garbene

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by garbene 5y ago
Wife (Community Manager) currently works from the couch in our living room and I (SWE) work from a sit-stand desk in a sunroom. We bought a floating home in the PNW just before Covid hit and it’s been a great work-from-home spot. Starlink i
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by garbene 5y ago
I’m renovating our bedroom right now on nights and weekends—the room is currently gutted down to plywood and drywall. Economically, it makes sense for me to hire the job out, but I get so much satisfaction doing it myself, working with my h
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by garbene 5y ago
I’m sorry you went through that. Very sad.
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by garbene 5y ago
I was profoundly burned out in early 2021. I almost rage quit about 50 times, life lost all joy, dark thoughts, the works. Wife told me to quit which took a huge psychological weight off my chest. Didn’t end up quitting, but told my boss I
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by garbene 5y ago
I haven’t tried shrooms but had a similarly horrifying bad trip on weed brownies at my parents’ place a few years ago. My dad had just gotten into baking them and insisted I have two (BIG mistake) and I spent the next 6-or-so hours cycling
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by garbene 6y ago
Absolutely, every job states it should take a few hours but it NEVER takes a few hours if you want to deliver something that’s remotely competitive. My current role’s take home was suppose to take “a few hours”, took the entire weekend. But
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by garbene 6y ago
I interviewed at a company last month that reminded me of your experience. The interviewer was extremely rude and it was more of an interrogation than anything. After berating one of my responses, I told him this wasn’t going to work out, t
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by garbene 6y ago
I went through something similar as a Junior engineer, except the presentation didn’t get cancelled. The experienced engineers in the audience absolutely tore me and my code apart. It was a blood bath and semi-traumatizing. On the upside, I
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by garbene 6y ago
Thank you for this thoughtful and detailed response. I did, in fact, read it and it gave me some food for thought.
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by garbene 6y ago
I’ve had StarLink installed for a week now. We live on a floating house in Oregon, and up until now, DSL was our only viable option. That’s been hard given my wife and I both work remotely and do a lot of video calls. Our impression: it’s f
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by garbene 6y ago
https://kindmind.com It’s a free, private online journal with a focus on mental health. I spent $4k usd in the domain name in 2015 and around another $4k in operating costs since then. It has virtually zero marketing and has org
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by garbene 6y ago
Care to elaborate? It’s abundantly clear to me that disinformation and conspiracy theories is a major, and probably the biggest, threat to democracy. I mean, shit, there was a major effort to undermine the U.S. elections resulting in a viol
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by garbene 6y ago
Feeling lost in an enigmatic codebase. God, I hate that feeling. My very first day as a software engineer, my boss had me pull down a massive code base, showed me the backlog, and told me to get to work. No training, no mentor. Years later,
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by garbene 6y ago
My wife and are I live in a pretty small house (one story, 1,300 so ft) so we’re pretty much in sight if each other almost 24 hours a day. I don’t really have much to offer beyond what you’re doing but spontaneity is nice. Today we both fel
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by garbene 6y ago
Wife and I picked up a laser projector three months into quarantine. It’s keeping us sane.
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by garbene 6y ago
Valid points on eating more whole, unprocessed foods. But shout out to some of the plant-based meats coming to market. My wife and I switched to a 99% vegan diet this year and I’m impressed with how good plant-based meat has gotten. I can h