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by beezlebroxxxxxx 4y ago
The only saving grace about the heatwave in France right now is that it's a very dry heat, almost desert like. Obviously, that leads to some brutal drought like conditions and is still dangerous, but I find even 30 with a lot of humidi
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 4y ago
In technical writing, which is often trying to be as concise as possible, active voice usually allows the shortest sentences, which, as a practice, tend to be more clear. However, there are instances when the passive voice is important and
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 4y ago
SWE salaries are also very high because right now it's cheap as hell to run a software company leading to huge returns. Overheads are miniscule. The salaries can take a larger slice of the pie. A lot of people in the comments are talki
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 4y ago
It's also well known that connections are extremely important for academic positions, especially so in humanities academia where TT positions are so rare and hyper competitive. The name appeal of the Ivy's can have huge sway, and
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Yes, things like the zoopraxiscope by Muybridge (His motion studies are incredible), and other phenakistiscopes, long predate the traditional motion picture camera and are evidence of incredible inventiveness and a human search for motion b
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 4y ago
I understand your complaint in the larger context of popular culture. But in the context of Dune, which takes place 1000s of years in the future, and in which there exist a genetically manipulating pseudo-cult group of witches/spies wh
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 4y ago
I think Nicole Kidman has flat out broken her face with all of the plastic surgery she has gotten in the last couple years. She might look more attractive by strange Hollywood/LA standards, but she has seriously limited her own ability
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 4y ago
The effect of steroids, and ultra aggressive cutters, on male actors is pretty outrageous. It's more outrageous, though, that a lot of the male actors refuse to admit it and in turn will try to sell or advertise their workouts. I think
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 4y ago
I would say Tom Cruise is probably the biggest male movie star for exactly what you say. His performances have a degree of authenticity to them that is unique. When you see the stunts, you're often seeing him, and this gives his films
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 4y ago
You're also seeing the effects of plastic surgery and/or aggressive anti-aging procedures. Actors are aging slower, superficially, and this is leaving less leading or main roles (in an already diminished blockbuster schedule) open
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> This is the norm for outsider art/thought and is what allows it to sometimes prove revolutionary. The idea that outsider artists and thinker weren't often extremely aware of ongoing and historical conversations around what th
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Some of this is pretty interesting, and some of it also feels like trying to read about the Time Cube all over again. I think something that would help Wolfram is actually engaging with some of the long running topics in philosophy and, in
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 4y ago
I agree. If I ever actually meet the designers or team responsible for it I would seriously question their abilities. This includes if I saw it on someone's resume or in their portfolio. Even with the current state of web UI, the new r
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 4y ago
> If you’d like to pre-order the book from the publisher, don’t try to find the book on the Pearson website. Instead, order the book from InformIT.com or MicrosoftPressStore.com or your favorite online retailer. So I imagine any online r
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 4y ago
The CRTC is a revolving door for the telecom industry.
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 4y ago
My understanding, as well, is that as much as the tenure track situation in NA is on the disastrous side of bleak, the European and specifically UK tenure track (or equivalent) situation is almost worse. I know you pointed out salaries, but
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In my experience, I've found that to be the case when the meetings are already effectively pointless and not well organized. One solution is to make meetings more structured and important. This has the benefit of also making them rarer
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 4y ago
To add an interesting fiction book: The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi focuses on a hypothetical future where individual militias and municipalities/states in the South/South West fight and engage in near hidden warfare over ac
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 4y ago
> I wrote in org-mode, converted to docx and then sent off the copy Did you expect them to redline it in something other than word if you sent a docx file? All traditional (fiction/non-fiction) book publishing houses will use Word
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 5y ago
If you follow the history of HR departments in a lot of modern corporations you often see them operating as private in-house legal firms, and aggressively expanding their purview to include even actions at the executive level. The only thin
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 5y ago
I have a humanities type degree and graduate degree, and I found you don't get the real interesting people and conversations until grad school. Then it's awesome. Is my degree "useful"....eh, maybe. But was my time in gr
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Graduate students are employees of the university. There are usually other unions at universities for employees, and undergraduate students working in universities can sometimes be in those unions as well, but graduate students as employees
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 5y ago
Graduate students are paid by the university. Unlike undergraduate student unions, graduate student unions are actual unions in the workers sense. They have the same purpose as any other employee union would: protect the students from arbit