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by bmj 2y ago
(Long time climber here) > It is very interesting that since the AI climber is trained on actual climbers, it could, in principle, provide beta to climb consistent with your own style. If you train the bot exclusively on footage of yours
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by bmj 2y ago
>I went through those stages too: when the Agile meetings at my last job got so absurd that we were being asked to estimate JIRA task time in T-shirt sizes Oh, boy, I can relate. Every three months, I think our program increment plannin
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by bmj 3y ago
I dove pretty deeply into wood case pencils for a few years (then I got tired of carrying around a good sharpener). Musgrave [ https://musgravepencil.com/collections/the-heritage-collecti... ] makes some good pencils, t
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by bmj 3y ago
There are dozens of birds named in a similar way -- Cooper's Hawk, Brewer's Sparrow, Wilson's Warbler, etc, etc.
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by bmj 3y ago
I guess I should have qualified that with "financially." I also value my time, so I am not inclined to push for such a law in my state.
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by bmj 3y ago
You are correct, but it was sublet to a new tenant. And my employer is not on the hook for paying for their food and coffee, and internet access.
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by bmj 3y ago
Fully remote work has always benefited the employer more than the employee, at least financially. Before the pandemic closed my employer's local office space (we were all told just to work from home), part of the employer's budge
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by bmj 3y ago
>Weirdly, only left wing people read him. But he's actually quite libertarian compatible. There are quite a few on the Right that read Illich as well. He was, essentially, a communitarian anarchist. Some of his thought is well-rec
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by bmj 3y ago
I've read a handful, and agree that he truly understood the effects of technology and Modernity. It's worth reading the French sociologist/theologian Jacques Ellul, too (they were contemporaries).
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by bmj 3y ago
There is too much paperwork involved with performance related firings and layoffs happen so fast and so wide it's usually done by lottery. Can confirm this. My employer dropped about 10% of staff in order to back fill those position
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by bmj 3y ago
Don't forget that VB.NET was a thing. I worked on a web-based client management system that used VB.NET on the back-end.
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by bmj 3y ago
I can confirm this: I know several mechanical engineers that do mission critical-type systems (think "power plants"), and they routinely use Excel VBA for calculations.
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by bmj 3y ago
potentially just a youth culture thing. I don't know what young people are up to these days, but _more_ phone use in inappropriate situations certainly doesn't sound surprising In my experience, inappropriate device use is defin
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by bmj 3y ago
My workflow is similar. For one larger project, I am just more comfortable operating in VSCode, but if I need to work in a smaller project, I tend to just fire up NeoVim, and I've found the transition to Lazygit to be fairly smooth.
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by bmj 3y ago
Strength training !== bulking up High (comparative) weight + low reps builds strength (and muscle recruitment) without (necessarily) building lots of new muscle fibers. Muscle hypertrophy happens most often with lower weights and higher re
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by bmj 3y ago
My auto insurance provider (in the US) has never even offered such a tracking program to me (and I know my current rates are pretty reasonable/in line with other companies). Maybe it's because of my history with the provider (I&#
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by bmj 3y ago
The movie does away with the ambiguity at the end of the book, in an effort to have a vaguely "happy ending." The best adaption of McCarthy's work to the screen is No Country For Old Men. The Coen brothers seem to "get&
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by bmj 3y ago
My understanding that the yearly membership packages aren't the sum total of what they do. I suspect those packages are ways to support the business, rather than provide a free/cheap service. According to the article, customers
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by bmj 3y ago
globally install a modern version of Python in a Docker container You lost a bunch of people right there. There's a significant difference between "open a terminal" and "install Docker, create a container, configure t
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by bmj 3y ago
Recumbents are notoriously difficult to ride as the grades get steeper. Upright cyclists have the advantage using different body positions (i.e. standing), but 'bent cyclists can't do that. On the steepest grades, it can be a ch
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by bmj 3y ago
My direct experience is that they send high quality technical architects to get the deal done and the moment that happens those architects vanish and they back up the school bus and send in an army of zero competence low experience drones
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by bmj 3y ago
Yep. The executives at my employer realized the consultants were "underperforming" and cut their contracts, but this just left the in-house teams stuck with fixing or rewriting the Accenture code, piled on top of their current pr
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by bmj 3y ago
I can confirm this. My employer brought in several teams from Accenture to push through some new tech initiatives, and every one of them is basically a dumpster fire. I was doing code reviews for one of the teams, and nearly every commit
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by bmj 3y ago
I live in a Rust Belt city, and most of the homeschoolers within the city are secular, and stridently so (and here there's greater overlap between homeschoolers and unschoolers). There are plenty of Christian homeschoolers as well, an
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by bmj 3y ago
This is absolutely correct. There really is no single definition of unschooling and even homeschooling. I know families that say they "homeschool" their kids, yet those kids attend an "academy" three days a week that p
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by bmj 3y ago
Sure, fixing the problem is great, but if the CEO needs to personally witness the issue for it to get fixed, then there must be thousands of other issues not being fixed. Keep in mind in a corporation like Starbucks, the CEO is likely a h
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by bmj 3y ago
Ironically, the last time my family purchased a "newer" car (2015), we avoided the Ford Flex and instead purchased a Honda Pilot because the Pilot didn't have a touchscreen for anything. We currently have a 2022 Nissan Altim
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by bmj 4y ago
I tend to use legal pads to write initial drafts. I carry a few A5 kraft notebooks in a Lochby Field Journal. Each notebook has a dedicated purpose, and carrying them in the Lochby means I don't destroy the notebooks while they are i
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by bmj 4y ago
I'm currently in the nascent stages of transitioning from software engineering to practicing as a (Christian) spiritual director. I went through a two year training program a few years ago, and spent roughly 5-20 hours a month working
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by bmj 4y ago
Agreed. And you don't have "mystery" issues with mechanical discs, like when the piston gets gunked up and doesn't return properly when releasing the lever.

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