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I wish it had the ability to filter feeds. There's a lot of rss feeds that have good stuff interspersed with articles that are basically ads. Like just being able to filter out "prime day" or "the top X widgets to do Y" would get rid of a lot of fluff

It's more devious than that. If company A lays off 1000 people due to "legitimate" reasons (e.g. twitter generally doing poorly), that's 1000 people looking for new jobs. Company B, C, and D can then take that as an opportunity to lay off 1000 people each that aren't immediately vital to the success of the company. Company A might not have the funds or desire to rehire right away, but the other three will slowly start building back up. You end up with 4000 people competing for 100 open positions. Many may not be willing to accept a pay cut, but some percentage will, and gradually the rest will be slowly starved down to accepting less pay.

Software engineering is notoriously a high paid career path, and executives at these companies hate that, so any opportunity they get to suppress wages, they'll jump on. Especially if you know every other big company is doing it to, so they won't be able to turn that into an advantage against you

I use Feeder for rss feeds, and I'll save articles in there for later

That's a barred owl.

Fun fact: you can talk to them, and they'll talk back. Whether it's a good idea or not, I have no clue, but I've done it

One factor that I don't think I've seen anyone mention is that better grinders will have better motors that can run slowly but still break beans down with high torque. The cheaper grinders have faster motors at a lower torque, so they rely on high speed impact to generate the force necessary. That translates to much louder, and much more broken bits of beans ( fines)

I have a baratza, and I've never had to deal with static. To be honest, I've always been confused why there doesn't seem to be any static at all

I'm still using a baratza maestro that I got at a thrift store 10 years ago

This is how the Dr. Death guy was able to keep getting jobs. He would basically mess up and kill/maim someone, then he'd get pushed out of one hospital, and go right into another. The same phenomenon occurs in many fields

Yup. I agree 100%. For everyone person getting a hard degree (define that how you will) to actually learn skills, there's someone who has family connections who just needs the degree to check a box, or someone who has been privileged enough that they think they can "fake it till they make it" (and they end up being able to).

My job would be so much easier if everyone I work with had the skills their degrees would lead you to believe they have.

I once met a guy who was like 28, but he had a super impressive sounding resume with like 6 different jobs. I don't remember where, but think prestigious universities, big tech companies, federal agencies, etc. Everyone acted like he was a genius, but if you think about it, that's like 1 year per job. If he was that good, one of those places would have tried to keep him around longer. Depending on the field, 1 year isn't really enough time to have much impact, anyway. He basically just chained together buzzwords.

I think a lot of people in grad school go through something similar. Sometimes you get the imposter syndrome, and sometimes you get the sense that a lot of other people are imposters.

I cringe every time I hear someone in a professional setting say something like "we all have no clue what we are doing". Speak for yourself, lol, some of us know exactly what we are doing, and can tell you don't.

I guess the biggest piece of advice I can give is to just try your best to have a level confidence that matches your actual knowledge on a topic. Don't rely on your own expertise too much at this stage; if you think AI self-diagnosis is bad, find some research on it, and let that do any talking. Your biggest asset at this stage is scientific literacy, so use that.

MD's have all gone through the same experience, so they know what it's like. The thing that makes it a little harder in your field is that the very nature of being a medical doctor requires you to show confidence to your patients, and whether or not you are sure about something, you still have to make a decision to act (or not act). If a microbiologist doesn't have data to support their hypothesis, they can just say they dont have an answer and leave it at that.

My understanding is that the predicted low is for the upcoming night, not the lowest temperature in that 24 hour block

I don't think this is android specific, but having the IR LED that allowed you to use your phone as a universal remote. I get that lots of TVs are getting fancier remotes that communicate in other ways, but there are still plenty of applications of the IR LED.

I don't know if 2024 was ever a feasible date. I have a suspicion that the Trump administration wanted a lunar landing while in office, and aiming for the end of a second term was the soonest they thought it might be possible.

For some things I mostly just want to get rid of, and that don't have an easily defined value, I've still used Craigslist. It seems like a vestige of the old internet that I'd like to keep around. If it takes a while longer than it would to sell stuff vs Facebook, that's okay. For things that are small enough that shipping isn't horrible, I go for ebay. For clothes, there's a few different sites that I think are popular and good, but I basically wear clothes till they don't have any resale value, so I've never needed to use them.

I'd add that they should pour two cups of each, and remove one, then try to guess the odd one out.

Congress being so bad at legislating has basically forced the Supreme Court to legislate. I obviously don't agree with decisions like ending Roe v. Wade, but abortion should never have been up to them in the first place. Those kinds of decisions should be up to congress to make clear laws.

They monetize your posts by serving ads next to them. If no one can see the content, it's not monetized. The other thing is using them to train language models and such. That's a little more abstract, and hard to account for.

Also, not sure if this is still a good way to do things, but there are tools to overwrite all your comments with useless text before deleting it. The thinking is that reddit and any third party websites aren't going to bother storing multiple versions of a deleted comment.

And density. There's more salt in a spoonful of table salt than a spoonful of kosher salt

The problem is that that are picking up second jobs, in a sense.

Yeah, you could detect a difference between drunk me and sober me, but where does sleepy me fit in? It's wrong, but not exactly illegal to drive while very tired.

Plus, most laws about operating a vehicle only apply when the vehicle is on public roads.