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(Long time climber here) > It is very interesting that since the AI climber is trained on actual climbers, it could, in principle, provide beta to climb consistent with your own st…

>I went through those stages too: when the Agile meetings at my last job got so absurd that we were being asked to estimate JIRA task time in T-shirt sizes Oh, boy, I can relate. E…

I dove pretty deeply into wood case pencils for a few years (then I got tired of carrying around a good sharpener). Musgrave [ https://musgravepencil.com/collections/the-heritage-c…

There are dozens of birds named in a similar way -- Cooper's Hawk, Brewer's Sparrow, Wilson's Warbler, etc, etc.

I guess I should have qualified that with "financially." I also value my time, so I am not inclined to push for such a law in my state.

You are correct, but it was sublet to a new tenant. And my employer is not on the hook for paying for their food and coffee, and internet access.

Fully remote work has always benefited the employer more than the employee, at least financially. Before the pandemic closed my employer's local office space (we were all told just…

>Weirdly, only left wing people read him. But he's actually quite libertarian compatible. There are quite a few on the Right that read Illich as well. He was, essentially, a commun…

I've read a handful, and agree that he truly understood the effects of technology and Modernity. It's worth reading the French sociologist/theologian Jacques Ellul, too (they were …

There is too much paperwork involved with performance related firings and layoffs happen so fast and so wide it's usually done by lottery. Can confirm this. My employer dropped abo…

Don't forget that VB.NET was a thing. I worked on a web-based client management system that used VB.NET on the back-end.

I can confirm this: I know several mechanical engineers that do mission critical-type systems (think "power plants"), and they routinely use Excel VBA for calculations.

potentially just a youth culture thing. I don't know what young people are up to these days, but _more_ phone use in inappropriate situations certainly doesn't sound surprising In …

My workflow is similar. For one larger project, I am just more comfortable operating in VSCode, but if I need to work in a smaller project, I tend to just fire up NeoVim, and I've …

Strength training !== bulking up High (comparative) weight + low reps builds strength (and muscle recruitment) without (necessarily) building lots of new muscle fibers. Muscle hype…

My auto insurance provider (in the US) has never even offered such a tracking program to me (and I know my current rates are pretty reasonable/in line with other companies). Maybe …

The movie does away with the ambiguity at the end of the book, in an effort to have a vaguely "happy ending." The best adaption of McCarthy's work to the screen is No Country For O…

My understanding that the yearly membership packages aren't the sum total of what they do. I suspect those packages are ways to support the business, rather than provide a free/che…

globally install a modern version of Python in a Docker container You lost a bunch of people right there. There's a significant difference between "open a terminal" and "install Do…

Recumbents are notoriously difficult to ride as the grades get steeper. Upright cyclists have the advantage using different body positions (i.e. standing), but 'bent cyclists can't…

My direct experience is that they send high quality technical architects to get the deal done and the moment that happens those architects vanish and they back up the school bus an…

Yep. The executives at my employer realized the consultants were "underperforming" and cut their contracts, but this just left the in-house teams stuck with fixing or rewriting the…

I can confirm this. My employer brought in several teams from Accenture to push through some new tech initiatives, and every one of them is basically a dumpster fire. I was doing c…

I live in a Rust Belt city, and most of the homeschoolers within the city are secular, and stridently so (and here there's greater overlap between homeschoolers and unschoolers). T…

This is absolutely correct. There really is no single definition of unschooling and even homeschooling. I know families that say they "homeschool" their kids, yet those kids attend…