JackFr

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by JackFr 4y ago
I think what you mean is many native speakers simply use the word ‘humble’ in its verb form incorrectly. No one is humbled by winning an award, that is, brought low or humiliated. Rather an award is typically an exaltation or celebration. W
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by JackFr 4y ago
I like to walk home from work (about 1.5 hours) once or twice a week, no headphones. I like to be able to live comfortably with my own thoughts for an hour and a half without the need for constant stimulation and I have friends who truly se
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by JackFr 4y ago
Funny - the first time I tried it didn’t catch. Felt ‘meh’ after 1.5 episodes. Then went back and tried again and have watched the entire run twice and consider myself a big fan.
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by JackFr 4y ago
> Is WhatsApp scanning personal messages to target their ads as we are noticing? Three letters...begins with Y
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> which is NOT caused by monetary reasons You simply cannot say that with any certainty. A rise in price level is always precipitated by too much money chasing too few goods. No one would argue that global energy and wheat prices are a
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by JackFr 4y ago
Also heard my 17 yo nephew call a fist bump a 'knuck touch' which I loved and I am trying to repeat.
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If it's delivered at waist level, how is it high?
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by JackFr 4y ago
One of my favorite rituals to watch is certain basketball players shooting technical free throws. Normally with a free throw other players from both teams line the key, and after each free throw they’ll slap hands with their teammates after
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by JackFr 4y ago
> This is different, yes, but how different? IANAL, but I would presume this would be an illegal search and seizure and/or violate the protection against self-incrimination. My understanding is that the cops would need a warrant to
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by JackFr 4y ago
It depends on the industry and the level of the conversation. If you're in a specialized field in which as CTO you are not an expert, and you're speaking with a competitor or at least someone else in the field, a detailed intervi
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by JackFr 4y ago
> The biggest issue really is the tooling. SBT is simply awful. It's like they sat down and said "Maven has a bunch of problems. Let's fix none of them and introduce a few new ones."
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by JackFr 4y ago
Having recently watched the Warhol Diaries on Netflix, I can't help but think of the examples of Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat and think that calls for the death of the artist are premature. The funny thing is tha
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by JackFr 4y ago
My theory is that Russia/China/other-US-military-adversaries certainly cannot rewrite the laws of physics. But they might have gotten awful good at spoofing advanced sensors.
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> the brand he built his career Doesn’t speak well for the work frankly. Why can’t his poetry speak for itself? Why is it only good when we know the backstory? The emperor has no clothes. His work is simplistic and the gravitas is fake.
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by JackFr 4y ago
Well they do also have a columnar product SybaseIQ that actually has some adoption. But if that was ASE, their SQL server that would be the first I’d heard of in like 15 years.
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It’s not about being mean. It’s the poems. They’re not good poems.
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They also own Sybase. (For those who don’t know Sybase supports an SQL implementation which is seemingly used nowhere except sales and trading for Wall Street banks, who largely adopted it in the 90’s and have been slow to move off. MS SQL
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by JackFr 4y ago
Maybe I’m missing the point of this piece, but it’s probably because I’m still reeling from the author’s idea that adding “say()” which is “print()” with a newline added, is somehow an improvement to the language.
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by JackFr 4y ago
I’m sympathetic to this argument to some extent… And yet… Just choose to read a book. Drop Facebook. Stop reading Twitter and scrolling through TikTok. I’ve come to believe it’s really that simple. Or don’t. Totally up to you. But the id
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by JackFr 4y ago
16K for mutual non-disparagement isn't a serious offer. That's likely less than a month's salary for this guy. The message is they don't really care what he blabs about.
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by JackFr 4y ago
I’ll go one better - pay they rat catchers per rat so they start breeding them.
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Is that from the hospital side or the insurer side?
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I think that's hospitals not insurers.
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by JackFr 4y ago
As a parent who has paid full freight for two children, I’m happy to have saved and I’m happy to command a salary that makes me ineligible for most aid. That being said, I do not own a house, I do not own a car and while my 401k is reasonab
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That's not true.
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The grey tells me you're being downvoted, but I couldn't agree more. That being said, were this actually painted by a human it would display a high level of technical competence with brushes and paints.
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by JackFr 4y ago
The level of self-perceived vs. actual competence in the crypto space never ceases to amaze. A mea culpa of “The one thing we purport to be good at we actually have literally no understanding of and when shit doesn’t work we just run it a f
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by JackFr 4y ago
> But you can't just let the data "speak for itself" without an explanation or a theory that interprets the data. If you look at the heart attack data, and you ignore smoking you end up inventing the mythical Type A person
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Wiki means quick in Hawaiian. In English it refers to a website who’s content is user-editable.
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I've been complaining for years about WikiLeaks not being a wiki -- no one wants to listen....

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