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by popularonion 4y ago
When I dabbled in yoga I always saw a ratio of like 15 women to 3 men. Of course those were beginner classes, and I’m sure things could be different in high level classes and online yoga forums. Fitness classes aren’t really set up to be so
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by popularonion 4y ago
One thing I want to add that online people always say is “join a hobby group”, but most hobbies that young people actually want to do are extremely skewed to one gender. Think yoga vs kickboxing. I did meetup.com for a few years, and the no
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by popularonion 4y ago
I started doing those random weekend trips to cope with my burnout and became of those SWEs living paycheck to paycheck making $250K. It can also isolate you from normie friends/family who obviously can’t afford to travel like this. If
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by popularonion 4y ago
>And it is borderline impossible to build camaraderie or a well bonded team purely online without any in person interaction for months or years. If you want to bond with your employees, find one who’s into MMORPGs or used to be - shouldn
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by popularonion 4y ago
As an alternative, you could pick up “Algorithms Illuminated” by Tim Roughgarden. Get the Part 1 book, read it casually a few times to get a sense of what’s in there, then go back to the beginning and start slogging through the exercises. D
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by popularonion 4y ago
> You’re much better off trying to meet people in real-life situations, where there is a more reasonable ratio of men and women I think is a thought-stopping cliche that sounds right but just isn't true. People went to apps because
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by popularonion 4y ago
I’m kind of similar. I bought the car for the range and the Supercharger network, I don’t know or care about “panel gaps”, and I get nothing but compliments about the car’s looks. What’s making me want to switch is the lack of CarPlay suppo
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by popularonion 4y ago
The people you’re trapped in meetings with probably suck at speaking and writing and have crappy ideas. The point is both you and them would be far more effective if that wasn’t the case.
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by popularonion 4y ago
I paid $8K for FSD two years ago and still not in the beta, but I stopped caring a while back. I still use Autosteer all the time. LIDAR FUD is what everyone talks about the most by far, but I think these are the real, actual issues: - Side
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by popularonion 4y ago
I blame the trend of “software development” as a job role getting farther and farther away from the task of writing programs. There are lots and lots of big company jobs where you can skate by writing ~100 lines of code a week (or less!) al
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by popularonion 4y ago
I was thinking about this topic just recently, as someone who got to spend the first ~10 years of my career in workplaces with private offices, now working remotely. I came to the conclusion that open offices really did ruin everything. “On
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by popularonion 4y ago
In my experience interviewing, about 25% of candidates would fail the first part and another 25% would fail the second part. This is after the initial resume screen and sometimes even after they did an online leetcode style test.
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> Someone who has a resume with accomplishments means that person has a proven record of getting the job done. This sounds good, but experience has taught me it’s just not true. It’s so easy to claim credit for accomplishments where othe
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by popularonion 4y ago
If you’re a foreigner in China, they have no problem tracking exactly where you go and who you talk to after you enter the country. They don’t have much to lose by putting a happy face on their customs process.
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by popularonion 4y ago
Americans have been de facto banned from visiting Cuba as long as I’ve been alive. I can totally imagine similar policies for Russia and China in the not too distant future.
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by popularonion 4y ago
Also see the stagnation of Central American and Caribbean countries despite their large populations of migrants in the USA. Remittances are not some kind of economic cheat code or the basis of a national development policy, they’re basicall
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by popularonion 5y ago
Saved you a click: > “On certain highways, below 40 mph”
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by popularonion 5y ago
I didn’t mind working in an office, but I went WFH in 2018 because it was the only way to live where I want to live and buy a home without taking a 70% pay cut.
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by popularonion 5y ago
> “Telnetlib is personally useful to me, since telnet is one of the easiest ways to interact with a qemu VM's console.” The kind of person behind a decision like this has never heard of QEMU and won’t care even if you tell them. “Wh
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by popularonion 5y ago
Leetcode algorithms for backend? I don’t think so, most backend devs should be experts in leveraging their team/project’s chosen DB infra. Which mostly comes down to designing a sane data model and selecting appropriate indexes. And in
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by popularonion 5y ago
No, in some companies SMTS is a specific title a few ranks above “Senior Engineer” and a couple ranks below “Fellow” or “Partner” or whatever the company calls the ultimate rank. Other companies use “Member of Technical Staff” as a generic
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by popularonion 5y ago
> “This ties into another common misconception about China - the idea that the government wants to track everything you do at all hours of the day” > “I was involved in a project that uses face recognition to track residents going in
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by popularonion 5y ago
China would do far more damage to Russia just by putting on trade sanctions, rather than marching around Russian Far East territories where literally nobody lives.
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by popularonion 5y ago
Plenty of normal people have a pet peeve about getting texted out of the blue with just “wyd” or “U there?” That would be the normie equivalent of sending a “hello” on Slack or Teams.
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by popularonion 5y ago
If people ever start seeing you as “the database guy”, you’ll be pigeonholed into that slot as long as you remain in that team. Or maybe their manager was just a really big fan of Oracle or something. I don’t know.
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by popularonion 5y ago
I think the only way to have a “niche” these days is to triangulate between two uncommon languages, but it will be one hell of a small niche. Like maybe knowing Icelandic and Farsi or something. And as you said, Iceland is not the best exam
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Yeah. I would’ve saved a lot of time if I got feedback after the very first lesson instead of waiting a month. I might have been productive continuing to use Pimsleur in that case.
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by popularonion 5y ago
I should be clear that I was watching YouTube videos as much as reading over those two months. And I was aware from my experience taking Spanish classes that a letter in English probably sounds different from the same letter in $LANGUAGE2.
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by popularonion 5y ago
After a month or so on Pimsleur Mandarin as a total beginner, I was feeling pretty good about myself so I posted some voice recordings to get feedback. The feedback I got was along the lines of “uhh yeah we can’t really understand you bud”.
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by popularonion 5y ago
That’s not the way I would do it, but is there really a problem here? Assuming the library itself isn’t littered with print statements that cause false positives. Experience has taught me that the “right” testing framework for a project is

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