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Thanks for the encouragement. I'm going to try a little harder to do some 'self-marketing'

I'm a pretty useless developer who does about the same amount of real work as you per week. I also often don't understand the technical details other developers discuss in meetings…

> Expecting simple and final answers to questions depending on a myriad of factors (some unknown or even unknowable!) is stupid. I don't think "covid sceptics" are the only ones gu…

I don't understand how you could read the parent comment and decide that it's "blaming" teen girls, unless you are deliberately arguing in bad faith. Teenage girls are predisposed …

On your second bullet point, did you mean to say "but it's thermodynamically and metabolically far easier to cool than to heat " Because that seems to be more in line with the poin…

I didn't really mean training as in pre-planned courses. More sitting down with someone more experienced and being coached through a feature or a programming concept. I guess I was…

Background: I'm a struggling junior/intermediate frontend dev who would have quit this industry long ago if I had any other way of making money. Ever since I joined this industry I…

Does anyone else have a slight suspicion that this kind of stuff is promoted by authorities as a sort of "nudge"? The goal, I think, is to emphasise the really wacky stuff so that …

That’s interesting, I didn’t know that. I wonder what is different now. The woke movement doesn’t seem to get any weaker, even as it adopts more and more identity groups.

> Can you send DMCA takedowns based on owning the NFT for an image? I'm also curious about this. Does the buyer now legally own the image itself, as well as the NFT?

This is amazing, I'm noting this down for future use. As someone said elsewhere in this thread, it makes you wonder what's really going on while we are distracted by this stuff. Wh…

I admire your drive very much. I too started programming in my 30s, but have always struggled with it and now wish I had pursued something else. I cannot imagine having the mental …

Another one here who is really not that great at it. I also find my interest in getting better at it waning by the day, because I know I'll still be mediocre no matter how hard I t…

How does one actually get "checked" for ADHD? It's not like there's a blood test.

Ok, now that I've checked, I'm the one who broke the guidelines by commenting on downvoting. Sorry!

I don't like seeing comments like this downvoted, especially with zero comments responding to it. It seems a totally legitimate viewpoint, even if it's one that many of us disagree…

Plus you can extend that period of time significantly (or even indefinitely) by doing some form of work, even if not highly paid. It doesn't have to be all or nothing. I really lik…

The PNC has been challenged in the past for holding on to records that legally should have been deleted. If I put my tin foil hat on for a moment, I wonder if this "mistake" was a …

The UK took a wrong turn when it gave the police their own extra-judicial justice system. The system of police cautions, warnings and fixed penalties allow the police to administer…

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for the correction!

I remember a similar anecdote about a legendary F1 driver (possibly Michael Schumacher, but I can't remember). During practice the drivers talk to their team over the radio about t…

I'm quite fascinated about how an idea like this gets as far as somebody founding a company when, as several people here (as well as the linked videos) have argued quite convincing…

> I think an intermediate level of mastery is when you realize that a computer is a logic machine built to serve humans and it will always listen to you if you're willing to put in…

I don't have anything to offer other than sympathy, but I just wanted to thank for this post. I'm going through exactly the same thing as you, and asking myself the same questions.…