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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 wil…

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 be…

"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 …

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…

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 t…

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 g…

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 m…

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 …

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