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I'm torn on this. Often I feel like the parent, but I recognize maybe I'm being stubborn. You say libraries purpose is to help the community. If that's true, what you're saying mak…

I don't go to libraries very often anymore because so often they're effectively homeless shelters. Should I not mind this? I don't know, 'should' is doing a lot here, but the truth…

If you want to hire people who share your values and your values include moral responsibility for the megacorp one works for, you’re right not to hire from companies you feel are i…

Thanks, that's a much better photo. You can really see the effects of light pollution well in that one too.

You'd want to keep your network alive. Publish, be on program committees doing reviews, etc. If the number of jobs is fairly static and you're doing this and your area doesn't coll…

On H1B, its abuses, and big tech capture in general, it's a shame we can't generally admit that the democrats are terrible on this without others perceiving this as an endorsement …

I have a CS PhD from a good (but not top 5) program and have published in top venues. I perceived my chances of getting a job at Microsoft Research (MSR) to be low (on par with get…

There are multiple axes upon which something like this can be evaluated. I'm not against us as a society collectively deciding we should enforce rules that may be counter to busine…

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From a business perspective, did it work? Was the team more, less, or equally effective than one where you didn't expend the time and expense of hiring a more homogenous group? Was…

sure, but absent infinite energy supplies with which much is possible, it falls under the general rubric of "no free lunch," which often in the physical world may fall under the co…

Probably something like requiring an advanced license, like heavy truck drivers require, to operate vehicles that cross certain mass and speed thresholds would be reasonable. I lik…

The truck isn't to my taste, but absent any indication that this was due to something unique to this automobile I don't see why it's news anymore than people tragically dying in a …

I work at one of the big companies and some people do that even here. People just talk about their experience or other systems that they know. It always feels conservative to me, a…

Of course it's objectively easier, particularly if you hold some variables constant (distance or pace) relative to weight. The wrinkle is that most runners run to a pain point. Ove…

I'm on the heavy side for a distance runner, but compared to the general population, I've never been very heavy or very light (BMI currently around 26). I mostly run longer distanc…

Wow what a nightmare. I try to time it so I'm lucid before landing, but that's a horror I hadn't even considered!

Benzos are my flight go-to. I got them for some flight anxiety, since my stupid brain started getting scared of flying, but boy do they just make the time go by and I manage to doz…

Emacs pauses are almost always due to some operation blocking in the main thread. It's pretty annoying and is mostly a consequence to a lot of things effectively being single-threa…

I'll try to use the more common Windows/MacOS terms for it, but in emacs I often have the same file opened in two different panes within one window or two separate windows. I do th…

That's wild, when I saw 16 weeks I assumed it was a typo and you meant 'days.' I should try to jump ship from FAANG-land

I road one three days a week for my commute for about six months, but it was only about two miles. I went out of my way to be on roads with an ample bike lane. More than drivers be…

My daily driver is a 2300 pound miata with a stock exhaust. It's small and low to the ground and only has 181 HP. I think this is the lightest production car you can get--certainly…

Ventilation is good even with electric, just to deal with pollutants being put off by the food being cooked. As I understand it, these are often worse than the combustion byproduct…

that's pretty slick!