haroldbkny
2mo ago
its fans, I thought, would perhaps be found among the same zoomer shadow-people who find longer stretches of text easiest to consume when they are overlaid piecemeal on an unrelated 5x speed video of someone running around a parkour circuit in Minecraft or Roblox.
Well, I'm definitely not one of those people. I rather dislike that kind of weird zoomer tendency. But I'd say that the desire to have proper whitespacing is less like this sort of weird zoomer multitasking trend, since it's a desire for a simplistic and clear mechanism for consuming text. What you're describing sounds to me like it has more in common with old Reddit, since it lumps everything together into an information overload.
Do you not bump into the more aggressive child filters (new reddit straight up blocks guests from "nsfw" forums, while old reddit just requires you to click "I'm 18") or are you just constantly logged in?
Well, the "I'm 18" filters are annoying, but until just now, I didn't know it was only a new reddit thing.
Do you just make a habit of clicking to expand the picture, text and comment section repeatedly?
I'm not clear on what you mean by this. Can you elaborate?
Do you not run out of RAM,/CPU if you have more than a handful of tabs with it open?
No
haroldbkny
2mo ago
If you're in FAANG, don't you already have finance people messaging you every other day on linkedin trying to get you to switch already? Context: I have been in FAANG for 8 years and I personally have these recruiters constantly messaging me, and have had this since year 3 in FAANG.
I assume that when you're talking about getting into finance, you're talking about getting into the software side of quant trading. If that's not what you mean, then maybe it's harder to do than just taking the recruiters up on their offers.
haroldbkny
3mo ago
Cool, I'm glad you gave them a listen!
That's been covered before on this forum. I think people have said it ended up being a toxoplasmosis thing where people reacted to other people's reactions, resulting in a bit of a flip flop.
For example, we saw a lot of leftists covering covid from the angle of "we need to do something because this illness will hit the most needy of our population the worst, like black people". And for what it's worth, conservatives might have felt that covid wasn't close enough to zombie apocalypse level, because it is such a minor illness compared to even other things like polio. They might have felt it was annoying that the left was overreacting.
haroldbkny
4mo ago
But I'm just saying that if I'm reading your original post correctly, the main thrust of it is that the sexual revolution didn't have terrible effects on society. I guess I was thinking that the paragraph I quoted above was meant to be in support of that thrust. But that doesn't make sense to me, since examining the period from 1986 until now tells us nothing about whether the sexual revolution exacerbated the chadopoly. I'm probably just misunderstanding your post, with regard to how that datapoint you bring up is supposed to fit into your main thesis.
haroldbkny
5mo ago
Did you? You never brought up any evidence that indicates that the state examines severity of individual cases, and the likelihood of whether or not particular cases are likely to cause accidents into account.
Well, I may not know too much about those answers, since I've had a relatively sheltered career. But I'll tell you what I think I know.
I did my undergrad at a school that has a pretty well-known CS department. And even though I wasn't too serious about pursuing a software career at the time, I had to choose some major, so I chose CS. And that ended up being a good decision. I don't think this makes me a better coder than most others in the industry, but the fact that I have the degree from a big name, it probably did well for me. It got me in the door of big tech, where I was able to work my way up to a nice salary. In big tech, you get your bosses to invest in your career, not just see you as a tool for getting work done. It's a growth-oriented culture, and managers are first and foremost judged by their managers on how well they grow their reports.
Other than making me look good, I mean, maybe also the universities taught me more about algorithms and theory, too. In your year-long programming learning, how much did you learn about how to analyze programs, think about algorithms, runtimes, space usage, different types of languages, etc? It's possible that that sort of in-depth thought about the theoretical nature of programming may be something else that's desirable about people who studied CS in college. Computer Science really is a separate thing from software engineering, and it's possible that you learn to think about code on a slightly different level. I'm not sure, because I don't really know what it's like to not have learned CS first.
The degree totally helped me, but you don't need it in big tech. They're not elitist, if you can show that you have the skills. If you don't have the degree, then you'll need like 3 to 5 years of industry experience, during which time you've amassed many stories where you've shown that you're hard working, methodical, you understand software, you care about the team you're on, and you're capable of making tradeoffs and decisions. Think about all of the times that you've personally done something that helped change the course of a project, or helped someone out, or made some sort of decision, and write them down and rehearse them for your interviews. If you have that, then you must also study Cracking the Coding Interview, and can absolutely get a high-paying job in big tech.
Also, you don't have to work in big tech to get a high paying job (though I know less about how to do this). But I think a lot of it comes down to, once again, you showing that you're methodical, smart, and hard-working, in much a similar way as above. And you can be hired as a tech lead for a smaller company. But once you're in a smaller company, there's usually less room for growth in salary (without simply leaving and going to another company), because the smaller companies are usually more focused on the bottom line instead of focusing on the growth of their employees.
haroldbkny
6mo ago
Silly question, but why are you only making 120k/year? How long have you been in the industry? That's like entry-level for software engineers these days.
Has your time in the industry taught you anything about management at all? If I were you, I'd try to leverage your experience to become a tech lead. But maybe you could tell us more about why you don't want to be in the software industry anymore?
haroldbkny
6mo ago
I guess one my my questions is, if I'm looking to primarily gain muscle for the purpose of increasing my base metabolism, so I can lose weight, what's best? Hypertrophy or strength or something else?
haroldbkny
6mo ago
Is any of this supposed to contradict what I said in my last post?
There are pedophiles everywhere. You know the arguments: The plural of "anecdote" isn't data. Chinese Robber Fallacy, etc.
haroldbkny
6mo ago
I still don't get it. We're talking about concrete value of money invested, and what it is now, vs what it will be in 7 years. You seem to be talking about some sort of philosophical experiment about what money might hypothetically be worth if we accept certain premises, or something.
haroldbkny
6mo ago
I don't get it. Why wouldn't it be worth more after having compounding interest for 7 years?
haroldbkny
6mo ago
I mean obviously ‘they can’t do it, so mandate they do’ won’t fix… anything. But it’s not a mystery why there’s suddenly a lack of nurses in nursing homes.
I'm not following. What's the reason there's suddenly a lack of nurses in nursing homes?
haroldbkny
6mo ago
I'm more amused that the same kind of people who were quite happy that all was right with the world and the market was working as intended, when blue-collar labour was losing out to outsourcing, because hey the economy is booming! you can buy cheap smartphones!, are now losing their minds when it's their turn for the chopping block.
That's one hypothesis. But I'm reminded of Heath Ledger's Joker's speech:
Nobody panics when things go "according to plan." Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it's all "part of the plan". But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds.
It's "part of the plan" that the unskilled workers will be having a tougher time. They are less skilled after all. They worked less to get there, and therefore everyone expects them to face more difficulties. When the skilled laborers face this, it might be an indication that there's some deeper or new problem. At the very least, it's not what's expected, and therefore can cause people to seriously freak out.
If manual labour is now more valuable than skilled labour, then perhaps - just perhaps - the value they earned was not down to them being superior in brains and work ethic and willingness to do what it takes, but just that they had the particular knack for what was in short supply at the time. Now, for whatever reason, a different requirement is in short supply, and hence valuable, and they don't have that knack.
That's one hypothesis. Another would be that they have the aptitude to learn many things, and the specifically trained in one skill set for many years, applying their aptitude towards what they were told would be the most lucrative. And they spent many many years and resources on doing that. And now they feel like they've been promised something in exchange for that, and they're not getting it. They're upholding their end of the bargain, and the world failed them.
haroldbkny
6mo ago
I think you know the obvious differences there. You seem like someone who just likes to argue for the sake of arguing, which makes you not worth arguing with.
Edit: Ah, when I clicked the post button for this reply, it notified me that you blocked me. Why? I can't say, I've had no bad faith until now. Class act!
You wouldn't steal a car.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg?si=KHIsWoGo3JgSvR5Q
haroldbkny
6mo ago
Revanced stopped working for me back in June-ish. It still works for you?
haroldbkny
6mo ago
Ooh, yeah, a video-only adblocker would be great. It's too bad Youtube is taking this hardline stance.
haroldbkny
7mo ago
Wow, would you mind me asking what investments you have that are both so safe and have such great returns? I see no such investment opportunities on my end, but I'd like to learn to identify and take advantage of them, if such a thing is possible. I wouldn't mind taking even one month long vacation in a year, let alone 3. I haven't had a vacation longer then 2 weeks since I started my career 8 years ago.
haroldbkny
7mo ago
Definitely check them out, they're incredible and transformative. I think Untitled is the one most focused on patriarchy, but I like Social Justice and Words Words Words the most, it has a really great ending.
haroldbkny
9mo ago
admit to yourself that you actually have first order principles
Which would be what, exactly?
haroldbkny
9mo ago
Well, for whatever it's worth, I've always been someone who hates people who hate other people for hating people. That's just the way I am. I'm a 3rd order hater. I guess I feel like the proper response to dealing with bigots is to admonish them, but try to do better yourself, not to debase yourself like they do, and not to play the victim.
haroldbkny
11mo ago
How does the rest of the world do it? I feel like "dating but not exclusive" is a fairly natural thing: when you're out there trying to meet people, you go on dates, and since you barely know the other person, of course it's not exclusive. But I agree that "exclusive but not boyfriend/girlfriend" is a silly or meaningless thing to be.
haroldbkny
11mo ago
That's very interesting. I don't have pangs in my teeth, but in such situations, I get something like a lump in my throat, or kinda like a rising feeling in my esophagus.
You may be right, I'm not certain. Is there an explanation for Reagan?
Also, if you are right, then my next worry is that to get elected as a Republican anymore, you basically actually have to be as erratic as Trump! If that's the case, then I worry about whether things will ever stop moving left as fast as they are today.
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