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2y ago
>Some people even keep them as pets, you know? Weird people.
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2y ago
The transition from "pile everything in a heap" to "if it's not in your wheelie bin it's not getting picked up" happens pretty quickly. Just need the garbage company to specify that in their contract with the m
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2y ago
I like the idea of having a chat program, the issue is that it's horrible to have a bunch of chat programs all integrated into every application you use that are separate and incompatible with each other. I really don't like the
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2y ago
It really sucks that the way to make money through youtube is to constantly adjust your videos to whatever pays best according to the algorithm that shifts and changes.
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2y ago
>I listen to his shows when I'm driving, but just be advised he is long-winded – repeating himself many times about the same thing. I think you've identified why I don't particularly like his videos. His takes are usually
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2y ago
Some places do buyouts to avoid triggering certain laws relating to mass layoffs. There are a bunch of names for buyouts, voluntary exit isn't particularly weird.
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2y ago
>Severance would be there even if you are let go i.e laid off Depends on their employment contract, I don't think it's necessarily guaranteed.
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2y ago
It's cool that printers have this technology, but the flip side is that it actually makes the printers worse at being printers for doing prints.
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2y ago
That seems like it's only data that's self reported by the agencies themselves, I suspect the real number is much, much higher.
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2y ago
>I'm saying "mild" as he was not bedridden, but the cognitive decline was noticeable. I've noticed some of that with family members that have gotten covid, but it's hard to say that it's definitely that as t
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2y ago
>Stuff like this is why I keep printing entrance tickets and the like. I almost got completely screwed by my pixel updating right before a concert while I was already out of town. Luckily my wife was able to login to my computer and forw
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2y ago
>Google 4a user here. They pushed an update while I was on a ski trip in Korea - I updated an hour before getting on my bus and.. the application launcher started crashing on unlock. I couldn't open any apps. I had that happen like
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2y ago
>My least charitable view (and immediate reaction) is that they're purposely ruining a viable budget phone to make more sales. My wife was using a pixel 4 until last year and upgraded to a 7, I took her old phone and switched it ove
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2y ago
> “it will draw faster and use less memory.” Honestly for me it's half that and half liking to have a plain, not distracting, background. I'm not to the point that I'll turn off desktop icons, but I like a plain black back
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2y ago
>People use search engines so differently. It would never occur to me to type anything like this into Google. I would type "New Zealand bank holidays" and expect to find a list (ideally on an official-looking website), and then
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2y ago
>And their AI answered me and gave me an enthusiastic and utterly useless paragraph about how some holidays are sometimes on mondays. The AI summaries are almost universally wrong or incomplete in an important way for everything I'v
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2y ago
>Growing up on a farm here in the US, electric fence wire (I think 14ga, not 8ga) was always useful. My dad will mention number 9 clothesline wire in a similar context. Also baling twine and baling wire are common for farmers for the sam
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2y ago
Reminds me of my dad, he used to always talk about number 9 clothesline wire.
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2y ago
>It’s worthwhile to “go above and beyond” for individuals who will help you, who may exist in a company… but never for the company itself. That feels like the correct way to think about it. Everyone else seems to think it's one extr
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2y ago
>but I find it hard to feel any kind of strong emotion towards Microsoft I use a bunch of their products, but I have a strong negative emotion towards them.
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2y ago
>Wait what, you don't know that you should purchase the brand new Xbox Series XA, and not the Xbox One 720 S ...? Seriously, I have an xbox one and couldn't tell you which model it is, even after looking at pictures of them. I
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2y ago
Pushing undesirable features and products on users like that always ends badly. Pushing AI onto users that use those products for legally protected data is a supremely bad idea. I'll be surprised if they don't get sued.
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2y ago
There is a project that helps the government identify locations in child sex abuse photos, I wonder if a project like this could help.
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>Due to how it looked I assumed it works as a standard four-function calculator, but it was actually storing the whole expression in memory and executing it as per the standard precedence rules. Isn't that how even fairly cheap 
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2y ago
>Which is why quite a few bridges in the US and in Europe are in critical state and collapse from time to time. Bridges aren't comparable to buildings.
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Yeah his weird conspiracy minded followers are clamoring for this stuff and it's easy enough for him to do.
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> There are century-old structures that we can tour, but in another century, there will be no modern buildings still standing. That's ridiculous.
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>I find the idea kind of revolting, but I am also surprised that collaborative writing is so rare. I suspect it's less rare than we think it is, especially if you consider how much editing a lot of editors end up doing.
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This, a lot of people that don't read very deeply just assume there isn't much there and it's just a mary sue self insert story and don't really notice any of the other themes that are going on. There is a lot of good wr
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2y ago
>I’m not sure about the entitlement and anger around someone not producing the entertainment you want in this thread I haven't seen any of that in this thread.
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