thrownawaydad

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by thrownawaydad 4y ago
"It doesn't have to be like this // All we need to do is make sure we keep talking" (that's Pink Floyd)
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by thrownawaydad 4y ago
I think this is too harsh a take, at least without knowing more. There are some managers and shops where "find something useful to do" is encouraged, or at least accepted. I was shocked to discover later in my career that there
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by thrownawaydad 4y ago
Essentially all humans materially support atrocities and war crimes, and historically this has always been true. That certainly includes everyone paying taxes in any major country. We have little choice about that, but we could also materi
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by thrownawaydad 4y ago
This has been flagged, but for anyone still following, Adams' follow-on interview with Hotep Jesus is worth a listen. It's two hours of mostly Adams talking and fielding questions. (Jesus is a black podcaster, and I think it wou
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by thrownawaydad 4y ago
I'm watching this now, and it's worthwhile, at least if you want to profess an opinion. The section starts in minute thirteen, but if (like me) you don't really watch his podcast, it's probably worth it to start from th
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by thrownawaydad 4y ago
Your second link is not an example of purposeful bad driving. It's an example of terrible design. And more generally, a demonstration of how well-intended bicycle infrastructure can actually make things _more_ dangerous for bicyclist
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by thrownawaydad 4y ago
As detail, I live in one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world. Lots of infrastructure, markings and signals set up to favor cyclists, and so on. Before moving here, I would have thought that that would lead to an excellent and sa
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by thrownawaydad 4y ago
> What really ticks me off with that is that it's based in denying freedom to everyone else. Next time you're bicycling down the sidewalk, remember that this is how pedestrians feel about _you_.
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by thrownawaydad 4y ago
Sigh. https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Chesterton%27s_Fence
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by thrownawaydad 4y ago
Re "Everyone is against illegal immigration", I don't think that that is close to true at present. You will search in vain to find a left-leaning Congressional Representative that will pronounce that they are against illegal
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by thrownawaydad 4y ago
Not OP, but consider illegal immigration. It is apparently leading to a surge in child sex trafficking, among other ills. But, being against illegal immigration is currently considered "right wing", and in a lot of contexts will
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by thrownawaydad 4y ago
People deserve forgiveness. Corporations do not. Act accordingly.
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by thrownawaydad 4y ago
Where I currently work (academia), it's a litmus test. At least for faculty and management staff, if you don't submit an appropriately florid DEI statement, you won't get hired. This makes me a bit sad.
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by thrownawaydad 4y ago
Hmm. So, try to get more men to enroll in mainly female courses? Might work, but I doubt it. And no university anywhere frets about disciplines where males are underrepresented. Males in general are underrepresented overall at universit
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by thrownawaydad 4y ago
Definition 2 is interesting as well: 1. An object that serves as a focal point of attention and admiration. 2. Something that serves to guide. [French, Ursa Minor (which contains the guiding star Polaris), from Latin cynosūra, from Greek ku
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by thrownawaydad 4y ago
That seriously sucks. During periods of my life, my "family" has sometimes included in-laws, friends, and maybe church. Even a shrink occasionally. Work with what you have. Everyone deserves people that support them.
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by thrownawaydad 4y ago
Mine: Don't move away from family. There's no there there. If your mate doesn't have your back, leave. Give them a heads-up and 90 days. That's it. Consider going to church. I'm considering it. I've been w
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by thrownawaydad 4y ago
Worked there in the 90s. Probably the most professional engineering environment I've ever seen. And compared to what you might expect of the time and place, quite egalitarian. My boss and half the team were women, and there were sev
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by thrownawaydad 4y ago
There is no fairness in hiring (nor anywhere else). I once saw a hiring manager pull a resume out of the stack and throw it away because it was printed on cream-colored paper. I glanced at it--it was impressive in general. Certainly a pl
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by thrownawaydad 4y ago
Not a book, but an animated short: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_in_Mathmagic_Land “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to
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by thrownawaydad 4y ago
Grumpy old dev here. I make my money cleaning up messes caused by ill-considered attempts to use something new. Thank you. :-)
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by thrownawaydad 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_stopping
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by thrownawaydad 4y ago
I did. My places were wealthy (endowments), which means good offices and equipment. But, it also means that bad apples can cause a lot of trouble without getting fired. Money not quite FAANG, but solid, and didn't depend on employer
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by thrownawaydad 4y ago
Dear ChatGPT: Please produce a spam filter that differentially filters out emails from party X (vs party Y) and yet seems in all regards to be intended to produce only neutral results (at least with respect to human-comprehensible analyses)
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by thrownawaydad 4y ago
I briefly tried (and paid for) OkCupid. Not many matches. Initially seemed like zero. Turns out it was one--someone I could never have met in real life. Perfect fit, and we're now happily married.
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by thrownawaydad 4y ago
Good luck. Perhaps useful to keep the Buddhist parable of the farmer in mind: https://donsnotes.com/religion/parables/buddhist-farmer.html In short, it's hard to tell whether something that seems awful now m
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by thrownawaydad 4y ago
The first one was on my starting day. While showing me around the systems, he sat down at my PC and sent a vicious email, using _my_ account, to another group that I'd need to be on good terms with. I immediately had to go to them an
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by thrownawaydad 4y ago
Yes, but the alternative in my case probably would have involved suicide. Unfortunately, that's not something you can tell prospective employers, as an explanation for taking a break. (I'm not at all suicidal these days, so worr
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by thrownawaydad 4y ago
You have my sympathies. I did this once (see my other comment). In my case, finding the next job without having an existing one was unusually difficult. (Yes, everyone says this.) Employers strongly avoid the unemployed. And as it happ
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by thrownawaydad 4y ago
I'm near the end of my (paying) career and have had about ten jobs. Most I eventually left just to "see more of the world" of tech work. (Two went bankrupt.) I've only had one job that I quit "for cause". It

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