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·الشهر الماضي·discuss
The vast majority of agricultural land is used for meat production. I hear you if you are on an carnivore organic keto diet. Myself, I eat vegan most of the time, but I'm not strict by any measure. The extra land use from my organic purchases is more than offset by eating lower on the food chain.
nlfire
·قبل 4 سنوات·discuss
Hm, I still have a fancy bottle of scotch I got as a gift, buried somewhere forgotten in the cupboards. That is it though. I brought the rest of my liquor cabinet to the office. The free booze was appreciated by the takers, although I admit I had mixed feelings about giving away what I deemed poison :). It was probably $600-700 worth.
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·قبل 4 سنوات·discuss
I gave up alcohol years ago after reading a few of these studies. I wasn't drinking often anyways, but does it ever feel good to never feel that morning after headache. I found even one pint in the evening could disrupt my sleep.

Saving on the restaurant, and eliminating the liquor store, bills was gravy.
nlfire
·قبل 5 سنوات·discuss
In my first job, I remember I had a boss once who said to me, we don't really get bug reports anymore for our component, despite the fact that they are still pouring in for the product. There had been a half year long initiative to improve software quality for my team, supported by the broader organization. It didn't save the company though. But we reached a point where we fixed most/all of the bugs. We added automated tests for corner cases. So things got really quiet. Hard to believe. As an engineer, it was incredibly satisfying.

That phase of my career was very rare. Yes, I have gotten periods of time where I get to pay down technical debt, but mostly the bosses/employers just want me and my colleagues to move on as fast as possible to start the next project. They don't care how many bugs are filed against the old project, and we'll just squeeze in the critical ones.

The go-go-go attitude is what wears me down and makes me want out of the industry. I want to feel like I finished something. Not perfection, but finished you know? That there isn't a mountain of bugs I never even looked at?

I don't think this is something new however.