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by rhombocombus 6y ago
Having ridden a lot of motocross in my younger stupider years I can attest to the fact that controlling the rotation of your wheels while airborne is a very important consideration when jumping a motorcycle. If you know what you are doing y
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by rhombocombus 6y ago
Apparently upon reading further down I might have been wooshed by this article, if so then that was pretty subtle.
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by rhombocombus 6y ago
This is more high pressure garbage that is both biased and misses a lot of the other important parts of being an engineer. I would rather have on my team a mediocre developer with stellar communication skills than the other way around. Timi
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by rhombocombus 6y ago
I winced when I first read this because I thought they had sold the whole block, however reading that it was a subset I think ultimately this is a win for amateur radio and radio telecommunications more broadly because of the endowment it p
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by rhombocombus 6y ago
And back then folks who, say, had type ii diabetes were entirely literally uninsurable in many states. Generally those states were the same ones where it was also nearly impossible to get medicaid. The outcome of this is a lot of folks comm
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by rhombocombus 6y ago
yes but that really only matters if the second "engine" produces enough power for maneuvering if the first one fails. Plus, there is still mechanical interconnectedness so it isn't truly redundant. That said it is likely far
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by rhombocombus 6y ago
I took 6 months off after a bad case of burnout and I think you are spot on at 1 year. About 6 months after going back to work (and clearing my plate of a lot of superfluous BS) I finally felt like I was beginning to hit my stride again. It
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by rhombocombus 6y ago
Being consistent, personable, and kind has helped me advance more in my career than any one specific technical skill. Funny people are generally endearing, and it is usually easier and more productive to work with folks you get along with t
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by rhombocombus 6y ago
I am pretty sure I pay more in Oregon when you include healthcare expenditures. State income tax plus federal plus fica plus monthly premiums for spouse and kiddo ads up to a huge chunk of my take home (over 35% of my gross earnings).
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by rhombocombus 6y ago
Think about the differences between a recreational drug experience (i.e. the experiences which precipitated the psychosis to which you are referring) and taking a known dosage of a drug in a clinical setting with supervision. Now let's
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by rhombocombus 6y ago
There is a combination of increasing energy density of batteries and decreasing cost of high tech motors that I believe is a bellweather for electric flight experimentation, particularly on the LSA/ultralight end of aircraft. While I
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by rhombocombus 6y ago
I live in Oregon, and I am an avid whitewater rafter. Sometimes when you stop on the riverbank to camp, especially in more remote places, you'll happen upon an abandoned homestead and in the right season their fruit trees will be burst
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by rhombocombus 6y ago
That was what put me off about that book too. I was really excited to learn about his math, but the continuous hard sell combined with attacking traditional statistical methods (which still have a lot of use) was pretty off putting. I will
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by rhombocombus 6y ago
This is completely unsurprising. Ticketmaster's entire business model seems to be monopolizing ticket sales and then gouging the consumer, so one last stick in the eye from them seems in character.
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by rhombocombus 6y ago
As a professional programmer I spend almost all of my free time NOT programming, but I do spend it taking care of my family and social obligations instead. While I love what I do I would love it less if I did too much of it.
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by rhombocombus 7y ago
It was entirely illegal and remains so. It is a huge enforcement issue, and hopefully this encourages the Chinese Gov't to crack down on these wildlife markets, but it didn't happen after SARS-CoV-1 (which IIRC also came out of a
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by rhombocombus 7y ago
In college we called that the "hippie speedball"
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by rhombocombus 7y ago
So do the ADHD meds I take; huge gains in problem solving and execution, not so much in the creativity front. I wonder if this is a general psychological feature of stimulants
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by rhombocombus 7y ago
I came to SQLite recently having used big iron enterprise tools for my analytical work previously (namely Oracle), and wow, what a lovely elegant tool. It isn't just super useful for web and embedded applications, it is quite a powerfu
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by rhombocombus 7y ago
There are millions of people who take those medications as prescribed without addiction or dependence. If you are going off label then you have a problem, but in many cases these medications can make the difference between a successful life
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by rhombocombus 7y ago
In a manager/report relationship I think it is inappropriate, but I had a colleague suggest I begin taking ADHD medication in grad school and it changed my life. Without knowing your relationship with your manager I can't speak to
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by rhombocombus 7y ago
While true, phage therapy was dismissed as propagandized pseudoscience from the Soviet Union since they were the pioneers in the initial research (and the research did appear dodgy TBH). The landscape has changed, but really recently that w
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by rhombocombus 7y ago
I was laughed out of my uni's microbiology department for even mentioning this 15 years ago. While my feelings were somewhat hurt, it wound up working out great for me. That experience led me to neuroscience and a wonderful graduate pr
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by rhombocombus 7y ago
Same here. My brother has it much worse, and it manifested in him with outward hyperactivity so he got treated and I did not. I got by, but when I finally got into grad school I realized I had a problem that will power couldn't fix.
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by rhombocombus 7y ago
I keep it very closely that I am on any sort of medication because of the stigma. At this point in my life I refuse to allow someone else to have an opinion of what my doctor and I decide I need to be healthy.
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by rhombocombus 7y ago
As someone who spent a good chunk of their childhood and young adulthood just thinking I was garbage and morally weak this article really spoke to me. Going on medication meant the difference between being an effective human, partner, and w
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by rhombocombus 7y ago
I use it for a couple reasons: one, it is installed as a base app on almost every single *nix implementation on the planet, so you can count on having it even on ancient or restrictive environments (which I work in frequently); Two, awk is
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by rhombocombus 7y ago
I wholeheartedly agree, but I think that is why a lot of folks get turned off from it.
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by rhombocombus 7y ago
Its ubiquity and performance open up all kinds of sophisticated data processing on a huge variety of *nix implementations. Whether it's one liners or giant data scrubs, awk is a tool that you can almost always count on having access to
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by rhombocombus 7y ago
While I agree that the silent failures and "opaqueness" can be off-putting, once you understand the tool and how to implement it in your workflow it is wonderfully efficient. Aside from being syntactically terse I haven't fou

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