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by Test0129 4y ago
> I'm happiest, and most energized, when I'm by myself, at my desk, working on software. Something I've tried to explain to people but it never gets through. Maybe I am unlucky but the last few companies I have been at hav
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by Test0129 4y ago
> In a nutshell, nushell is non-POSIX shell, so most of your regular shells knowledge (zsh, bash, ksh, etc…) can't be applied on it, and using it feels like doing functional programming. Is there a reason some shells like fish (and
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by Test0129 4y ago
> No, I'm just not interested in any "neutral" discussion of human rights. I don't want to read or listen to nationalists, incels, or whoever offering up opinions on the "great replacement theory" or whateve
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by Test0129 4y ago
> I don’t think you should live without news. Being informed and discussing things happening around us is a natural expectation of community. I suggest find a balanced way to consume some so you can be reasonably well informed. Except ev
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by Test0129 4y ago
I haven't had any social media in nearly a decade (actually, probably a decade now). I'm regularly called ill-informed because I don't watch television news and I do my best to avoid any news on the internet. I listen to the
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by Test0129 4y ago
I used to like NPR a lot. I listened every single day on the way to work and back home. It seemed around 2013 or so the agenda became far less neutral and far more one-sided. I haven't really found a source that is truly neutral. Reute
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by Test0129 4y ago
I'm not so much frustrated by a lack of salary ranges in ads as I am about two things: 1. Waiting to figure out salary until the final interview. 2. No mention of CoL adjustments. I don't know what employers expect to gain. Cynica
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by Test0129 4y ago
Do you believe they aren't for some reason? It's not like they release whose buying ads if you ask.
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by Test0129 4y ago
It's not about preventing people from knowing anything about my life. It's about control and threat surface. You can do these things without thinking after a little practice. I would like to present the version of myself I want
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by Test0129 4y ago
This sounds like poor consideration for edge cases - not really a problem with the UI or people clicking through it too fast. Anything that could be interpreted as remotely fatal should've shut the machine down.
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by Test0129 4y ago
You do realize state actors include the IRS, the FBI on a fishing expedition for a crime that occurred near your house, being framed for a crime because you look similar, false DNA matches, etc, right? All of these things are non-zero, and
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by Test0129 4y ago
No. Any password to a bank, or credit card, or whatever dies with me. It's for their own safety. Lest lawyers in some future time come collect a bill that my dead self forgot to pay for. Everything important is either written into a wi
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by Test0129 4y ago
> Don’t put the disabled in the position where the website itself takes extra steps just to be usable for them, old 90 year old grandma Betty with failing vision is never going to figure such things out and saying “lol just figure it out
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by Test0129 4y ago
Or, I could be a developer burdened by developing, marketing, and promoting my product. Unable to afford the time nor the energy to dedicate a large portion of my already limited budget on such things. Fundamentally, you are correct. Practi
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by Test0129 4y ago
> Unfortunately, this palette does not pass WCAG[1], which seems a weird thing to not have tested for if you've made a palette intended for web UI. ...can't you just use an accessibility extension to change the color scheme of
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by Test0129 4y ago
I use nord. Honestly, the community is really centered around it's implementations. Nord makes it SO easy to use their theme almost everywhere. Use Vim? They got you. Emacs? Got you? $EDITOR? Got you. Gnome/XFCE/iterm2/e
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by Test0129 4y ago
Ivy's were one example of the problem. Not of the white minority. As far as I know, ivy leagues do not have a white majority (owing to the legacy membership programs at many of them). However, one article [0] points to this happening i
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by Test0129 4y ago
No, I know neither the doctor will see that, nor will I pay anywhere near that. It wasn't a "complex" visit, though there were a lot of convenience. Medicine consulting, in-house blood work, etc. Sorry for the confusion. I st
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by Test0129 4y ago
> I know HN loves to pretend that racism only affects white people, but it just ain't so. Do you normally just make things up?
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by Test0129 4y ago
The universities have been doing a underhand work around for affirmative action for a long time now. In particular the ivy's have been allowing certain races more leniency on standardized tests and other performance metrics in order to
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by Test0129 4y ago
The F-14 was a fantastic airplane. My favorite of all time (except for MAYBE the A-10, F-4, or the spitfire). Unfortunately, it was too expensive to maintain and didnt perform a role that couldn't be performed by more advanced multi-ro
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by Test0129 4y ago
I dunno, that's the point. Since it only technically requires "reasonable accommodation" it's up to interpretation. "Reasonable accommodation" has been used by ambulance chasers to sink businesses. I'm sur
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by Test0129 4y ago
> Worse, I need to confirm the doctor kept in mind _all_ of this in my treatment plan, because I've had awful reactions when they haven't. I'm not disabled but do have some chronic stuff. A couple decades ago I started car
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by Test0129 4y ago
The ADA is a definitely a case of great idea, terrible execution. Unfortunately, doctors (and really businesses in general) are forced into a no-win situation where as you stated you either comply in the fullest legally, or face a potential
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by Test0129 4y ago
I have a lot of experience with doctors. I've found regardless of what you look like unless you're going to a concierge clinic you wont even get the time of day from most of them. It seems to be a volume business, and thus they ju
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by Test0129 4y ago
They can be used to start an exploit chain on a phone. I’ve seen 0-days personally that root a phone by triggering a drive by download. The other issue is they are unauditable. You have to almost go to the link to discover what is there. Th
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by Test0129 4y ago
> The people in the communities believe in a moral right to having self-diagnosis believed. Having a diagnosis is almost considered a form of privilege reserved for wealthy white males, an observation rooted in scientific evidence of sys
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by Test0129 4y ago
I have a really hard time ordering. After spending time doing security I do not trust QR codes. They make me really, really uncomfortable. To the point I wont eat at a restaurant with them unless someone who is not as paranoid will get the
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by Test0129 4y ago
If you think chemistry is unpaid check out math :P. But seriously, outside of quant work or certified actuaries mathematicians do not make as much as one would think.
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by Test0129 4y ago
> So why don’t we know? To Dr. Rubin, the reason is simple: The clitoris is intimately bound up in female pleasure and orgasm. And until very recently, those themes have not been high on medicine’s priority list, nor considered appropria

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