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by Apreche 4y ago
IMHO ActivityPub the protocol is a a perfectly suitable alternative to other platforms. Not perfect, but good enough that I have no major objections. And the fact that it is currently in the lead makes it an easy choice. Mastodon is current
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by Apreche 4y ago
I just use a real password to unlock the phone, not some lazy 4 digit pin. Yeah, it's a pain on the rare occasion I have to type it, but it's worth it. If I'm in any sort of situation, I disable facetime by pressing the power
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by Apreche 4y ago
The really good features that make VSCode worth using (remote development) are not open source.
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Thanks! I am going to try this out.
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by Apreche 4y ago
XKCD 1357 End thread. Please never open it again. https://xkcd.com/1357/
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by Apreche 4y ago
It is text only, sort of. The ActivityPub protocol is basically just JSON, which is text. It's the Mastodon software that chooses to go above and beyond merely implementing that spec and doing things like fetching and hosting images, m
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by Apreche 4y ago
We already know the answer for this. Making vice illegal doesn't work. It also shouldn't be a crime to do something that only hurts yourself. What does work is banning advertising for vice. We should start by banning gambling and
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by Apreche 4y ago
We know that banning alcohol doesn’t work. We should do what we did for tobacco. Ban advertisements for alcohol. Do the same for other vice. If consenting adults want to engage in vice that doesn’t hurt other people such as gambling, alcoho
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Nah, I'd just stop using it and go to something else.
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I live in NYC.
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If someone wants me to ever go back to an office, I’m going to need the following, at minimum. 1) ALL my co-workers are in that office when I am. There’s no point in going to a place if the rest of the team isn’t there. 2) Compensate me 100
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by Apreche 4y ago
On the one hand yes. Enough already. But on the other hand, no. This is actually a significant technological development that has real implications, positive and negative, for our entire society. It's not some BS nonsense like blockcha
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Maybe it's the cars that are doomed.
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by Apreche 4y ago
Even in these times of many layoffs, I still get recruiters regularly contacting me. It’s mostly because they find my LinkedIn profile. I have the setting configured that I’m not looking right now, and my current job started less than a yea
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by Apreche 4y ago
I have a healthy balance of diligently saving for the future (401k, index funds, bonds) and also living for the present. Human bodies are fragile and the universe is uncaring. That retirement may never come. No use planning beyond that. Whe
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I don’t own a car. That means that most of my transportation, walking and biking, is exercise as a side effect. I also bike indoors and outdoors as intentional exercise.
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I had a very stable job already that I was perfectly happy to stay at. This meant that if I interviewed at other places I could negotiate from a position of extreme strength. So I did exactly that. I interviewed at places and when I reached
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by Apreche 4y ago
I don't know what anyone else is chasing, but I know precisely what my primary goal is. I want to live a life of idle leisure. I'm 20% of the way to my goal now that I only work 4 days (32 hours) a week. It may be that I don'
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If I do indeed have it backwards, that only strengthens the point. Video games are keeping 100%.
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Traditional casinos make a lot of money. Although the odds are heavily in the house's favor, normal casinos do pay out some percentage of the money that is wagered. Most slot machines, over time, keep over 90% of the money that is put
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by Apreche 4y ago
Just drag it to the trash and move on with life. It takes two seconds.
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Looks like someone never heard of Harmy's Despecialized.
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Because the capitalist system we have built demands constant growth. Even a very stable solidly profitable business is no good. A time comes when revenues go down and/or costs go up, that inhibits growth. The companies are so big they
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by Apreche 4y ago
You mean to tell me OP's business was actually shady and deserved to be shut down? surprised_pikachu.jpg
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by Apreche 4y ago
I have a question, which you may not know the answer to, but I'm just asking it to everybody these days. Let's say hypothetically that all the medical providers suddenly all decide to stop being evil. They increase staffing to saf
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by Apreche 4y ago
It's true that it's very rare for US companies to offer more than four. But I've always gotten more than that through negotiation. At my previous job I negotiated to get the maximum amount of PTO, as if I was a senior employe
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There are some places that really do mean it when they say unlimited, but evidence suggests that is rare. Most often when people have "unlimited" PTO what they actually have is anxiety about how much PTO they can get away with. Co
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Invest in yourself. Everyone is in the same boat together. Just be the best you that you can be.
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The only red flag here is you. If your son is in college, he is likely to be at least 18 and therefore an adult in most countries. He is responsible for his own decisions, and is also the one to suffer the consequences. If he was studying a
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https://www.weather.gov/ NOAA is where most of the other US-based weather services are getting their data from anyway. Why go to a secondary source when the primary source is free?

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