J-dawg

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by J-dawg 5y ago
Thanks for the encouragement. I'm going to try a little harder to do some 'self-marketing'
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by J-dawg 5y ago
I'm a pretty useless developer who does about the same amount of real work as you per week. I also often don't understand the technical details other developers discuss in meetings. I am generally quite open about my lack of aptit
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by J-dawg 5y ago
> Expecting simple and final answers to questions depending on a myriad of factors (some unknown or even unknowable!) is stupid. I don't think "covid sceptics" are the only ones guilty of this. Far from it in fact. Vocal b
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by J-dawg 5y ago
I don't understand how you could read the parent comment and decide that it's "blaming" teen girls, unless you are deliberately arguing in bad faith. Teenage girls are predisposed to behave in the way described, and Face
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by J-dawg 5y ago
On your second bullet point, did you mean to say "but it's thermodynamically and metabolically far easier to cool than to heat " Because that seems to be more in line with the point you are making. Sorry to be a pedant, I&
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by J-dawg 5y ago
I didn't really mean training as in pre-planned courses. More sitting down with someone more experienced and being coached through a feature or a programming concept. I guess I was wrong to expect more of this.
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Ask HN: Is it normal in this industry to receive almost no training?
25 points by J-dawg 5y ago|25 comments
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by J-dawg 5y ago
Does anyone else have a slight suspicion that this kind of stuff is promoted by authorities as a sort of "nudge"? The goal, I think, is to emphasise the really wacky stuff so that anyone who might have more nuanced concerns about
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by J-dawg 6y ago
That’s interesting, I didn’t know that. I wonder what is different now. The woke movement doesn’t seem to get any weaker, even as it adopts more and more identity groups.
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by J-dawg 6y ago
> Can you send DMCA takedowns based on owning the NFT for an image? I'm also curious about this. Does the buyer now legally own the image itself, as well as the NFT?
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by J-dawg 6y ago
This is amazing, I'm noting this down for future use. As someone said elsewhere in this thread, it makes you wonder what's really going on while we are distracted by this stuff. What I find interesting is that there (probably? may
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by J-dawg 6y ago
I admire your drive very much. I too started programming in my 30s, but have always struggled with it and now wish I had pursued something else. I cannot imagine having the mental energy or the enthusiasm to spend most of my evenings doing
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Decoding the Perseverance Parachute(tanyafish.com)
1 points by J-dawg 6y ago|0 comments
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by J-dawg 6y ago
Another one here who is really not that great at it. I also find my interest in getting better at it waning by the day, because I know I'll still be mediocre no matter how hard I try. But right now it's a choice between software o
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by J-dawg 6y ago
How does one actually get "checked" for ADHD? It's not like there's a blood test.
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by J-dawg 6y ago
Ok, now that I've checked, I'm the one who broke the guidelines by commenting on downvoting. Sorry!
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by J-dawg 6y ago
I don't like seeing comments like this downvoted, especially with zero comments responding to it. It seems a totally legitimate viewpoint, even if it's one that many of us disagree with. Downvoting just to signal disagreement is a
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by J-dawg 6y ago
Plus you can extend that period of time significantly (or even indefinitely) by doing some form of work, even if not highly paid. It doesn't have to be all or nothing. I really like the idea of "barista FIRE": make enough &
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by J-dawg 6y ago
The PNC has been challenged in the past for holding on to records that legally should have been deleted. If I put my tin foil hat on for a moment, I wonder if this "mistake" was a way of getting rid of some records that should hav
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by J-dawg 6y ago
The UK took a wrong turn when it gave the police their own extra-judicial justice system. The system of police cautions, warnings and fixed penalties allow the police to administer punishment with none of the due process that a court would
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by J-dawg 6y ago
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for the correction!
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by J-dawg 6y ago
I remember a similar anecdote about a legendary F1 driver (possibly Michael Schumacher, but I can't remember). During practice the drivers talk to their team over the radio about the car's setup. Most drivers would stop talking in
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by J-dawg 6y ago
I'm quite fascinated about how an idea like this gets as far as somebody founding a company when, as several people here (as well as the linked videos) have argued quite convincingly, it appears to be easily debunked. Are the founders
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by J-dawg 6y ago
> I think an intermediate level of mastery is when you realize that a computer is a logic machine built to serve humans and it will always listen to you if you're willing to put in the effort. You can always go a level deeper. Gre
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by J-dawg 6y ago
I don't have anything to offer other than sympathy, but I just wanted to thank for this post. I'm going through exactly the same thing as you, and asking myself the same questions. You're obviously more experienced than me, s
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by J-dawg 6y ago
I agree with most of what you said. Also, the fact that EVs produce almost zero local pollution makes them incredibly compelling. So much so that I'd still be in favour of them even if they produced the same amount of CO2 overall. Just
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by J-dawg 6y ago
Can we not pretend that electric cars don't pollute the planet? To be clear, I am a big fan of electric cars. But this seems to have become another one of those things that has become so polarised you're not even allowed to expres
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by J-dawg 6y ago
There are a lot of ways to interpret this question, as shown in by the variety of responses in this thread. But we could rephrase it to "why aren't top speeds limited to the maximum speed limit?". It's got me thinking ab
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by J-dawg 6y ago
This one is excellent! I'm going to save it and re-read it regularly
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by J-dawg 6y ago
It's the reality of bureaucracies, not capitalism. You really think this couldn't happen outside of capitalism?

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