Good on you, but this doesn't prove anything imo. People are almost always positively biased toward attractive faces due to the halo effect. Biologically/psychologically this is a result of one's facial bone structure, skin, and bodyfat levels.
So being shabbily dressed and having stubble is mostly irrelevant here. Maybe you were just much better looking than the other (poor) bloke.
To everyone who throws around the argument that "only x% of people infected with COVID die", please consider that many survivors are still experiencing major relapses 4 months later [0].
If you're guided only by selfish motives (as I suspect most of us are), at least consider the following:
- You'll likely experience internal organ pain so excruciating it feels like you're dying.
- There's rapidly growing evidence that significant damage occurs not just to the lungs but also the penis(!!!), heart, and brain. This occurs EVEN in asymptomatic cases.
- Organ damage may be permanent.
- There's a good chance you'll be so sick you can't work for a good chunk of the year.
And based on the literature + anecdotal experiences I've read, this stuff is happening to some of the fittest people in society (regular gym goers, triathlon participants, people in their teens/20s/30s, etc).
It's a fallacy to think that the only outcome of COVID is binary (i.e. death or perfect recovery).
Just browse r/covidpositive. There are so many "survivors" who say they still have so much internal organ pain 4 months after being diagnosed, and now they feel hopeless, have suicidal ideation, etc.
And from the sounds of it, a lot of these people are in their 20s-40s and could run a marathon pre-COVID.
C'mon, let's be real... most devs are working on features/products that will never see the light of day. Or they're restyling the company's "contact us" form for the thousandth time.
The market is not efficient. A software developer being paid $100k doesn't mean they're providing the world with $100k of value. it just means they convinced management/HR to pay them $100k for turning up 250/365 days.
I suggest checking out "bullshit jobs" by David Graeber :)
Yes. As a frontend developer, my default mode now is to almost always go straight to searching issues in the GitHub repo of an npm package I'm using.
I only end up on SO when googling very generic questions about React, TypeScript or JavaScript (and sometimes CSS). Also, the top Google results from SO are often from ~2017 or earlier which puts me off
I really enjoyed Bryan's book. I'd always thought uni was ridiculously overpriced, but hearing it straight from the mouth of a professor really hammered the point home for me.
I believe we are on the verge of the education bubble bursting, just like the housing bubble a decade earlier
Yeah, totally agree. Ironically COVID has made me realise how much I want to work in an office now, as I'm going slightly insane from the lack of social contact.
Moving forward, the best middle ground for most jobs would probably be half the traditional working week in an office, the other half from home. Or something like that.
"Online education used to be like online dating: only something losers would do. But now it seems to moving towards the default way of doing business."
As a self-taught developer and proud of it, I like this quote. A lot. It's easy to let yourself fall into a toxic mindset where you (and many employers) unjustifiably feel inferior because you didn't take the traditional 4-year college route.
But in less than a decade, hearing of couples who met on Tinder has gone from a novelty to the norm, reminding us of how quickly societal paradigm shifts can happen (for the better, imo).
Can you please explain what you mean by every component re-rendering? Maybe I'm just ignorant, but I don't think that's correct (unless you made a really bad app).
Other than that I agree with the gist of your post
Also, to second your question: what the hell did happen to Windows search? I always just assumed I'd done something to break it (and honestly, could never be bothered trying to "fix" it... even after all these years), but apparently it's inherently broken.
I know very little about OS software. Could someone explain at a high-level how something as fundamental as file search can be rendered totally unusable? Doesn't windows have the best engineers in the world working on it?
From everything I've read about COVID-19 and flu-like infections, I'm also inclined to believe that warmer climates help slow COVID-19 outbreaks. It is (in my opinion) the most plausible explanation why certain regions are hit so much worse than others thus far. I also believe a paper I recently read supports this hypothesis.
I've seen the media publish articles with titles like "coronavirus myths busted: warm weather stops the virus". Ironically, these attempts to combat misinformation are dubious themselves, as the truth is probably somewhere in the middle; that is, warm climates may not outright stop COVID-19, but they may certainly hinder it. The fact is, while we can't make definitive statements at the moment due to limited data and understanding of the virus's pathology, we can make educated guesses through observation.
Another contentious point (particularly here in Australia) is the sentiment that children are mostly immune to the virus. The Aus government is pushing this line very strongly as an excuse to keep schools open (i.e. economical reasons).
So yeah, I don't know why I wrote this comment. Probably to stress the fine line that exists between having a mindset which is open to observational theories, while also being critical of "facts" which are pushed to drive political agendas amidst the coronavirus outbreak.
That capitalism, in its current state, is a broken system? As cliche as it sounds, there's no other way to describe it when you have frontline workers risking their life—and their family's lives—to make a man whose net worth is $100+ billion even richer.
This is not a progressive society. No one wants to see it (besides the super wealthy). We've regressed back to the master and slave social classes we used to read about in history books.
For a forum of ostensibly intelligent people, it's amusing to see the rise in anti-china sentiment brought about by the coronavirus.
Sure, China has a poor human rights record in many regards. But objectively, their handling of the coronavirus has been phenomenal, especially when one considers its hugely dense population.
And regarding the fake video supposedly showing a live person being body bagged: even Facebook "verified" the video as fake, and you know that.
China's done many things poorly in recent history, but containment of the coronavirus isn't one of them. Resorting to unsubstantiated xenophobia in times like this really says more about you as a person than anything else.
"Fact-Check Scarcity Principle: This article is called 100 Little Ideas but there are fewer than 100 ideas. 99% of readers won’t notice because they’re not checking, and most of those who notice won’t say anything. Don’t believe everything you read."
I was thinking to myself "this is an amazing list" until I came across that cheeky snippet. Now I'm confused; is the point to make readers critically evaluate each of the listed theories?
Completely agree. The author glosses over the fact that half of coding is just pattern recognition derived from seeing something written a certain way many, many, many times over.
It's not far-fetched to consider that exposing kids to an hour of code daily could make transitioning to a programming career much more feasible in their later life (whereas without this exposure, programming might seem like untouchable black magic). Heck, I think the reason my own transition to being a dev was relatively smooth is because I was obsessed making HTML websites as a kid. Despite not touching it for ~15 years, even that exposure proved invaluable in picking up the skills relatively fast
So being shabbily dressed and having stubble is mostly irrelevant here. Maybe you were just much better looking than the other (poor) bloke.