monoideism

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by monoideism 5y ago
I worked in another profession for 15 years before becoming a professional developer. I can't say definitely that empathy is much lower among devs than among other people I've worked with. But I got used to it.
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by monoideism 5y ago
They are very upset with what they see as growing authoritarianism from the government -- particularly wrt many covid interventions. (for what it's worth, I mostly disagree but I do see signs of growing authoritarianism among many on b
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by monoideism 5y ago
> See, it's as if the US military trains soldiers how to hide in the Appalachian, raid local villages, and steal food and ammunition from trucks, You should hang out near Fort Bragg sometime. The Special Forces train exactly as you
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by monoideism 5y ago
> their theoretical ability to fight their government with small arms adorable and misguided Taliban? Vietcong?
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by monoideism 5y ago
Long covid often includes easily quantifiable issues such as lung and heart issues.
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by monoideism 5y ago
I didn't downvote, but what does this have to do with what I wrote?
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by monoideism 5y ago
> My guess is that more educated women are less willing to be stay at home moms and that correlates with your demographics. When you have a degree and dreams of a career, giving up on them is harder. That was pretty much my point.
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by monoideism 5y ago
This attitude toward stay-at-home moms is not generally found among the poor, just among middle class and up women (and men), typically left-leaning. Most poor mothers I've know would love to be stay-at-home moms because they're o
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by monoideism 5y ago
> and ultimately it didn't make it in Well, it's clear from the movie Marion was very young when they had an affair. We don't know exactly how old, but she says, "it was wrong, and you knew it" and "I was a
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by monoideism 5y ago
> Feels like there was something more that led America to Bosnia, and it wasn't just our benevolence and saving the world from itself. There was a lot of pressure to "do something" in the Balkans, and the military wasn&#x2
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by monoideism 5y ago
> We had Bosnia during Clinton years. Oppose them or support them, it was literally American bombing campaigns that stopped the Bosnian genocide and the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo.
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by monoideism 5y ago
Yes, that would be: 50%: some combo of good luck, genes, diet, exercise 50%: some combo of bad luck, genes, diet, exercise
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by monoideism 5y ago
I had my first kid at age 34, and part of my deeply regrets not going sooner (wife is much younger). I had some serious health issues by 45, which impeded by ability to raise my kids the way I wanted. Adopting in 40s? Will the parent even s
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by monoideism 5y ago
Back in my 20s, having spent HS and part of college running track and cross-country, I’d pass guys all the time in their bikes that cost more than my car in my $200 used bike that didn’t even have clipless pedals. Those days are long gone n
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by monoideism 5y ago
> How was I ever going to afford a kid’s college fund? How was I ever going to afford a kid’s college fund? Uh, lady, you’re 37 years old. If you seriously want a kid, you need to approach finding a spouse with the same seriousness and i
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by monoideism 5y ago
> such as arthritis Which arthritis med, exactly? So many have been pulled off the shelf by the FDA. But Levadopa for Parkinson’s (which I’m highly likely to get if I live long enough), and its newer analogues, may be one of the few wort
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by monoideism 5y ago
That’s how I felt in my 20s. What’s above is my opinion in my 50s, after multiple hospitalizations and serious chronic illnesses. Best option of all is to stay fit. Some of mine were out of my control (genetics), but some were probably not.
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by monoideism 5y ago
As someone (~50) who has spent much of the past 2 months suffering in pain in some hospital, I endorse your decision. Several hospital-issued medication issues there that set me back. I’m now at home, where I’m slowly healing just as well.
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by monoideism 5y ago
I was taking about devs above, since we're on hn. And good command lines, like propeller configured bash or zsh, have better discoverability than most GUIs. But sure, I point non devs to Chromebooks, Macs, (or windows if absolutely nec
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by monoideism 5y ago
> but it's never going to reach the "climb in, sit down and go" ease of a sedan. For someone fluent in command line usage, this is very wrong. I'm 10000x more productive in a terminal and X Browser session than on win
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by monoideism 5y ago
Most modern GUI IDEs are well integrated with the command line.
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by monoideism 5y ago
Since we're on hn, I'm talking devs. But anyone can benefit from command line. I've taught some data science people who are very happy now.
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by monoideism 5y ago
That's why you focus on command line. Much more productive anyway. Only need X for browser and maybe 1 or 2 other apps.
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by monoideism 5y ago
Entirely logical. My only problem with those engaging in such behavior comes from the subset of them who have much more privilege than vast majority of Americans - like say upper middle class and wealthy minorities. They often tilt the syst
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by monoideism 5y ago
Wrong - there are countries it’s being widely used in. For example, India and many Easter European countries (and some S. American???). We need effective vaccines and therapeutics. I don’t understand this push to discredit any therapeutic
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by monoideism 5y ago
> . Like any other industry, 90% of medical “experts” are totally incompetent. 100% correct. I’m dealing with some serious health issues the past year (multiple worsening chronic conditions, in and out of hospital, lost 30 lbs in 3 month
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by monoideism 5y ago
> common sentiment reminds me of reading history about lynchings in Jim Crow era and sun down towns I'm about as far from woke or PC as you could imagine, but that's an incredibly inaccurate comparison. Reading some developer
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by monoideism 5y ago
Eh, I think that depends on whether that manual job is self employed or working for someone else.
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by monoideism 5y ago
Btw, I'm also a polyglot dev. I've never used rust professionally (unlike say Ada), but I do really appreciate cargo. And for the record, despite my love for functional programming, I also have a strong appreciation for Java (not
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by monoideism 5y ago
Yeah, I almost changed that "Ada dev" since as a polyglot dev, I figured you'd correct me. What I meant was that you had significant Ada experience (or I'm confusing you w/someone else). Anyway, yeah, Maven is very

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