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by adriand 4y ago
It sounds like what you're experiencing is a sense of freely-chosen duty to the company, rather than that duty being taken for granted. It's perfectly okay to choose to feel duty to your employer. A company can earn your respect
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by adriand 4y ago
This also tends to be my view because improvisation is what I enjoy doing musically the most, but my daughter (12 yo) takes piano lessons which are quite typical in their structure (Conservatory) and has no interest in improvisation, and in
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by adriand 4y ago
> Reminds me that when I was a kid you could travel to / from Canada without a passport I assume you mean the era of your childhood, but, Canadian and American children can go back and forth between the US and Canada without passpor
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by adriand 4y ago
Fascinating story that is also rather terrifying considering the steady decrease in the efficacy of antibiotics. Antibiotics are arguably the most important medical invention ever, and yet we use them so haphazardly and at such scale that w
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by adriand 4y ago
I’ve been using it regularly for programming assistance over the past two weeks and it’s extremely helpful. Others have pointed out that it sometimes produces inaccurate results, but if you already have domain expertise, as I do for program
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Ontario computer repair shops accessed customers’ data, women affected most(theglobeandmail.com)
11 points by adriand 4y ago|3 comments
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by adriand 4y ago
I had a similar experience, although it's going back a few years now. I'd always wanted to learn Spanish and one year my wife and I were going to Spain in the fall, and then three or four months later we were going to a country in
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by adriand 4y ago
This argument, which the creator of the tool also uses, strikes me as essentially, “I’m going to harm you to show you that there is potential for you to be harmed”. To make a crude analogy, what if I punched you in the face to demonstrate t
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by adriand 4y ago
Do :sp and :vsp work?
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by adriand 4y ago
Fair enough, and I’m glad you’re getting value out of the experience. But I’m talking about the broader culture. Where is it, and where is it going? It seems to me like it’s moved on, and that the things you like about Mastodon are niche. T
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by adriand 4y ago
I honestly wonder if these various social networks / Twitter clones are solutions in search of a problem. Do most people really care to comunícate with each other in this manner any more? What’s the point? It seems to me (anecdotal, so
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by adriand 4y ago
Regardless of how you feel about crypto - and I admit to seeing some valuable use-cases, while being highly skeptical of the speculation - you gotta admit that these comments are prescient and also very funny. I sincerely hope I have that p
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by adriand 4y ago
Why doesn’t this process lead to much faster natural spread of plant life into more northern climates? Isn’t the process of “planting” seeds a bit further away exactly how any seed-producing plant spreads? Or is it just that humans are able
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by adriand 4y ago
What's your take on this for the NFT market more generally?
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It's somewhat amusing to read this criticism on a website primarily populated by people in the software industry, which is hardly a paragon of accurate estimation and forecasting. Proportionate excesses (i.e. 10X over-budget) may not b
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by adriand 4y ago
It's SaaS, hardly an unfamiliar concept! Our TMS uses at least a dozen services that work the same way. But to echo what other people in this thread have said: Stedi is a total game-changer. Their platform is outstanding and their supp
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by adriand 4y ago
I feel like for people with the means to have one of these, having the plebeians pass through your car is a feature, not a bug.
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So the problem you have with it is the UI?
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If I use Photoshop to create an image that is identical to a registered trademark, is the rights violation my fault or Adobe’s fault?
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by adriand 4y ago
> I have never had any of the issues described in this article Really? Because a telephone call is, by definition, between at least two people. And even if you have your shit sorted out, I find it surprising that every one of your contac
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by adriand 4y ago
I’m not offended by your viewpoint, I think many people share it (although “rather shabby” is a gross understatement of what took place). But take a moment to reflect on a couple of things: 1) You used the word “primitive” to describe these
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by adriand 4y ago
> Also assuming that any advanced civilization that exists would have to follow our development path is laughably anthropocentric and reflects a failure of imagination on the part of the people making said claims. That's a great poi
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> I think the odds of a planet developing life by random chance in the first place is astronomical, and then the odds of that developing into intelligent life - that happens to have the necessary appendages to build things and lives in a
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by adriand 4y ago
I also think it is easier to use, period. I've used Ruby professionally since the Rails 1 days, and still program in it most days. A couple of years ago, while working at an AI company, I helped out on an ML project due to a time crunc
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by adriand 4y ago
Yes, of course. The claim that all keys sound the same is neither objectively nor subjectively true. Objectively, the root notes are at different frequencies, and the other notes similarly feature a unique combination of frequencies. Subjec
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by adriand 4y ago
I mean like all the stuff that displays in and around the code, that isn’t the code itself. For example warnings, hints, etc. An obvious example of something you can’t do in Neovim is display information in a smaller font. Generally speakin
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by adriand 4y ago
I use Neovim all the time but although I do have some linters installed I find all the fancy stuff so much worse than in a more visually appealing editor. I love vim and I do have a lot of affection for the terminal but things get extremely
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Researchers Report a Staggering Decline in Wildlife. Here’s How to Understand It(nytimes.com)
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This is great advice. One of the things I learned from the pandemic experience was how little money I needed to spend to be happy. I spent countless hours making music using iOS apps that cost next to nothing. The possession that’s given me
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You can also find vegan sources of these nutrients, such as algae oil, which keeps you from contributing to the devastation of the oceans - not to mention protecting you from being poisoned by mercury and microplastics.

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