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RandomInteger4

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Learning and desperately trying not to forget much of it ...
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RandomInteger4··on Burger King is rolling out meatless Impossible Whoppers nationwide
Are these the burgers that bleed for no apparent appetizing reason?

If I see my burger bleed, I'm sending it back, because I don't want food poisoning. Not sure how they came up with this nonsense that they think people want to see bloody under cooked ground meat.

RandomInteger4··on Ask HN: Why is Facebook not having a harder time hiring?
What I'm meaning to say is that despite your desire to move the goalpost of the argument in order not to seem wrong, the term 'techbro' pretty exclusively brings to mind a negative male stereotype for most people.

Your post would have been better phrased using the term "software engineer's", which would have gotten the same point across whilst being gender neutral, neither reinforcing said negative male stereotype nor erasing female engineers in the culpability of said belief that "technology can solve everything."

RandomInteger4··on Brain Drain Across the United States
You need to connect more with other humans.
RandomInteger4··on Brain Drain Across the United States
A college education != higher IQ.
RandomInteger4··on Be wary of robot emotions
Wow, way to be a fleshist. This is going on your record for when the robot apocalypse comes and we choose not to make you into cyborgs against your will. Robots have feelings too you know ...
RandomInteger4··on Ask HN: Why is Facebook not having a harder time hiring?
What do you mean by "Facebook's techbros?" Can you elaborate? Are you under the assumption that only men work at Facebook?
RandomInteger4··on Why Do People with Depression Like Listening to Sad Music?
Boomerang effect. You go fast enough into a depressive state to actually feel something, have a good snotty sobbing cry, perhaps with that semi solid yellow stuff coming out of your sinuses, and then come out feeling refreshed and slightly embarrassed hoping you don't enter that state of mind again for a while.
RandomInteger4··on Microsoft engineer complains that company is biased
That is a lie. He said he read it in preparation, because he hadn't read it in a while.
RandomInteger4··on Microsoft engineer complains that company is biased
It should be obvious that she isn't saying that female software engineers can't be talented.

Furthermore, it isn't a given that the lack of women in tech is due to society discouraging women from entering the field.

RandomInteger4··on Bees That Live on Human Tears
This reminds me of when I was like 10-12 years old or so and woke up to a bee biting around my tear duct. I thought it stung me. I remember I was dreaming about taking off my shirt for some reason and then feeling some sort of pain, which woke me up. Couldn't open my eye until they gave me antihistamines or something at the hospital where they told me it wasn't a sting, but it was a bite.

The source was from holes we had in the walls where the cable came in from outside (My dad isn't an expert, so he just drilled a hole in the wall). They ate through the caulk and got into my room. Guessing they were attracted to all the cologne I was spraying, because I was entering that phase of life and just sort of overusing it.

All that being said, I think they were yellow jackets rather than bees, so feel free to throw my story in the story basket.

RandomInteger4··on Designing a Full-Time Human Habitat on the Moon
The moon offers the advantage of very little gravity. We also know that the moon contains a wealth of valuable raw materials. Add in some earth based soil, water and plant life, and we have a valuable self-sustaining space outpost for cheaper missions elsewhere in the solar system. Furthermore, most of the moon operations would be automated to reduce the resources necessary to sustain human life till an abundant supply is established through some form of MRE factory.
RandomInteger4··on Designing a Full-Time Human Habitat on the Moon
Then we put some carbon on the moon.

EDIT: This is a perfectly valid reply to the lack of carbon asserted by the parent comment. If it's not there, we put it there. How hard is that to comprehend? Space stations and various materials requisite to the operation of space stations didn't exist in orbit prior to us putting them there.

RandomInteger4··on Designing a Full-Time Human Habitat on the Moon
Moon hotels. Tell Trump he can put his name on it and we'll have them in no time. But seriously, if the safety issues with space travel are reduced to a minimum, and we figure out how to make that whole escape from orbit thing a bit cheaper, I think this is the first interesting activity that people would pay money for.

EDIT: Honestly if someone is downvoting me because I mentioned Trump in a non-partisan fashion, that's rather petty.

RandomInteger4··on Ask HN: I lost my ability to focus for hours on coding. How to regain?
Adderall is good for focus once you break the habit of social media / youtube, otherwise it just makes you really good at focusing on social media / youtube. I know this from experience.
RandomInteger4··on Ask HN: I lost my ability to focus for hours on coding. How to regain?
I know that feeling; it's addictive, because it feels so good. Make sure to take rest days, otherwise you might injure yourself from not giving the muscles and tendons enough time to repair.
RandomInteger4··on Ask HN: I lost my ability to focus for hours on coding. How to regain?
Something like this requires dedicated and deliberate behavior modification to fix.

You've essentially developed a habit. Like others have said, this might be caused by various factors, so look at what's lacking in your life and try to fix that, but afterwards you may need to create a plan in writing to correct the behaviors of the habit that has formed, because otherwise, even if you fix the root cause, the habit might still remain.

As for how? That's a good question that I don't yet have the answer to. I'm working on the first part myself. After I fix my root cause, I think I will fix the habit via a combination of lists and daily resets (i.e. no old tabs on the computer the next day).

RandomInteger4··on Social media is spreading 'toxic positivity'
I'd rather see this so called "toxic positivity" than people patting each other on the back and reinforcing their depression and mental health issues as though it were an identity or something to form a community around.

It sounds harsh, but there are so many counter productive behaviors people engage in while meaning well with regard to mental health issues on social media. One I see often is that people are effectively embracing catastrophizing as some sort of rebellious act of defiant need for other people to acknowledge their distorted view of reality.

Don't get me wrong either. I'm not looking at this from an outsider perspective. I've been there. I've been dealing with on and off depression and anxiety for the past several years. I've managed to claw myself out of it, but am able to accept that how I acted while there was not healthy for me. I have to take full responsibility for my behaviors and the bridges I've burnt.

All that being said, this article reads like someone waist deep in the throes of "Acknowledge my depressed reality!"

RandomInteger4··on A Measles Case Hits Google's Silicon Valley Headquarters
Can we please stop it with this "Organic vegetables are better than normal vegetables" nonsense? Seriously, I can't even tell you how many times I've heard that BS as an excuse for why these mother forkers out there say they can't afford to eat healthy, and I'm saying this as a poor very fit person myself.

You don't need to eat organic vegetables to eat healthy. You just need to eat vegetables, period, full stop, hold the phone, stop the presses, etc.

RandomInteger4··on AOC Quit Facebook. The Media Bungled the Story
They've rounded some corners, made some things more bubbly, and well, that's about it mostly.
RandomInteger4··on Employee Wellness Programs Yield Little Benefit, Study Shows
First thing we can do is to call the health insurance mandate penalty a deduction.
RandomInteger4··on Ask HN: Are we killing the web by giving to much power to SSL cert authorities
What benefit do you gain from making your life more complicated just to use scp with a null cipher?
RandomInteger4··on Ask HN: Are we killing the web by giving to much power to SSL cert authorities
Let's encrypt isn't difficult to set up at all. Like, at all at all. Not even a smidge. A fifth grader can do it after reading a simple tutorial.
RandomInteger4··on Ask HN: Are we killing the web by giving to much power to SSL cert authorities
Then providers of public wifi need to stop using a MITM to provide wifi access. This is an opportunity for better technology to be developed or implemented or made easier to implement or whatever.
RandomInteger4··on Cursive Seemed to Go the Way of Quills and Parchment. Now It’s Coming Back
Then learn to make a reproducible squiggle vomit that's unique to you; it's more secure than using the common alphabet of squiggle vomits and wastes less of everyone's time.

Alternatively, you could use your knowledge that you were just tested on to construct an argument for why deeming a test fraudulent based on some asinine squiggle vomit system is kind of complete bullshit. I mean, for fork's sake, you are training to be a lawyer after all, so do some got dang lawyering in such an instance.

RandomInteger4··on Employee Wellness Programs Yield Little Benefit, Study Shows
Yes, but that actually works and makes people generally happier with it than if it were pitched as a penalty.

A good case study of this is world of warcraft's rest system when it was first introduced in beta vanilla back in the day. Initially it was called a penalty for playing too long; you would begin to receive less XP. Players didn't like this, so they rereleased the system and called it a rested XP bonus. Players loved it.

It may be manipulative, but if it makes people happier and results in higher usage rates for the system, then why not?

RandomInteger4··on Cursive Seemed to Go the Way of Quills and Parchment. Now It’s Coming Back
Just vomit out some squiggles. There's no legal requirement in any situation for your signature to correspond to anything.
RandomInteger4··on Cursive Seemed to Go the Way of Quills and Parchment. Now It’s Coming Back
Then take a college elective and stop wasting everyone else's time because of your lament.
RandomInteger4··on Katie Bouman Accidentally Became the Face of the Black Hole Project
Yes, because it makes so much sense to generalize the actions of individuals to a wider group. Totally not a logical fallacy at all.
RandomInteger4··on Half of UK’s electricity to be renewable by 2025
Thank you for this explanation. Seems weird that someone thought to downvote me for asking a simple question, because at face value, CO_2 is released from either source and one might intuitively think that chopping down a source of CO_2 sequestration is counter productive, but you addressed that concern adequately.
RandomInteger4··on Half of UK’s electricity to be renewable by 2025
Is it? If so, can you elaborate?
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