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I don’t know much about lol or fighting games but the starcraft pro scene exploded after a gambling/match fixing scandal back in 2010! The first wave absolutely had this problem

Solution is extremely simple, fly the candidate out for an in-person interview. A one-time plane ticket is a tiny expense compared to paying for the company to be a fully in-office operation, or paying a fraudster's salary.

Onsite interviews were a normal practice just a few years ago.

I have an LG washer/dryer as well. On mine, you need to rotate the large central knob by one "click", then the buttons start to work.

Why? No idea.

This depends on your size and activity level. The last time I dieted, I was losing a pound a week on 2700 calories. 1400 would have been a severe crash diet.

This is addressed in the article

The article you linked says that Chiquita was extorted into illegally paying money to a Colombian death squad, who also murdered people, and were ordered to pay restitution to the victims' families. It doesn't say that they paid the death squad to murder people on Chiquita's behalf.

This is very program-dependent. In my department, approximately everyone was funded by NIH, with a few NSF.

My family leaves me alone when I'm on a call, but feels free to interrupt if I'm quietly working. Sometimes, I enjoy the company, so I don't want to tell them to never do this, but I also sometimes need focus time. The sounds of a call provide an audible signal that This Is Don't Interrupt Dad Time.

In other words, for at least some people, it's not pretending to work so they can slack off, it's pretending to be in a meeting so they can actually work.

I imagine that in-office workers with disruptive coworkers might want to do something similar.

I’ve been getting back into starcraft 1, and although there’s automatic matchmaking now there are still several old-style communities

> It's simply not practical for parents to commit all the hours needed for full time home schooling 9 till 3:30PM every day

This is a “tell me you don’t homeschool without telling me you don’t homeschool”

No homeschooling family I ever met has set hours, and most spend far less time than that daily. Schoolwork takes a lot less time when you cut out the crowd control, distractions, “pledging allegiance” and other nonsense

Edit: I see I missed the joke

That doesn't make any sense, "Them just object to..." would be ungrammatical nonsense.

Amazing to see M-A posted here. Spent way too many hours in my youth scouring the internet for things I could add and correct. I still have an ancient account with full edit access, frequently make changes on behalf of people in my local scene because "request a change" as become fairly unresponsive on account on the insane size of the site.

I still remember when they got to 10k bands. I think this must have been around 2003-2004. And people were speculating about whether there where another 10k metal bands in the world. Crazy.

For what it’s worth I have nearly complete aphantasia and I enjoy mccarthy’s descriptions very much.

But if the quotes do nothing for you, his stories probably will not either.

It uses a lot of the same "hostile architecture" techniques that public spaces use to keep homeless people out. There's literally nowhere you can get comfortable, unless you want to lay on the ground in the middle of traffic.

I am American and my children's school has exactly this rule (phones confiscated during the day). My kids report that most of their peers simply ignore the rule and keep their phone with them, and that this is so common the school has given up on enforcement.

Probably not, martial arts classes that are marketed as self defense or exercise rather than as training for combat sports get a significant number of women

I'm currently working in an MLOps engineer role at a mid sized company. I agree with that article that most of what I do is plain old software engineering. I don't think I'm interchangeable with any other backend dev though, because ML expertise really does come in handy here. I think the thing that makes it a bit specialized is that we are providing tools to allow our data scientists to self-serve model deployment and monitoring, but they by and large not expert web programmers. So we need to anticipate the kind of mistakes they're likely to make and provide opinionated tools that guide them into building sane software in the specific context of our company's technology. As well as direct support as needed.

We evaluated several commercial MLops tools and ended up going with generic tools that we already use, instead of something new that's branded for MLops. I.e. postgres + snowflake instead of a commercial feature store -- model deployment, monitoring, and alerting on the same platform as the rest of the company's applications -- etc. When we tried "ML" tools, they took so much work to adapt to our use cases that they really added no value.

For what it's worth, I have a counter-anecdote: all the women I know who are into witch stuff are married with children and several of them are self employed doing arts & crafts kind of stuff.

Macbook pro at work because it’s what all my colleagues use

Thinkpad running mint for my personal machine

I’m not immune to worrying about the doom and gloom news. But what I decided is that there will be jobs for programmers for as long as businesses need custom software. The various scary economic news suggests that maybe things will get worse for workers. And even if the news is wrong there’s always a down cycle eventually. But I don’t see how software people are more exposed than anyone else in any profession that draws a salary.

At my last work from office gig, I was sitting next to a sales support person who was on the phone all day long on topics that were irrelevant to my work. And the other software people would start shooting each other with f-ing nerf guns later on in the day. It was nearly impossible for me to concentrate.

My personal preferences be damned, I add way more value to the company from my quiet, comfortable home office.

I would be 100% fine with work from office if I got a private room with a door. I'm even OK with sharing it with 1-2 other people. But I have not been able to find anyone who will offer me that, only open office chaos -- bad for me, bad for the company.

I was also a daily drinker for years. My experience was after a while, the booze was not really helping me unwind. It was increasing my base level of anxiety, creating the “need” to use it to unwind. I could only see this after I stopped for several months.

To my non Italian-speaking ears, it sounds like the speaker is using an anime/tiktok inspired “uwu voice”

When I was a child my parents did a brief experiment grinding our own flour with a cheap grindstone. I can clearly remember the sensation of the bits of stone in the bread.

It is possible to make flour without this problem? Almost certainly! But this n=1 anecdote demonstrates it’s a thing that can happen.

You’re using super obfuscated language so it’s hard to follow what you’re actually saying. It sounds like you’re saying because you can’t evaluate people with lazy mental shortcuts like race or religion, which would be illegal, you have to try and determine their actual merit, which is harder, and that is the source of corporate spreadsheet hell. Consequently, businesses would spend less time in spreadsheet hell if they could just go back to discriminating against classes of people that are now protected by law. Is that really what you mean?

Lasers are basically unregulated in the US, anyone can own a laser of any power. There are restrictions on lasers for specific purposes (like medical devices) and rules on marketing lasers above a certain power as "laser pointers"/

The boats are back, they’re just not obligatory

Combat sports. Right now I train judo and armored combat (I.e. fighting in full armor with blunted swords and axes)

As a side benefit this forces me to stay fit. I find few things as motivating as knowing there’s a set date in the near future when I will be locked in a ring with someone who is going to try to hurt me

A lot of 30-something programmers like jujitsu since is has the same competitive aspect and a little bit of danger without the heavy impact and attendant risk of brain injury

The reviewer stops dancing around his own opinions in the final third. TLP's views, according to the reviewer, are thought provoking, but "cucked" -- TLP lacks the intestinal fortitude to be a hardcore neoreactionary racist, like the reviewer. I found it disappointing.