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by slumdev 5y ago
Even doing all the right things, it's so rare to ascend without quitting. Spending 3 years, earning a single promotion, and then (not immediately but shortly after) quitting and going somewhere else (for another promotion) is the sures
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Yes, some companies still do this. In fact, the oneNO CARRIER
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It's an interesting idea, but ascending the ladder (beyond "senior" or "line manager") usually has very little to do with productive output.
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> However for every project I take on, there will always be something I have never done before, or a maybe some new technique I want to try, could be a new language. So you do care. But you care about the technology, not the InCrEdIbL
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Wavelength matters - it's the difference between ionizing and non-ionizing. This article seems to indicate that not all of the non-ionizing radiation is harmless. And heat itself is carcinogenic, yes -- drinking hot beverages is indep
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We know that ionizing radiation has no safe upper limit. We know that non-ionizing radiation can be harmful at a high enough dose (like sticking your hand in a microwave.) This research suggests that non-ionizing radiation might not have a
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“Yes, kink belongs at Pride. And I want my kids to see it.”(washingtonpost.com)
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"Know Your Customer" In the West, KYC means that a bank is going to ask to see your ID before letting you open an account. In China, KYC means that, in order to use something as pedestrian as social media, you have to let the CCP
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by slumdev 5y ago
Wild. Apparently there are many different efforts to use FPGAs to simulate old hardware: "Using FPGAs to Simulate old Game Consoles": https://jakob.engbloms.se/archives/3026 "AMSTRAD ON AN FPGA":
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Postmodernist suppositions regarding power and ideology include an implicit assumption that absolute truth doesn't exist. That used to be called relativism. It's ad hominem at scale -- an attack on the institutions that produced c
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That's a reasonable source. My list was what I could recall from the Baltimore Catechism. I went to find a link, and it looks like I missed a few. Q 1170: http://www.baltimore-catechism.com/lesson30.htm
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> If you're not Catholic christian, then you're Pagan Pagan is only one category of unbeliever. There are also: 1. Heretics (bad Catholics and all Protestants) 2. Schismatics (the Eastern Orthodox and splinter groups) 3. Infid
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The clarity of St. Thomas is incomprehensible to anyone raised in postmodernism and not educated in philosophy.
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> Which was very highly regarded back then, but now we know better. Aquinas is still highly regarded. Virtually every philosophy department in the Western world still teaches him.
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It's over Eight QUADRILLION kilobytes!
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> fatigue, headaches, joint pain, muscle aches and shortness of breath > “brain fog,” depression, anxiety and issues with sleep Given that this constellation of symptoms existed as "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" for decades befo
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by slumdev 5y ago
To both of your questions, no. > Not to take away from your excellent point but is spending $9k/year on transportation really mandatory? Before "Cash for Clunkers", an Obama-era program that removed a lot of older vehicles
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Cyber Polygon begins. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/cyber-polygon-will-ne...
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In 1991, the immutability of gender might have raised the ire of 1 in 10,000 -- if even that many.
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This should be common knowledge (but, unfortunately, isn't.) A primary breadwinner should carry at least 10x his family's annual living expenses in term life insurance coverage. Once the size of his retirement accounts exceeds thi
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by slumdev 5y ago
If you say that to a person who insists on taking offense, he would tell you that a white person using red icons might be offensive to Native Americans or people with albinism.
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by slumdev 5y ago
None of these statements were even controversial twenty years ago: "Sex and gender are the same; they are immutable; and there are only two of them." "Every child has a right to a mother and a father." "An individua
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by slumdev 5y ago
People who are deaf, legally (but not totally) blind, on dialysis, or with a slew of other disabilities are not visually distinguishable from people who do not have a disability. People with disabilities are the most neglected of any demogr
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by slumdev 5y ago
I thought making everyone cartoon yellow was more empowering. Especially on the Internet, with pseudonymity, we're all nothing more than the ideas we present. An egalitarian dream was twisted into a woke nightmare for bad actors to ear
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by slumdev 5y ago
> * Oh boy was that ableist ? It was hate speech against your neurodiverse colleagues. Doubleplus ungood.
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An interesting effect is that railing against bootcamps in general is common and uncontroversial. But railing against any of the bootcamps you named above would be career suicide.
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> It's really weird for software engineers to judge something by its current state and not by its potential state. No, we're not afraid of Copilot replacing us. The thought is ridiculous, anyway. If it actually worked, we wou
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by slumdev 5y ago
Tools like xsd or T4 (in the .NET ecosystem) are great time-savers, but you would never consider directly modifying the code they generate. You would leave the generated code untouched (in case it ever needed to be generated again) and sub
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Premeditated data breaches like this are covered under the boilerplate language in your employment contract -- "sharing data with our partners" and other such nonsense.
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Yes, you can, and I encourage everyone to do so: https://theworknumber.com/employee-data-freeze/

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