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It would be nice if those of us who handle WFH under a pandemic very well have some leverage after it's resolved to continue a WFH schedule. I really don't care for the long commute to an open office. The combination reduces both my quality of life and my quality of work.

It seems like being human is a messy affair, and one particularly hard to sort out.

It's not just culturally routine, but culturally shamed for not adhering. Additionally, it does not take much time at all. Meditation requires more investment in time by a factor of 10 at least, and if you shame someone for not meditating, they'll probably laugh at you or give you a bewildered look.

Only a small amount of the population engages in any behavior that requires active lifestyle modification. Exercise and diet are hardly adhered to despite being relatively simple. Meditation has the added difficulty of being solitary, and, for most, boring and difficult (compared to the instant-feedback world surrounding them).

I'll chime in as someone who has used Django and its ORM for about 5 years and I have to say it's a pleasure to use.

One issue I've seen when assessing some of the vegetarian or other plant-based diets proposed has been neglecting to account for protein. Most men at least don't enjoy the muscle loss associated with eating a low-protein diet, which is what the implementations I've seen often look like.

That said, Americans are predominantly overweight and obese. A diet high in protein but low enough in total overall energetic content is an excellent recipe, when paired with weightlifting and a few days of cardiovascular activity, for improving musculature and eliminating fat.

A scientific example demonstrating this point, entitled "Higher compared with lower dietary protein during an energy deficit combined with intense exercise promotes greater lean mass gain and fat mass loss: a randomized trial": https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/103/3/738/4564609

Protein in terms of protein / calorie ratio of food tilts protein sources to meat and dairy. Easy way to compare foods and meals is to compare grams protein per 100cal of a given item. Things like meat, cottage cheese, yogurt, etc., top the charts.

So if you want to maximize for protein consumption without putting on fat mass, you tend to look for meat, dairy, and things derived from them (whey protein isolate).

Yes, but they had to teach me how to read later in life. This is a two-for-one strategy, because the reading skill transfers much more easily.

You can't rely on it as the only means of learning, but it makes for the foundation. Conversation is hard to begin with, but conversation when you don't understand what is spoken quickly enough to begin to form a response is impossible.

I learned how to turn a stream of nonsense (from my perspective) into words by listening to hundreds of hours of Spanish TV that I didn't understand. Spanish audio + Spanish subtitles (to figure out how to parse sound, and to map sound to writing), and then Spanish audio only (prevent reliance on reading). Surprisingly effective. Incomprehensible input appears to be quite valuable.

At some point I'll try applying my methods to learning a different language to see if I can generalize (for me and my ability to pick up a language, at least).

Why trust either of them?

What happened to New York?

However, sometimes you want to maximize protein per a meal's calories. Some things may seem 'cheap' but to maximize protein with those items you will blow out the calories chart. For example, it's better to rely on cottage cheese for protein instead of flour, despite the monetary cost looking favorable for the latter -- because the former will have your protein needs met with a smaller number of total calories, preventing you from gaining fat mass, assuming the rest of your diet follows similar reasoning.

Anyone successfully apply it to programming interviews? As lame as it sounds, I'm wondering if it could be useful there.

Yeah, understood. Personally, I commend him. I sure as hell wouldn't put my name to controversial topics (even if said discussion itself should, ideally, NOT be controversial). In today's social climate that takes some serious courage, and it's not really worth it unless you can be employed regardless of opinion. I'm guessing in his sphere that's not permitted, which is unsettling.

So, basically an attempt at image clean-up. His audience created a regular discussion based on the terminology of his original content, but he's trying to become more popular to a broader audience. If people new to him were to search, he'd be able to put some distance, should this separation be effective. That's the gist of what I'm getting from reading the latest discussion.

He's one of the top mods, no? At least from glancing at the list.

For something inaccurate, why would it be the pinned thread with nearly all the activity?

Edit: Doing a search for the title shows that it's been the main tradition for ~ 2 years. So that line of reasoning seems a little suspect.

Ahh, ok. I recently came across his blog and the subreddit, and based on the huge activity in that thread I figured that was a prominent creation of his. Thanks for the clarification.

He has a very interesting weekly discussion thread about the Culture War: https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/akk8nc/cult...

I thought I remember it being a campaign position, mainly stemming from it applying downward wage pressure on tech workers. It looks like it used to be but then he changed it.

Donald Trump signaled a shift in his stance on visas for highly-skilled workers Thursday night, moving away from the position he took on his campaign website.

Source: https://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates...

Looks like he's flip-flopped a few times.

He campaigned on the opposite, didn't he?

There is no free lunch.

It's really cool, but it's not going to be useful until you correct these errors. You might want to provide a note to readers in the meantime.

There's no answers because the author gives thanks to a grad course in evidenced based teaching where he claims the only way to really know something and remember it is to figure it out for yourself. Math stackexchange can help too.

This is a cop out; of course to really know something and remember you have to figure it out for yourself. But answers allow you to check whether your work was right, and if not, allow you the opportunity to debug your work.

My best performance came in organic chemistry, where I looked for question banks (with answer keys) and solved problems extensively, perhaps bordering on obsessively. If I hadn't an indicator that my final result was wrong, I would have missed out on many learning opportunities, and objectively my performance would have been worse. In general, I have found this strategy to enable me to be an exceptional student.

If you don't benefit from an answer key, you're probably lazy and undisciplined. Alternatively, you have too much time on your hands, opting to rigorously confirm that each and every answer is correct.

In short, by not providing an answer key, you are denying the disciplined student the opportunity to efficiently learn.

Not really. Facebook will put your account in a cycle of verification hell. They really don't seem to like accounts of users trying to be anonymous. Granted, maybe someone else will have better luck with that than I did. For me, they essentially disabled my account and re-enabled it on a weekly basis. I got too annoyed and stopped using it as a result.

Many people treat it that way, though. Personally I don't care for LinkedIn, but apparently that's strange behavior.

L-theanine completely destroys my ability to sleep. I've tested a few times now. Dosage used was 100mg, taken early in the day. It's like I get stuck in super light sleep where I'm practically dreaming but awake.

That sounds like a nice process. I don't know anything about your company, but I'm thankful that you keep it sane and reasonable for prospective developers.

What's your process like after that screening measure? Because to me, that's honestly trivial, and a lot nicer than dealing with an extended (8+ hours) homework problem as an introduction to a company's hiring process.