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by scruple 4y ago
Sure, but you can look during . You don't owe them anything. You've earned paternity leave and they haven't earned your tenure beyond it.
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by scruple 4y ago
> managers not being good at setting expectations Expectation setting (and all of the things that fall out of it) is such a huge problem in my experience. I'm always trying to get clear expectations out of management. I had a ~decad
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by scruple 4y ago
I've had orthopedic's tell me I needed an epidural steroid injection without even bothering with an MRI (same guy told me to, "Take it easy on the PT." despite the fact that PT and a systematic return to exercise is wh
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by scruple 4y ago
My personal opinion, after over a decade of remote work, is that the tools we have available to us to accomplish remote work are low-fidelity solutions to a high-fidelity problem. I think juniors and, to some extent all technical new hires,
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by scruple 4y ago
What are the mortgage terms where you're from? In always curious to understand how other countries and systems deal with this but I'm largely ignorant to it outside of anecdotes like this.
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by scruple 4y ago
Yeah, the take I'm most inclined to believe is that RTO policies are a soft layoff first and foremost.
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by scruple 4y ago
Agreed. It's divine compared to the janky Ansible setups I've seen in the wild.
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by scruple 4y ago
It's a CoolerMaster 360 AIO in a midtower Corsair case. I was using Cinebench for benchmarking. I haven't seen any performance hits, in benchmarks or typical usage, so I'm comfortable with all of it. I decided to undervolt th
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by scruple 4y ago
I was very surprised by some of the thermal characteristics of my i7-13700k. My previous build was an i7-4790k, so it's been a minute. I had to undervolt this thing and cap it's max TDP (disable boost modes -- it has boost modes w
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by scruple 4y ago
Well, the problem there is, IMO, no one with any power in politics on the left or the right has any sort of vision for what comes next.
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by scruple 4y ago
We have twins that are approaching 4. For a long time we had a latch on the refrigerator because, shortly before they turned 2, they would get into the fridge and make a mess, leave the doors open, etc. We recently bought a new fridge and h
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Tesla HQ returning to California, Musk announces(ktla.com)
3 points by scruple 4y ago|0 comments
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by scruple 4y ago
From a class of '99 graduate, I agree. Wear sunscreen. [0] [0]: https://youtu.be/bwVVpwBKUp0
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by scruple 4y ago
There's no need to single out children. There's plenty more adults -- Gen X, Boomers, and probably Silent generation folks, too -- who seem to have completely lost their minds after finding their way onto the internet in the last
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by scruple 4y ago
Maybe try asking the kids who didn't go to college in both places what their opinions are next time.
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by scruple 4y ago
> modern Dev environments are ridiculous VsCode + Docker on Mac + devcontainers (at my last job) make for an atrocious development experience. It was a major contributing factor when I left that job.
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Pandora's Vox: On community in cyberspace (1994)(gist.github.com)
1 points by scruple 4y ago|0 comments
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by scruple 4y ago
I took it as the GP playing inside baseball. As in, some people currently at Meta may be able to use this information to learn something about this situation.
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by scruple 4y ago
Yes, I take the RTO mandates to be a soft-layoff.
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by scruple 4y ago
I keep 4 shelves of technical books on my bookshelf behind my home office desk. Some are "old," from the 70s. Many were thrifted. And then I have, I don't know, about 300+ pounds of (mostly) technical books in storage boxes i
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by scruple 4y ago
I recently updated an MSI Z690-A to the latest BIOS in preparation for installing a 13th generation Intel. I downloaded the updated BIOS file, put it on a thumb drive, renamed it to "MSI.ROM," put the thumb drive into the "Fl
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by scruple 4y ago
There's also "The Little Typer" and "The Little Prover."
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by scruple 4y ago
I agree with your specific point but my experience with obscene lack of sleep during my high school years was owed to extracirculars in general. On top of athletics, I was also part of Men's Glee (and symphony choir, and swing choir fo
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by scruple 4y ago
Maybe some von Neumann probes have wandered into our solar system.
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by scruple 4y ago
That's funny but under one of these systems the people have a hope of fixing the ineptitude and corruption. Under the other, ehhh...
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by scruple 4y ago
I went down a shallow rabbit hole about this event. The man who survived the Fu-Go Balloon Bomb event in Oregon, Reverend Artchie Mitchell, went on to be captured, as a Christian missionary, by the Viet Cong in 1962 and he was never seen ag
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by scruple 4y ago
> I wonder if some degree of folks just getting sick of the craft beer craze could be a confounding factor. Yup. I'm a (former) home brewer. I have quite a few friends who are current or former home brewers, too. We're all basi
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by scruple 4y ago
Or have wealthy parents (or grandparents, etc.).
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by scruple 4y ago
Ahh, gotcha.
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by scruple 4y ago
Or old (-ish, I'm early 40s). I'm back around to C/C++, haven't touched it since C++03 and C++11, having recently accepted a Senior+ role in gamesdev and moving away from a decade of backend work.

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