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If you are risk averse, or poor at assessing risk, or not very smart, then don't chase money: you will most likely end up poor, unless you're incredibly lucky, which you cannot control.
Any time I start to feel that Impostor Syndrome creeping in, I need to remind myself that there's someone who's working at Accenture probably earning 2x or 3x what I am, who gets to fuck up big not once but _twice_ doing the same wrong thing.
I'm Dossy#5309 on Discord, let's figure something out together.
A protocol has no inherent value. Its value comes from its application. And, Mastodon, as one of ActivityPub's applications, is nothing better than Twitter fractured into many smaller islands of Twitter: instead of upsetting Elon and getting the boot, if you upset the Mastodon server operator you happen to choose, you run the same exact risk of being deported off that particular island. If you're going to subject yourself to the whims of a dictator, you might as well stay on Twitter and reap the benefits of the larger network.
Exactly. This is the critical flaw in Mastodon's design. It does not solve the single biggest flaw in Twitter (or any other typical platform) design, where the platform operator owns the network, and not the author/user.
This is why I won't bother investing my own personal time and effort in joining anyone else's server, given how the current design is implemented.
It's sad that BitTorrent has now existed for 21 years, and still no one has built a social media content distribution network on top of it. I would have done it but I don't have the motivation to do it alone, as it would tilt control away from the platform operators who require that control in order to monetize the platform to make it worth the investment.
:sigh:
Being able to export all of your data (posts, followers, following, blocks/mutes, etc.) and to import it into another server MUST be table stakes at this point. Otherwise, you're just trading one Twitter for another, which is foolish, because it means you wrongly believe that history doesn't repeat itself.
I'll keep watching from the sidelines and see if the fundamental issues get resolved. It certainly will be interesting to see how things play out, that's for sure!
That's what I thought based on what I've read so far, thanks for confirming.
Unless and until that's fixed, if I finally see enough value in joining Mastodon, I will have to do so using my own server where I have full access to all my content.
"Доверяй, но проверяй" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify
Many programmers implicitly trust third-party code in packages and libraries, and they really shouldn't, either.
Instead of tags, you _could_ have rules file messages into separate folders, but I prefer having all the mail in one folder and using tags that can be applied in a boolean AND/OR method, so I can view "all messages tagged both [Important] and [To Do]" for example. I may have some messages that are important but have no action that are only tagged "Important", or messages that are actionable but not important which are only tagged "To Do" ... but, it's important for me to keep on top of those messages that are _both_ "Important" and "To Do" so I don't let them slip.
This is what I tell my two daughters who have both opted to not attend university immediately after high school:
To an employer, a college degree conveys the fact that you are capable of setting a multi-year goal and actually achieve it.
While this seems trivial, it is remarkable how many people think they CAN do this, but when put to the test, cannot.
Aside from very low-skill specialized jobs at the lower end of the labor pool, employers need people who may not necessarily or likely already possess all the prerequisite skills at the time of hiring, but can set and achieve long-term goals, especially those with externally/extrinsically defined requirements, such as graduation requirements, or job requirements.
Can you get a job without such proof? Sure. But, will having proof help validate your claim that you possess the skill? Absolutely. And, despite what many think, there are plenty of people who do not possess the skill, and those people cost employers in both time, money and other resources, so employers look for ways to mitigate the risk of hiring them.
Like any other programming language, by definition, 50% of programmers are below average.
If 70% success is a "passing" C grade, that means you have a 7 in 10 chance of choosing a programmer of failing quality. In other words, your odds of picking someone at random is biased towards failure.
This holds true for almost anything where you are choosing a skilled worker at random, including tax preparers.
Unfortunately, most people do not have the knowledge or expertise to adequately interview tax preparers to increase their odds of picking one that is in that 30% passing grade side of the curve.
And, I think, many people in skilled trades get by or even rely on that fact in order to stay employed in their line of work.
And that's why I continue to do all of my own tax filing, because, for me as a programmer, the US tax code is nothing more than the source code for a program written in its own language which happens to be a special dialect of English.
I can't put my hands on the source at the moment, but there's a cliché that I've read somewhere that goes like this:
"Juniors focus on the how. Seniors focus on the what. Principals focus on the why."
Uh, wat? https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/configure-ip
# "You can configure your Cloud SQL instance to have a public IPv4 address, and to accept connections from specific IP addresses or a range of addresses by adding authorized addresses to your instance."
Think more "culturally compatible" or at least "we consider culture as part of the decision-making process" vs. purely assessing skills and salary cost alone.
Insufficient testing?
Edit: I guess I was just early. It eventually loaded, after a solid 2-3 minutes of waiting.
On 2022-04-02, I paid $32 to Amazon Pharmacy for a 90 count of Bupropion XL 300mg.
Tonight, I'm ordering a refill of my prescription from Mark Cuban's CostPlus Drug Company, for the same Bupropion XL 300mg, but 180 count, for $19.20 + $5 shipping = $24.20.
Amazon Pharmacy cost me $0.355/pill. Mark Cuban's CostPlus Drug Company will cost me $0.135/pill. That's 2.6x cheaper.
For comparison, using GoodRx, the cheapest pharmacy near me is Acme Markets Pharmacy who is selling the 90 count of 300mg for $22.39, which is $0.249/pill, cheaper than Amazon Pharmacy, but more expensive than MCCPDC.
In the end, I'm saving $40-50/year on this prescription through MCCPDC - is this life changing? Thankfully, no.
But, to claim that MCCPDC isn't cheaper than the prevailing alternative purchasing options? Sorry, clickbait troll.
> Many EY employees knew that their behavior violated the company’s code of conduct, but some still did it because they couldn’t pass on their own, according to the SEC. The firm ultimately disciplined and, in some cases, fired individuals for their actions, according to the SEC, which said it’s investigation is ongoing.
Given that we've finally advanced into the era of more accessible tele-health thanks to COVID, you may not necessarily be restricted by geographic limitations in finding a psychopharmacologist to work with. Try searching for psychopharmacologists who offer "virtual" appointments or tele-health/tele-medicine services.
Get an appointment ASAP, like next week at the latest. Why wait?
Many medications require titrating up to a clinically effective dosage over the course of weeks, before you even get to find out if it'll have a positive therapeutic effect, then you may need to titrate down over weeks before you can start the next drug.
While psychopharmacology is a "science," because of our widely differing biologies, it's a science of trial-and-error.
Also, I know it's probably not something you want to hear, but it's not the end of the world if you have to spend another semester, or even another two or three semesters, to complete your degree.
Life is long, and this is just a transient speed bump. It may seem like a big deal RIGHT NOW, but 10 years from now, it'll just be another one of those things you had to overcome in life.
Try to relax. Focus on the things you can control, and try to not dwell on the things you can't. It too, shall pass.