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by wnolens 3y ago
Location: NYC Remote: No (hybrid at most, looking for an office with people) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, C/C++, Python, AWS, Database internals and distributed data platforms Résumé/CV: 12+ years in st
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by wnolens 3y ago
> This originally was mandatory during early 2020 COVID-19 economic uncertainty as a way to cut costs without doing layoffs. I'm surprised I've never heard of this solution before. I think it's brilliant, especially for en
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by wnolens 3y ago
My experience: If you're storing data in a database keyed by a GUID, you get a nicer random distribution in an index, avoiding hot partitions when your workload is seemingly random.
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by wnolens 3y ago
Your comment caused me to compare gaming (which I haven't done since I was 16) to doomscrolling. It's a dissociative activity, requiring near zero physical presence or mindfulness. Passive entertainment which I do to take a timeou
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by wnolens 3y ago
> I’d say ability to sideplank and neck strength are probably two of the most important recovery metrics. Drs don’t understand the psycho-somatic balance of the illness. There is a psychological component but it is a minor component and
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by wnolens 3y ago
I'm a fan of this guy too. I have quite a few Italian recipes under my sleeve now.
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by wnolens 3y ago
Can't stand the mic picking up his chewing.
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by wnolens 3y ago
Same, love my UHK. The mod-layer on my thumb has given me so much. My only gripes are the tenting legs sometimes close when I shift the keyb around on my desk. And it's not wireless (I don't have time to mod).
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by wnolens 3y ago
> I think I would have been better served by a regular qwerty, not columnar, split keyboard I recc the ultimate hacking keyboard (UHK). It's as you describe, and I love it.
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by wnolens 3y ago
Just take that hour FROM the work day. If it helps your work, it's work, and your conscience is clear to engage.
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by wnolens 3y ago
I almost don't care about 'technology' anymore. Rationally, I appreciate it. But it's best when it disappears and I get my time back to go outside and ride a bike, converse with humans, listen to music. It's a means
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by wnolens 3y ago
> just spin up a VM and use it when you really need to. Always there, always when and always charging you :)
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by wnolens 3y ago
No one needs to evaluate all options against their current/known/possible needs when they can just pick a well vetted product and get on with business.
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by wnolens 3y ago
Isn't that just a useful abstraction?
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by wnolens 3y ago
Like how the simple recipe for happiness is "stop being sad"
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by wnolens 3y ago
Interesting, I shall try this for rest as I hate naps - they leave me miserable.
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by wnolens 3y ago
> With yoga nidra, you stay awake Huh I precisely use yoga nidra TO help me fall asleep. It's so powerful as a sleep aid that I resurrected an old iPod to hold a single yoga nidra track and I keep it plugged into a speaker on my nig
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by wnolens 3y ago
Interesting, I find audiobooks faster end-to-end as I don't re-read pages again and again. But it means i have to focus more, so I absolutely can't walk/cook/clean at the same time!
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by wnolens 3y ago
How do people physically read this much? How comfortable/supportive is that chair? The only way I've been able to sustain reading for more than a half hour without adverse postural effects is to lie on my side with an e-reader (+
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by wnolens 3y ago
Strongly disagree here. You're denying that the constituents of food matter and that it's all calories. No one is "allergic" to sugar but it has an effect on the body. Cutting out sugar is (or at least FEELS) different
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by wnolens 3y ago
It was surprising to me when I went to Italy and found them incredibly accommodating to different dietary needs. How could someone gluten-free survive in the land of pasta?! Well I was on a week long group tour and of the two Italian guides
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by wnolens 3y ago
Interesting, the video pauses when you navigate away from the tab. Never experiences that behavior on a website before. Thoughtful UX? or ensuring ad views?
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by wnolens 3y ago
Work from Beach
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by wnolens 3y ago
This is great. Appreciate the minimalist straightforward design.
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by wnolens 3y ago
> My 12 year old niece who is like the most innocent person I know taught me more about dark Web than I knew. That is hilarious. I agree with you. I feel about as clever now as I was at 13. Might have been even more so then, just with mo
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by wnolens 3y ago
You're both not wrong. That's the beauty of this "problem" which isn't a problem but just nature. Parents feel morally obligated to set their children up for success via generational wealth transfer of ideas, skills
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by wnolens 3y ago
Maybe it's hard to meet discreetly with leadership + investors in a pre-zoom era.
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by wnolens 3y ago
How long have you been there? Perhaps not long enough to run out of steam pushing so hard. You need to work sustainably at a big company. Because there's lots of road blocks to frustrate you. Managing frustration is a skill. Working at
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by wnolens 3y ago
Yea that is a grind. I am a bit of a victim of privilege here. Had a career-defining job and was paid well. Getting ~60% of my time back to earn my cost of living + decent buffer was AMAZING.. for a while, but it ran out because the good pa
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by wnolens 3y ago
Had the same attitude as you, and achieved this (20h wk, remote, 6fig). Was still miserable. Maybe for you it's only the shape of life that is the difference. But personally it was the quality of the things that filled that shape. Thos

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