willjp

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by willjp 4y ago
I think one issue is that meetings aren't deliverable. Their benefit is abstract, it does not directly affect the business goals, or the bottom line. I think another issue is that task switching can be very difficult. If your work day
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by willjp 4y ago
An alternative take. I’m an insomniac that tries to get to sleep before midnight, but usually has 2-3hrs awake in between sleep and time to wake up. Sometimes I wish I could pretend I was in a different timezone.
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by willjp 4y ago
You can setup a wireguard network then proxy pass from a cheapie VPS if that’s helpful. Probably only worth it if you have multiple services though.
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by willjp 4y ago
I like recording how I'm spending my time, so that later when it feels like the day got away from me, I can see why. Ideally, I can make adjustments that help unlock longer focus periods while still keeping family, coworkers, bosses, a
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by willjp 4y ago
I get the impression that most people's chemistry experience was much different than mine. Ours was about rote memorization, period. I kind of feel like I missed out.
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by willjp 4y ago
Not alone! I do this too. I have a mediawiki instance I use to keep notes on things I learn. I try to keep a rough heirarchy (ex. Editors), and I use it’s “what links here” to navigate from a related page (ex. Vim) to get back to that list
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by willjp 4y ago
You can source your .vimrc from neovim if you’re interested. I’ve been separating plugins based on the environment they depend on as well.
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by willjp 4y ago
Hopefully not oversharing. Perfect for communications with my therapist. Thank you!
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by willjp 4y ago
I'll bite. Haven't they? Is higher education about the material, or the order it is presented in, and the contacts that you make along the way? You're right, there are certain types of things that you can learn quite a lot ab
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by willjp 4y ago
The first thing I do when renting a new apartment is map out the circuits to outlets and leave a map next to the breaker box. We have also consistently had illegible squiggles (and strange circuit layouts) in Canada
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by willjp 4y ago
Talon is exceptional, I only wish it was more natural to drive cli commands, I find I need to spell them out which I’m still quite slow at.
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by willjp 4y ago
Sure! It’s an acronym for “technical director”. I don’t think it is standardized across the industry at all, besides it employing people that can code that are also familiar with art production in some capacity. Don’t let the “director” in
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by willjp 4y ago
Enjoy your studies! Sheridan is a good place. As a third option, you'll find many opportunities in the industry as a hybrid artist/coder "TD" jobs if that area holds any appeal. Larger salaries are possible if you are de
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by willjp 4y ago
Thank you! This is fantastic
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by willjp 4y ago
I think part of the motivation for one assertion per test comes from the fact that you stop getting information from a test as soon as one assertion fails. I think it was a guidance, like the SRP where you should be testing one thing in eac
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by willjp 4y ago
It also grows scope over time, as more systems are built around it. Which means to fix it, someone needs to learn several systems.
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by willjp 4y ago
This sounds eerily familiar. Thank you for posting, I have some reading to do.
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by willjp 4y ago
It’s hard to solve. I’ve read blogs where people find it condescending but the opposite can be harrowing, especially if it is clear the other party is annoyed. Empathy tends to drive my own novelistic explanations, not conceit. It might hel
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by willjp 4y ago
I think it helps if you can preface your paragraph with a short summary. The reader then knows generally the scope of what you are trying to communicate, and the details become more approachable. That said, I’m pretty horrible at this balan
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by willjp 4y ago
That’s a great idea! Thank you!
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by willjp 4y ago
This is so interesting. At home, we absolutely have wait culture. My mother moderates informally using a round robin format. Most places I have worked have had interrupt culture. I hated going to meetings, it felt like the people that spoke
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by willjp 4y ago
Mhm. Anyone trying to buy health insurance? I love the idea of this, I love the convenience of it, but this was always (sadly) going to be a hard pass for me.
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by willjp 4y ago
I strongly (but politely) disagree. While I agree that it's better to have notes than not to have them, I think putting some effort into their structure is a big deal. 100 pages is not a lot of notes. At that scale, you can still comfo
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by willjp 4y ago
zathura is fantastic. minimalistic UI and vi-style keybindings. It has a searchable table of contents, and customizable keybindings. recolor (invert-colours) is nice for night-time reading.
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by willjp 4y ago
Definitely yes. I love them, seeing them on my bookshelf is motivation to return to them and complete them. Separately, I also love ebooks for night reading and not requiring space on my bookshelf.
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by willjp 4y ago
This is brilliant, I might try this at work.
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by willjp 4y ago
I use bandcamp as well, it is really amazing.
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by willjp 4y ago
This sounds like my setup exactly, except instead of LXC/ansible, I’m using FreeBSD jails/saltstack. I completely agree about the value of isolation. You can update or up-rebuild for a new os version on one service at a time - whi
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by willjp 4y ago
I don’t feel disconnected. My workplace/manager is pretty exceptional about scheduling some time for us to get to know each other. That said, I’ll acknowledge my bias - I’m fairly quiet and introverted, I feel more comfortable with vid
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by willjp 4y ago
lol, former animator/illustrator. It's a race to the bottom. The jobs looking for quality won't be replaced, but the entry-level jobs are changing. Where in the 80s they used to develop skillsets that you could build on, work

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