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I actually don't believe this. The idea that the army of webdevs that find employment for the first time were recruited out of school strikes me as silly. In addition, your response directly contradicts the other responses, so someone is definitely exactly wrong. This answer sounds less plausible than the others.

Don't use the web on your phone.

I don't know about google search results, which I wouldn't trust for something like this. But I just logged back into indeed, searched 'new graduate software engineer' and the vast majority, as in nearly every ad, was a thinly veiled recruiter ad, or an internship, or was an irrelevant result; 7+ years experience required in the first 3 results and many more in successive results. This has been my experience on similar job boards.

I have seen nearly zero job postings for positions that could be filled by new college grads.

There are numerous postings seeking interns. There are quite a few require 1-3 years experience. There are many seeking qualified professionals. I have seen almost nothing that would permit a new college grad to gain a position.

This leaves me wondering several things. One, how did business manage to offload the cost of absorbing the educated but inexperienced into the profession back onto the people. You can listen to people in hiring or executive positions bemoan the costs of training new software engineers, but how did we get to a point where literally everyone other than business is expected to bear every cost of doing business.

And two, how do new college graduates find work without either creatively interpreting the meaning of "experience" (that is, lying), or just ignoring the requirements portion of the job postings to which they reply.

> associations, especially in nutritional epidemiology, is trash: > I think you really need to reconsider where you're getting you're data from...

I'm going to go with established medical science on this one.

> Most medical, scientific, heart-health, governmental, and professional authorities agree that saturated fat is a significant risk factor for cardiovascular disease, including the World Health Organization,[1] the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Medicine,[2] the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics,[3] the Dietitians of Canada,[3] the Association of UK Dietitians,[4] the American Heart Association,[5] the British Heart Foundation,[6] the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada,[7] the World Heart Federation,[8] the British National Health Service,[9] the United States Food and Drug Administration,[10] and the European Food Safety Authority.[11] All of these organizations recommend restricting consumption of saturated fats to reduce that risk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturated_fat_and_cardiovascul...

> A Brutalist library can give one the sense that it houses the knowledge of hundreds of generations.

Or it can resemble a turkey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robarts_Library

Brutalist structures are hideously ugly and oppressive to the human spirit. Why anyone thinks architects and advocates for the dehumanizingly ugly should be allowed to use public spaces for these projects is a mystery to me. We have to share these spaces, and for people to say things like "sometimes you should feel insignificant" and then impose it on the rest of us in building form is objectionable.

> With keto you can have as much fibre as you like as long as it's not paired with carbs.

Plants, which are extremely high in carbs, are where fiber comes from.

High intake of saturated fat is associated with heart disease.

The keto diet is a low fiber high saturated fat intake diet. The effects of low fiber consumption and high intake of saturated fat are well established, and they certainly aren't inflammation reducers. Also, fasting is not without risks.

> women were over-represented in software development compared to men

This is a narrative I see taking hold in the past few years but I'm not convinced that prior to the 1980s women were the majority of software developers. My impression was that this has to do with how a job was defined, and that many data entry type positions were considered to fall beneath the rubric of computer science.

Having no evidence to offer of my own for or against, I wonder if anyone else can link anything germane to the discussion.

> Taking white dudes down a notch, I have no issue with that

Then you should have no problem dismissing the author and the content of his essay.

> There is a real-world danger to this aestheticizing attitude toward linguistic study, this appeal to “beauty” and “pleasure.”

I can't imagine feeling this way and being a classicist. Like, why even bother?

> Brexit

> Trump

> Boris Johnson

> Nazis

Ugh. It's like bingo at this point.

>

Like I said. Needlessly contentious.

>https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2402

Well that seemed needlessly contentious. What a shame.

I guess you're right, your experience is universal. SystemD really IS where that comes from.

Void Linux is a nice alternative which defaults to runit. I feel like I'll probably end up in the same spot though, switching to BSD.

I agree. I think it's rambling but it's not horrible. I think

> It was a dark and stormy night.

or even

> It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents.

are actually excellent. I like the rest of it as well. It just shouldn't be a single sentence.

Can someone tell me what the Mishima quotation has to do with the content of the article.

Yes, they go together. Sociopaths are low in empathy but excellent at perceiving the emotional state of others.

I actually don't believe it's possible to, in any meaningful way, perceive and vicariously experience the emotions of others and to continue to carry any deep hostility, or to do so and not feel some degree of compassion.

Sociopaths score low in empathy but are excellent at perceiving others' emotions.

That's not being highly empathetic, that's being exactly like every other person.

Also, unironically taking joy in someone else's misfortune is pretty mean.

Perceptiveness is not empathy, or else we wouldn't need another word for it. Hatred and empathy are not on the same ends of the emotional spectrum. The ability to perceive others emotions and simultaneously carry toward them feelings of anger, hatred, or malicious intent is not empathy. It's called something else.

Highly empathetic people should be the ones most able to empathize with people who are deeply unpleasant. Else they wouldn't be highly empathetic.

> Maybe highly empathetic people don't like assholes.

Nobody likes assholes...

> we have a hard time defining the minimums of free speech.

In what sense? Legally, for example, we don't.

I think that taking unironic pleasure at the misfortune of others, or wishing others harm, and the capacity to do so, is the literal opposite of empathy.

> Some cultures still eat dog - you don't think they can love their children?

This is a non-sequitur.

> According to the study, it seems that people with high empathy are more often people with high empathy towards their in-group...and a lack of empathy for the out-group. I'd argue that it isn't really empathy at all...just a more emotional form of tribalism.

Yes this, especially considering literally everybody is this way. Care and concern for some people and none for others is par for the course. At that point it's not empathy, it's just being the same thing everyone else is.

The word does seem to be taking on a different meaning as time goes on. People seem to intend for it to mean "care and consideration for the ingroup as I define it." Which is of course, not its actual meaning.

I don't know if they ship to the UK but I have had outstanding experiences with monoprice. For a few categories of items I go there now always instead of amazon.

Which part is a lie?

They're literally all over this very discussion.

I am a systemd detractor and I happily use Void with runit, so I would really never say that we don't have anything else. I don't know what the magical features are of the ever growing giant squid that is systemd that people swear they can't live without, but I haven't encountered them.

> You always have control over your own actions

By your logic the person who is offended has it entirely within their power not to be offended. Since in this scenario they are the one having the more extreme emotional reaction, perhaps it would be more reasonable to ask that they regulate their emotions to some degree, rather than criticize the way in which the person absorbing the brunt of their emotional onslaught does so.

> This isn't rocket science.

That's a bit condescending.

> The problem is that people tend to react defensively

I really don't think it is.