MrMember

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by MrMember 6y ago
The companies that are actually taking action and doing something are great. Like Humble Bundle has pledge $1M to publish games by black creators. The meaningless press releases where the company/CEO puts out a PR crafted statement are
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by MrMember 6y ago
Have the hospitals in New York collapsed? Has anyone been denied treatment because the hospital couldn't handle it?
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by MrMember 7y ago
I wonder how many people could pass software interviews at the company they work for. How many could do it without studying and preparing for weeks? I doubt I could.
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by MrMember 7y ago
I've always liked this short article written by Krist Novoselic, bassist for Nirvana, about trying to play the bass line to In Bloom in Rock Band 2. https://web.archive.org/web/20090122035037/http://
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by MrMember 7y ago
I work for an airline. Leadership is saying pretty much every day that employee layoffs aren't planned currently but they sound less and less confident about it every time they say it.
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by MrMember 7y ago
What is the average person going to do with an overnight loan?
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by MrMember 7y ago
I had all of the notification options disabled in the app and I was still getting them. I even submitted a support request thinking it was maybe a bug but the response I got back was that it wasn't possible to disable the notifications
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by MrMember 7y ago
I was an Audible subscriber for 5+ years until they started sending ads through push notifications with no way to disable them (media controls are done through the notification system on Android so I didn't want to disable them at the
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by MrMember 7y ago
I had nothing but good experiences with the DMV when I lived in North Dakota. Walk in, no wait, cheerful employees, walk out ten minutes later with a renewed driver's license. Minnesota is the complete opposite. Walk in, wait an hour,
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by MrMember 7y ago
I don't pay too close of attention to it, I'm fortunate enough that I don't have to watch my finances closely. I try to keep as little in my checking account as possible. I have enough in a high yield savings account to proba
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by MrMember 7y ago
Haha, I tried reading Gravity's Rainbow this year and also abandoned it after about that many pages. I had no idea what was going on.
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Librem 5 Price Increase(puri.sm)
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by MrMember 7y ago
The password requirements at my job are, in my opinion, insane. It has to be a specified length (an exact number of characters, no more, no less), can't contain any 3+ character words found in a dictionary, and a few other requirements
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by MrMember 7y ago
Learning about various options strategies was really interesting to me. From just the basic building blocks of call and put options you can construct fairly complex strategies with varying risk profiles.
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by MrMember 7y ago
That doesn't really work in German as the pronoun "sie" changes meaning depending on context. It can mean "she": Sie ist kalt (she is cold). It can mean the plural "they": Sie sind kalt (they are cold). An
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by MrMember 7y ago
I'll never buy another Sony console again after they removed the ability to run Linux on the PS3. It's one of the reasons I bought one and I used it a lot.
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by MrMember 7y ago
That's the future of all internet connected appliances. We're already seeing it with cars, at some point it will be affordable enough to include in TVs, fridges, ovens, anything that might want to phone home.
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by MrMember 7y ago
I'm not certain it's possible to be fired from the DMV. There was a story about a year ago about a woman at the CA DMV that was sleeping on the job four hours a day every day for years. She's still working there.
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by MrMember 7y ago
I wonder how long not connecting it to wifi will be a viable option. I wouldn't be surprised if many devices today still attempt to connect to open networks even if you decline to connect it to your home network. Once cell modems are e
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by MrMember 7y ago
>The problem I have with Stadia is that you need a monthly subscription and also need to pay full price for all games. And I don't have any confidence in Stadia being around for the long term. If I buy a game on Steam I'm fairl
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by MrMember 7y ago
Yep, I think mine was maybe $70 when I bought it six years ago. It works without fail when I boot it up once or twice a month, well worth the money for the lack of hassle.
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by MrMember 7y ago
I'm really excited about a true Linux, non-Android, phone, but how far are we from something that's actually usable? There's Pinephone and Librem 5 on the horizon, but any news about their release comes with a lot of caveats.
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by MrMember 7y ago
Looks like a mistake on my part, I was probably playing around with another parameter and forgot to remove it completely. It runs fine with it there so I never noticed it but it isn't needed.
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by MrMember 7y ago
It's actually really simple! Here's an example: youtube-dl --dateafter now-7days --playlist-end 10 --download-archive '/path/to/folder/downloaded.txt' -o '/path/to/folder/%(ti
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by MrMember 7y ago
I don't even visit the YouTube site that often anymore. I've set up a script to use youtube-dl to download new videos from channels I like on a daily basis.
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by MrMember 7y ago
Politicians will, without a hint of irony, give a speech claiming that "assault weapons" are only useful for murdering crowds of people as quickly as possible, and then introduce legislation that bans them for everyone except the
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by MrMember 7y ago
>The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. The above quote comes from ancient Greece.
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by MrMember 7y ago
It was the same with opting out of the backscatter scanners when they started rolling them out. They had signs up saying you could opt out and instead receive an "enhanced" pat down, but TSA would make a big deal about it. They&#x
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by MrMember 7y ago
Look for places that other people don't want to live. There are plenty of midwestern cities with senior developer jobs paying $100k+ and a low cost of living. My two bedroom condo 20 minutes from the downtown of a major metro area was
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by MrMember 7y ago
My first job out of college I worked through a contracting company. The pay was decent but I didn't get any of the benefits. The company I worked for got a lot of their revenue from the oil industry, and three years after I started oil

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