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As I've gotten more into cooking as I've gotten older it's frustrating how often people don't really understand why they do things the way they do when they cook something, yet will doggedly insist that it must be done that certain way. As I've started to watch more and pay attention to youtubers who explain why they do things in a logical and rational way, even if you're not interested in that particular recipe, the correctly explained and justified techniques will be beneficial in many other things you cook.

Helen Rennie is another good one

wfh vastly better although I enjoy going into the office on occasion to catch up with coworkers over lunch or something

Nope, don't ever want to go back to the office, except for monthly team lunches or something.

Amazing! great to see worker solidarity on HN

Good for you I guess. Virtually no one has the privilege of being able to just quit their their shitty job and take a risk like that but nice if you can.

what do you mean by "And the HR director, feared by many, turns out to be the best advocate for those who run the other way when she is near." ?

Oh, thats great haha.

Dunno why but I love the phrase "Roast Jupiter" sounds like it would taste really nice

Ivermectin is an FDA approved drug and is regularly prescribed to humans. Sure, it probably doesn't do anything for covid but it's not just 'horse dewormer'.

Can you give an example?

Why do you think that people keep voting for the blatantly corrupt LNP? and why are the other parties above becoming corrupt?

Is it possible that the LNP are constantly in power because they are corrupt?

"blindly letting the government erode our rights"

what else are we supposed to do? how do you stop the government from doing that?

Seems reasonable

I don't think just any old person can make money off OF though, like presumably you need a reasonable camera and maybe lights or something, you need to be able to edit photos, the time and energy and motivation to learn how to use those things etc. It's not like some random struggling single mother can take a few pics of her feet on her 5 year old iphone and be expecting to make decent money.

Sorry, what does "Traditionalist conservatism places a strong emphasis on the notions of custom, convention, and tradition." have to do with the left?

That's cool I'd love to hear more about it, I've actually been thinking about ways that a language app could work better. Seems like all the current research is that "immersion" in the target language is critical, an app that just played me conversations, had me read text, etc and 'creatively' formulate responses, not just simply fill in the missing word, obviously in increasing difficulty would be ideal.

yeah babbel seems better although iirc the interface was a bit clunky.

I also found busuu and linq to be okay as well.

Why do they so badly want us back in the offices? I really don't understand what they stand to lose by SWEs working remotely.

I don't know anyone that actually want to be back in the office full time, some are ok with part-time work.

Most people seem to be (anecdotally at least) reporting that they and their teams are more productive at home and their quality of life is improved because they aren't wasting time commuting.

Businesses could save money by renting smaller offices or doing away with offices completely.

Good engineers are just going to jump ship to wherever they can work fully remotely.

Honestly from using duolingo pretty heavily for a couple of years, attending language classes and doing my own individual study I've found duolingo pretty useless. It's "fun" and gives one the sense of progress without really accomplishing much.

Even as someone thats only just above a junior engineer, I feel like I've been made to feel stupid or that I was wasting other peoples time or such for "just asking questions" so many times. I'm extremely reluctant to do so tbh. There have of course been people who encouraged and welcomed questions (for whom I'm extremely grateful) but it's the negative experiences that stand out.

It's really been a major contributor to my loss of interest and passion for this industry over the last few years I think.

The lengths that hackernews commenters will go to to defend capitalism are insane

> They never even pull down the changes they are reviewing! To be completely transparent, I’m guilty of that myself.

How often is this even feasible though? sure if there's little difference between the PR branch and whatever the last build I've done is, it wont take too long to build but then I have to install our product and get it set up to test. We have a ton of legacy code that isn't easily testable. We do have a CI build but it takes like ~6 hours to build.

breaking news programmer figures out answer to societal dilemma humans have been grappling with since society came into existence

Do you really need to pretend you're a fighter pilot to be productive at the office come on guys

What is the point of doing all that? Like what value do you get from knowing the 'Dark Patterns' ?

Based? Based on what?

Who would I vote for who is "in my interest" to vote for?

How many people are even at liberty to just say “no sorry I’m not attending any meetings in this 4 hour block” ?

My boss/team leader/other manager would just laugh in my face if I said I couldn’t attend meetings or asked to have them moved because of swiss cheese or something

Bela Lugosi's bed... the bat has left the film set