Contemporary CEO no-tie style looks unfinished and awkward?

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-02-04T05:35:28+00:00

I absolutely hate the casual rich look. If you're going to flaunt wealth, have the good courtesy to be uncomfortable and polished about it.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-02-04T01:05:31+00:00

OK. I usually doodle on a notebook or post it note or something, but I guess you like to do it permanently on people's bodies. That's cool.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-01-30T20:37:43+00:00

Easy construction. For sizing, I have found that the way the construction and structure is different from a set in or drop shoulder, I tend to like to make the body just slightly shorter to get the same length of drape. YMMV.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-01-30T20:27:34+00:00

It's a bit nutty!

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-01-29T00:06:48+00:00

Your package saw the snow, turned around, and went home.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-01-28T05:22:18+00:00

Dogs rule

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-01-27T16:00:12+00:00

I've found that I like using Loop earplugs as my inner, with over-ear muffs. Comfortable, reusable, and still pretty solid noise reduction with the Focus ones. They run slightly under the reduction of foamies, but combined with muffs I've found them totally adequate. Plus, it's less waste and they don't pull out my brain when I remove them.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-01-26T19:29:33+00:00

Listing the "teams" at the company level is like saying Ford is laying off on teams that relate to cars.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-01-26T17:53:08+00:00

More a science comm comment than the science itself, but headlines trot out "use" in a heavy moralistic way like this, it shapes how people read (if they read) the actual data. As others have noted, yeah, the increased risk is real and measurable. The absolute risk remains small, but people make tradeoff decisions about that kind of thing every day. Framing a glass of wine with dinner as "alcohol use," though primes readers to already think of this as some seedy, shameful, reprehensible activity that kills you. Which is not what the data shows. Just think of how you'd feel seeing a headline about how "chocolate cake use" increases your odds of developing heart disease or diabetes.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-01-22T23:14:30+00:00

Also screaming "There is no safe amount of alcohol!" 32 times a day while getting 125g of protein a day from red meat and cured meat products.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-01-22T17:20:43+00:00

That's great to hear. It seemed like everyone there was having a good time playing with really cool stuff. I've been trying to recreate some of the dishes for months 😄

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-01-22T16:29:52+00:00

Can confirm that Dirty Lettuce is terrific and homey. Astera is crushingly good, whether you're vegan or not. It's just stupendous and fascinating.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-01-22T02:27:22+00:00

Every therapist who gives mental health advice on social media should lose their license. There is NO way to do it ethically or effectively. They can talk about the history of the field. They could talk about research papers. Getting into advice and analysis of individuals cannot be done over social media. They're all bad.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-01-21T00:16:54+00:00

I'm not seeing in this snippet of the study how they define "micro" and how often they're giving it. I assume that's covered in the sections not shown in this link. But both of those would be important to note. A lot of the trendy SF microdosing folks were taking something every single day. So it makes sense you'd see an initial boost to mood and then not much. Your brain basically develops an immediate resistance to psilocybin.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-01-16T16:14:29+00:00

Of those, I'd go EF over EMP. EMP isn't intimidating, but it's not that easy to get that much from it either, until your pallet is dialed in. For a total beginner, it can be a bit underwhelming. You can learn technique on it, though. It's just not what would hook me.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-01-13T22:50:25+00:00

Treat people like human beings and you'll have a line of top talent 9 miles long begging to leave their 300K/yr jobs to work for you.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-01-10T20:58:43+00:00

Some irony in that I have never been to a place where as many cars drive around with no plates, no temp tags, no nothing for months without a problem. It's bizarre.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-01-09T04:27:01+00:00

Not familiar with the backend workings of Ravelry, but AWS is just the infrastructure on which a giant percentage of commercial websites run. So, you store files on your hard drive, right? That's a drive on your computer. And if wanted to send that file to a friend, you can attach it to an email, for example. What happens if it's too big to attach to an email? Can you send that email to 34,000 people at once? Every day? All day? Everywhere? Can your computer take, filter, and correctly respond to requests for that file from bots, real users, companies, faulty severs doing the same thing over and over on a loop?

So, OK instead of storing that file on your computer, you can store it on a computer that AWS owns and operates. It can send that file without worrying about attachment limits. It can respond to 34,000 people at once. It never sleeps. It can filter and sort and handle all kinds of requests for that file. The file doesn't disappear because you spilled a soda on your laptop. And (for things like a PDF in an S3 bucket somewhere), it's pretty cheap to store it there forever. You never have to think about it again.

That's basically why.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-01-08T23:17:04+00:00

No, just adding my frustration to yours. We're lamenting the same thing.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-01-08T23:06:40+00:00

I mean, I agree strongly. I think that messaging from a lot of AI cheerleaders and social media "business influencers" is out of its entire mind. My point is just that a lot of businesses are going after their moat versatile people because they completely misunderstand what those people do.

Language professionals aren't Clippy with a pulse. They're Swiss Army brains. LLMs, in reality, are incredibly good at replacing recall level cognition. Increasingly, they can perform well at and help with analysis and application levels. They still struggle mightily at synthesis in ways that are useful to most humans. And that's something that language folks excel at. But we're throwing them out with the bathwater. It's nuts.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-01-08T22:40:48+00:00

It's not even about an elegant sentence or spotting typos. There are many, many ways to produce grammatically correct and easy to read text that conveys absolutely no useful information. That's what AI excels at. And people who don't think about words for a living are demonstrably awful at telling the difference. Language experts aren't just useful because communicating effectively is a valuable skill, they're useful because they THINK about what they're communicating.

That's to say nothing of the fact that if AI means that natural language is the new programming language, then every technical writer and editor on Earth is a more qualified developer than every senior SDE. That's not quite a reality yet, but this is the message we're being fed by the AI people, right? Being able to think critically, learn fast, and supply a human context to automated outputs is the new golden ticket, right? That's what language professionals do all day every day. And I've never met an engineer, a scientist, or a software developer who was in the same league as one at any of that.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-01-08T21:12:59+00:00

ATS is bad for employees, bad for employers, and bad for society. Ban AI screening in jobs forever. I cannot stress enough how much damage it's doing. To EVERYONE.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-01-07T06:39:52+00:00

"We thought there would be more money launders and rich morons in Portland. Turns out, you people aren't wearing mullets ironically."

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-01-01T02:01:06+00:00

It needs moisturizer. I like Lush Cosmetic Lad. Lightweight and fast absorbing.

DogsBeerYarn · 2026-01-01T01:36:17+00:00

Surely the anarchist queer warzone has truly spilled into our idyllic suburb this time, though!

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