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Puts a different light on "demonstrating impact"

I think it’s generally easier to get a promotion and/or a big raise by hopping. I used to think frequent hops would yield a sketchy history on the resume, but my sense is that it’s becoming less unusual.

+1. Been running this for my 7yo son for several years now. Substantial quality-of-life gains.

40yo here. I turned the subtitles on the help my little kids learn words as they watch. Now I love them. I’ll watch old movies - ones I’ve seen dozens of times - with the subs on and pick up things I never heard before.

Slapstick is a favorite.

"Created by Don Twordle"

Take that “put egos aside” attitude into a pairing session or three, either with this person or someone else working in the codebase.

Zoom?

:lolsob:

Parent of a seven-year-old T1D here. We've had him DIY looping (Omnipod, Dexcom, LoopKit) for years now. (Wow, time flies.) Cannot recommend this technology highly enough.

Actually, there were a few big wins, in series: started with MDI (multiple daily injections) and finger pricks. That was awful with a two-year-old, lemme tell ya. Then we got CGM (and Nightscout). That let us sleep at night. Sometimes. But we still had to perforate our small child several times a day, sometimes holding him down as he screamed. Eventually we got a pump, so needles were far less frequent. Got a prescription for some numbing cream, which helped a lot, too. And then came Loop. Loop streamlined the meal process and gave us a lot more margin for error, and it cut down on ad hoc corrections. With Loop, we now sleep _most_ nights. And things feel almost normal most of the time.

Carb math is still a lot of work. (Admittedly, we're probably more precise than most people.) And the whole system can just stop working well for reasons you can't discern sometimes. (Nah, it's always a growth spurt.) But this combo if T1D tech has really, seriously changed our lives. I'm so grateful to the folks who built the open source parts of it.

“Being a dad is a long, emotional, draining, and lonely journey.”

This statement seems like a useful filter for finding your target audience.

The prose in Gatsby is so good. Every time I read it, I’m newly impressed.

Enjoyed this guy’s recent talk: https://youtu.be/TPbroUDHG0s

I hoped this would be an article about nethack.

Jonathan Coulton and Andy Weir spring to mind. And both, as I understand it, treated creative work as a side thing until it could stand as their main thing. That seems like the wise course.

> Should the assaulted be happy with the fact that the inmate will get a job?

Yes.