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Purely a guess, but a lot of people whose pride stems from understanding complex subjects are the same people who will gatekeep that subject. Sagan, making astronomy more accessible to lay people, would be a grave offense to someone like that.

No, no. That's done by the contractors they ship data to. Otherwise they would be breaking federal laws.

I think they meant quality from a hardware and ops perspective.

I wish 97.8% monoculture was considered diversity. My conglomerate can't get any cash from blackrock unless we're at least 65% diverse and make our advertisements about ESG instead of the product we're selling.

Birth rates isn't the right word. Neonatal mortality

There are regular efforts to discredit Japan, and I think it has to do with them being the model for "done differently and to better success". Better birth rates, very very few cesarians. Far fewer health mandates, better health outcomes. Cash-based economy, fully functioning without being subject to mass surveillance. Even better litter outcomes despite no public trash cans.

They're testament to the successes of a homogenous society at the very least.

Don't worry. I'm sure even the people hoarding wealth in affluent cities are still paying 40% of their income to fund rent seekers and their mandatory services.

If your right to it isn't guaranteed by law, your lack of right to it will be weaponized against you. Even if it is guaranteed to you by law, it still might.

There are a lot of bad actors in the security space. DDG, for example. Companies like perimeter 81 I don't trust based solely on the fact that Israel regularly and frequently acts nefariously. Bitlocker replaces good drive encryption you control with something that can be unlocked by authorities. Plenty of PRISM compromised companies offer security...

Software engineering has huge ranges of salary. Not only do I doubt you get paid the same, but I also doubt you get paid as much as my best performing lead engineers.

It sounds like I struck a nerve. Does it hurt you knowing there are a lot of developers out there that contribute more in a week than you do in several months?

When we get to that point, people will form pair bonds with holograms that text and video chat them on the go.

I've got a strong suspicion that there would be more productivity if the bottom half of developer (or more) left the industry. Control for seniority, of course. The majority of 1Xers produce outright bad code, contribute disproportionately to tech debt, don't read user stories thoroughly, don't test their code properly, and generally get in everyone else's way.

The most productive thing our industry could do is create an anonymous blacklist of devs to avoid and code samples of their shit work.

Ideating is a muscle. When you intentionally spend time everyday writing down ideas, playing with old ideas, and looking at how others drew inspiration for their ideas, you become stronger at the skill. "Creative" people were not hindered by the fact that their early ideas were stupid, pointless and derivative. They kept at it.

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I've found from a management position it's a useful tool to confirm suspicions about salary thieves. Sometimes I pair them with a no-nonsense dev who will tell me specific problems. Sometimes I pair two problem developers together and see if the pressure of another person makes them build properly.

Mostly, though, pair programming is my favorite way to get people up to speed with a project and to prevent information silos about critical functionality. My devs do them about once a quarter with each other for a week or as needed.

IQ 55: mate, I trust me instincts

IQ 100: DO YOU HAVE A SOURCE FOR THAT?

IQ 145: It's perfectly rational to trust your deep instincts, since they passed through generations of evolutionary pressure

I've used Duolingo for about a year and they definitely have a lot of stuff like that built into the gamification. Often times, though, playing the game they designed is counterproductive. I've broken 100+ day streaks twice now because I realized I was only putting in the minimum for the sake of the game. I've found it better to take a month off here and there so that I can come back and focus on my actual goals.

There's also the cracked lesson feature. They aligned cracked lessons to urgency gamification instead of something more sound like delayed repetition. As a result, you'll often have cracked lessons which you've long since permanently committed to memory and will be spending 15 minutes on easy lessons rather than doing the important, harder lessons.

This is one of the harsh realities leftists struggle with most. Their world view is a carefully constructed denial of reality. Then, suddenly something that can't be pretended away - like a perimenopausal woman who thinks kids are in her future - causes a shitstorm. At the top of the comment section, daydreamers offering her comforting lies. At the bottom, people laughing at another victim of a cult ideology.

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Luckily for you, you're not the only Chris Marshall in NY. I personally know a physicist with the same name in the same state.

I think understanding "soulmate" -whether or not it exists - can be understood by looking at the antithesis. I know I've been in a mistake of a relationship where I had found the opposite of a soulmate. The things that made her awful for me are characteristics I used to filter people out until I found my wife.

There's definitely an argument that soulmate don't exist. That anyone can be the one that you want as long as you see it through until you feel indifference. For some people, though, that indifference comes much faster. Trust and respect erode way faster than can be undone.

For anyone struggling, turning the screen to black and white helps. Less dopamine per hit makes it easier to break those habits.

It's a very useful example. I didn't know that bumblebees were separate from honeybees or that they didn't produce honey

Different standards, too. I've become used to US/Canada restaurant standards for food when I go out to eat. Everytime I leave the country I'm thoroughly impressed by the quality and taste. Still, I'll be somewhere like Osaka and read reviews online. Locals will rate a place 3 stars and stay they could make it at home, it's nothing special. Place that outclass 90% of US restaurants averaging 3.5 stars, while at home there's pig slop getting rates 4.8.

Cultural differences impact what a person believes is the correct answer.

I learned that one the hard way when I had to put "diversity" checkboxes in their c-level stalking app.

The easier it is to brute force an sms message hash, the less sensitive the information is. Generally.

You sound like you're in that category if you can't differentiate and think that it's surprising for software to have a flexible business logic layer.

Depends on the industry and client. Some industries have a lot of consultants that don't write code but will tell you 80% is the minimum. Some contracts stipulate code coverage deliverables. Some platforms like Salesforce count lines of code covered and prevent deployments unless 75% and passing.

> Same goes for prototyping. I don't see much of a correlation between willingness to prototype and seniority, either.

Willingness is one thing, but getting yelled at for learning and doing your best is another. I never treat my Juniors like that, and encourage a 75/25 working/improving split. Still, several frequently get anxiety about how long it's taking them to clear tickets.