Mezzie

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by Mezzie 5y ago
Early Google set themselves apart with the user experience. For example, Google Search's homepage's simplicity was astonishing at the time; a direct inverse of the bloated pages most of their competitors at the time favored (Yahoo
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I have a use case for turning it off: I'm in the middle of trying to create a taxonomy of our unwieldly internal documentation (which exists, to my despair, mostly in Google Workspace Apps). Part of this is recreating how other employ
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Yeah, one of the few benefits to getting MS is like... what are they going to do, ruin my library career? My body did that when it decided to chew holes in my nervous system. It's very hard, sometimes I kind of feel like I'm watch
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by Mezzie 5y ago
In context, post-modern archival theory makes sense. You just have to read it in context (that of the archival profession wrestling with their moral complicity in supporting some terrible governments in the mid 20th century) and contrast i
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by Mezzie 5y ago
There's been a huge culture shift since 05-06. I started working in libraries in 2004, and what you're describing is more or less accurate until the mid-10s. That's when things started to shift. There's still a cohort th
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Agreed. The way the profession presents itself and the way librarians actually act are very at odds. Academic librarians are in full on social justice mode, to the point where I wouldn't be comfortable writing the paper I wrote in 2015
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I'm curious who it's going to be and what field his successor will come from. As a coder/developer with an MLIS + a decade of library experience, in my experience there aren't that many people who grok both the tech and
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I did as well! I also shared a lot of crazy driving cities online.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
And if you do understand both, nobody believes you/they spend their time undermining you. The problem is that a lot of technical people won't listen to anybody who didn't work in their precise subfield for X years, and the no
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Nope. It's not possible logistically or politically. Assuming we're talking about the USA, any such body would likely end up as a federal agency, which means it would turn into a political football whenever administrations change
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by Mezzie 5y ago
In my experience, once you've studied a language for a while/to a certain level of competency, it's like riding a bike. I haven't studied French or Chinese for over a decade, but I can still (for example) read an article
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by Mezzie 5y ago
French was more useful to me. Our state shares a border with Canada and my own extended family on my mom's side is Quebecois. Or for speaking with sub-populations, Arabic would probably be the most useful here. US =/= California a
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I'm double-vaccinated, I'm just not boosted. (I'm similar to someone else in this thread in that I was waiting for more information before getting boosted and caught Omicron first). I think boosters are a good idea for the ge
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I'm curious what you think of situations like mine: I have MS, and I'm not sure that frequently boosting my immune system when I have an autoimmune disease is the best idea. In addition, I'm in a single-income WFH household a
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I was one of those humans, and it's more that the algorithms were initially designed under the assumption that we would keep doing that work for free, forever, but once the communities we were doing it for were destroyed, why bother? A
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I mean, the primary question is: "Does it meet its use case?" Now, this does include the uses of the developers working on it throughout its lifestyle, but what makes code 'good' when it comes to a bank's system vs.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Actually, given my first few doses always feel great, it probably isn't nocebo. If anything, perhaps the initial 'good' dose might be placebo (placebic?) in nature.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Yup. I have a prescription for modafinil, but I only use it when desperate times call for desperate measures. (Like having to lead a session but I'm having a terrible pain day). I know whenever I use it I'm going to pay for it lat
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I think it's because of the long half-life: it's about 15 hours. I have over half a bottle from when I was prescribed it (for MS fatigue) and I can definitely still feel in my system after a day. And yeah, if I take it more than,
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by Mezzie 5y ago
"tl;dr" was around when I hung out on LiveJournal, so definitely pre-2010. This would have been around '01-'06.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
This is very interesting to me because I'm the reverse of you: I'm a female who is more drawn to the male version of friendship. I don't want friendships that revolve around emotional support and intimacy; I want friendships
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by Mezzie 5y ago
As somebody who discovered how effective this was by accident in university (I studied 6 natural languages which is all memorization, so this strategy was key to not going insane), I would use this to, for example: * Memorize keyboard short
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by Mezzie 5y ago
"No Man's Sky" is a fascinating example. I was really worried that was going to be a repeat of Spore.
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I don't completely agree with him, but I interpreted him as saying: Deconstruction is often employed in intellectually dishonest (or lazy) ways to discredit concepts by creating/employing tenuous links between a concept and its so
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Yeah, but don't beat yourself up. That line can be really hard to find depending on your circumstances. For instance, I WFH and make my own hours, so there's not really a time of day I CAN'T be fucked up. This is also the fir
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by Mezzie 5y ago
> The amount of calls that come to the helpdesks around the world, that are caused by people not knowing anything about Word/Excel is astounding. Haha, never go work in a public library or at a school/college, especially in a p
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Yup. I did a Linguistics degree, so this was a great blast from the past. I got so far as picking out the symbols that were clearly morphological in meaning rather than phonological, then realized I couldn't remember the rest of the co
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by Mezzie 5y ago
Another MSer here and weed has never made me bang my head on the table because I kept mixing up words during the last meeting. That's all MS.
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In my case, I use drugs because I have MS and if I didn't, the only signals I ever get from my body are constant pain. Some occasional drug use reminds me that my body doesn't exist solely to hurt me, that I can still experience p
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by Mezzie 5y ago
I also went really hard this last year and am currently pulling back on my usage. I don't regret it. Now I know what all the danger signs are and I can recognize them in the future.

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