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What is the functional difference between a smartphone and a tablet? Children have tablets as toddlers and while there is a downside, there are upsides. Like videogames and any other demonized thing kids enjoy we do have to take a second to ask about parenting. For some reason when it comes to smartphones parents are helpless although they are the only way kids get them and we have tools that give ultimate control to what they can acces. "Oh but their friends!" I guess it's good to know parents who make this claim would let their kids do drugs if their friends were too.

I don't think that kid should have access to gambling or that social media is great for them, but I think like candy and soda consumption, parents have more control than they don't.

This is absolutely wrong advice in this climate. Self-taught people have a massive survivor's bias. You _can_ make it without a degree, but having a degree greatly increases your chances especially at entry level.

College is also not just about the paper, but the connections. I worked closely with a nationally renown robotistist and she gave me a recommendation for grad school if I wanted it (I did not. So burnt out by the time I got here). Does any self-taught person get to really do work with actual robotics stuff?

I was exposed to so many more disciplines and ideas to get a sense of what I wanted to do along with make connections that help me in my career to this day over a decade later.

I've had recruiters and interviewers tell me straight out that I got first pass because of the college I walked out of. This still happens after a decade. People say it's a hard market to get a job right now? I haven't noticed. Me and all my college friends snagged a new job in a month. I've never had a hard time getting a job. Ever. That's the power of a degree. It gets you pass HR filters and when there's a tie, people pick you first to try and that's powerful and compounds as time goes on.

Being self taught is great when times are good, but it's very hard to get that next job when times are bad. I'd never recommend a 16 year old skip college. A piece of paper from a ho-hum state university still allows you into the stack of places with stupid degree filters.

Even with trades you need to know how to read, write and do basic math (and honestly algebra). Kids who don't show up likely haven't hopped that hurdle and are unfit even for trades. There is a disconnect where kids dont understand that classes are often not about the class but some underlying skill you're practicing via something they consider worthless.

It's a waste for schools to put an unprepared kid in a trade class only for them to realize oh. They actually have zero skills for that. And then backtrack. You'll also never convince most kids that they'll need algebra for a trade because most people can't connect that you need algebra to budget and other basics of life.

Vocational track was a thing when I was a kid. And it didn't matter much because kids who could do it were capable of doing college track if they wanted and kids who could nevet do collegr track and needed mandatory attendance couldn't even read. Maybe the gap is narrower these days, but i don't think a vocational track is encourages the bottom. I do think it's a good thing to expose kids as an option, just to explain that nowadays even trades require schooling after high school if you want to get certified, etc. It's just shorter with more lab type classes a la engineering.

It is utterly fascinating to me that technically walking is just as safe as a car on a journey by journey basis. I definitely didn't need to know the danger per journey for flights though. I liked the lie I had before

IIRC, they aren't sitting on it. They're investigating the environmental impact. Lithium is the worst because it needs a lot of water to mine, but it's only found in arid places. NV rightly asked for an investigation to see what thr impact on the water supplu would be

That's a pithy saying and I think pretty accurate, but there is only so much I can manage my diet. The fact that I've maintained my weight for weeks and I'm extremely sedimentary says that the last 15 lbs is gonna involve a run. Good job diet in getting me back to my previous weight before I exercised. I think I'll get back to my goal weight by doing what I did before when I was at my goal wait: taking a 30mins run every day. That's just all that's left when you don't drink alcohol or soda or eat a lot of sweets or carbs.

I did it for 2 weeks. I lost zero weight after 3 days. You might need to be on it for weeks, but I couldn't do it for a diet that miserable. I lost weight using intermittent fasting and I got to enjoy food in thr process

I applied to various jobs on my school's job board. It was during the great recession so employers were super picky. I took a job at an unglamorous government consulting firm as a warm body and jump ship the moment i was no longer considered a recent grad to actually start my career. A solid way to earn some paychecks even if I didn't actually learn anything or even make any good connections.

It's not for you. It's for people who don't know what a password manager is and can barely remember their password. If they actually remember it. Many people rely on their phones always having access.

I have dealt with a lot of family members who absolutely cannot be trusted to remember even a single password if they don't have to type it in semi-regularly. I've have family members locked out of password vaults because 2 weeks is too long to expect them to remember a password.

This is who that flow is catering to. It's a significant amount of people, sadly.

I've found that jobs through cold applying have been gambles. Sometimes they suck. Sometimes they don't and I get great new connections from them. Getting jobs via connections is way more hit or miss since it's all timing, but every time the job has been great.

I'd say that connections are worth it for increasing your chances of netting a job because they tend to be good jobs since someone you know vetted it. Cold applying is easier to get a job period I think, but the quality in every domain is all over the place. It's a trade off.

I would recommend everyone jump every 1-3 years in early career just because it's hard to gain upper level skills when people see you as a junior and also you don't yet know what kinds of companies exist to see what you like and don't like. After that, I say stay until you're bored, burnt out, or feeling stagnant.

That said, if you're being promoted and given responsibilities at the pace you would have had you bailed then it's no problem at all really, although I think it puts you at risk of being afraid to leave you job when you emotional should and makes you inflexible in other types of work environments.

I have a running list of things to do that I may or may not get around to, but I don't want to forget. Everyday I have 2 objectives for the day to accomplish and there may be several todos associated with that. I can get max 3 done in a day, but leave space for chaos.

I can pick my objectives based on my long running list of todos or on my backlog of objectives. Really depends on what the priority is that day. That's how I set my day. It doesn't make me the most productive, but it does make me consistently productive without threat of burnout, so I settled on this.

It depends on what you mean by emphemeral because if you mean thr data's existence I would be against it. When I'm new to a domain or topic, I reference old threads all the time. I save links for other people and as reference points for me to dive into later.

Yeah a lot of stuff is what I wouldn't care about 2 minutes after I read it, but the protocol can't really know what any given person will want to come back to.

I've definitely never seen a company prefer a candidate with zero experience in their stack over someone with experience. Slack is given to juniors and people who are adjacent to the desired stack plus have other desired skills, but if you apply to a completely alien stack, i can see your search taking a very long term. I think the only exception I've seen to this is a company that was doing microservices before it was a particularly common skill, so they'd take anyone who could prove they understood the concepts. Even still, most people they hired had an overlap with the desired stack. I just can't see a company with a common stack and a common architecture prefer to hire candidates outside of that stack.

I live in Georgia and the summer is not a bother at all in my neighborhood because it's so forested. I can take a causal walk outside up until about 90F. Florida was hell even at the same temperatures because palm trees just aren't the same as oaks or pines.

I remember trying this. It's a miserable diet that didn't give me the results advertised. I did drop some weight and then stalled out. The only thing I gained from the diet was a restrict in my perceived hunger which allowed me to lose significant weight after I left the diet and moved to intermittent fasting.

My friend had about the same results. I always wonder If this has a bias towards helping people who are very overweight and/or have an unbalanced diet. As far as I can tell, I've lost all the weight I can lose via a sustainable diet and I just need to find some time to do this whole exercise thing.

A very urban take. Here where I am in a semi-rural place, there are no specialty shops. At least beyond tea and furniture. So if Walmart doesn't carry the products my child needs in order to bath and not have her skin split open and bleed, what should I do? When I was injured after the birth of my kid and couldn't drive, I guess my kid should have starved rather than have amazon deliver a monthly supply of formula. I definitely couldn't drive and covid make support difficult.

Maybe I'm just weird and and specific, but I've found that often Amazon is the only place to get specialty items. Walmart and gang killed a lot of businesses and what's left often only sell via Amazon. Mail order has been the name of the game in rural areas forever. I don't agree with what's happening in the article, but realistically I'm going to keep ordering my high quality supplements that keep the brain fog from covid away and other stuff.

Let's exchange robber with rapist or abuser. Someone who wants to make sure you stay and can't leave and needs you relatively healthy. Of course there are violent options, but allowing someone to restrict your movements by just splashing some alcohol on you is just too easy to trap someone

Spoken like someone who doesn't live in a resource desert. My whole ass county didn't have a hospital until around 5 years ago. Depending on where you lived you had somewhere between a 20 and 60 drive to the hospital and it was just pure luck that we had other hospitals so close. We're only semi-rural. Other rural areas aren't so luck. I've lived in urban areas where it wws legitimately faster have someone take you to the hospital than try to get an ambulance to take you.

Helicopters are also prohibitively expensive and often not even covered by insurance. People faint over a 1K ambulance ride, but you could be looking at 30K or more for a helicopter ride. Which is really more the point. Some people are poor. At least the hospital will work with you. I remember when I was poor and couldn't afford an ambulance ride but needed it, it was the only thing that couldn't be negotiated down and it was a huge financial burden on a collegr student. All I took away from that experience was that next time I was on the ground bleeding from a head wound, I should call a friend. Which I did later in an emergency that ended with me passed out in my car in a parking lot. My friend took me.

As long as you can be severely financially hurt by taking ambulance people are gonna avoid them if you're not actively dying. And if you take away people's ability to drive people, they'll just not go. This is already happening with normal doctors and is one of the reasons hospitals are overburdened.

One of the most interesting question i was asked was: What is the biggest fire you created and how did you handle it?

The interviewer told me that the purpose of the question was to learn 1) are you willing to admit mistakes 2) what is the most responsibility you've been trusted with. After all the bigger the fire, the more you were likely trusted 3) how do you act under stress 4) can you learn lessons from your mistake.

I think it's a fantastic cultural fit type question.

That's 10 hour days. No one should be forced to do that. If you want to have at it, but factoring in they probably don't get lunch paid and at least a 30min commute time and you have have extreme diminished personal life very quickly. No one should scoff at a 50 hour work week.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a roboticist. Robotics seemed so cool. Then I got into school and learned I have an extremely unsteady hand and I might be able to kill myself with a screwdriver. The pivot within my computer engineering major is how I ended up as a plain ol' webdev.

I was dissatisfied until I managed to fall into HealthTech. I like making processes easier for people. That was at the core of my robotics dream. In retrospect, I probably could have still become a roboticist even if I can't solder at all. But given how much I hated school at the end, it was best I gave up in year 2 on the dream. I wouldn't have done well in grad school.

Some cities range across counties. Some cities have taxes that the county itself doesn't, so literally crossing the street into the unincorporated part of town can save you on sales tax. Sometimes sales tax is suspended based on who you are. Sometimes sales tax is suspended on what time of year it is.

Sales tax is complicated. I get why companies would rather outsource that to the register to look up at the end.

Are you sure you aren't an expert? For me, i sell myself as "generally speaking a full stack developer based in dotnet and whatever for datastore and frontend, but also I've done 4 other middle tiers" I'm never the most knowledgeable in anything, except whatever the team is transitioning to. My specialty is codebase transition and requirements gathering. I'm the person you call to migrate from dotnet to $thing or from $thing to dotnet. I'm the person you hire because you need an engineer to talk to highly technical people in a different domain and try to translate their very complex asks into something you can deliver.

I'm job searching right now and while it's not where near as res hot as before, I'm having no problem gettinf interviews. I just have some requirements that make me a bad fit for a lot of companies like I must be remote.

I'd say look at what you've done and figure out what your specialty is and sell that. There's more to specialties than tech stack.

I've been doing this for over a decade and i like to think I'm pretty good since I pass most technical assessments of the style you're putting forth. There is no way I could confidently answer either of those questions.

I'm general web developer. Rate limiting is plumbing to me. I don't tweak or read the cose that makes it up. I just configure it. I could take a decent swing, but effectively i have zero experience in such a thing.

CORS is one of those things that i know implicitly, but ask me explicitly about it and I'll probably fall on my face. You'd need to remind me what it's made up of and then I'd go, oh yeah blah blah blah. A company asked me about SOLID in this way. That's just the way I code. It's instinctual. Asking me to tell me about it without explaining each letter was pulling teeth because it was so baked in I never even thought about it that way before. CORS is likely the same way for many experienced people. You're doing it because it feels right. You could justify the action and configuration, but you don't have the idea CORS in your mind even if that's what you're doing.

So yeah, your questions are a touch ridiculous frol my POV. I'll tell you two interviews i enjoyed a lot. One was an absolutely broken codebase. It was filled with every novice mistake possible and it didn't even compile. The goal was to fix as many bugs as possible in an hour. I loved it. They were right that because of the sheer number of bugs, you'd naturally focus on the parts of the stack you were strongest and that's how they sussed out that I'm strongest middle layer and as we tend away from that I get weaker. If i ever test a full stack developer and care about language a lot, I'll do this.

Second was a question that was worked ambiguously and left out small requirements. Your goal was make all 100 tests pass. Taking the problem at face value got you 50 of them. It was for a consulting position, so it made sense. I was so delighted by the failed tests coming back with a consumer complaint that wasn't even in the original ask. It was very charming to me. I laughed about it, although I saw people hated it a lot on glassdoor. I do think it's a good test of an engineer's ability to keep shifting and many many requirements in mind.

My child specifically? My heart would break because I'd know she's only doing it for the money and she'd be miserable. It's a great field, but I think pure programming can be soul crushing if you don't have natural interest.

I'll teach my daughter some of the skills because i don't think there are many careers where programming has zero value, but my kid is a theater kid through and through. It's very tragic for my financial dreams for her, but I'm getting a little more heartened as she and I explore and I talk to people about the domain. I'm hoping it'll be like when I learned that technical writing existed, so a writer kid was not doomed to starve.

Not me, but my BFF managed to get diagnosed in her mid-30s. She was killing her heart with all the stimulants she was taking and her other ways to cope. I don't k own hoe she got diagnosed, but she definitely didn't do it for thousands of dollars. She couldn't have afforded that.

I do know that therapy and medication made it night and day for her. She immediately dropped all caffeine. Her sleep and general mood was so much better and she wad way less flakey. She doesn't dismiss therapy although I know she hasn't gone every week for a while not and mostly goes when she's feeling like she needs it. Medication was a trip and error, but she's much happier with this steady state.

I guess what do you need? I use Obsidian with the daily notes plugin. They sit with my other notes. I have a day planner on paper just because I've found paper to be useful for disposable things like tracking what I spent my time doing in minutia, but electronic notes good for things I'll want to reference later like questions, to-dos, deliverables I was working on, road blocks I ran into, etc. I might transfer my paper notes into my electronic one sometimes if it happens to be relevant.

I've done that. It's annoying lol

You'd definitely need a better poster child than sex work for that in the US. There's no way conservatives would vote for something with that as poster child and some democrats wouldn't either. The US as a whole regardless of team is pretty puritan.