Mezzie

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by Mezzie 5mo ago
If you live somewhere long enough and under a negligent enough landlord, you can just do a lot of those upgrades anyway and either take them with you when you leave or just chalk them up to practice for when you own a place. I've lived
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by Mezzie 5mo ago
I consider it a good first step. Of course people reach for individualized solutions first: We (Americans at least) live in a very individualized society. But these individualized solutions still represent a shift in mindset, of people beli
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by Mezzie 5mo ago
> But I haven't thought through this policy well. Maybe there is something this seemingly solution is missing. What about long term immigrants who end up disabled through no fault of their own? Or who get cancer? Or who end up havin
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by Mezzie 5mo ago
And if we don't (like me), I think it can be assumed that we can find out. A basic search tells me they're both ways to speed up applications/projects through memory management and storing of the memory/data in RAM. So t
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by Mezzie 5mo ago
100%. This also creates a sense that people who aren't 'successful' aren't worth listening to. It's actually fascinating to be in a place where my lack of material success is in no way my own fault, and to have that
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by Mezzie 5mo ago
I had to do so once and I found it very unpleasant. I was aware the whole time that I should not be driving. (I was also full of adrenaline and stress, which are confounding factors, but I'd driven under similarly stressed conditions
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by Mezzie 5mo ago
True. It's more yikes about what this says about the technical knowledge in that school.
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by Mezzie 5mo ago
It's not required. I don't know precisely what her district is doing or why - I don't work there But she unprompted brought up that a lot of the minors' PII was in there including SSNs.
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by Mezzie 5mo ago
Oh, it's insane and I recoiled when she mentioned that. But it is 100% happening. People do amazingly stupid things with systems, especially when they don't have enough people with the expertise to set them up properly, so they ju
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by Mezzie 5mo ago
I just spoke with a K-12 teacher I know, and she confirmed SSNs in the Canvas instance. Yikes.
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by Mezzie 5mo ago
There's a couple of reasons this might be. - A fair number of LGBTQ people don't feel represented by either party and so wouldn't answer yes to aligning with either the Dems or the Republicans. More communists, anarchists, th
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by Mezzie 5mo ago
This is the area I wanted to work in before I got sick and ended up being pretty worthless. I have the following questions, in no particular order - I'm writing this comment off the top of my head in stream of consciousness while procr
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by Mezzie 5mo ago
> Are we all going to be really well paid cleaners or something? I work for a corporation that includes cleaning brands and I've got bad news...
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by Mezzie 5mo ago
Yes, I should have said 'in theory ', because there always ends up being compromise and usually that's the thing that's chucked out first. LMSes frankly run like shit. I don't work with Canvas right now, but every
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by Mezzie 5mo ago
This is a lot of it. I used to work in academia and am now an LMS admin (in private industry). I've interviewed for LMS admin positions at educational institutions and each time I've ended up walking away. The questions I was aske
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by Mezzie 5mo ago
I'm an LMS admin and yeah, that sounds about right.
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by Mezzie 5mo ago
LMSes have to balance a lot of directly competing needs. It has to be simple enough for the average person to use (both on the learner side and the instruction side) and have enough complexity to allow for a lot of flexibility in setup be
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by Mezzie 5mo ago
Without an email, the account can't be retrieved if I forget the login information. It's a reminder not to grow too attached to the account and that all things are ephemeral.
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by Mezzie 5mo ago
In my particular case, I'm comfortable saying it's the charter only because I've lived in poorer municipalities with way worse tax bases in the same weather/climate and the roads were better - comparing municipal roads t
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by Mezzie 5mo ago
If you're truly fortunate, you can end up with an expensive chronic but not deadly condition that penalizes you for saving and having assets. Your healthcare isn't an emergency, so if it isn't paid for, you don't get
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by Mezzie 5mo ago
That reminds me of the roads in my city. They're disgusting . The reason is because the city charter mandates they have to take the cheapest bid. Of course the quality is crap and none of the fixes last! Fortunately, we just changed t
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by Mezzie 5mo ago
This is why I don't budget. I'm not immensely financially irresponsible: I make maybe 1/3 to 1/5 what the average person on HN makes (~50k), but I still contribute to my 401k enough to get my match, I could fairly easily
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by Mezzie 6mo ago
Text size control is great for anyone with less than perfect vision. I tend to like reading dense non-fiction and the world seems to think that requires itty bitty text.
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by Mezzie 6mo ago
I read that as an example of how we're seduced into using things - we start small because surely this one small thing won't hurt. And then it becomes one more thing. And one more. It'll start with him using it to change the c
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by Mezzie 6mo ago
> That kind of value based education where parents used to educate kids to be compassionate to each other, to respect each other... No, we used to teach them to hide their cruelties and told them which targets were acceptable. Ask anybod
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by Mezzie 6mo ago
That's what will likely happen. And that's why girls will just accept it. Plenty of harassment is already illegal, and it's still a normal part of life for women and girls. And I agree that giving up that personal information
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by Mezzie 6mo ago
There are broadly speaking two options, neither of which will ever be implemented. What will happen is young girls will learn to accept deep fakes are made of them and it's part of life, in the same way explicit sexual commentary start
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by Mezzie 6mo ago
> Trust in society is failing, and people are not seeing a civilized solution through the usual channels - such as politics. I agree. I think the lack of seeing a way out is a big component of this turn. You bring up politics and that&#x
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by Mezzie 6mo ago
I agree with you. I think such a culture is more likely to arise when you have people who believe in the idea of loyalty but haven't seen it bear fruit in their lives, and who are used to acting within such an organizational framewor
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by Mezzie 6mo ago
Re: Organized crime. Organized crime is also going to escalate as the economic squeeze continues to hit white collar workers. Pumping out a bunch of computer science graduates and rendering them unemployable isn't going to lead to all

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