For me, my saviour was my 'third place'. I have frequented a spot since I was 18 where I can basically go any evening and there will be friends I know that I can chat with any time I need it. It makes not having a partner so, so much better.
And I also missed talking about the random small things in my day that no one except my partner really cares about. I deal with it by partly suppresing it, but I've also just decided that occasionally whomever comes into my path, be that a coworker or a friend or a family member will have to deal with it :). (Making sure I don't overload specific people to much). But the coworker right next to me at work definitely gets more little details from my private life than he would if I had a partner, and he happily deals with it :).
Agree. As a programmer that likes to sew in her free time; I do think it is significantly easier to pick 10 random people of the street and make them into excellent sewists within a year than to make them into good programmers.
Programming is harder and more specialized, but it's not harder work.
It's way easier to make a good programmer out of a researcher than a researcher out of a programmer.
I have always had programming jobs (job title: software engineer) that required the 'researcher' mindset. We didn't mind teaching them our stack or even good coding practice, but if they didn't have the 'explorative/innovative mind' of a 'researcher', we could never train them up to the level they needed to be.
But you can solve this systematically by just having that medium sized company pay for it. They don't have to do it; but they have to pay for it; meaning the cost will be transferred along to the end user.
I sew clothes. The vast majority of projects I start get finished. Sometimes I'm happy with the result, sometimes I'm not. I wear them regardless. My kids wear them. After a while they grow out of them.
> Who would argue without the implicit desire to convince/convert?
Me? I'm an engineer, when I 'argue' with my co-workers, it is with the goal of finding the best solution. I don't care whose solution it is. I want to find consensus on what is the best solution.
If I find that kind of shit in my free library, it immediately goes to the (properly recycled) trash. Nobody will take it, it's just taking up space and bringing down the attractiveness of my library.
> If I was running one, I'd have maybe 10x what will fit in it, and constantly rotate them. The ones that don't move within a couple months go to the thrift store.
That's how I run mine. About twice a week I rotate ~10 books. Either ones that have been there for longer or ones that I know will never be taken anyway. (I leave everything for at least a week, but the 'guide to 2004 Honda Civic maintenance' never stood a chance...)
Every once in a while I sort through my 'additional collection' that I keep inside my house and take the unattractive ones to the thrift store.
> 43% of companies will use artificial intelligence (AI) to run their hiring interviews by 2024
Bullshit.
I can imagine 43% (or more) involving some sort of AI tooling in their hiring process. Almost half of all companies 'running their hiring interviews'? No way.
I would argue that 12:30 hours after midpoint is exactly that: there is the midpoint, and then you add 12 hours and 30 minutes. So 12:30 PM would be 00.30 military time according to that logic.
As a non-native am/pm user: it's confusing. Even with that rule.