throw_away1525

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by throw_away1525 3y ago
I used to be an engineer in a traditional engineering field in heavy industry, now my job title is "Software Engineer". I still consider myself an engineer, and what I do with my team to be engineering. Creating amazing things you
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by throw_away1525 3y ago
I now live in a small walkable city in Europe and parks and playgrounds are packed. It is very common for my daughter to randomly meet a friend from school there and start playing, or to encounter a friend of ours there also on a walk which
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by throw_away1525 3y ago
oops
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by throw_away1525 3y ago
Given that the excess energy did come from nuclear power plant (the sun) over millions of years I think that is a really apt way to look at things. Interesting coincidence that you ended up with 3 million years, given life appeared on earth
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by throw_away1525 3y ago
Two weeks ago I would have agreed, but Red Hat had 4% of their employees laid off last week.
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by throw_away1525 3y ago
Yeah look we're all upset about what's happening on the southern border and that Biden didn't close the camps but calling them 'concentration camps' is a bit much, don't you think?
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by throw_away1525 3y ago
Have you thought about removing the date you graduated from your degree and removing a few of your early jobs from your resume? You have 20+ years of experience... can you make it look like you have 10? Just to get an interview? It is absol
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by throw_away1525 3y ago
DAC makes no sense from an energy accounting perspective. Simple argument: DAC requires energy. In some places, that energy is stranded. Think of the DAC plant in Iceland using geothermal. Fine. In that case, DAC makes a meaningful contribu
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by throw_away1525 3y ago
So glad you enjoyed it!
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by throw_away1525 3y ago
%s/tech/magick
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by throw_away1525 3y ago
Sales doesn't really have meaningful levels, in my experience (many years in engineering sales but not "tech"). Senior/staff/principle engineers do a lot more than just code, right? Lots of high level decisions, str
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by throw_away1525 3y ago
Yeah, there's nothing like visiting a beautiful village somewhere like Mexico (or Eastern Europe in my case)... such wonderful traditions, an old woman taking her goats and sheep out. An old man plowing a field with a horse and a wood
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by throw_away1525 3y ago
If you can read English well enough to read the rulebook yourself, then you can play with your kids in German... this is not like D&D or something, you never really need to reference the rulebook while playing the game. There is no pl
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by throw_away1525 3y ago
It's going to be rainy all day tomorrow, and guess how we're going to spend our Saturday afternoon? Thanks for the recommendation. :)
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by throw_away1525 3y ago
I can highly recommend Amazing Tales, it is a pen and paper RPG for kids her age. I play with my daughter and she LOVES it. You only need a couple of six sided dice, although you can optionally spice things up with 8, 10, and 12 sided die i
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by throw_away1525 3y ago
I'm originally from the US, I understand how things work there well enough... but anyway after re-reading your original post I think we probably generally agree more than we disagree. Having lived in both continents I take issue with t
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by throw_away1525 3y ago
I am not comparing our current leisure time to the time we had at the beginning of the industrial revolution and onward. We probably do have more free time than we did 150 years ago. I'm comparing our leisure time to the leisure time w
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by throw_away1525 3y ago
Poach them or boil them if you don't want to add fat to fry them in. But are you sure that frying them in butter or lard is actually bad for you?
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by throw_away1525 3y ago
We have 748 million people here in the EU, so I'm not sure what you're on about when it comes to scale. As for efficiency, I suppose that depends on how you define the numerator and denominator.
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by throw_away1525 3y ago
It's false that people now have more leisure time, in fact we have less than ever before. For most of human history we were hunter gatherers. We know from the field of anthropology that people in hunter gatherer tribes "work"
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by throw_away1525 3y ago
You're right, there's a place for both active leisure and passive leisure. The problem I have is that our jobs rob us of the energy we need for active leisure, so we just end up doing passive leisure 100% of the time which I think
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by throw_away1525 3y ago
Ideally you would produce something instead of consuming it. Maybe music, woodworking, painting, writing, etc... Easier said than done, after having that insight years ago it has been on my to-do list permanently and yet here I am on the sc
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by throw_away1525 3y ago
Do you think we don't have 18 wheelers and highways in Europe?
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by throw_away1525 3y ago
Something no one has mentioned yet: stop drinking alcohol to the greatest extent possible. A lot of us in our 30s are into craft beer, good wine, expensive Scotch etc... try abstaining for a full quarter (3 months) and see how you feel afte
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by throw_away1525 3y ago
If you search for the entire 3rd paragraph and append 'reddit' on Google it is the first result. However, I agree with your point that search engines are performing poorly - obviously I was only able to get this to work because I
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by throw_away1525 3y ago
Nice theoretical prompt, where's the result?
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by throw_away1525 3y ago
I'm very curious about the variability of mineral content of our foods. Surely it depends on a number of factors, such as the mineral content of the soil the food was grown in, and yet if you search for this you will find that a banana
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by throw_away1525 3y ago
Fair point. Still, I think the reference point for plastic ubiquity comes quite a while after the 1950s. Plus, there are many different types of polymers and plasticizers and processed food is exposed to plastic at many points during its pr
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by throw_away1525 3y ago
This made me remember a time I checked a book out from the library and found lots of little notes written in Chinese characters in the margins throughout the book. Most if not all were, I assume, translations of words. It was quite nice - t
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by throw_away1525 3y ago
It is too early. The fact that the science hasn't been done yet doesn't mean that it is a wild claim. It is an extremely reasonable and obvious hypothesis.

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