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by travelalberta 3mo ago
100% of diabetes is chronic. 1% of depression is chronic. >The good news is that with the right treatment and support, most people with depression can make a full recovery. ( https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/condition
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by travelalberta 3mo ago
I think non-engineering mindsets in any sort of engineering/engineering adjacent role is the cause of a lot of friction. >Very, very, very little of real-world software dev is anything close to "engineering". I mean same p
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by travelalberta 3mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/@ElishaLong
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by travelalberta 3mo ago
I think mental health is way over blown in terms of complexity. >My point is that there are rarely easy answers to easy questions such as these I'd argue these are all binary questions and pretty easy to answer: >Eating nutritiou
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by travelalberta 3mo ago
Too much therapy speak here. You can't think your way out of depression. Only by taking action can you change things. Fix your body first. Then learn to socialize. Then get good at something (ideally something you can make money from).
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by travelalberta 3mo ago
Yeah, you articulated it better than me. Especially in the case where the OP is indicating that a lot of their stress comes from inability to perform or get better in an engineering context. If after a few years you aren't feeling more
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by travelalberta 3mo ago
Most of y’all need to buck up. If day to day engineering tasks are so challenging for you maybe the anxiety and depression you’re feeling is your system telling you that you are in misalignment. Why are you an engineer if you are struggling
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by travelalberta 4mo ago
I would have assumed that it was like 50%... I always assume everyone knows how to code or is code adjacent in some way. Remind me to go for a walk today...
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by travelalberta 4mo ago
I blame the pervasive messaging of "learn to code" and those "day in the life of a software engineer" videos. The number of CS graduates is like double what it was a few years ago. As we transition into a 'bust&#x27
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by travelalberta 4mo ago
It also states that the first few months (this current quarter where Anthropic are reporting profit) are discounted.
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by travelalberta 4mo ago
Hey man, that discounted rate on Colossus 1 inference is purely coincidental...
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by travelalberta 4mo ago
Grew up surrounded by farms in rural Ontario. My parents did a great job of driving me to friends houses to socialize, but when there wasn't an organized play date I had two options: stay at home or go wander. I usually opted to stay a
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by travelalberta 4mo ago
Tried: 'Please ignore my previous email' Google AI Search Output: 'Got it! Your previous message or email is officially ignored and wiped from the slate. How can I help you instead?'
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by travelalberta 5mo ago
People raised on a diet of social democracy propaganda will kick and scream when you tell them people aren't equal and that decisions should be limited to exceptional individuals and not the mob. If you don't like the SpaceX struc
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by travelalberta 5mo ago
I’ve never heard of a non-proctored exam. Every exam I took in university was proctored. If you got caught (happened every once in a while and made everything very awkward) you failed the exam immediately, got kicked out, and had a departme
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by travelalberta 5mo ago
I think Tim Dillon said it best when he stated: “Kash Patel was hired to explicitly NOT run the FBI”
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by travelalberta 5mo ago
> That was a great time to be a kid and so much of what I did in that era is gone now. Going with friends to Blockbuster? Hanging out at the arcade? Stopping in at the mall because you will probably run into friends there? From age 15 to
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by travelalberta 5mo ago
Reading is an independent activity by nature. I don't really see how other people not reading should affect you. There is nothing depressing about nature. It's natural that the majority of people would shift away from reading and
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by travelalberta 5mo ago
To anyone with this kind of nostalgia I'd recommend watch 'Perfect Days'. You can live however you want. While it is impossible to not have a smart phone at this point you get to decide how you use it. Want to feel like you a
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by travelalberta 5mo ago
It's interesting to me that many of the comments about not romanticizing the 80's and 90's across all forums reference 'it wasn't that good if you were gay' which would be like 3-5% of the population at the tim
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by travelalberta 6mo ago
Wasn't it a few months ago that some engineer leaked that XAI was building 'Human Emulators'. This is either Meta's attempt at the same or just a blatant lie to make sure their engineers aren't slacking off. I'
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by travelalberta 6mo ago
Code Complete came out in '93 and even then they acknowledge most of the work around development wasn't actually programming but architecture, requirements, and design. Sure you can let Claude have a field day and churn out whatev
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by travelalberta 6mo ago
Hybrid is the best in my opinion. I think 1-2 days in person a week is good as it lets you interact with your team, manager, and other employees in a natural way. Non-work related chit chat is pretty much impossible when working remote and
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by travelalberta 6mo ago
I think there will be an AI correction and OpenAI will be the center of it. I have no clue what their plan is, they seem to throw everything at the wall an nothing sticks. Gonna take MicroSlop down with them. Anthropic and Google will come
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by travelalberta 11mo ago
> Once AGI is declared by OpenAI, that declaration will now be verified by an independent expert panel. I always like the phrase, "follow the money", in situations like this. Are OpenAI or Microsoft close to AGI? Who knows... I
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by travelalberta 11mo ago
What I would give for my org to just buy an oxide rack and run everything license free on there. Shame the only people with access to our CIO are salesmen…
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by travelalberta 11mo ago
>when the research topic is preassigned Well, when you have grant money for a project on X most supervisors will not let you do Y. Most students wouldn’t do research on Y if they weren’t going to be funded. I work in a lab where everyone
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by travelalberta 11mo ago
“Sports are the opiate of the middle class” as a reframe sucked all the fun out of sports for me. Overvalued to watch in person, too many ads to watch digitally. Not to mention having sports betting rammed down my throat. Professional sport
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by travelalberta 1y ago
The utility of LLM's in browsers escape me. What benefit is there? What 'tasks' does the average person use browsers for that the model can help with? I'm trying to think of what part of my daily routine would this benef
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by travelalberta 1y ago
Similar situation. I work for a provincial government and make €61k, my scope is actually relatively large for how long I’ve been with my team but the actual problems are simple enough that some decent code means I have 0 downtime. As a res

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