jasonpeacock

This is no great secret or revelation, Amazon's recruiters literally coach every candidate to use the STAR method. And many interviewers will again repeat the advice/request to answer in STA…

As a daily driver of a car, I don't need to know how it works. I know how to _use_ it - get in, turn it on, drive. Who cares if it's electric or ICE, how combustion or regenerative breaking …

> We live in the age of automobiles. If you don't know how to use one you shouldn't be employed where they're necessary. Rather than making a dumbed down workforce we should be build…

Blood sugar is not affected by only "sugar" (sucrose). All carbohydrates are converted into sugars by your body, thus potatoes, grains (rice, bread, pasta, etc), fruit (and juice) also cause…

They do require blood samples. The device sticks to the back of your arm, and a small sensor is embedded in your skin. It's painless, and the sensor continuously samples the blood in your skin to…

> pokey things and strips Those do not require a prescription, but they are also not a CGM. They are blood sugar test kits, you can order them on Amazon. You could poke your fingers every hour or 1…

100% agree, it's a modern cultural problem. We look for drug and technology solutions because "doing the right thing" is hard.

How long does this cure last until the unhealthy diet & lifestyle that originally caused the insulin resistance bring it back again? It's frustrating, as Type 2 diabetes is 100% manageable th…

Because: > If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold. -- Andrew Lewis

Yes, you're correct. I think I was trying to find a succinct way to say "everyone was happily using 'they' without concern until gendering became a hot topic and suddenly they noti…

I really enjoy `glow`, it makes me smile when I use it: https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow It's a commandline markdown viewer/renderer.…

Because most of those are dependencies required to build the actual dependencies. There's (generally) 4 types of dependencies: - Toolchains (frameworks, compilers) - Build (headers an…

Your sentence is the perfect example for proper use of "they", per the wikipedia article "It typically occurs with an indeterminate antecedent" - "boss" is non-gendered a…

Singular "they" has been around for a very long time, and used naturally without anyone noticing it as unusual, until recently when there's been more gender discussion and people sudden…

Amazon doesn't use monorepos. But then different tooling had to be created to manage dependencies and performs builds. You either have a large monorepo with special tooling, or many repos with sp…

Not a maintained list, but I remember finding these recommended from a subreddit for slow children’s programming: Trash Truck Puffin Rock Snowy Day Tumbler Leaf David the Gnome …

It's also important to ensure the limited screen time is _quality_, especially for young children: https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/thoughtful-animal/ba... The t…

1491 is a good book about the history of the America (N & S) before Columbus and Europeans arrived: https://a.co/d/dNSm5Ez …

I rarely re-watch movies, and will fall asleep if I try, but I can always watch The Fifth Element.

Lemons vs limes. They're both markup languages, but they have different purposes. Yeah, using markdown to write a book is very limiting and doesn't offer the control needed for typesetting. …

A gun accidentally firing implies that it’s in condition 1 at least - a round chambered and hammer cocked. Is that standard policy for everyday carry? I’d expect at least condition 2 - uncocked.

I need to see evidence of this "overheating and melting the outlet". Electrical code requires downrating of actual capacity to prevent things like this. You're far more likely to see da…

Whales, elephants, birds, octopus, ...

I use a fizzbuzz-level question in my phonescreens for all levels of SDEs, and about 1/2 fail to solve it (from a wide range of experience, I've given up trying to predict who will fail). Th…

$499 in 1995 is equivalent to $1,030 today, that's not as cheap as it sounds.

I learned from a book called "Chi Running", there's similar book if you search for "barefoot running". The book "Born to Run" is also educational about the natural r…

It's all about running technique, not the shoes. If you switch to minimalist shoes, but continue with the same (wrong) technique then you'll have problems. Big, padded shoes are for a specif…

I too had flat fleet, and wore arch supports for many years, but after training in barefoot running for a year I "fixed" the issue. I even ran a marathon in barefoot shoes! It sounds like an…