rustybelt

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by rustybelt 4y ago
Or maybe this reality is actually a dev environment.
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by rustybelt 4y ago
I'm using this argument in my next code review meeting.
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by rustybelt 4y ago
Are you saying God likes to yeet buggy unmaintainable spaghetti code directly into production?
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by rustybelt 4y ago
Similarly, I don't think we're equipped for the level of exposure to life-altering tragedy that mass/social media makes available. I swear my wife subscribes to a dedicated "small child dies in horrible freak accident&qu
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by rustybelt 4y ago
For others like me who had to Google this, it was for the development of the lobotomy.
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by rustybelt 4y ago
I can’t take detailed notes but will punch key ideas and follow ups into my phone.
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by rustybelt 4y ago
I’m just talking about skill level. People with the skill to be a professional musician almost certainly began playing as child.
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by rustybelt 4y ago
Nursing shortages really are dire right now. I’m open to any suggestions including altering the female dominated culture of nursing to be more open to male communication styles.
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by rustybelt 4y ago
Great post, I will push back on this point though: “There's no intrinsic reason why it should be considered usual for men in heterosexual relationships to earn more than women, but emasculating and odd for the reverse to be the case” I
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by rustybelt 4y ago
It sounds like you’re describing privilege. As in there are certain social privileges available to each of the sexes and the existence of those privileges lead to different outcomes.
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by rustybelt 4y ago
I agree with you on the first point. I will not be signing up to have a seventh grader remove my gallbladder. Regarding pianists, I think you can replace “virtuoso” with “professional” and the point still stands.
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by rustybelt 4y ago
Why should males be asked to change their communication style to be more feminine? Especially in a majority male working environment? Shouldn’t the women be the ones to adapt? Is there something inherently wrong with how men tend to communi
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by rustybelt 4y ago
Gives me a new perspective on the struggles of my red headed colleagues.
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by rustybelt 4y ago
I think this also contributes to men more aggressively seeking career advancement. I’ve worked with talented women who passed on direct opportunities to move up in the organization because they were secondary breadwinners and didn’t want th
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by rustybelt 4y ago
If surgeons were able to begin honing their craft at 13, they’d probably be better than the ones who started in their twenties. Programming’s low barrier to entry creates issues that don’t apply to other professions. How many virtuoso piani
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by rustybelt 4y ago
Former Houston resident here chuckling about the “dry heat” of Texas.
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by rustybelt 4y ago
In my experience, this can be due to poorly designed/functioning HVAC systems. My office is regularly in the sixties while the guy on the opposite side of the building is sweating.
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by rustybelt 4y ago
At this point, what sources have good track records? My heuristic for trusting the media is "don't do it."
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by rustybelt 4y ago
Maybe affiliation comes from belief and not the other way around. Would you really expect someone this critical of the CDC and the Democratic approach to COVID to be politically aligned with the people pushing those policies?
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by rustybelt 4y ago
Only 13000 people in the US die of AIDS each year. Is the flu worse than AIDS? How about rabies? Less than five deaths per year in the US. What would you rather have. I'll even concede that Omicron has a higher infection fatality rate
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by rustybelt 4y ago
A lot these these conflicts that appear to be about science are really about values. Many of the people making arguments about COVID's relatively low danger to children are doing so because they believe the mitigations (lockdowns, remo
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by rustybelt 4y ago
There has been an alarming pattern of public health communication throughout the pandemic: public official (Fauci, WHO official, CDC Director, President, Governor, etc.) makes assertion A about COVID, questioning of assertion A is harshly c
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by rustybelt 4y ago
The medical debt seems to be the entire source of your problems. By your own accounting you'd be banking close to $2k a month without it. Were you uninsured?
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by rustybelt 4y ago
I spent a decade in St. Louis, MO, famously rated "Most Dangerous City in America" multiple years running and witnessed 0 murders. How many murders would you need to witness before you start to worry about your own safety?
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by rustybelt 4y ago
This was a fun 2002 movie that would make no sense to zoomers: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183649/
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by rustybelt 4y ago
Some of the best programmers I know are always stoned. Funny to see this take on HN of all places.
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by rustybelt 4y ago
You're forgetting Pennsylvania and Indiana.
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by rustybelt 4y ago
State vs Federal laws, though. Totally different game. States are much more limited in their ability to pass laws that affect residents of other states.
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by rustybelt 4y ago
Shhh . . . no need to attract more people to Western Michigan. Let them continue to think it's nothing special.
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by rustybelt 5y ago
The only thing I’m confident about when it comes to this war is that both sides are lying their asses off.

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