jrjarrett

Illuminati was like that for me. It took a special group of friends to play a game where betrayal and backstabbing is expected, and not come away hating each other.

But oh man, the things we said to each other would make a Marine drill sergeant blush.

So statins lower LDL; what lowers inflammation?

Really? I sat in one that belonged to a friend and it convinced me to get one as my desk chair. I enjoy it; I find it comfortable.

What do you not like about it?

My job has been amazing thru all this. The first words from my supervisor was “your family is important, take the time you need”.

I’m just about a week later in my kidney donation than the author.

My husband was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease in late 2022 and it rapidly progressed to end-stage renal failure at the end of 2023. He’s been on dialysis since February.

It took quite a bit of semi-political hurdles to get him on the UNOS transplant list; once that happened, several people had volunteered to go thru the process to be a donor on his behalf.

I was the only one cleared; it turns out I was a match, but a better one could be found, so I went ahead and donated to an anonymous recipient. A few days after my donation, a match was found for him, and he receives his new kidney in a few weeks. That will make all this worth it for me.

My pain was much less than the author’s; it never got 9over a 3. I used one Oxy pill, and the rest of the time, Tylenol controls it. Still sore around the main laparoscopic site (1-2) still uncomfortable and can’t sleep on my left side 2 weeks out.

Definitely feeling the fatigue I was told to expect as my body adjusts to one kidney. I was told to plan for 6 weeks out of work, and I think I’m going to need most of that to rebuild stamina. I’ve been trying to walk as much as I can, weather and fatigue permitting, and I’ve had helpers to deal with the weight restrictions I’m under.

I struggle with sleep and I was excited by this—until I saw it requires a subscription.

I’ll pass, thanks.

Not to mention you have little choice in taking on that debt. If you need medical care, you need it.

It's not like you have a choice to have life-saving care or not.

Ever known anyone in end-stage renal failure? Not a lot that could be that really bad; waiting to get on the UNOS transplant list, while doing daily dialysis…

Huh?

Kodak was (is? meh.) in Rochester NY; Polaroid was in Cambridge, MA.

That’s as about as east coast as you can get.

Tracing the lineage of the British royal family back to Elizabeth I.

Doctor of osteopathy (DO). My first doctor as an adult was a DO and treated things like sinus infections with medication, but when I picked up a ladder and something popped in my back, he adjusted my spine and put it back into place and almost instantly it stopped hurting.

You have to do leetcode if you want any hope of being able to find a different job. You have to be ready for that kind of question.

I’m a software engineer with 20+ years of experience in a bunch of different industries. I know what I’m doing.

I did 3 interviews with 3 different companies in the past couple months and utterly failed at the leetcode style coding interviews. The last one was to “print out the contents of a binary tree, each level on its own line.”

I had 1/2 hour to do it. Oh, and I had to translate their sample seed code from Python to Java, since I’m stronger in Java.

I haven’t seen a raw binary tree in 20+ years. I at least remembered how to depth first traverse it, but haven’t seen in order traversal since my freshman year of college.

So look-I was able to read and translate Python, a language I don’t use to one I do, and pull out of deep storage how to traverse a binary tree one way, but since I couldn’t remember the other ways, I failed.

My daily job is far more about translating complex business requirements into appropriate data stores, improving performance, working with cloud providers - NOT banging out freshman level programming tasks. I’m out of practice for that.

So to be in a position to change jobs, you sadly have to spend time keeping that information freshened.

It’s not helpful to leetcode grind; I’d rather spend the time and energy I have for non-work coding to learn a net-new language. It’s not the “hive mind saying we should”.

It’s the stark reality of the hiring processes everyone has decided is necessary because there’s a myth that no one applying for a software development job can code and if you don’t do these kinds of interviews (and don’t screen any other way) you’ll hire these fakes.

Don’t most people get injections in their non-dominant arm?

That’s how I do it, remembering as a kid that when I’d get shots, my arm always hurt for a few days.

I didn’t do that when I set up my dev machine, and got into quite a mess of differing brew install versions plus different repos having different dependencies.

asdf helps quite a bit now.