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by baroomba 7y ago
I don’t know why the US government is entertaining a game of whack-a-mole here. Just make more than X reports per customer per year of connecting scam calls an instant non-trivial fine for the phone service provider, where X is some small v
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by baroomba 7y ago
Software developers continuing, after all these years, to dismiss any kind of creative work with a computer that isn’t typing, is crazy. I’d take an iPad over a laptop or desktop computer for lots of creative work, if I could only have one
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by baroomba 7y ago
I've definitely not picked up junk food at the store several times, or ordered something healthier & smaller when dining out, and so on, to avoid feeling shame. I've actually worked to cultivate the feeling in those situatio
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by baroomba 7y ago
It was much better for gaming than Linux, so far as natively-supported games (so, not counting Wine) until MacOS dropped 32-bit support. Now, yes, it's far worse for gaming than Linux.
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by baroomba 7y ago
Fitness activities and being fit are major upper-middle-class (talking social class here, not strictly income) markers right now. There's pressure to be or become fit(ter) if you run in those circles, so you don't seem "oth
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by baroomba 7y ago
There's very, very cheap food now that's also low-effort and craving-satisfying and/or inducing. All sorts of crappy low- or zero-prep food has gotten both cheaper and better at being hard to resist. Meanwhile, sedentary ente
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by baroomba 7y ago
Sure, in a sense, the difference being whether the form of the reporting is aimed at helping team-members coordinate or helping a project manager move a marker on a chart or otherwise send reports upward. Who's it for is the key conc
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by baroomba 7y ago
SV-speak for labor, really, as in "the interests of capital/management and labor are, at times, opposed".
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by baroomba 7y ago
If the teams themselves don't want a standup, you're probably gonna get a "dead standup". The actually-useful-to-the-team part of the standup is something a team that's been exposed to such will probably self-orga
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by baroomba 7y ago
I've seen a lot more status meetings going by the name "standup" than I've seen actual standups. A good clue is when there are people on totally different projects in the same "standup". If a lot of the peopl
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by baroomba 7y ago
I avoid LVM because trying to install with it always seems to break things, either making the install fail or breaking later during an upgrade. And I mean on normal-ass distros like Debian and Ubuntu, not anything odd, and not even with &qu
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by baroomba 7y ago
I at least put my daemon dependencies (databases, mostly) in a docker-compose file from the beginning, to keep that cruft off my machine, to isolate projects, to avoid implicit dependencies on my own platform's package manager (adding
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by baroomba 7y ago
Also, a lot of smaller (and mid-sized) companies end up with tons of instances and all kinds of complex server infrastructure because their code is mind-bogglingly inefficient and falls over without it. You either fix their mountain of brok