BlameKaneda

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by BlameKaneda 5y ago
Not sure how "mostly unknown" these are, but I use: Work (Macbook) : - Coca: Keeps the screen on and bypasses the "screen lock after X minutes" thing that IT had set up. It's a quality of life adjustment when I&#x2
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by BlameKaneda 5y ago
I used to be able to do this thing to where if I kept perfectly still, I'd "stare" (with eyes closed) into the nothingness---by that I mean I'd be staring into the backs of my eyelids---and there'd be a point in whi
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by BlameKaneda 5y ago
Has the author ever worked with an IT person before? As far as I'm concerned, they're living in an alternate reality. I used to work at a non-tech company and if the IT department disappeared overnight, we would've been screw
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by BlameKaneda 5y ago
*Phone:* Galaxy S21 that I got very recently. It's styled with KLWP and makes the interface look Cyberpunk-ish. *Laptop:* Macbook Pro that I use for work. Its touch bar is nice to have, but not necessary. *PC:* Windows PC that I built
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by BlameKaneda 5y ago
> Talking to someone who was super-happy working 180% in three jobs because it allowed her to send all her three sons to college and because three jobs were less boring than one If she is, indeed, super-happy working at all three jobs,
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by BlameKaneda 5y ago
*Brooker
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by BlameKaneda 5y ago
I can imagine Charlie Brooke frantically taking notes for the next season of Black Mirror.
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by BlameKaneda 5y ago
> How did you first get into programming? I wanted to know HOW someone could take a bunch of text and turn it into a website. I didn't know if any dragging and dropping of text and boxes was involved, or if it was some other kind of
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by BlameKaneda 5y ago
If you join as an engineer it seems that getting on a decent team is a gamble. You could end up with great people, or with people who'll make you miserable. Needless to say, I'd rather look at other FAANG options.
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by BlameKaneda 5y ago
I know of someone who was a practicing cardiologist (or a cardiothoracic surgeon, can't remember which) in her home country, but after she immigrated to the US she had to take on odd jobs. Studying and taking US qualifications would&#x
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by BlameKaneda 5y ago
Thinking back, this is what my favorite podcasts have in common: - Research has been done on the guest, their work, the subject, etc. - The interviewer asks interesting questions that the guest likely hadn't heard before. For instance,
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by BlameKaneda 5y ago
> What do we do at airports? We kill time. And there are few better and more productive ways of killing time than logging on to the Web...It should be everywhere, and it should be free. As long as the airports continue to make a killing
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by BlameKaneda 5y ago
To use an example, I'd much rather do $(".elements").css("color", "red") versus var selector = document.getElementsByClassName('elements'); selector.style.color = 'red';
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by BlameKaneda 5y ago
jQuery is still my bread and butter for DOM manipulation and events. I've found it to be much more readable than vanilla JS.
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by BlameKaneda 5y ago
About 9 years ago I attended a college Q&A session, and I was the only one in the group who was currently at a community college (the rest were HS juniors and seniors). The community college route was brought up (with my name specifical
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by BlameKaneda 5y ago
It's interesting to me that kangaroo meat is banned in California but it's legal in Australia. Speaking of, Kangatarianism is a "recent practice of following a diet that cuts out meat except kangaroo on environmental and ethi
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by BlameKaneda 5y ago
> I also met some wealthy people who didn't talk like that...I learned that some actually earned their way there. They grew up poor, worked hard, went to school, worked harder, had some luck by being in the right place at the right
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by BlameKaneda 5y ago
When I saw the title I pronounced it as "NON-nah-tiv" (like "normative"), and didn't realize it was non-native until your comment.
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by BlameKaneda 5y ago
On my college campus there was an administrative building that the students rarely went into, and it contained a bathroom that I frequented. It was a private bathroom (one occupant at a time), contained paper towels (the public bathrooms ha
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by BlameKaneda 5y ago
Depends on what you're into. Articles: - This site - https://sadlunchbreak.com/ Quizzes: - Sporcle: https://www.sporcle.com/ - Geoguessr: https://www.geoguessr.com/ (1 quiz per day if
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by BlameKaneda 5y ago
> He goes by Alex C. Lee on Quora, and he told me that he took the test twice and scored 96 and 98. (One hundred is dead average on many tests.)...Teachers and parents get impatient, Lee explains, and even use epithets; moreover, a tende
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by BlameKaneda 5y ago
My parents tend to have the news in the background for hours at a time, and I pointed out that watching a 24 hour news cycle didn't do much good for one's anxiety. They said that they were staying "in the loop" and I had
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by BlameKaneda 5y ago
"Programming is Chaos, Art and Science. It is a curse, a blessing, and progress. It all depends on who uses programming, how they use it, and to what purpose. And code is everywhere. All around us. Easily accessible. It is enough to st
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by BlameKaneda 5y ago
A few questions, since I'm curious: - Is there a minimum amount of ToDos that a user would have to complete in order to not get charged? - Would there be a ToDo vetting process? If a user said they completed 20 ToDos but they all invol
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by BlameKaneda 5y ago
At first I wondered why ItemFix was hosting videos---based on the name alone, it sounded like a home improvement site.
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by BlameKaneda 5y ago
I own a Sony WH-1000XM3, and although I primarily use it for music listening and noise cancelling I use it for all of my video calls. I've looked at a few reviews that are so-so on the microphone, but on the occasion that I ask people
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by BlameKaneda 5y ago
There have been many interests that I've had, and hobbies that I've partaken in, that I've stopped exploring for whatever reason. For a while I used to see this as a bad thing. However, everything that I've explored has
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by BlameKaneda 5y ago
I use VS Code and primarily use JS, jQuery, webpack, and SASS. I like having two projects open in the same VS Code window (the project I'm working on and a past project I'm referencing), and it would be nice if I could use two dif
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by BlameKaneda 6y ago
I'm unable to get #13, `<mark>`, to work, as in the tags are appearing in line with the text: To be <mark>continued…</mark> I'm really liking these tips, but can someone test if all/most of them are wor
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by BlameKaneda 6y ago
I've had an S8 for two years. For a phone that's four years old, it's by far the best and most performant one I've had. Past phones I've had seemed to slow down noticeably, but with the S8 you barely notice it at al

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