imzadi

How do they have no moving parts?

I think you can blame influencers for that. Things get trendy for being cheap and then stop being cheap.

I wanted to move there when I was still working from home. Now that I have to commute, it's a no go. I love the idea, though.

Yes, exactly

They don't need to ensure that all test groups are exposed to people with HIV. There is already a known risk factor for the specific population. All they need to do is see if the people who received the medication had more/fewer/similar infection rates as those who didn't.

Think about it like studies on which cars perform better in crashes. They don't need to have people drive more wrecklessly to determine if the car is safer. They just need to look at the expected risk compared to the outcomes of the people who drive that car. They are already doing the risky thing.

Don't Look Now is one of my favorite movies! So weird and spooky.

When I got laid off (October 2022), there were a ton of tech layoffs, including big cuts at FAANGs. It was a lot of competition at the time. I did get offered a job doing QA but the position was closed and my offer rescinded a week before I was supposed to start. I didn't have a lot of options, so took this helpdesk job. Now, I am just not getting calls at all, not even phone screens.

I've posted about my Lambda experience in another thread. I started Lambda School in 2019. I was in one of their first part-time evening cohorts. The original program length was 9 months. I went into the program with a lot of prior programming experience as a hobbyist and MUD programmer, but no professional experience. I had been trying to get a programming job for over a decade without success. I hoped it would help me build a portfolio and network of peers.

At that time, I was working in a helpdesk role that I had had for about 5 years. It was a call center job, so I didn't have a lot of control over my schedule, but was able to arrange to keep my schedule for the nine months of the program. About 3 months into the program, they completely changed the structure of the program, which doubled the length to 18 months.

I completed the core curriculum and the capstone project. Throughout the program they kept promising to connect us with career counselors, but kept pushing it back. First it would be after we were halfway through the core curriculum, then when we finished the core curriculum, then when we started the capstone project, then when we finished it. I never once got to speak with any kind of career professional. The closest we got was a peer reviewed resume.

After the capstone project, we started a "computer science" module, which was supposed to be the end of the course. I did a few weeks of the computer science module, but couldn't continue when my shift changed, since this was outside of the original nine months. I tried to make arrangements to finish the module on my own time, but they wouldn't allow this. The only option I was given was to withdraw from the program.

By the time I had finished, the reputation for Lambda was already tanking. I tried sending out resumes, but I couldn't get any traction at all. I did Triplebyte and passed, but only got one interview from that process and it didn't lead to a job.

Meanwhile, I got a pay bump that put me over the 50k. Lambda came after me for the ISA, since I had a job in tech. It didn't matter that it was the same job I had had for 5 years before starting their program.

I went to a lawyer and was told that the contract required arbitration in New York City, which would be too expensive to bother with, so I just paid the ISA.

I later went through a different bootcamp on scholarship and did end up getting a SWE job after that, but was laid off in 2022 when our project was discontinued and am back on the helpdesk. Guess I was never meant to be a programmer lol.

I think if basic needs are met, then abled-bodied and able-minded individuals will still want to work. They'll just be empowered to have more choice in where they work and how much they work for.

Most homeless people don't get food stamps. Programs like food stamps usually require someone to have a mailing address, which can be difficult to establish if you are homeless. Some people think you can just go get a PO Box or third party mailbox, but you can't. The USPS requires you to have a physical address to get a PO Box, and third party mailboxes that want to accept USPS mail delivery have to apply the same standard.

So, this might be fixed, but you could get around the cancellation fee by changing your plan to the Dreamweaver monthly plan and then cancelling that. You'd get a prorated refund when you changed plans and then an additional refund for the monthly plan when you cancelled it.

I'd say basic needs are a safe place to live, food, and some kind of transportation (unless the area is reasonably walkable).

As far as who does the shitty labor jobs, they would need to incentivize that work to make it desirable for people, instead of just expecting someone to need to do it to not die. We are also at a point where a lot of those jobs could be done by machines.

It'd be so nice if basic needs were just met as part of the societal contract. Then work is the thing we do to fund the extras. People who can't work for whatever reason don't have to fight to survive and people who want to work or have more ambition can actually do something with the money they make.

I've played 5-minute dungeon. It's fun.

Hey, cool. I won and learned some stuff.

I went through the triplebyte process around 2020. I was accepted into the program and assigned a manager (or whatever they were called). He setup one interview for me, but it didn't lead to a job. Shortly after, he sent out a message that the company was changing directions and he would no longer be part of it. They changed it to basically a job board with more steps.

Because anti-Semitism is used to derail any conversation about Israel. If you criticize Israel, you're accused of being an anti-Semite, and actual anti-Semites flood the conversation with actual anti-Semitism that immediately shuts everything down.

FWIW, you can use your own modem and router with Cox internet, but most people don't because the provided modem is free and most people don't care to spend money on their own.

All I know is that there are some sounds that help my tinnitus and other sounds that trigger it. If I could have something that filters the triggering frequencies and also sends out the masking frequencies, maybe it would help? I don't know.

I need earplugs that won't amplify my tinnitus. Or, better yet, cancel it.

So, how much did people pay for these devices that are now worthless?

I love Clojure. My dream is to be a clojure developer, but there aren't a lot of jobs available and everyone wants 87 years experience.

Why should employers be allowed to take pictures and videos of me without my permission or knowledge? If I work from home, how much of my home is now the company's business? Should my employer be allowed to see my home office at will? What if my home office is a bedroom and have private things around that I don't want them to see? Or a living room and I have family moving around in the background? Does my employer actually have a right to film my spouse or children?

There are also issues beyond those. What about employers that require you to install software on your person phone so you can access MFA or work email? Some of that software requires you to sign all rights away from your personal phone and there's a risk you may have all your data deleted on your personal phone when you leave the company.

I think what companies want is to replace as many human employees as possible. I don't think they really care what the consequences of that are.

Oh yeah, I've listened to all of this and some of Dennis E. Taylor's other stuff, as well. I've also listened to all of ExFor and everything Andy Weir, almost everything narrated by Travis Baldree, too.

It's my favorite. I've listened to all the books 6+ times.

Well, first, audiobooks totally count.

Have you tried Dungeon Crawler Carl?

For a clear illustration of how much that ballot screwed Al Gore, look at Pat Buchanan's vote in Palm Beach county, compared to every other county. He clearly got 2000+ votes that were meant for Al Gore. Gore lost by less that 550 votes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidentia...

Is the bill specifically focused on mobile apps? What about embedded systems in hardware and consumer electronics from China?

I'm guessing the bees are just going in circles, steal from person A and sell to person B. Now person A needs bees, so steal from person C and sell to Person A, and it keeps going like that. The smaller and poorer beeks won't be able to afford to buy back their bees (or replacement bees), which will ultimately consolidate all the bees among a few wealthier groups. Once most bees are controlled by a few people/groups, they'll fund the infrastructure needed to keep the bees more secure.