bitsinthesky

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by bitsinthesky 2y ago
Work day makes you input your entire work history into their structured web form anew for every job you apply to, there is no saved or transferred state.
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by bitsinthesky 2y ago
I’ve sent you an email
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by bitsinthesky 2y ago
Nice. Okay, I’ll give it a shot :)
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by bitsinthesky 2y ago
And these fullpage scans provide value above what theonion.com already provides?
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by bitsinthesky 2y ago
I have a stack about a foot tall of copies i collected from the Obama era. Anyone idea what i should do with them? Perhaps donate them to the library as a public good? They are still hilarious. My favorite is one where they pretended a Chin
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by bitsinthesky 3y ago
With such cheap solar panels soaking up summer sun combined with this storage, winter heating could get really efficient.
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Global glut turns solar panels into garden fencing option(ft.com)
3 points by bitsinthesky 3y ago|0 comments
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by bitsinthesky 3y ago
Thank you for taking our test In a room of 1000 people, you would be smarter than 10 people. :)
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by bitsinthesky 3y ago
Oh wow there are 14 of these
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by bitsinthesky 3y ago
Wenn die Leute auseinandergehen, da sagen sie “Auf Wiedersehen”
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by bitsinthesky 3y ago
Sadlon sells books in parts, i read the first book of his translation. Thought it was good, but given the needing to buy multiple books and the ugly cover art, I’m happy with Penguin. If it is true Penguin is an inferior translation or too
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by bitsinthesky 3y ago
I think an entrepreneur should establish a tour in the Czech lands, to walk in the footsteps of švejk as of when he drank away the money for his train ticket sending his company to the front, thereby forcing him to zig zag across the land i
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by bitsinthesky 3y ago
Fascinating quote. Definitely need to read more Jung! And so, instead of asking here for the source I pinged the esteemed GPT: “The passage you provided is indeed from Carl Jung. It is from his work "Psychological Aspects of the Modern
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by bitsinthesky 3y ago
Wow what a story. The first half is all frosting no cake, but when the story really gets going it’s definitely worth a read. I hope I’m never in that situation where i have to consider climbing back into a pen to collect my phone while comp
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by bitsinthesky 3y ago
What's your source for this? I was also under the impression Norway had a large arms industry, but from what I can find online, it's fairly small with stats from $50 - 300 million/year
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by bitsinthesky 3y ago
Wearing only underwear and socks, I had the opportunity last year to do a guided ice plunge following breathing exercises. One curious piece is we were instructed to keep our hands above the water, supposedly it helps your body something wi
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by bitsinthesky 3y ago
Given the lack of data security in cars, I bet we could see an open source project doing just this
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by bitsinthesky 3y ago
I hope they'll start warning about bad drivers using historical data (one day)
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by bitsinthesky 3y ago
Removing the wifi router, and connect everything to personal smartphone instead
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by bitsinthesky 3y ago
Lets say I live alone with somewhat infrequent guests. Is there any real reason to pay for two internet services, when my phone could do all the heavy lifting?
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Ask HN: What downsides for replacing WiFi with an unlimited mobile hotspot?
3 points by bitsinthesky 3y ago|7 comments
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by bitsinthesky 3y ago
This is lecture/podcast on Barbie, ideology, gender etc. from the perspective of Zizek, Lacan, Freud and Hegel. When I walked out of the movie, I wanted to discuss the movie through the lens of Hegel, and just yesterday I found such a
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Some of the Philosophical Psychoanalytic Components of the Barbie Movie(youtube.com)
1 points by bitsinthesky 3y ago|1 comments
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by bitsinthesky 3y ago
I entered the article ready to be critical, but I saw they quoted Dan Carlin's hardcore history on the first page. Satisfied. I can go to bed, nobody is wrong on the internet today.
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by bitsinthesky 3y ago
Christians would bury the dead, pagans would cremate. As Christianity expanded, people wouldn’t know whether they could trust burial as a proper way to keep the dead from monstrously reanimating, think revenants or vampires. So for a couple
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by bitsinthesky 3y ago
Unfortunately it seems pdfs linked there may also be malicious ( https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/7e73cc3d685c77d88ad9cf769... ). I checked on some other pdf links ive downloaded previously and they were safe, s
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by bitsinthesky 3y ago
Don’t worry, capital c Cults require some more intense personality traits and manipulative/abusive practices, preying on those in some kind of need. Usually accompanied by a strong whiff of narcissism :)
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by bitsinthesky 3y ago
Just fyi to cheapskates like me, i was looking around for a free pdf, some are hosted on github, others on google docs. Putting the pdf urls into https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/url , all were suspicious or ma
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by bitsinthesky 3y ago
https://nitter.net/EliotJacobson/status/1681321023306874880 For non Twitter users
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by bitsinthesky 3y ago
Uh oh. I watched the TikTok video first, and thought "haha, that's stupid, pretty funny", but then clicked on the rosemary link. The woman, from prescribed medicine containing silver, considers her life permanently ruined&#x2

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