nomoreservices

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by nomoreservices 6y ago
I'm a senior engineer with 15 years of experience. Pretty sure I have a good grasp on "complex" vs. "unnecessarily complicated," and I see the latter a lot more than I would like to.
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by nomoreservices 6y ago
I've read that post. It's effect on me was the opposite of what the author intended. That's where I first learned that Forth defines things like IF in Forth itself... and I totally got hooked on it.
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by nomoreservices 6y ago
Your post makes me think I should talk to a professional to check if I have ADHD. Over the years I’ve read many things that hinted at it, but this is by far the most relatable thing I’ve ever read. At basically any point in time I always ha
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by nomoreservices 6y ago
Same here. I’ve been down the rabbit hole of Forth and embedded systems for about a month now. I’ve been learning more and more every night since I got started in it, and it has also consumed entire weekends. It’s fascinating. The “hook” fo
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by nomoreservices 6y ago
> Humans don't like simple things. It's amazing how true this is. You can see it very clearly in your day-to-day as a software engineer. The vast majority of people you will encounter in your career favor fancy, complicated sol
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by nomoreservices 6y ago
Look up "Hadza people" on YouTube. They don't seem to have perfect teeth. Not sure how representative they are (in this aspect) of hunter-gatherers these days though.
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by nomoreservices 6y ago
I think it's a matter of what kind of IM culture you grew up with. As a kid and young adult I used IRC and messengers that limited message size, so doing that was pretty common and everyone did it. My younger co-workers who only seem t
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by nomoreservices 6y ago
> your towns and cities are full of rule-followers doing herd-passive-aggressive self-enforcement, and live-and-let-live is a rare feeling Can you give examples of what you mean by that? I've been living in the US (Seattle area) for
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by nomoreservices 6y ago
Oh man, that was perfect :)
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by nomoreservices 6y ago
Also not OP, but I can think of a number of reasons: 1. Awareness that alcoholism runs in the family, so better play it safe and not drink 2. Association between alcohol and past trauma e.g. alcoholic abusive parent 3. Past relationship tha
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by nomoreservices 6y ago
I think that's what's implied in > Momentum for the Clean Network program is growing. More than thirty countries and territories are now Clean Countries, and many of the world’s biggest telecommunications companies are Clean Te
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by nomoreservices 6y ago
I’m not even that old (early 30s) and I curse at 99% of the tech I use. Especially tech that we use to build other tech. I started my career as a software engineer writing C, then C++ working on desktop software. Things made sense back th
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by nomoreservices 6y ago
We don't see health care systems collapsing due to herpes infections. Look at what's happening in Florida, Texas, Arizona with COVID-19.
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by nomoreservices 6y ago
I've been using https://mailbox.org and really like it. I only disclose my actual email address to a few people. For everything else, I set up specific addresses such as shopping@, health@, bank@, etc using a domain I own,
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by nomoreservices 6y ago
Thanks, I had my definitions wrong :)
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by nomoreservices 6y ago
> SARS-CoV-2 is much less virulent than SARS or MERS. Can you provide sources for that? I thought it was the opposite.
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by nomoreservices 6y ago
Have you ever read A Canticle for Leibowitz? It's fiction, but I can see this project being important for future civilization.
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by nomoreservices 6y ago
Thanks for the laugh! I needed that today :)
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by nomoreservices 6y ago
Strong A Fire Upon the Deep vibes thinking of future archeologists studying that.
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by nomoreservices 6y ago
I'm a Brazilian and I gesture a lot . People here in the US find it funny.
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Ask HN: How do I get out of the services world?
2 points by nomoreservices 6y ago|3 comments