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upf3y3 | What ruins a date instantly? | Opening in Excel | 18,780 | AskReddit |
upf42g | I went to school for psychology and want to take IT classes. I’m not sure which classes I should take. I do know for a fact I don’t want to do anything involving talking to people all day. Any suggestions for classes I should take and careers I should pursue? Also I have adhd and get bored easily so I need something that allows me to do different things and projects. | I mean, literally any role in IT is going to require some interaction with other people, so just temper your expectations there. As far as I'm aware, no IT role is going to entail you sitting at your desk all day and talking to no one. As far as what classes to take, you have to figure out what area of IT interests you and what kind of salary you're looking for, as it can differ between different specializations. | 30 | ITCareerQuestions |
upf4sb | import numpy as np
a = np.zeros((2,3), 'uint8')
print(a)
print(a[1,0])
b = [
[0,0,0],
[0,0,0]
]
print(b[1,0])
a\[1,0\] ---> 0
b\[1,0\] ---> error | It's just the way they're designed.
Under the hood, `list[index]` calls the `list.__getitem__(index)` method. In that method, `index` is whatever is in the `[ ]`.
Built-in `list` only allows `index` to be an int. Numpy arrays allow `index` to be a tuple.
From your example, `a[1,0]` uses the tuple `(1,0)` as the index. Numpy arrays allow tuples, built-in lists do not.
Answering *why* this is the case is above my paygrade. You'd have to interview the developers of Python and Numpy to know for sure. | 70 | LearnPython |
upf4sb | import numpy as np
a = np.zeros((2,3), 'uint8')
print(a)
print(a[1,0])
b = [
[0,0,0],
[0,0,0]
]
print(b[1,0])
a\[1,0\] ---> 0
b\[1,0\] ---> error | Because the syntax for normal python standard list is
b[1][0] | 40 | LearnPython |
upf9qm | there are some really elegant ways that python code is written from what I see on YT. eg
#NO
i = 0
for i in range(len(some_list))
print(i, some_list[i])
#Yes
for i,a in enumerate(some_list))
print(i, a)
or something like
#NO
if x > some_max_val:
x = some_max_val
#Yes
x = min(x,some_max_val)
Is there any resource, compliation, blog where such code refactoring, code smell, etc are put together. Just seeing these is really great. | That's a great question, and I'd love to hear what other people come up with.
I would suggest, familiarising yourself with the python [docs](https://docs.python.org/3/index.html) for built-ins and standard library
[https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html](https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html)
[https://docs.python.org/3/library/](https://docs.python.org/3/library/)
Particularly things like itertools and collections.
Also read the source code for any libraries you are using. There are amazing developers in the open source world, reading expert code is a good way of learning some tricks, and also (more importantly) learning how to write code that's easy to read and understand. | 80 | LearnPython |
upf9qm | there are some really elegant ways that python code is written from what I see on YT. eg
#NO
i = 0
for i in range(len(some_list))
print(i, some_list[i])
#Yes
for i,a in enumerate(some_list))
print(i, a)
or something like
#NO
if x > some_max_val:
x = some_max_val
#Yes
x = min(x,some_max_val)
Is there any resource, compliation, blog where such code refactoring, code smell, etc are put together. Just seeing these is really great. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anrOzOapJ2E (a few of these are a little outdated because they're for python 2 rather than 3 but the bulk are still relevant)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-BqAjZb8M (skip to 21 mins for the meat)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS1zy_sJSNM | 60 | LearnPython |
upfkj1 | Hi, my name is Famke! I am transracial (Mixed American to Dutch). I'm 19 years old and recently moved to the Netherlands. There is currently a lot of conflicting information online about transracialism and a lot of trolling going on so I want to clear things up for anyone who has questions. | This is dumb I’m sorry | 50 | AMA |
upfkj1 | Hi, my name is Famke! I am transracial (Mixed American to Dutch). I'm 19 years old and recently moved to the Netherlands. There is currently a lot of conflicting information online about transracialism and a lot of trolling going on so I want to clear things up for anyone who has questions. | What’s wrong with you? | 30 | AMA |
upflkj | People of UK it seems the US is really good at ruining a small town, adding chain gas, hotel and fast food companies. How does the UK keep the integrity of it's villages intact? | I suspect when you talk about a "small town" you're describing something bigger than a British village. Anywhere in Britain big enough to have a town centre (rather than just a couple of shops and a pub) will be just as full of chains as your towns. | 500 | AskReddit |
upflkj | People of UK it seems the US is really good at ruining a small town, adding chain gas, hotel and fast food companies. How does the UK keep the integrity of it's villages intact? | During planning applications locals of “intact” villages per say will go against the plans. | 420 | AskReddit |
upflkj | People of UK it seems the US is really good at ruining a small town, adding chain gas, hotel and fast food companies. How does the UK keep the integrity of it's villages intact? | 1, Run them out of town with pitchforks and torches.
2, Stare intently when a stranger comes into your local pub.
3, Release the Werewolf on them. | 250 | AskReddit |
upfnzg | As the title says, Im curious what portfolios the self-taught guys have here that landed them their first job in the industry. Would also be great to know which part of the industry have you gone to and had success. | With C++ you can build anything. 2-3 side projects that you spend maybe 20 hours on each should be really solid assuming you already have a strong foundation in the language | 30 | CSCareerQuestions |
upfpeb | What do you think of the statement, "there is one law for the rich and another for the poor"? | "If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class."
\-Final Fantasy Tactics | 1,440 | AskReddit |
upfpeb | What do you think of the statement, "there is one law for the rich and another for the poor"? | yep
financial penalties mean nothing.
Good lawyers and below the table deals mean jail time doesnt mean much | 720 | AskReddit |
upfpeb | What do you think of the statement, "there is one law for the rich and another for the poor"? | The super wealthy hire viper lawyers who find loopholes in the law or construct cases in such a way as their rich client gets off the hook.
It gives the impression to many that the rich people are "Teflon-coated" and treated differently from rank-and-file citizens. | 590 | AskReddit |
upfpt4 | The common narrative is Operation Downfall was a monumental plan to invade the main islands of Japan, which the Allies expected to be fought to the death. They anticipated massive casualties and so they created a huge stockpile of purple hearts. The operation was to commence in November 1945. Instead, President Truman mercifully opted to conduct nuclear bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, leading to Japan surrendering in August.
Yet many of the senior military leaders said the nuclear bombings were unnecessary. The Allies had complete air and naval superiority. If Japan was no longer a military threat, then how could they justify such a costly invasion? Did they prefer to blockade the islands instead? If so, did they have any idea on how long Japan would hold out? | One has to take the postwar military comments on the atomic bombs with a grain of salt — they were only voiced _after_ the war was over, and in a moment where the atomic bomb was getting a lot of "credit" for ending the war. These military leaders, who had essentially nothing to do with the making of the atomic bomb, were both irked that this technological marvel was getting the credit (at the expense of their campaigns, logistics, hard work, etc.) and were afraid (not incorrectly) that the Truman administration was going to try to use the atomic bomb as an excuse to cut conventional military funding deeply. So bad-mouthing the bomb was a way to combat both of these things, and was common in the years prior to the Korea War (at which point attempts to cut US conventional military spending ended, and the generals found that they, too, could live with the bomb).
I just finished typing up a [long answer on the question of whether the bombs were "necessary"](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/upkme9/was_the_bombing_of_hiroshima_and_nagasaki_were/i8lgtua/), so I won't repeat myself here, but it's a tricky question depending on what one means by "necessary." You can apply the same issue to whether Japan was a "military threat" — it is less about that, and more about "the goals of the allies with regards to Japan," which were not just about the present war, but about their future activity as well (they didn't just want them to be temporarily neutralized, they wanted it to be essentially impossible for them to be aggressors in their sphere of the world ever again). Keep in mind that a lot of the long-term strategic thought in this period was based around the perceived failure to convert Germany from an aggressive power to a peaceful one after World War I, thus setting their existing carnage in motion through short-sighted policy.
There were certainly people who thought blockade-and-starve-and-(conventional)-bomb was an option for further weakening Japan, but the conventional wisdom (then and now) is that nations don't capitulate without "boots on the ground." (In fact, if one views the atomic bombs as having ended the war — which is not how all historians see it — then it would be pretty much the _only_ example we have of a major nation surrendering as a result of aerial bombardment alone. The Soviet invasion of Manchuria complicates this judgment.) The allies were aware that, cut off from their overseas holdings, Japan would begin to face even greater food shortages than they were already facing, and their ability to wage war would be pretty small without oil, steel, etc., coming in from abroad. Whether that would be more merciful than an invasion (or atomic bombing) depends on what effects you think that would have on the Japanese people.
But to your main point, they were deadly serious about invading. That was The Plan. That was how they were going to end this war if Japan would not end it sooner. But it is of interest that the entire plan was not actually approved. In the summer of 1945, Truman approved the invasion of Kyushu, the southern "large island" of the main Japan islands. He deliberately did not approve the later invasion of Honshu, the main Japanese island. The idea, apparently, was to "wait and see" how Kyushu went, in terms of difficulty, casualties, resistance, Japanese response, American popular opinion, etc. This was prior to the testing of the first atomic bomb and so it did not factor much into Truman's thinking (or the invasion planning).
So that is serious, but interestingly not fully committed. If the atomic bombs and Soviet invasion hadn't ended the war when they did, the invasion of Kyushu surely would have gone forward. Whether it would have been bloodbath that pro-atomic bomb supporters claim is unclear; it depends on what other battles you think it would have been analogous to (many of the generals planning it did not think it would be nearly as bad as the island-hopping campaign, because the terrain would be very different and give them many more options). The plan was always "bomb and invade," it was only after the bomb appeared to end the war that they changed the story to have been about "bomb or invade." If Kyushu had gone well, then Honshu probably would have followed, though that was still up to Truman and dependent on the changing context. But my point is just that it was certainly a "serious" plan. I repeat myself, but it was, literally, the plan. | 50 | AskHistorians |
upfr0r | Currently work in admin, would eventually like to branch out into an Executive Assistant/Business Support Officer role as it pays well in my city. What IT certifications would you recommend that would support my career goals? | I wouldn’t think any specific IT certification would have that much impact on the job you want.
Maybe if there are project management or manager certifications in the business space. | 30 | ITCareerQuestions |
upfru2 | Hello, I’m a 23 year old male. I got circumcised 3 days ago. The day before yesterday I called my doctor to ask for pain medication because of how painful it was, he prescribed it to me but also said it was the first time in 20 years that he had to do that. It had me take a closer look and it does look like some of the strings already went up on all of the right side. I went to a doctor and got prescribed antibiotics, so it should start to look more normal. But what about the overall healing. Is there any reason I should worry? Should I take any actions myself? What are your recommendations?
https://i.imgur.com/UlnYgXf.jpg
https://imgur.com/a/p0EOQu5 | Swelling is part of the healing process, as insane as it looks and painful as it is. Keep taking the antibiotics. If you develop a fever or your wound starts excreting yellow/green/brown liquid then seek medical attention.
Editing to add: don’t touch it with unwashed hands or aggravate it any way. | 1,650 | AskDocs |
upfti4 | What’s the craziest way that you’ve seen someone get fired? | I used to work as a building technician for an apartment complex.
One time, our regional manager was doing a site visit, nothing special, just checking in.
One of the projects we had going was the installation of a fire pit in our courtyard. It had been delivered on a pallet and was sitting out front of the building waiting for the installers.
To back up a bit, this particular regional was very young, maybe 25 or so, and was the son of the owner of the company. Everybody knew about the nepotism there. Most of the upper management was a relative or friend of the family. Some were cool, most weren’t. I only say this because this regional was maybe a bit insecure about the respect he was getting in his position.
Anyway, the fire pit, all, I don’t know, 900lbs of it, was sitting out of the way, under an awning in front of the building. Regional sees it and asks us to move it into position for the installers (this is a dumb idea anyway because if we dropped it or chipped it, we are on the hook for that damage) but my maintenance supervisor points out that we don’t have the equipment to do that. Regional scoffs and says to just have me help him lift it and we can walk it back there.
This is 900lbs of fucking stone. I was a chubby 22 year old and my supervisor was a way out of shape 60 year old. We could swing carrying a refrigerator as needed, but this fire pit wasn’t going anywhere. Regional doesn’t like this answer. We were all standing out by the pit (Regional, me, my maintenance supervisor, and the property manager, plus our VP who had accompanied the regional to the site.)
I’ll never forget it, our Regional goes “You guys got thin fucking blood, let me show you how we do things here.” I promise you this guy rolled up his sleeves, squatted down, and tried to lift up this fire pit. He immediately got red and his forehead veins started bulging. He slipped off for a moment. He looked flustered, looked at us, then said “I guess I’ll have to give this 75% of my power, huh?” Squatted down (in decent form, mind you) then rigidly jerked his whole body up, roared with primal fury, and shit his pants.
It was the sound of wet clams being spilled on a pier. This dude A+ fudged his chinos and there is not a doubt in my mind. The sound and the smell were enough. He fell over backwards and was woozy for a minute. Our VP went over to him and told him to stay down and they were going to get him help. The VP was an old friend of the owner so I assume he knew the Regional from the time he was a little kid, and he had such a bewildered and disappointed look on his face.
Me and my two bosses looked at each other like no moment in any of our diverse careers had prepared us for what to do when your boss hulk-shits himself because he thinks he’s Gregor Clegane. It remains one of the most surreal moments of my life.
Anyway, Regional didn’t get fired but they transferred him to manage a smaller group of properties closer to the city to kind of, I don’t know, keep an eye on him? His name was Duncan, too, so we called him Dumpkin behind his back and I heard the nickname made it’s way around and he got wind of it and tried to figure out who started the rumor but I never got any blowback from it. | 390 | AskReddit |
upfti4 | What’s the craziest way that you’ve seen someone get fired? | Openly gay male employee working in the distribution centre would make racist comments at the amount of new comers working at the warehouse and they were all above him on the chain because he was newer and they had all been there for 2+ years. He didn’t like taking orders from them. So he decided to write a note in the warehouse, under the camera, that read “I have to work with this homosexual” then walked to the common area also where there’s cameras and placed it in his unlocked locker. Then went to HR saying “those fucking [insert racist word here] put this homophobic shit in my locker fire then. They don’t fucking belong here” etc. After checking the cameras, he was fired and on his way out said some more hateful words. | 220 | AskReddit |
upfti4 | What’s the craziest way that you’ve seen someone get fired? | On a dare, he used the "Executive Lavatory" that was off-limits to regular employees.
The guy thought the CEO was away, but got caught red-handed using the restroom and was summarily fired. | 160 | AskReddit |
upfuha | I feel like this is such a universal American experience growing up. But I can't be sure so I figured I'd ask. | Wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube man. 😉 | 1,660 | AskAnAmerican |
upfuha | I feel like this is such a universal American experience growing up. But I can't be sure so I figured I'd ask. | Their story is pretty interesting:
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/inflatable-men/
I personally like the scarecrow models- they look so *angry*, it's funny. | 570 | AskAnAmerican |
upfuha | I feel like this is such a universal American experience growing up. But I can't be sure so I figured I'd ask. | I haven’t seen one in my town.
I have seen one in the town 10 minutes down the road. It’s at a car wash. | 400 | AskAnAmerican |
upfvaa | I'm currently transition into tech from accounting. Should I start in frontend/backend? | The question in your title and the one in the post are totally different questions.
You begin as a FE by learning JS. When you're proficient, pick a framework and get good at that.
If you're deciding between FE or BE, work on a fullstack project and figure out which you like more | 50 | CSCareerQuestions |
upfvdf | I am a 3rd year CS student and its my 3rd week of internship. We will develop a website using react in frontend, 2 people backend and 2 people frontend. The problem is that I don’t have a clue about react, js, html and css. I have some little projects with html and css but none with js and react. We are starting the project next week and I don’t want to be a burden to my other teammate in frontend.
It has been 2 weeks since the internship started but I was not able to follow up on learning phase because of some problems, project phase starts tomorrow. No one is expecting me to know js very well, but I want to know the fundamentals so that I can have a smoother time learning react and getting better.
What should I do? I don’t even really understand how html, css, js, typescript, react interact with each other. What can I do in what order in 3 days ~ 1 week to learn the fundamentals and get ready for challenge?
I know coding, I am a CS student and have experience with python/c++ so I am hoping learning a new language won’t be too hard. I just want to learn fundamentals of web development in total to not be an embarassment to the team. | Html is structure, CSS is style, and JavaScript is behaviour (programming). React is a library that builds off JS and takes a component based approach. These are all frontend technologies.
Based on what you already know perhaps you would be better being a backend rather than front end? Backend can be written in python.
- “Create React App” is the fastest way to spin up react projects, so take a look at that, the documentation and do a tutorial. https://create-react-app.dev/
- W3Schools can give you a bit of a crash course on html css and js and is a good reference to look things up https://www.w3schools.com/
- MDN has all the documentation for js, css, html https://developer.mozilla.org/
- react documentation https://reactjs.org/tutorial/tutorial.html
- css tricks when you need help with css
- talk to your team about whether you want to use something like reactstrap or react-bootstrap (built off bootstrap) so you don’t have to fiddle with css so much. This will save many headaches related to alignment and positioning of elements. | 30 | LearnProgramming |
upfvdv | First off, English is not my first language. I've seen people able to use complex words in regular conversations and it definitely helps them articulate and express their thoughts in a better way. I wish I could learn to do that, using baby words makes me feel stupid. The words I'm talking about don't have to be necessarily long, just uncommon.
For example, prevalent, bifurcate, loathsome, subjugate, erroneous, prominent, radical, etc...
Now I don't think that these people sit down every day and study the dictionary. So, how do they learn to do that? I've heard some say they read books fairly often, is that the case? How do I expand my vocabulary? | I can think of two reasons.
Being an avid reader.
Some people are also fascinated by language(s) and enjoy learning words which makes it easier to widen their vocabulary. It’s an area of interest for some. | 200 | NoStupidQuestions |
upfvdv | First off, English is not my first language. I've seen people able to use complex words in regular conversations and it definitely helps them articulate and express their thoughts in a better way. I wish I could learn to do that, using baby words makes me feel stupid. The words I'm talking about don't have to be necessarily long, just uncommon.
For example, prevalent, bifurcate, loathsome, subjugate, erroneous, prominent, radical, etc...
Now I don't think that these people sit down every day and study the dictionary. So, how do they learn to do that? I've heard some say they read books fairly often, is that the case? How do I expand my vocabulary? | If you read a lot, whether that be books, articles, etc. those words eventually get ingrained into your head, and people use them because they feel more natural to them. For example, I use the word essentially instead of basically because it just feels more natural to me | 140 | NoStupidQuestions |
upfvdv | First off, English is not my first language. I've seen people able to use complex words in regular conversations and it definitely helps them articulate and express their thoughts in a better way. I wish I could learn to do that, using baby words makes me feel stupid. The words I'm talking about don't have to be necessarily long, just uncommon.
For example, prevalent, bifurcate, loathsome, subjugate, erroneous, prominent, radical, etc...
Now I don't think that these people sit down every day and study the dictionary. So, how do they learn to do that? I've heard some say they read books fairly often, is that the case? How do I expand my vocabulary? | Read books, talk to those people that use the more “complex” words, watch media that tends to use them. When you encounter the words, find out the meaning of you can’t already from context. Ask the speaker if you’re unfamiliar with it. English is a tough language, or mashup and evolution of other languages to make odd syntax and rules.
Also, remember there’s nothing wrong with using more simple and common words. Using a complex word just to sound more intelligent really comes off as more pretentious if overdone. | 70 | NoStupidQuestions |
upfvx8 | Who taught you to tie your shoes? | SpongeBob | 100 | AskReddit |
upfvx8 | Who taught you to tie your shoes? | No one, I still don’t know how, I just tuck them in ): | 90 | AskReddit |
upfvx8 | Who taught you to tie your shoes? | My dad did. He promised me that if I learned how to tie my shoes, he would buy me Super Mario Bros 3.
I never learned anything faster in my life. | 50 | AskReddit |
upfwa2 | If there’s a song playing in your head rn, what is it? | S'Wonderful by George Gershwin | 30 | AskReddit |
upfwa2 | If there’s a song playing in your head rn, what is it? | Because I just watched the movie for the very first time a couple days ago
Singing in the rain- Gene Kelly | 30 | AskReddit |
upg0f0 | When I say tip of my thumb I mean that tiny area above ur finger nails and a small chunk of that, so the cut itself I don’t think should be a serious deal but the blood has been non stop flowing, I had to cut off circulation to my thumb for 5 minutes just to get 10 bandaids on without them being absolutely drained with blood. My thumb doesn’t rly hurt anymore but it is throbbing and I have a feeling it’s bleeding a lot underneath these 10-12 bandaids. My question is, will it stop bleeding eventually or is this serious and I should go to the hospital? Any comments are greatly appreciated. | A photo of the wound would help a lot. In the meantime, take a clean towel and apply pressure to the wound for at least FIVE WHOLE MINUTES, without looking or moving the towel. Look at a clock or set a timer. If you move the towel it breaks up the forming clot and starts bleeding again.
Wounds like the one you describe, when a piece of skin is totally removed can bleed more because the 'open' area is so big. There's no flap to cover it and no way to hold it shut. This will also likely take a long time to heal because the skin has to regrow instead of just knitting together.
Once you get the bleeding under control, out a big-ish bandage on it (non-stick guaze and tape, not just a bandaid) and be gentle with it for a couple days until tge scab is well formed. After that, keep covered, clean and dry until healed. | 30 | AskDocs |
upg152 | I have an interview on Monday for an IT technician apprentice role for a big company and I'm very confident that I'm going to get it but I haven't told them about my chronic condition.
I have IBD and sometimes it can be very hard to manage. I feel like by telling them it'll harm my chances. It's best the tell them like a few weeks after being hired right?
Its an apprentice position so everything will be taught I'm just afraid if it's extremely busy and my condition gets bad it'll affect my performance.
Any advice appreciated :) | Get hired in and tell hr on your first day | 30 | ITCareerQuestions |
upg4h5 | At my job, every time we had a bad time because of the sheer amount of requests, project deadlines and extra development our manager would say that it was because of the execs demanding so many things. These last weeks he has been on leave and I had to talk directly to the execs and stakeholders and despite I was expecting to receive lots of heat now that I don’t have a manager “shielding” our team, it has actually been the reverse: they are chill, understanding and don’t enforce hard deadlines as I’m used to have in this job. Talking to my work colleagues they are feeling the same: less stressed and equally capable of delivering results making the higher ups happy.
So after discovering this I’m a bit bummed, because this means that the manager is the one responsible for the high workload we have. I supposed the manager was responsible of protecting us from an excess of demands from the execs but it seems he’s overpromising all the time and that’s a source of problems on its own. How would you proceed in this situation? He will come back at the end of next week and we dread having to overburden ourselves with over 9000 projects at the same time again. | You tell the execs what you told us. | 410 | CSCareerQuestions |
upg4h5 | At my job, every time we had a bad time because of the sheer amount of requests, project deadlines and extra development our manager would say that it was because of the execs demanding so many things. These last weeks he has been on leave and I had to talk directly to the execs and stakeholders and despite I was expecting to receive lots of heat now that I don’t have a manager “shielding” our team, it has actually been the reverse: they are chill, understanding and don’t enforce hard deadlines as I’m used to have in this job. Talking to my work colleagues they are feeling the same: less stressed and equally capable of delivering results making the higher ups happy.
So after discovering this I’m a bit bummed, because this means that the manager is the one responsible for the high workload we have. I supposed the manager was responsible of protecting us from an excess of demands from the execs but it seems he’s overpromising all the time and that’s a source of problems on its own. How would you proceed in this situation? He will come back at the end of next week and we dread having to overburden ourselves with over 9000 projects at the same time again. | It sounds like this job isn’t a good long term fit for you anyway.
Have you ever told him that you think the team is overworked?
I would tell him. “Hey boss, normally, I feel like the team is overloaded with work, but while you were gone I was able to talk to the executives directly got them to give us what feels like a more reasonable workload. I was hoping we could continue that now that you’re back.”
Maybe you could treat it like you solved a problem instead of calling him out for lying or over promising. | 250 | CSCareerQuestions |
upg4h5 | At my job, every time we had a bad time because of the sheer amount of requests, project deadlines and extra development our manager would say that it was because of the execs demanding so many things. These last weeks he has been on leave and I had to talk directly to the execs and stakeholders and despite I was expecting to receive lots of heat now that I don’t have a manager “shielding” our team, it has actually been the reverse: they are chill, understanding and don’t enforce hard deadlines as I’m used to have in this job. Talking to my work colleagues they are feeling the same: less stressed and equally capable of delivering results making the higher ups happy.
So after discovering this I’m a bit bummed, because this means that the manager is the one responsible for the high workload we have. I supposed the manager was responsible of protecting us from an excess of demands from the execs but it seems he’s overpromising all the time and that’s a source of problems on its own. How would you proceed in this situation? He will come back at the end of next week and we dread having to overburden ourselves with over 9000 projects at the same time again. | Your manager sounds narcissistic. Check out r/ManagedByNarcissists for more info.
I recommend quietly looking for a new job. Only consider raising concerns once you’ve safely secured your next role.
If you do decide to say anything be prepared for retaliation. | 50 | CSCareerQuestions |
upg8yu | Europeans what is your favorite thing about America | It's a long way away. | 200 | ask |
upg8yu | Europeans what is your favorite thing about America | The music. Country, blues, hip-hop | 100 | ask |
upg8yu | Europeans what is your favorite thing about America | The entertainment value | 100 | ask |
upgaof | I've been a SWE for 15+ years with all kinds of companies. I've built everything from a basic CMS website to complex medical software. I recently applied for some jobs just for the hell of it and included FAANG in this round which led me to my first encounters with OA on leetcode or hackerrank.
Is it just me or is this a ridiculous process for applicants to go through? My 2nd OA question was incredibly long and took like 20 minutes just to read and get my head around. I'd already used half the time on the first question, so no way I could even get started on the 2nd one.
I'm pretty confident in my abilities. Throughout my career I've yet to encounter a problem I couldn't solve. I understand all the OOP principles, data structures, etc. Anytime I get to an actual interview with technical people, I crush it and they make me an offer. At every job I've moved up quickly and gotten very positive feedback. Giving someone a short time limit to solve two problems of random meaningless numbers that have never come up in my career seems like a horrible way to assess someone's technical ability. Either you get lucky and get your head around the algorithm quickly or you have no chance at passing the OA.
I'm curious if other experienced SWE's find these assessments so difficult, or perhaps I'm panicking and just suck at them? | I think the process is so hard because the industry is far more concerned about false positive candidates than they are about false negative ones.
Also, not being able to solve it leaves room open for discussion in the interview process, where the candidate might elaborate on his thinking process and solve something rather than to spit out a definition about a certain topic.
The real tragedy is that the major part of the interview process will never be used in any of the jobs who use it to screen for viable candidates. | 3,100 | CSCareerQuestions |
upgaof | I've been a SWE for 15+ years with all kinds of companies. I've built everything from a basic CMS website to complex medical software. I recently applied for some jobs just for the hell of it and included FAANG in this round which led me to my first encounters with OA on leetcode or hackerrank.
Is it just me or is this a ridiculous process for applicants to go through? My 2nd OA question was incredibly long and took like 20 minutes just to read and get my head around. I'd already used half the time on the first question, so no way I could even get started on the 2nd one.
I'm pretty confident in my abilities. Throughout my career I've yet to encounter a problem I couldn't solve. I understand all the OOP principles, data structures, etc. Anytime I get to an actual interview with technical people, I crush it and they make me an offer. At every job I've moved up quickly and gotten very positive feedback. Giving someone a short time limit to solve two problems of random meaningless numbers that have never come up in my career seems like a horrible way to assess someone's technical ability. Either you get lucky and get your head around the algorithm quickly or you have no chance at passing the OA.
I'm curious if other experienced SWE's find these assessments so difficult, or perhaps I'm panicking and just suck at them? | They're pretty difficult. Any company going to great lengths to filter people out like FAANG does is going to require a hell of a lot more studying than a measly 2 hour OA, even if you're a fantastic senior staff engineer.
So the OA doesn't bother me. It's a drop in the bucket.
No one likes jumping through the artificial hoops like a show dog. But I can't think of any easier way of earning $300k+/yr and the ability to work on projects that are or could easily become household names. | 950 | CSCareerQuestions |
upgaof | I've been a SWE for 15+ years with all kinds of companies. I've built everything from a basic CMS website to complex medical software. I recently applied for some jobs just for the hell of it and included FAANG in this round which led me to my first encounters with OA on leetcode or hackerrank.
Is it just me or is this a ridiculous process for applicants to go through? My 2nd OA question was incredibly long and took like 20 minutes just to read and get my head around. I'd already used half the time on the first question, so no way I could even get started on the 2nd one.
I'm pretty confident in my abilities. Throughout my career I've yet to encounter a problem I couldn't solve. I understand all the OOP principles, data structures, etc. Anytime I get to an actual interview with technical people, I crush it and they make me an offer. At every job I've moved up quickly and gotten very positive feedback. Giving someone a short time limit to solve two problems of random meaningless numbers that have never come up in my career seems like a horrible way to assess someone's technical ability. Either you get lucky and get your head around the algorithm quickly or you have no chance at passing the OA.
I'm curious if other experienced SWE's find these assessments so difficult, or perhaps I'm panicking and just suck at them? | absolutely right, it is an absurd way to measure CS skill, for anyone other than a fresh grad. | 910 | CSCareerQuestions |
upgbdu | Hello guys,
Before going to the main topic let me briefly tell what my career path. After finish my degree (Engineering but not related to IT) due to lack of opportunities in the field some friends recommend me to pursue a career in IT since consulting companies were blooming where I live.
I was told (by counsulting companies), that one time that I had no prior experience in programming I would better suit to a QA position and then the companyh would train me to be a developer (which as you guys might figure never happened). Later, as I really wanted to be a developer I study by myself and finally got a position as a Frontend Developer (because the entry barrier in FE is smaller then BE IMO).
I really wanted to touch BE as well, the problem is that in the project I was involved there was always the urgent need to do FE work and I was one of the 1st choices, so never really got the chance until now that I was hired as a fullstack developer.
In this current job I did something different, instead of calling my self FE engineer with curiosity with BE I started to introduce myself as a fullstack engineer in order to have bigger chances to pick more BE tasks and be better in that field, and the following happened:
\- Co workers aren't being helpfull... when I ask for help their answers are short and kind of always imply that I know BE tooling stuff... such as pm2, nginx, tmux etc... I dont think that they dont understand that for me even opening PgAdmin and to a basic operation might be challenging...
(They know I come from a FE world... I was always super honest in terms of what my BE knowledge is)
\- Due to a deadline the PO already told me that I should focus only on FE tasks (Because the designer/boss seen already that the quality of my FE work is according to their standards) and I'm affraid this will continue for the upcomming future
\- Having a bit of imposter syndrome by feeling that BE is something that is super hard...
\- Affraid that the team thinks that I will never ver there BEwise
So, what you guys recommend me to do? I trully believe that I have 100% the needed capacities to be a decent fullstack developer, but even if I take all degrees online, they never cover the tooling part, they only focus on the programming stuff itself (which I know already) or when its about DB the courses focus only on queries (Whch I know already)
TL;DR: I'm a frontend engineer that wants to be a fullstack but the initial steps are being hard and I'm always placed in a FE position/FE tasks. | There's tons of material on the internet on the basics. Other engineers (your coworkers) expect you to be able to familiarize yourself with the basics before going to them with questions. It's disrespectful of their time to come to them with questions like "how do I open PG admin and run a query" when that's in the "Getting Started" guide, likely the very first page in the documentation. Seriously, learn to be a little self sufficient. It will carry you a long way. | 30 | ITCareerQuestions |
upgcjq | My job is a Software Engineer, Sr. This is a small team. Something happened that I thought was wrong. I had created a PR and asked another developer to review it. They did and made some suggestions so I did some more changes and updated it. Then the next day the other developer made several last-minute changes without telling me that they were doing this. They then merged those changes into the main. I didn't have a chance to review or test their changes. Is that normal? | Not good practice. Code shouldn’t be merged to main without a review by someone who didn’t write the code. If they made changes, they should have sought someone else to review it.
However, best practices are not always followed. If it was a small thing and time pressure sometimes it might happen. If there is a problem can always revert the merge.
If it bothers you, best to raise it with them. | 300 | CSCareerQuestions |
upgcjq | My job is a Software Engineer, Sr. This is a small team. Something happened that I thought was wrong. I had created a PR and asked another developer to review it. They did and made some suggestions so I did some more changes and updated it. Then the next day the other developer made several last-minute changes without telling me that they were doing this. They then merged those changes into the main. I didn't have a chance to review or test their changes. Is that normal? | That’s normal for the either *lazy* or *egotistical* developer. The “I know this will work” or “we can test it in dev/staging/prod later” last words usual *justify* it.
*Testing in prod* isn’t the way you’re supposed to do things. Even if your main branch only goes to test environments, it’s still a bad practice to merge untested and not reviewed code into anywhere. It will always lead to problems.
Definitely bring that up to your supervisor and /or at a daily standup. You don’t need *your name* seemingly on *their untested code*. They should make their own PRs too. | 50 | CSCareerQuestions |
upgcjq | My job is a Software Engineer, Sr. This is a small team. Something happened that I thought was wrong. I had created a PR and asked another developer to review it. They did and made some suggestions so I did some more changes and updated it. Then the next day the other developer made several last-minute changes without telling me that they were doing this. They then merged those changes into the main. I didn't have a chance to review or test their changes. Is that normal? | There's also a learning aspect to this. I would be wanting to know why the changes were made, was it fixing a bug or refactoring and why is it better than what was there before? We have this from senior to juniors, going both directions and everyone has something to gain from it. Not a good way to work for multiple reasons | 50 | CSCareerQuestions |
upgdbp | How does it work when the Queen hands out these "titles" or whatever they're called? | It’s been recent tradition for the Queen to grant her younger sons a dukedom on the occasion of their marriage. However, Edward had a connection with his father and had a preference to get the Edinburgh dukedom. It wouldn’t be seemly for him to be granted two separate dukedoms, so Edward and the Queen (and perhaps Charles) reached an agreement wherein he would get the Wessex earldom to honor his marriage and he would be created Duke of Edinburgh when the title became available.
Currently, Charles, as the eldest son, inherited the title Duke of Edinburgh (though it’s never used unless they have a formal need to list all his titles). When Charles becomes king, the tile will “merge with the Crown”, meaning he’ll no longer have it but will have the authorization to recreate it for his youngest brother. | 70 | NoStupidQuestions |
upgdbp | How does it work when the Queen hands out these "titles" or whatever they're called? | [removed] | 50 | NoStupidQuestions |
upge4s | My job is a Software Engineer, Sr. This is a small team. Something happened that I thought was wrong. I had created a PR and asked another developer to review it. They did and made some suggestions so I did some more changes and updated it. Then the next day the other developer made several last-minute changes without telling me that they were doing this. They then merged those changes into the main. I didn't have a chance to review or test their changes. Is that normal? | Have you tried, you know, asking the other developer about this? | 240 | AskProgramming |
upge4s | My job is a Software Engineer, Sr. This is a small team. Something happened that I thought was wrong. I had created a PR and asked another developer to review it. They did and made some suggestions so I did some more changes and updated it. Then the next day the other developer made several last-minute changes without telling me that they were doing this. They then merged those changes into the main. I didn't have a chance to review or test their changes. Is that normal? | Merging code without review isn't normal. It's dangerous.
Contributing to someone else's branch, sure. It's not your code. It's team code. They own it just as much as you do. The concept of "I'm the author, I control this" is kinda toxic. There should maybe be a conversation about whether or not to do this because you want to prevent merge conflicts. Presuming this is git, they can just branch from your code to work on a branch of their own without impacting your workflow. That's a team discussion.
I don't think "you are causing merge conflicts for my commits to my own branch" is the problem here, though, even though it's a valid problem.
I think the problem here is unreviewed code getting merged and the perspective that the author owns it more than the rest of the team. | 130 | AskProgramming |
upge4s | My job is a Software Engineer, Sr. This is a small team. Something happened that I thought was wrong. I had created a PR and asked another developer to review it. They did and made some suggestions so I did some more changes and updated it. Then the next day the other developer made several last-minute changes without telling me that they were doing this. They then merged those changes into the main. I didn't have a chance to review or test their changes. Is that normal? | On one hand y'all seem to have weird process gaps. That's really strange.
But...beware the demon of presuming some kind of silo ownership of code. | 70 | AskProgramming |
upgi9o | I remember a point where reddit was obsessed with how brilliant Elon Musk was and everything he did. Now he seems to be the villain that no one likes. what happened? Was the turning point in 2018, after the rescue of the soccer team suck in the cave in Thailand, where he got mad for not using his robot? | I think opinion has always been split. Depending on where you look, you'll find hero worship and intense hostility. | 34,370 | NoStupidQuestions |
upgi9o | I remember a point where reddit was obsessed with how brilliant Elon Musk was and everything he did. Now he seems to be the villain that no one likes. what happened? Was the turning point in 2018, after the rescue of the soccer team suck in the cave in Thailand, where he got mad for not using his robot? | The "peado guy" tweet did it for me | 21,270 | NoStupidQuestions |
upgi9o | I remember a point where reddit was obsessed with how brilliant Elon Musk was and everything he did. Now he seems to be the villain that no one likes. what happened? Was the turning point in 2018, after the rescue of the soccer team suck in the cave in Thailand, where he got mad for not using his robot? | I was always skeptical, because I don’t trust people who accumulate wealth the way he has. But when I found out about his support for the coup in Bolivia so he could get his hands on their lithium deposits for cheap- that was when I knew he wasn’t a good person. I don’t know why it’s taken this long for everyone else. Well, most everyone. One of my coworkers still worships the ground he walks on because he’s a champion of freedom of speech. Yeah I’m sure having one super rich guy in control of one of the largest social media platforms in the world and deciding what it’s ok to say will be ~great~ for freedom of speech. | 19,090 | NoStupidQuestions |
upgj36 | What's the best food you've ever eaten in a foreign country? | Singaporean laksa in Singapore, Peruvian ceviche in Peru, and Japanese sushi at this specific restaurant at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo. | 70 | AskReddit |
upgj36 | What's the best food you've ever eaten in a foreign country? | Pretty much anything from the Mediterraneans. There is a reason why it's considered the best diet in the world. It's so incredibly refreshing, tasty and healthy for you. | 70 | AskReddit |
upgj36 | What's the best food you've ever eaten in a foreign country? | Hainanese Chicken and Rice from a hawker in Thailand, with an ice cold Singha beer. | 60 | AskReddit |
upgjtp | So I'm gonna start studying computer science later this year. I barely have any knowledge regarding the subject though (it's not a huge problem nor a big disadvantage since studies in Germany are always pretty inclusive for all kinds of knowledge levels).
I feel like a huge issue of making friends is often the lack of things to discuss eventually. It's also easier to learn things when you have others to talk about the thing you learn. So how about we learn programming together and make friends as well? Wouldn't it be pretty cool if we could make friends AND learn programming (even more efficiently if we learned it by ourselves) AND always have a topic at hand (in case we run out of topics etc)? We could even make a lil group chat and do projects or something :) If anyone's interested you can dm me or comment. (All knowledge levels are welcome ofc but I feel like if you know a lot, things might get a bit annoying with noobs. Same goes with the kind of language you wanna look into)
In case anyone wants to join the discord server I just made, here's the link :)
https://discord.gg/Af2vzrBW | I would also like to study computer science in Germany this year and i'm also a noob when it comes to programming. So i would also like to learn it with someone while helping each other or doing some projects together! | 40 | LearnProgramming |
upgkit | I’m sure I should be done with C at this point.
I learnt all of its basics. The statements,strings,arrays,structs and pointers. I learnt it in school, but I can guarantee if I didn’t practice at home I’d suck at it. I want to move on, but I don’t know to where. JavaScript,php, python,c++, Java or c#? I don’t care if it’s a scripting or programming language.
I also in my spare time learned SQL.
What would you pick? I want to learn how to make (simple) games or websites. Some GUI apps too. Sorry for formatting can’t format on iPhone. | It’s less about learning things at this point and more about applying what you learned. Use c for something. Buy a microcontroller demo board like a nucleo and make leds blink. Write a gtk application. Build a cgi module for a web server. Just use what you learned | 40 | LearnProgramming |
upgkit | I’m sure I should be done with C at this point.
I learnt all of its basics. The statements,strings,arrays,structs and pointers. I learnt it in school, but I can guarantee if I didn’t practice at home I’d suck at it. I want to move on, but I don’t know to where. JavaScript,php, python,c++, Java or c#? I don’t care if it’s a scripting or programming language.
I also in my spare time learned SQL.
What would you pick? I want to learn how to make (simple) games or websites. Some GUI apps too. Sorry for formatting can’t format on iPhone. | It's my opinion that once you learn how to program, the language is (mostly) irrelevant. The hard part of writing code is, generally, not the syntax and functions but getting the philosophies, habits and logical constructs to make sense.
If you can write in C then, you can write in Java, Python or C#. The only thing stopping you is finding a project you want to see completed and, picking a language to write it in. The nuances and differences in functional constructs and syntax between most languages, while daunting at first, are all rooted in the same basic foundations. The main difference is just the "way" you get there.
Ultimately the only way to get "good" at any language is to keep using it to solve problems or create improvements to existing solutions.
The question shouldn't be "what language do I learn next?" or, even, "I know X language, how can I use it to solve this problem?"
It should be: "I have a problem, which language is best suited to implementing the optimal solution?" | 30 | LearnProgramming |
upgklg | A Genie offers you 3 wishes but will only grant those that he has never heard before, what do you wish for? | An 11.72 inch peen
$642,343,876
The location of every other genie on Earth | 450 | AskReddit |
upgklg | A Genie offers you 3 wishes but will only grant those that he has never heard before, what do you wish for? | I wish for the earth to be demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass. | 280 | AskReddit |
upgklg | A Genie offers you 3 wishes but will only grant those that he has never heard before, what do you wish for? | One. The ability to fill anything with helium just bun looking at it and humming Feliz Navidad
Two. The ability to instantly know any information about what I want as long as I am singing the name of the thing while doing the Macarena.
Three. A butt plug that changes shape, and vibrates, that is controlled via psychic link however only controlled by one random person who is minimum of 500 miles away. They do not know what they're controlling, they just get an impossible to ignore urge to randomly change settings for something they don't understand.
I'm pretty sure I get all my wishes. | 260 | AskReddit |
upgq4b | Hi, as the title states - a few years ago I attempted a customer care center job at a bank, and a month into the training, I resigned because I couldn't handle what that job required. The job was basically a call center, and I got to the part of the training where they dipped trainees into taking actual customer's calls.
I couldn't handle the workload because of the interactions with the public, and was extremely nervous/terrified when it was a day to do the call training.
Does this mean I wouldn't really be cutout to work in an entry level IT job such as helpdesk and probably should consider another profession? Thank you for the help.
Edit: Just wanted to give my background - 10 years of admin asst experience (8 years military), no IT experience, and just A+ certified | Call center =/= IT
But depending on how hard phone calls are for you, that may be something you need to work on personally for most jobs. | 200 | ITCareerQuestions |
upgq4b | Hi, as the title states - a few years ago I attempted a customer care center job at a bank, and a month into the training, I resigned because I couldn't handle what that job required. The job was basically a call center, and I got to the part of the training where they dipped trainees into taking actual customer's calls.
I couldn't handle the workload because of the interactions with the public, and was extremely nervous/terrified when it was a day to do the call training.
Does this mean I wouldn't really be cutout to work in an entry level IT job such as helpdesk and probably should consider another profession? Thank you for the help.
Edit: Just wanted to give my background - 10 years of admin asst experience (8 years military), no IT experience, and just A+ certified | Customer Service is a big part of IT, whether it's Helpdesk or even In engineering positions. I thought I could escape customer service as I gained more experience and went deeper into backend of things but now my "customers" are other departments and other engineers, so whether it's a war room or I'm sharing new functionalities I've implemented I will still need to be able to communicate clearly with others.
My interactions with others has changed and I don't do it as much anymore but it is still part of the job. IT is technically a customer service field, who our customers are change as we change jobs but we're still doing customer service related work. | 30 | ITCareerQuestions |
upgtqi | Gist: use python to retrieve data from a massive table in postgresql, aggregate it using python and write it back into a new table inside postgresql DB
Context: what I am trying to achieve is fairly straightforward but I would like to understand the individual steps that I need to follow to achieve this. Steps that I think I need to perform to get the ETL process done. Correct me if I'm wrong -
1. Query a large postgresql table (1 billion rows) using pyscopg2
2. Load it into a DF or a dask DF
3. Aggregate data using some dask functions
4. Load data back into a new table in postgresql table
Help that I need:
Unable to retrieve data from the table, kernel gets killed while querying the large table.
How do I employ dask to achieve this, am I even thinking about this correctly?
Andy advice? | Two ways to work with big data like that- either stream it and aggregate in chunks (like map reduce) or do the aggregation on the server entirely (select... Into...) | 40 | LearnPython |
upgu8p | Age
32
Sex
female
Height
5’1
Weight
180
Race
w
Duration of complaint
two days
Location
whole body?
Any existing relevant medical issues
pcos
Current medications
Zyrtec, nasacort, spironolactone
Include a photo if relevant
Description
Dr prescribed nitrofurantoin while I’m currently on spironolactone, a few days in started symptoms of hyperkalemia (headache, lightheaded, stomach pain, heart palpitations, etc.) and overnight nurse on phone call told me to go to the ER. *Eight* hours in and I still have not been seen other than vitals checks, so as the sun comes up I am giving up and going home.
I still have a headache with pressure fatigue and mild symptoms. I have stopped taking the nitrofurantoin, so hoping that will process out of my system entirely in the next couple hours (faster than waiting at the ER at this rate). My question is, if it is hyperkalemia, is that something that once you have it requires treatment? Or will it go away on its own now that I’ve stopped taking the medication that caused it?
Also, can I take something for the headache that will not interact with any of these medications or aggravate potential hyperkalemia? | If spironolactone is for PCOS, you could hold a few doses of this while you finish nitrofurantoin course. Drink plenty of fluids which will help you flush some potassium out. I think if you held spironolactone for 2 days and hydrated then it would likely help with your headache. Stay away from juices and foods high in potassium - orange, carrot, pomegranate - in the meantime. | 70 | AskDocs |
upgxh0 | why is it so hard to find the prices of goods in American supermarkets? | I...don't think it is? Are you having trouble with something specific? | 410 | AskAnAmerican |
upgxh0 | why is it so hard to find the prices of goods in American supermarkets? | It isn't difficult at all. Prices are clearly labeled on the shelves of every supermarket I've ever visited. | 100 | AskAnAmerican |
upgxh0 | why is it so hard to find the prices of goods in American supermarkets? | The only place this happens is some gas stations, never at any supermarkets | 100 | AskAnAmerican |
upgy12 | so i've been learning python through the book called Python crash courseand it's been great until now i've been reading about while loops and i tried the exercise but it didn't work so i went onto the writer's site (he gives us the code to that exercise so we know how it should be done if we don't know how to)and it had the following code
prompt = "\nWhat topping would you like on your pizza?"
prompt += "\nEnter 'quit' when you are finished: "
while True:
topping = input(prompt)
if topping != 'quit':
print(f" I'll add {topping} to your pizza.")
else:
break
but i tried it and it ends up in a infinity loop,
please help what is wrong with this code
update:
so i tried to type my own code and now it doesn't print anything accept quit but if i tried putting in other words it would not print but it will start the loop again
i mean the only thing i can think of is that python is taking it as to print only when input(prompt) is quit but it still doesn't make sense because then it should go to what is after the if statement and not else statement
prompt = "\nWhat topping would you like on your pizza?"
prompt += "\nEnter 'quit' when you are finished: "
active = True
while active:
if input(prompt) == 'quit':
active = False
else:
print(f"I'll add {input(prompt)} to your pizza")
| The code looks fine - have you tried inputting "quit" when the prompt comes up? | 60 | LearnPython |
upgzbl | Whats the best example of 'men not understanding a womans body' that youve ever heard? | That politician that said if a woman gets pregnant after a rape, their body will have a way of "flushing the whole thing out." | 2,530 | AskReddit |
upgzbl | Whats the best example of 'men not understanding a womans body' that youve ever heard? | Men have tried to explain to me that women pee out of their vaginas, that women get looser if they sleep with multiple guys but not if they sleep with the same guy, that child birth feels good for women and makes them orgasm, that women with big boobs have a high body count because she grow every time a woman has sex, and that women can control how much blood comes out on their period | 1,280 | AskReddit |
upgzbl | Whats the best example of 'men not understanding a womans body' that youve ever heard? | Women do not pee out of their vaginas.
This has been a public service announcement | 1,150 | AskReddit |
upgzwy | What is the worst thing that happened to you while traveling? | Sharted on hour 1 of a 4.5 day drive | 150 | AskReddit |
upgzwy | What is the worst thing that happened to you while traveling? | The referee blew the whistle and awarded the basketball to the opposing team. | 120 | AskReddit |
upgzwy | What is the worst thing that happened to you while traveling? | I went out drinking/clubbing with my cousin in Ireland. We had a great time. I met a lot of his friends, tried some new things. I woke up early the next morning for our flight and I had the worst hangover of my life. Traveling hungover for the first time with two flights was the most miserable I’ve ever been | 70 | AskReddit |
uph1df | after an interview, i submitted take-home project for a smaller company yesterday and haven't heard back, that probably means the answer is no? | A day is not very long. The last time I did an assessment and got an interview from it, there was a 4 day delay between when I submitted it and when I was offered an interview.
Yours is the other way around, but I'd still give it a couple of days unless they said otherwise. | 60 | AskProgramming |
uph1ib | Inquiring minds want to know :) | Hey Mickey, by Toni Basil. It's a one hit wonder but it's impossible to listen to it and not have it stuck in your head.
[You have been warned.](https://youtu.be/0aqLwHP4y6Q) | 480 | AskOldPeople |
uph1ib | Inquiring minds want to know :) | I wanna be sedated | 380 | AskOldPeople |
uph1ib | Inquiring minds want to know :) | "Cruel to be Kind," Nick Lowe. The man defines "catchy."
Edit: [Listen to it.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQdxGpV5aV8) I still remember swaying to it behind the steering wheel on the way to work in the late '70s. It's Lowe and Dave Edmunds and his other compatriots from Rockpile. | 320 | AskOldPeople |
uph26e | If every state of the USA declared war against each other, which would win? | No one. We’d all lose. | 210 | AskAnAmerican |
uph26e | If every state of the USA declared war against each other, which would win? | California
They may have setbacks at first but they are basically the US in WWII… unprepared at first but they benefit from the largest population, largest and richest economy, no western flank to worry about, and a solid geographical path to victory.
I see them overwhelming Oregon, Washington, and Hawaii pretty easily then they can expand east (and get Alaska) on their schedule and terms. | 110 | AskAnAmerican |
uph26e | If every state of the USA declared war against each other, which would win? | … god you’d see millions of men that think their ready for the moment this happens , not be ready. | 70 | AskAnAmerican |
uph5gl | What was the last film you saw and what is your review of the film, including a rating out of 10? | Everything Everywhere All At Once. 10/10! So moving, creative and original. I laughed, I cried, I got scared at times, it had a little bit of everything. Please go see it! | 110 | AskReddit |
uph5gl | What was the last film you saw and what is your review of the film, including a rating out of 10? | Dune, 8.5/10 (because it's not complete yet) | 70 | AskReddit |
uph5gl | What was the last film you saw and what is your review of the film, including a rating out of 10? | Doctor strange the new one maybe spoilers here but nothing major. It was just a disappointing movie. I thought that people from other universes would show and stay like they were stuck there. 5/10 | 60 | AskReddit |
uph5ho | Every time I talk to someone about feeling inadequate or not fitting in, people just talk about becoming confident — but how do I actually do that?
I hate the way that I look (probably because my parents nitpick and make comments about it everyday :/ ). Every time I try to post a picture on social media, I overthink it and end up deleting it in a few seconds.
I hate the way that I talk, especially to colleagues and people at uni. I feel like I stutter too much, and I get super nervous during conversations. I don’t think I’m smart enough to properly contribute to most of these discussions either.
People my age are working at really interesting internships. Even if I was able to find a pretty good internship, I was probably a “diversity hire” or they felt bad for me lol. | No one can just become confident, that’s just silly. Gaining confidence and self esteem is a process and you have to WORK at it. It’s not like there’s some magical switch you can flip in your brain that will all of sudden give you confidence.
If you feel self conscious in front of people, identify what it is that’s making you feel that way and address it.
For me it was my weight. I was obese and it caused all sort of mental and physical health problems. I had a big confidence problem and even after losing a bunch of weight, it still took a lot of effort and practice to get comfortable in my own skin.
For you it seems like you have bad conversation skills. It’s not all of a sudden just going to fix itself and it can be REALLY hard to ask friends or colleagues to “help” you practice. If you really want to get better at communication just start going to public places (bars, parks, etc) and just start conversations with people you don’t know and just talk to them. You don’t have to have any goal in mind other than to just have a conversation. Hell you can explain to the person why you’re talking to them if you want to. Just get out there and communicate with people! You will gradually become comfortable as time passes. | 40 | NoStupidQuestions |
uph96d | 28F, 5'2, 100lbs, no pop, no alcohol, no cigs.
Muscular condition called Dermatomyocitis.
I'm looking for any shred of advice on what to do about my current situation. I am sick, every single morning of my life without fail. This is something that has been going on since grade school. Fighting with my mom every single day because I felt too sick to go to school. This continued through middle and high school.
I wake up extremely nauseous, I gag, I dry heave, ocassionally I'll actually throw up bile. I get incredibly hot and sweaty while wretching. My stomach hurts, using the bathroom doesn't make it go away. Was diagnosed with IBS as a kid, but I feel like that's just a blanket diagnosis compared to what's really going on.
This ruins my entire life. I have not had a job in years, the stress and the jobs unwillingness to work with me when I'm not feeling my best. I'm so broke all the time, and lonely and bored. I just want to feel well enough to have a life. I'm too afraid to every sleep over at a friends, or to travel much because I know I'll be sick for hours the next morning.
I am a very skinny and petite person who has struggled my entire life with gaining weight. When I was very ill with my muscular disease I dropped to 65lbs and had to have a feeding tube.
I have seen gastroenterologists and they've done scopes that sometimes indicate ulcers and other times appear totally normal. Telling me it's just IBS and there's nothing they can do. I take zofran right away when I wake up and I immediately try to eat a banana or some applesauce, but nothing helps. I wake up at 5am every day and throw up until 8 or 9 and then lay there feeling exhausted and tired and sick for the better part of the day.
Any advice on how I can try to reclaim my body and my life? I'm reaching a breaking point here. | Long term nausea like this that isn't caused by something you can see with a scope or an X-ray is called "functional nausea." We usually do tests to rule out other stuff: upper scope, solid phase gastric emptying study (to rule out gastroparesis), brain MRI (to rule out increased intracranial pressure). But, in most people, it's all normal, and they're left with a symptom that is often debilitating.
Many people also have symptoms that are part of the same nerve axis (the vasovagal axis) that controls nausea. Low appetite, vomiting, sweating, dizziness, migraines, racing heart rate with changes in position.
We don't know for sure what causes functional nausea, but it's likely a primary problem with the nerves responsible for appetite, nausea, and vomiting - the vagus nerve. So, we often treat it with medications that interact with the this nerve system. Amitriptyline is the first choice. Metoclopramide (not my favorite due to high rate of side effects), cyproheptadine (also increases appetite, which can be helpful), and ondansetron (which you're already taking) are also often used. I've had some success with newer medicines in some patients: prucalopride and granisetron (which comes in a patch, but is very hard to get insurance to pay for unless you're a chemo patient).
Many patients also benefit from other things like cognitive behavioral therapy and a nerve stimulator called IB stim.
It's a very hard problem, and the situation you are in - trouble with employment and functioning and general - is a common consequence of problems like this. I'm so sorry you're dealing with this. I definitely think there are more things to try if you haven't pursued the options above.
One more thing to add: since you have dermatomyositis, you likely need a colonoscopy and maybe even a capsule endoscopy to make sure your GI symptoms aren't from GI involvement of dermatomyositis (it can cause blood vessel inflammation in the GI tract). | 230 | AskDocs |
upha8p | What’s your favourite joke from The Simpsons? | Millhouse is on a speeding school bus and blurts out, “This is just like Speed 2, except we’re on a bus!” That joke makes me laugh to this day | 360 | AskReddit |
upha8p | What’s your favourite joke from The Simpsons? | "Let's see Social security number...000-00-000...2. Damn you Roosevelt. Cause of parents death?...Got in my way." | 320 | AskReddit |
upha8p | What’s your favourite joke from The Simpsons? | “You’ll have to speak up, I’m wearing a towel.” | 310 | AskReddit |
uphaih | In git, and which one should you use | Google dude. Don’t be lazy. | 90 | LearnProgramming |
uphbs4 | Hey everyone, new to python and coding in general, so don't mind me coming across a bit dumb about this, but I have a question, why can't we use the range function for strings in lists? Why is it specific to integers? It's used to specify the number of times a list is looped right? But can't it be done with the break statement aswell? For example:
x = [ 1, 2, 3, 4 5,]
For y in x:
If y == 3:
Break
Print(y)
If we define the value of when it exits the loop in the if condition, wouldn't it be the same as using the range function in this case? Am I missing something? | > Why is it specific to integers?
`range` returns an iterator over integers in sequence between two values (or between zero and a value.) There's no such thing as "the *strings* in between zero and a value" because that's not how strings work. | 30 | LearnPython |
uphclb | I’m an incel, I also believe I’m genuinely a good person. I want to clarify misconceptions about incels. AMA. | Do you realise that by clarifying misconceptions you’re clarifying that those misconceptions don’t apply to you and not that those misconceptions aren’t broadly correct about incels?
You’re revealing yourself and not speaking for a community. | 40 | AMA |
uphcra | If butterscotch and black licorice are considered “grandparent candy”, what will the flavor/food be when your generation grows old? | Nerds and Pop Rocks | 140 | AskReddit |
uphcra | If butterscotch and black licorice are considered “grandparent candy”, what will the flavor/food be when your generation grows old? | Ring pops and candy necklaces. Candy cigarettes. Cocaine. | 100 | AskReddit |
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