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by asciimov 4y ago
Lord I know... I think about that sometimes, then I wonder if we get the same great deal on our military spending that we do on our healthcare.
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by asciimov 4y ago
I’d happily pay more US taxes if it was used to fund healthcare, infrastructure, and had better human (worker) rights.
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by asciimov 4y ago
10 years sounds about right. Been that way for decades too. I remember people in the early 90's complaining how Austin had changed since the 70's. It's the one constant to that town.
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by asciimov 4y ago
I can tell you how it will go. "All these people have irrevocably destroyed [my] Austin. Costs are up, too many people, what I liked about it isn't the way it is anymore."
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by asciimov 4y ago
> Why do we keep considering a return to the office so negatively? The office is a completely negative place for many people. Just read around here and empathize with others experiences. Working from home I can make my work environment f
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by asciimov 4y ago
Basically different publications have different style guides or templates. Some places you do the type setting, others do it for you. Eventually the text ends up as a pdf, and then that is marked up for corrections, revised, and approved fo
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by asciimov 4y ago
First Microsoft Word is the standard for industry. Everything you submit can be submitted by doc files. Revision history, track changes, sharing, autosave backup, etc are all included into Word these days (with a corporate office sub anyway
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by asciimov 4y ago
Industry standard is Word Documents, EVERYBODY accepts doc files. (Unless you are doing layouts then it can be a handful of other tools)
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by asciimov 4y ago
> Why is someone working in research publication not using a typesetting engine like tex? Research Publications is more than just Academia. The de facto standard in industry is Microsoft Word. Everyone accepts word docs and expects to re
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by asciimov 4y ago
If you want to be absolutely infuriated at the current state of technology, watch and listen to someone who uses a word processor all day for their job. My partner is in research publications, so much of their daily workflow could be improv
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by asciimov 4y ago
Not op but I’ve got 25 years of daily computer use under me. I’m tired of having to read manuals and try to figure out the latest popular app. Software should be better these days, more intuitive to use, more interoperability between applic
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by asciimov 4y ago
Neat, I haven't water colored since I was a child, maybe I should try it again. Now to find a tutorial on how to art. Perhaps there is a book on it, like "How to Art with Watercolor" or "Teach yourself to Watercolor in 2
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by asciimov 4y ago
Dang, I'm gonna have to try that soon, after I'm done packing, moving, and unpacking...
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by asciimov 4y ago
> How can this be bad or a footgun? You are coming from the side of someone who already has a a well planned algorithm that doesn't get stuck in infinite looping or end up diving too deep. My concern was for those without a well pla
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by asciimov 4y ago
Once you've watched an episode or two of the Property Brothers, you have really seen them all. Their style, along with the rest of the HGTV style, is starting to look tired and dated.
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by asciimov 4y ago
My partner absolutely adores House Flipper a game where you clean up, repair, and decorate derelict houses. She, like the people in this article, really loves this style of game because there is no direct competition. Sure there are tasks t
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by asciimov 4y ago
After thinking about this for a bit, the decision to avoid including this functionality is probably for the best. Even though I would love for this feature to exist, I can see people unintentionally shooting themselves in the foot and not u
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by asciimov 4y ago
The utility would be in the computational space, particularly when solving a problem functionally.
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by asciimov 4y ago
Articles like these always seem to come from people that already have good luck. As there is a high level of survivorship bias from these people, I'd prefer an article from someone who has actually changed their luck. Perhaps an articl
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by asciimov 4y ago
Back in the bad old days, when I had an ink jet in college, cost per printed page was easily in the dollars possibly even as high as fives of dollars per page. Later in college, I bought a used laserjet from the university surplus sale for
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by asciimov 4y ago
How?
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by asciimov 4y ago
If we were getting good value for our dollar I would agree that we are spending too much. Even though we spend the most out of any country on things like medical care and our military, we aren't getting a good return on investment. Lar
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by asciimov 4y ago
Our administrative capacity is in decline by design. The American people were long ago sold on the idea that the government was just too big and their lives would be better if less of their tax dollars went to fund all this unnecessary gove
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by asciimov 4y ago
The Old New Thing and Dave's Garage (on youtube) have helped me develop an appreciation for the decisions made in Windows development, kinda wish we had this kind of stuff from the Mac and Linux side of things.
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by asciimov 4y ago
This is antithetical to the whole idea of crypto. I have to trust the bill is valid and that the person passing along the bill is honest. There is no central authority who will go after those that make counterfeit bills, like the FBI. There
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by asciimov 4y ago
I honestly would love to see Nintendo have a direct competitor again. Another company that isn't chasing resolution and fps counts, but focusing on family and group gaming.
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by asciimov 4y ago
This doesn't give me nostalgia as much as it reminds me of the huge headaches of PC gaming during the late 90's. IRQ's, sound card settings that didn't always work, boot discs, not to mention verifying ownership with a c
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by asciimov 4y ago
I spent a few years as a RSE in the mid-2010's. Supporting people doing actual science is a rewarding job. The worst parts of that job are the same for every body in research that isn't a PI pulling in lots of grant money: low pay
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by asciimov 4y ago
> I don't understand why so many people are afraid of arbitration either. Two reasons: 1. People hear that arbitration favors the company not the individual, as such they think they are already set up to loose. 2. People aren't
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by asciimov 4y ago
Used to be a thing, it's such a sellers market right now that in my area (Texas) the sellers aren't including it anymore.

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