jrjarrett

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by jrjarrett 1y ago
So statins lower LDL; what lowers inflammation?
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by jrjarrett 2y ago
Really? I sat in one that belonged to a friend and it convinced me to get one as my desk chair. I enjoy it; I find it comfortable. What do you not like about it?
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by jrjarrett 2y ago
My job has been amazing thru all this. The first words from my supervisor was “your family is important, take the time you need”.
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by jrjarrett 2y ago
I’m just about a week later in my kidney donation than the author. My husband was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease in late 2022 and it rapidly progressed to end-stage renal failure at the end of 2023. He’s been on dialysis since Februa
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by jrjarrett 2y ago
I struggle with sleep and I was excited by this—until I saw it requires a subscription. I’ll pass, thanks.
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by jrjarrett 2y ago
Not to mention you have little choice in taking on that debt. If you need medical care, you need it. It's not like you have a choice to have life-saving care or not.
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by jrjarrett 2y ago
Ever known anyone in end-stage renal failure? Not a lot that could be that really bad; waiting to get on the UNOS transplant list, while doing daily dialysis…
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by jrjarrett 2y ago
Huh? Kodak was (is? meh.) in Rochester NY; Polaroid was in Cambridge, MA. That’s as about as east coast as you can get.
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by jrjarrett 2y ago
Tracing the lineage of the British royal family back to Elizabeth I.
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by jrjarrett 2y ago
Why not just use a tool like asdf ( https://asdf-vm.com/ ) or mise ( https://mise.jdx.dev/ )? These tools have the advantage of not being multi-taskers and can manage version for all your tools. You wouldn’t ne
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by jrjarrett 3y ago
Doctor of osteopathy (DO). My first doctor as an adult was a DO and treated things like sinus infections with medication, but when I picked up a ladder and something popped in my back, he adjusted my spine and put it back into place and alm
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by jrjarrett 3y ago
You have to do leetcode if you want any hope of being able to find a different job. You have to be ready for that kind of question. I’m a software engineer with 20+ years of experience in a bunch of different industries. I know what I’m doi
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by jrjarrett 3y ago
Don’t most people get injections in their non-dominant arm? That’s how I do it, remembering as a kid that when I’d get shots, my arm always hurt for a few days.
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by jrjarrett 3y ago
I didn’t do that when I set up my dev machine, and got into quite a mess of differing brew install versions plus different repos having different dependencies. asdf helps quite a bit now.
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by jrjarrett 3y ago
I noticed they installed version managers for Java, node, and directly installed Go. Never mind the nightmare that is Python on macOS. I’ve become a big fan of ASDF ( https://asdf-vm.com/ ) for managing language versions. It
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by jrjarrett 3y ago
YES EXACTLY. I keep myself in the interviewing loop at my company because I actually enjoyed the process when I joined. It was conversations over “executable” solutions. Now, we kick out so many candidates that can’t get a coded, running so
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by jrjarrett 3y ago
No. That got cut as well.
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by jrjarrett 3y ago
I love that this is advancing treatment; I was somewhat disappointed that apparently, you must HAVE cancer first in order to create the vaccine. If there was a vaccine that prevented this before it happened, I would be in line.
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by jrjarrett 3y ago
I’ve been working in software for 35 years. Never been laid off but ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED of it happening to me. I saw how being laid off devastated my father and brother. The closer I get to being able to retire the more this scares me. I n
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by jrjarrett 4y ago
“They (workers) don’t get to choose their compensation, they don’t get to choose their promotion, they don’t get to choose to stay home five days a week,” said James Gorman, CEO of Morgan Stanley…” Absolutely they do. They get to make that
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by jrjarrett 4y ago
>Would you sacrifice time with your kids over the holidays for vague assurances and the opportunity to make a rich person richer or would you take the out? This quote right here says it all.
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by jrjarrett 4y ago
I’ve been reading about these people doing “OE” and I don’t understand how. My one current job takes up EVERY MOMENT of the time I am working and then some. I have no mental bandwidth to do anything else. How does one do this?
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by jrjarrett 4y ago
34 myself, and same. It’s kind of anxiety-provoking because if I have to find something else, I’m scared I won’t be able to.
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by jrjarrett 4y ago
What I worked on was all bespoke in-house developed software written in PL/1
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by jrjarrett 4y ago
Garbage collection.
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by jrjarrett 4y ago
Why not?
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by jrjarrett 4y ago
I worked at Kodak in Financial Information Systems, and 1989 was spent getting ready to convert all of the batch jobs from 13 periods with 28 cycles to monthly. Lots of figuring out when to run things… I had that exact poster up on my wall
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by jrjarrett 4y ago
Brought to you by the Pierson’s Puppeteers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierson%27s_Puppeteers
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by jrjarrett 4y ago
Snow Crash. I love the opening sequence with the Pizzanator. Also, the description of the Metaverse was a great concept. I’ve worn out one copy so far from reading it so much.
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by jrjarrett 4y ago
Musk was re using ships from Iain Banks’ Culture series where ships are sentient. Voice Of The Whirlwind is from The Expanse series, where a human colony finds ancient aliens tech and builds a class of warship called the Magnetar-class shop

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