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If you think you have the flu, it's a cold. If you think you're dying, it's the flu.

Yeah, those were two big sticking points. There's also Object.groupBy() now which was another thing I always missed from the standard library. Proposals tend to get adopted at a sn…

The sensory medium is separate from one's capacity to learn and use language. Sign languages have grammar, vocabulary, "accents" etc just like spoken languages.

I went through a similar thing where I had some trouble sleeping due to external stressors and then started to get freaked out that I was having trouble sleeping, having always bee…

Keep in mind that just because you're good at management doesn't mean you have to do it professionally. Stay purely technical if that's what you enjoy!

As a perfectionist in recovery, this book was extremely illuminating: https://www.newharbinger.com/9781684038459/the-anxious-perfe... I often felt like they were describing me to m…

Bugs are inevitable but we should strive to have as few as possible. Your program not working right is obviously bad UX (as we've all experienced using buggy software). The reason …

Yeah, the proximate cause is eating too much but the ultimate cause has to be systemic if we're getting more and more obese all the time.

I think it depends on population density as well. I grew up in a rural area in the US and now live in Philadelphia on a tiny side street barely two cars wide. Every single car on o…

Yeah, there's definitely a separate cultural/inexperience problem at play as well.

I agree and am very pro vanilla JS FWIW. I just find myself reaching for something like lodash's `intersection`/`difference` functions when working with sets, `sortBy` to get more …

I hear what you're saying, but it still seems pretty bonkers to me that if you try to sort an array of numbers it will cast them to strings and sort alphabetically (!): > [1, 2, 10…

Part of it is that JS's standard library is terrible (eg. no built-in union/intersection when working with sets, bizarre default sorting behavior see ( https://developer.mozilla.or…

I had the same issue with the Reddit app so now I just use the neutered web app and consider the frustration stemming from its brokenness to be feature that keeps me from spending …

> they didn't shadow protect their password files Could you please explain what this means? Googling didn't reveal much.

I just changed jobs. For me it was my job pool increasing by 10x or 20x due to the normalization of remote work. It's also much easier to interview when you're WFH all the time.

What you're saying makes sense, but sentiment like this makes me long for a post-capitalist conception of work where everything's not purely transactional and we can do meaningful …

Can you provide a source for running being 5x better than walking? It doesn't seem that simple to me (eg. older people may suffer from joint pain or a risk of falling from more int…

I'm not a seasoned Haskell dev by any means, having only played around with it for parsing and then more recently for Advent of Code, but tooling has come a long way in the past 6 …

I just talked to a recruiter today from a company I'm beginning the hiring process with. When they asked about compensation I asked about their range for the position, which ended …

Ignoring your extreme snark and least charitable interpretation of what I've written, I'm not saying any of these things are insurmountable or even necessarily hard to learn, but t…

Things a frontend dev would know that a backend may not: - HTML and CSS (facility with selectors) - JS syntax and semantics, common patterns and idioms, gotchas - Web APIs - CORS -…

Not sure if you're familiar, but Koka feels like the future to me: https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/index.html

I know how you feel. You might be interested in the 80,000 hours podcast as a way to gain a better understanding of the problems humanity faces: https://80000hours.org/podcast/ In …