it’s overwhelming to find a new hobby or interest, just throw yourself into something and realize that you’re not going to be good at it
822.
by parpfish 2y ago
If you’re learning a thing that you actually do for your job (eg, new language or tech), do the studying and training during work hours
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by parpfish 2y ago
It’s worth pointing out that the people you need to protect yourself from aren’t necessarily doing anything malicious — they just don’t know your limits and will keep feeding you work as long as you keep saying yes. It was a revelation for
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by parpfish 2y ago
A related trait is people who tie their self identify up with their job. When your identity is “person who does this job”, it’s hard to see that you’re doing the job too much. And even if you do have that realization, it opens up a new stru
825.
by parpfish 2y ago
For me, the big slow moving org CAUSED the burnout Burnout isn’t always about overwork. There are several different typologies and mine was more related to a lack of control/pointlessness that led to a very extreme form of ennui. The e
826.
by parpfish 2y ago
Month off and then to a new job that was arguably even worse. Only stayed there a year, but my new gig is good
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by parpfish 2y ago
You should also know that it can take a LONG time to fully recover. I got burnt out 3-4 years ago and am only now feeling like I’m coming back to normal. Maybe if I took a more intentional path to recovery I’d be back earlier, but it’s not
828.
by parpfish 2y ago
agreed. logical thinking is good, but i don't think logic is necessarily the problem for a lot of conspiratorial thinking. i'd argue that the more common problem is a deficiency in assessing reasonableness or plausibility of fac
829.
by parpfish 2y ago
i think the investment strategies change when you dump these astronomical sums into a company. it's not like roulette where you have a fixed probability of success and you figure out how much to bet on it -- dumping in a ton of cash ca
830.
by parpfish 2y ago
> However, I often found myself answering the same generic questions that didn’t really help me understand if someone shared my values and interests. People love to complain about small talk being meaningless, but I think it’s essential.
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by parpfish 2y ago
A related issue happened when a very introverted friend wanted to find other quiet bookish friends and would scoff at trying to befriend highly social people at a party. I had to explain that quiet people will very rarely find each other be
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by parpfish 2y ago
I haven’t learned Dvorak, but I presume that doing so overwrites a lot of the muscle memory used for qwerty and it’s not like you retain full proficiency in the old layout. Maybe it’s just me, but I find that I will frequently mistype switc
833.
by parpfish 2y ago
But there’s the constant switching cost any time you encounter a keyboard that is t yours
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by parpfish 2y ago
For simple back-of-the-evelope stats like a saving calculator, don’t you just need to subtract inflation from expected returns to get the number? If you’re expecting 7% returns and 3% inflation, just enter in 4% returns and then you’ll see
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by parpfish 2y ago
I think this has a few big social components to it. - If you find yourself surrounded by a community that’s unsupportive, making disability a part of your identity could be an attempt to extract what you need from a community that’s unwilli
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by parpfish 2y ago
“Sorry officer, I can’t show you my ID because my battery died”
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by parpfish 2y ago
Maybe we need to stop thinking about public transport as a revenue generating/ self funding organization and just think about it as a critical piece of making a city work. Nobody worries about whether the fire department is “breaking e
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by parpfish 2y ago
I’ve always liked that the structure of list comprehensions mirror SQL with “SELECT, FROM, WHERE” sections. But I know that I’m in the minority that likes SQL
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by parpfish 2y ago
I work in a codebase that’s mostly kotlin and python and I’ve come to hate the python side. I used to love python, but I feel like the attempts to tack on typing have really undermined it. The “freedom” of being untyped is nice for quick li
840.
by parpfish 2y ago
As a long time ‘screen’ user, one thing I appreciated was that you could count on it to be installed on almost any machine you ssh into. Is ‘tmux’ one of those things where it’s safe to assume it’ll always be there?

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