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by warner25 3y ago
I have four young girls who all talk about wanting to be veterinarians when they grow up. They're young enough that I don't put much stock in that yet. I already had some sense that being a veterinarian has a lot of downsides, but
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by warner25 3y ago
Great comment. I've had an interest in suicide prevention for many years and I think you're right on the mark. I'm in the US military which has a suicide rate much higher than the general population[1], so prevention is a hig
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by warner25 3y ago
I'm so glad that I just stumbled across this comment. I'm a career military officer who has served on big, upper-echelon staffs that were stunningly disorganized and dysfunctional. You nailed it with this description of how things
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by warner25 3y ago
I agree that the American stock market has been an outlier, and most Americans don't realize the extent to which that is true; it's good that you do. But compared to buying and holding a widely diversified and low cost portfolio,
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by warner25 3y ago
Yes. Earlier in life, especially before having kids, my job required me to be up closer to 5:00 and then on weekends my wife and I would sleep until maybe 8:00. That back-and-forth every week, trying to get back into the routine on Sunday n
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by warner25 3y ago
Actually in bed, trying to fall asleep, at 23:00 is typical. I'd prefer to get in bed at 22:00 but my wife is a night owl, so this is a compromise for us. Some sleep deprivation does accumulate to the point that I might turn off my ala
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by warner25 3y ago
Thanks. I'm a morning person and I strive for efficiency to an extent that most other people would question, haha. What's conspicuously missing from my routine, for example: any significant time for taking a shower (if I do, it&#x
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by warner25 3y ago
I don't know if this will be insightful, but I'll answer because it will be fun for me to remember a few years from now when day-to-day life has slowed down... 6:00 Wake up to my alarm. 6:15 Run 3 or 4 miles through my neighborhoo
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by warner25 3y ago
Credentialism, not learning, is why IT certifications exist. If you're not interested in that part, you're missing the point. They certify , at best, that you have knowledge and skills. At worst, they certify that you're goo
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by warner25 3y ago
I'm like you (in fact I delete everything after looking at it, effectively only storing what's quoted in my sent box) but yes I think most people do just let emails pile up, from what I've seen whenever I catch a glimpse
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by warner25 3y ago
Yeah, one of the problems with combat is that it's unpredictable. Over much of the last 20 years, we (American troops) rarely had the initiative. Instead we sat, drove, or walked around essentially waiting to get attacked. Deliberate r
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by warner25 3y ago
I'm curious about this. 2002 was before my time, and DADT was mostly before my time, but I've overseen a couple dozen administrative separations for other things (ranging from actual criminal conduct to repeated fitness test failu
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by warner25 3y ago
People in general should think more about how they manage their photos. It does take some real thought now that the ubiquity of cameras means that everyone takes exponentially more photos than, say, two decades ago. I suspect that you'
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by warner25 3y ago
I don't understand why you'd want someone to dig through most of your digital stuff later. Do you think your dad really wanted that? My laptop and phone are secured with strong passwords and full disk encryption, a legitimate an
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by warner25 3y ago
It seems like there are almost daily HN front page items about aviation, and a lot of pilots in the comments. I've wondered about the reasons for such an overlap in interests among people here. I fit this myself: I grew up playing flig
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by warner25 3y ago
You're not wrong. On the officer side, service academy seats and ROTC scholarships are competitive to get (like getting into any top-tier college), and then there's a decent amount of attrition along the path to commissioning, fol
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by warner25 3y ago
I can only speak to the Army side of things, and we'd like this to be more true. The main problem is that we change jobs within the organization too often (like every year or two), and get pushed into management too early, to ever f
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by warner25 3y ago
Yes, I think you're right. By the time I was a senior lieutenant, junior captain, in my mid-twenties I had probably internalized a lot of what the Army teaches. At that point I was looking to fill in what I felt were specific gaps; det
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by warner25 3y ago
It's interesting to see civilians looking to the military for leadership and management ideas. I'm a career Army officer, and when I was a young officer I looked to civilian books and other resources for management advice. Over
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by warner25 3y ago
Yeah, this is about what I was thinking; not that most users would go the full five years without upgrading, but that they could , and that every two or three years with a new LTS release would be what most non-Fedora, non-Arch, desktop
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by warner25 3y ago
I thought Debian releases were good for the same five-year lifecycle. I expected the answer to the parent's question to be Ubuntu's support for non-free things out-of-the-box.
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by warner25 3y ago
I got the upgrade to Fedora 38 on my machines today too (although I see the official release was a couple days ago). I'm curious about who gets excited about and uses these non-LTS Ubuntu releases. It seems to me that the five-year LTS
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by warner25 3y ago
> Reddit is a boring platform outside of your personal interests To me, the fact that there's an active subreddit specifically for every personal interest is exactly what makes it so addictive. It's a very concentrated dose of
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by warner25 3y ago
I don't think the issue with phones is that people aren't engaging with each other in public spaces. I'll stipulate that it has never been the norm to engage with strangers on public transport. But I see a number of other dif
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by warner25 3y ago
Ironically, my employer just replaces all of Microsoft's crap with its own crap, pushed out to every client through GPOs and SCCM and other tools. So we get full screen banners, sometimes by launching PowerPoint and showing a slide, ab
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by warner25 3y ago
Funny you say that because I'm an Army officer, so people regularly thank me for my service, but my wife arguably worked harder, had more responsibility, and was contributing more to society while she was in those schools. And she go
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Oh, I agree. My wife taught in public high schools for a couple years in an economically struggling city. It was so hard (and paid so poorly, especially per hour of labor) that she quit after those two years and is still traumatized by it a
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by warner25 3y ago
I suspect that many teachers also (1) don't want to feel like parents can just casually do their job pretty well, like their years of education and certification aren't necessary, and / or (2) deal with an above-average numbe
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by warner25 3y ago
I like my kids' elementary school teachers, they seem fine, and maybe it's mostly about teaching kids to behave in another social setting at that age - but I do have it in the back of my mind that zero of the best and brightest fr
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by warner25 3y ago
A note on this: We used this book to teach our two oldest kids to read before they entered kindergarten. Kid #1 was asking to learn to read at age 3.5, and that's when we got the book. She could really read before her 4th birthday. I

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