Really interesting! It makes me want to get scanned now bc I share a number of the same character traits that you mentioned. But, who knows how much that is just looking for a pattern/explanation or whether it’s even a common thing. Having some idea of the cost and maintenance of NMR and MRI machines, I don’t imagine many places offer walk-in elective scans for bargain prices.

If you don’t mind my asking, what were the circumstances that led to you getting an MRI, to even notice that?

If you do mind my asking, please let me know and I will continue to wonder.

I, for two

Only 19 more to go.

Laying people off instead of offering to move them to the now-more-important projects has to be one of the dumbest management moves that tech companies repeatedly do. These are people already trained on all the policies and procedures and tooling and “culture” specific to your company.

It’s going to be more expensive to hire and train new people when the dumdums in upper management finally figure out the mistakes they made that got them to a point where they decided they need to cut jobs and projects, and the ramp-up time before you actually start seeing progress on those priorities is going to be seriously lengthened. Of course they won’t acknowledge it was their fault in the first place, and again the heads roll on the wrong end of the corporate ladder.

I did it on Arch and no problems!

Arch, BTW.

Also, I’m told it’s going to really fail at some point, but so far, pacman -Syu has worked like a charm.

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Mostly trapped in my own mind, focusing on details that don’t matter to others and oblivious to the ones that do, struggling to understand what they’re trying to communicate and reciprocate in kind.

There are many valid complaints about Teams in this thread. The most unforgivable for me is the purple theme. Purple isn’t even a wavelength. It shouldn’t exist, nor should Teams, and I shouldn’t be forced to stare at both of them throughout my work day.

LPT or masking tip? Masking makes things more bearable but I find it often prevents being able to make a genuine connection. I can mask fairly well for a couple hours but by then I’m exhausted. Trying to mask with people I see regularly inevitably ends up in ruined relationships due to internalized guilt from lying and them recognizing me as a liar. It saves time and stress to just be honest, even if that means coming off as acerbic or just eccentric.

1 & 3: yes. 2: I’m wondering if when they talked about a panic in science, they meant a panic in not-science, like maybe pop science news or religion?

Right now there are a number of pop science news articles and channels saying physicists are panicking over Webb’s confirmation of Hubble’s observations of Cepheid variable stars and the expansion of the universe. But I haven’t heard any actual physicists panicking, unless panicking means finding it really interesting and wanting to know more and do more observations and research.

Or maybe they meant there was a panic reaction to science news among religious politicians and public figures who were given a huge platform? They are always looking for ways to think of humans as distinctly more special than other animals. And they’re always looking for ways to deny rights to anyone who isn’t cis or straight.

They already started their Linux journey with Chrome OS! What’s the worst that could happen, they turn a brick into a brick? And the best? @[email protected] transcendence 🧘

The very first part about Goodall and tool use in animals is incorrect. Darwin wrote about primates making and using tools, and presumably many other naturalists have for other creatures. He also wrote about musicality and other “human” features in animals as examples of how small evolutionary changes build up over time. Goodall did a lot of interesting research and observation and made it accessible to an easily distracted public, there’s no need to fudge her accomplishments to make a point.

Arch. Arch! ARCH! /pumping_fist_like_Arsenio

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I think it’s a good first language to learn. Because it’s a lower level language than most of the popular ones these days, you will learn a lot of interesting concepts and problems you wouldn’t otherwise get or even need for higher level stuff - like memory management, allocation, garbage collection and cleanup, and pointer references - but which give you a better understanding and appreciation for what’s in the black box.

But you also learn a lot of transferable concepts like typing, mutability, objects and object oriented design, polymorphism, etc. And there are still a ton of jobs where C++ knowledge is required or at least useful.

I have barely touched it over the years since first using it, but patterns and approaches I learned in C++ have come in handy for me a lot when troubleshooting and when reading other people’s code, and being able to recognize who is going to be a helpful person to talk to when I run into problems I can’t quickly figure out.

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Me too, it’s a lot of effort but definitely worth it to feel more optimistic and to help other people feel the same!