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by stank345 1y ago
If you think you have the flu, it's a cold. If you think you're dying, it's the flu.
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by stank345 1y ago
Yeah, those were two big sticking points. There's also Object.groupBy() now which was another thing I always missed from the standard library. Proposals tend to get adopted at a snail's place but it's neat to see what's
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Ice to treat soft-tissue injuries contraindicated by creator of protocol(en.wikipedia.org)
62 points by stank345 2y ago|64 comments
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by stank345 3y ago
The sensory medium is separate from one's capacity to learn and use language. Sign languages have grammar, vocabulary, "accents" etc just like spoken languages.
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by stank345 3y ago
I went through a similar thing where I had some trouble sleeping due to external stressors and then started to get freaked out that I was having trouble sleeping, having always been a great sleeper. I developed a lot of anxiety around it an
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by stank345 4y ago
Keep in mind that just because you're good at management doesn't mean you have to do it professionally. Stay purely technical if that's what you enjoy!
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by stank345 4y ago
As a perfectionist in recovery, this book was extremely illuminating: https://www.newharbinger.com/9781684038459/the-anxious-perfe... I often felt like they were describing me to myself as I was reading... Highly recom
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by stank345 4y ago
Bugs are inevitable but we should strive to have as few as possible. Your program not working right is obviously bad UX (as we've all experienced using buggy software). The reason we have type checking is same reason we have other tool
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by stank345 4y ago
Yeah, the proximate cause is eating too much but the ultimate cause has to be systemic if we're getting more and more obese all the time.
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by stank345 4y ago
I think it depends on population density as well. I grew up in a rural area in the US and now live in Philadelphia on a tiny side street barely two cars wide. Every single car on our street has scratches/small dents on the bumper and f
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by stank345 4y ago
Yeah, there's definitely a separate cultural/inexperience problem at play as well.
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by stank345 4y ago
I agree and am very pro vanilla JS FWIW. I just find myself reaching for something like lodash's `intersection`/`difference` functions when working with sets, `sortBy` to get more normal (and not in-place) sorting behavior, and `g
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by stank345 4y ago
I hear what you're saying, but it still seems pretty bonkers to me that if you try to sort an array of numbers it will cast them to strings and sort alphabetically (!): > [1, 2, 10, 3].sort() [ 1, 10, 2, 3 ] > And yes, I
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by stank345 4y ago
Part of it is that JS's standard library is terrible (eg. no built-in union/intersection when working with sets, bizarre default sorting behavior see ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Jav
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by stank345 5y ago
I had the same issue with the Reddit app so now I just use the neutered web app and consider the frustration stemming from its brokenness to be feature that keeps me from spending too much time on it.
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by stank345 5y ago
> they didn't shadow protect their password files Could you please explain what this means? Googling didn't reveal much.
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by stank345 5y ago
I just changed jobs. For me it was my job pool increasing by 10x or 20x due to the normalization of remote work. It's also much easier to interview when you're WFH all the time.
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by stank345 5y ago
What you're saying makes sense, but sentiment like this makes me long for a post-capitalist conception of work where everything's not purely transactional and we can do meaningful work that we feel proud of. I think artisans or cr
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by stank345 5y ago
Can you provide a source for running being 5x better than walking? It doesn't seem that simple to me (eg. older people may suffer from joint pain or a risk of falling from more intense activity, so frequent walking may be better for th
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by stank345 5y ago
I'm not a seasoned Haskell dev by any means, having only played around with it for parsing and then more recently for Advent of Code, but tooling has come a long way in the past 6 months. I was able to use ghcup to very easily instal
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by stank345 5y ago
I just talked to a recruiter today from a company I'm beginning the hiring process with. When they asked about compensation I asked about their range for the position, which ended up being about $15k higher than what I would have asked
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by stank345 5y ago
Ignoring your extreme snark and least charitable interpretation of what I've written, I'm not saying any of these things are insurmountable or even necessarily hard to learn, but they are _things to know_. I don't think you s
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by stank345 5y ago
Things a frontend dev would know that a backend may not: - HTML and CSS (facility with selectors) - JS syntax and semantics, common patterns and idioms, gotchas - Web APIs - CORS - Frontend data persistence mechanisms
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by stank345 5y ago
Not sure if you're familiar, but Koka feels like the future to me: https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/index.html
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by stank345 5y ago
I know how you feel. You might be interested in the 80,000 hours podcast as a way to gain a better understanding of the problems humanity faces: https://80000hours.org/podcast/ In terms of what to _do_ about it as a so
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by stank345 5y ago
It sounds like you are being unfair to yourself, perhaps brutally so. Would you consider others of your social class and status abject failures?
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by stank345 5y ago
I also enjoy lifting weights and I recently started doing high-frequency, low/moderate intensity training throughout my workday. I'll just choose an exercise for that day and do it many times per day. It's always around 50-70
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by stank345 5y ago
Yeah, my office isn't really like that. It's quite quiet (more so than I would like if I'm being honest). The culture is engineering-biased and not bro-y. It's also a B Corp, so for profit but with a mission. I think tha
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by stank345 5y ago
Getting back to working from the office last week has done wonders for my mental health. I went from being locked up for a year WFH with my wife and kids in a small row home working out of my goddamn basement to actually being able to conce
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by stank345 5y ago
FWIW I'm definitely an introvert and I can't wait to get back in the office. I don't want to have to talk to people all day but I really want some actual meatspace interaction. Being locked up for a year with two small chil

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