iguanayou

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by iguanayou 3y ago
At least they stopped putting "My" in front of everything.
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by iguanayou 3y ago
Where's the data behind that infographic about the leaf blower vs driving a pickup from Texas to Alaska?
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by iguanayou 4y ago
Awesome!
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by iguanayou 4y ago
My theory: workers are capable of performing focused work for only a fixed number of hours per week. If productivity is essentially: work done divided by hours worked, then a lot of the things the article mentioned changes the denominator,
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by iguanayou 4y ago
I taught high school for five years but have been a software engineer for the past ten. I'd love to teach again - but sadly that would mean going back to a one bedroom apartment in a not-great part of town. Where I'm at now, I ha
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by iguanayou 4y ago
Hear, hear. There's a lot of us in this same boat. These asocial, sedentary IT jobs + hectic lifestyles are out of sync with our biology and psychology.
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by iguanayou 4y ago
I like Windows 11!
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by iguanayou 4y ago
I've got the same type of deal here. I just worry about skills getting outdated since I'm only working on an in-house system and doing mostly maintenance. But perhaps that fear is overblown. I could easily hop to a gig with more
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by iguanayou 4y ago
Taking longer to get up to speed and setting up a development environment: I'm not sure that's a function of age. It's more likely because development environments truly have gotten larger and more complicated over time. I&#
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by iguanayou 5y ago
Exactly. Making the whole "I don't trust the government to do something smart with my money" argument moot. It has been proposed, voters have seen the proposal, and it has been voted down.
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by iguanayou 5y ago
1. Carbon tax 2. Cap and trade The problem is NOT that there have been no good proposed policy solutions. The problem is that voters don't want them. This is why I'm pessimistic on the environment.
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by iguanayou 5y ago
Very, very common.
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by iguanayou 5y ago
Agree
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by iguanayou 6y ago
Or you could build actual things in an actual shed? This is the same impulse that drives people to build furniture, boats, and model train layouts. To me, the real physical objects are much more fulfilling.
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by iguanayou 6y ago
This is a great book! Just finished reading it.
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by iguanayou 6y ago
See also: Elton John
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by iguanayou 6y ago
I'm reading Sapiens right now. I wouldn't say "mind blown" as I was at least a little familiar with a lot of it before, but the way that Harari writes really makes you think about things differently. Here are a couple o
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by iguanayou 6y ago
Right out of the Michael Scott playbook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAxtVMuDYD8
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by iguanayou 6y ago
Practicing bluegrass mandolin, adjunct teaching, and running online classes for my commercial drone school. NOT programming.
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by iguanayou 7y ago
Briefly, VFR = Visual Flight Rules. You control the aircraft by looking outside. IFR = Instrument Flight Rules. You control the aircraft strictly by reference to instruments (you need to do this in clouds, for example, when you can'
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by iguanayou 7y ago
The resolution is good enough to read all of the gauges easily. It won't look as nice as a good monitor, but the immersion more than makes up for it. I do notice a screen door with the Reverb. Not bad, but it's there.
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by iguanayou 7y ago
You don't get any of the "seat of the pants" feeling of course, and the graphics, while super impressive, don't compare to real-life low and slow VFR flying (although hopefully MS Flight Sim 2020 changes that). It doesn
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by iguanayou 7y ago
Sure, it's a scratch-built PC (i7 / 2070 Super) with an HP Reverb, which is a lightweight VR headset. I use a physical yoke (Honeycomb), rudder pedals (Thrustmaster), and throttle quandrant (Saitek), but everything else in the co
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by iguanayou 7y ago
As a pilot, I use VR with the XPlane flight simulator and it seriously feels like I'm in a real Cessna. True, the flight controls are a little off (for example, stalls and landings don't feel like a real plane), but other than th
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by iguanayou 8y ago
Pet peeve: Software companies that name their product after the noun that their project is a giant database of. "People" is the stupidest example I've seen yet.
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by iguanayou 9y ago
This is me exactly. Started in the tech field, burnt out and became a teacher, returned to tech for the money, and I'm currently in another burnout period. I agree with everything you said about learning being exciting when you'
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by iguanayou 9y ago
I use the "change color scheme" trick and it does work.
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by iguanayou 9y ago
Agree with most of this, but would like to add that you don't need to "self" medicate; if there's an underlying diagnosable mental health concern (depression, anxiety), proper medical treatment might do a world of good.
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by iguanayou 10y ago
All of the symptoms can also be caused by panic disorder. Advice like "IF YOU FEEL ANY DISCOMFORT AT ALL GO TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM ASAP" is bad advice for people with anxiety disorders. Go to a doctor and get checked out to rule o
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by iguanayou 10y ago
Yes.

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