alaithea

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by alaithea 8d ago
And that tension matters.
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by alaithea 13d ago
No requirements at all. My mom had registered my firstlast.com domain some 30 years ago. While caring for my dying dad, she let all her domain registrations expire. I then had to negotiate with a domain squatter to get my domain back.
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by alaithea 1mo ago
This seems like a flawed argument. By the logic in this article, wouldn't horses or cows, which weigh multiple times what a human does, have to have stocky rather than slender legs?
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by alaithea 7mo ago
I have the opposite problem. I often forget what the last thing I copied was, or whether I copied it, and have to go back multiple times to get the copy + paste achieved. A clipboard history would help me, too, but thus far I've been u
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by alaithea 7mo ago
This. My very first thought upon reading this article was "this author does not have ADHD." I've achieved one of my most productive setups ever by keeping more browser tabs open, and using tab groups to organize them. When I
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by alaithea 10mo ago
It could be, but the Wikipedia article notes that she may have also suffered a birth injury from hypoxia. Rosemary's story is so tragic and heartbreaking. Her life was filled with what would today be considered multiple instances of me
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by alaithea 11mo ago
Since tech has largely stopped hiring younger people, sounds like a problem.
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by alaithea 1y ago
ChatGPT has been shown to spend much more time validating people's poor ideas than it does refuting them, even in cases where specific guardrails have supposedly been implemented, such as to avoid encouraging self-harm. See recent arti
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by alaithea 1y ago
Human cloning, nuclear bombs (other than for sabre rattling)... to name a couple.
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by alaithea 1y ago
Respectfully, I think you're missing the point that this is a societal rather than an individual concern. What will the average person's response to AI be? Probably to not recognize it, let alone spurn it. The cumulative effects o
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by alaithea 1y ago
Why email clients have started hiding/not providing access to headers is beyond me. It seems like an anti-pattern. There have been many times recently where I've wanted to check the headers because an email was suspicious, only to
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by alaithea 1y ago
Mine walked to school (< 10 minute walk) at about second grade. Running errands at about fourth.
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by alaithea 1y ago
Your concerns are extremely valid, but it is not _that_ bad in many places in America. I relocated my family specifically so that my kids could have a walkable community to live in, and since then (about five years), we've had no issue
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by alaithea 1y ago
> How long did it take you to get to this point? And how do you deal/ identify/ know you are “done”? It took me around three to four years after starting medication to get to this point. The "done" part comes out of s
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by alaithea 1y ago
I feel this. It's so very hard to manage one's medicated-ADHD productivity in a way that feels useful but doesn't burn like a white-hot flame. My boss has been supportive and really helped me see the ways in which I was causi
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by alaithea 1y ago
Why on earth would this submission be flagged? Mods, if you're watching, please unflag this post.
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by alaithea 1y ago
There was a point in time (circa 2019-2020) when the madness got so severe that every new feature ended up as a microservice backed by a DB with a single table (plus a couple tables for API keys, migration tracking, etc.) I love it when all
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by alaithea 1y ago
Pretty sure I saw someone say this in the past, but microservices might as well have been a psyop pushed out by larger, successful startups onto smaller, earlier-stage companies and projects. I say "might as well" because I don&#x
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by alaithea 1y ago
And when it's your technical leadership leveraging buzzword-driven development to rise to the top, you're screwed.
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by alaithea 2y ago
This is going to go pretty OT from the original post. The handful of times in my ~20 year career that I've gotten a shortened interview process because of connections, the organization has turned out to be a dumpster fire. Admittedly,
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Centralia Mine Fire [Wikipedia](en.wikipedia.org)
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by alaithea 2y ago
Hibernating? Touch Bear. You'll never use social media again.
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by alaithea 2y ago
I was thinking the same. Grass is hard to come by in my neck of the woods right now. Maybe "touch bark?"
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by alaithea 2y ago
It doesn’t work because I wasn’t making shit up, and the commenter above made no statement of fact. Troll.
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by alaithea 2y ago
> It’s the same with firing people and hiring them back. Performance metrics are unreliable, but firing and then hiring back who you miss isn’t. It shows you who is really critical. No, it's not. They're not running a test to s
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by alaithea 2y ago
Source?
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by alaithea 2y ago
All my statements started with a concrete fact, all of which are easily found in current news articles. Perhaps you should go do some reading.
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by alaithea 2y ago
If your bank wanted to downsize, how would you feel about them doing it by allowing a rogue team of 20-something software developers access to all its most sensitive IT systems?
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by alaithea 2y ago
Tens of thousands of people are now out of work, with more to join them soon. The job market is already tight. That is going to have ripple effects throughout communities all over the country. We will probably see an uptick in housing forec
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by alaithea 2y ago
If you prefer video, this explains it pretty well. https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no

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