bitzun

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by bitzun 2y ago
IIRC I set this up for my grandmother way back in the day because she wanted a netscape/mozilla equivalent. I'd be interested to know what kinds of folks use it today.
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by bitzun 2y ago
Not to disagree with any of your points, I'm skeptical of the proportion of NPs that can safely practice any medicine at all. I've met one competent PA, one PA who didn't understand basic human anatomy, and an PMHNP with a Ph
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by bitzun 3y ago
I think both you and sibling abirch are right in different contexts and I love the contrast in what issues you identify.
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by bitzun 3y ago
Not GP but: Dead bodies? Sure, they're dead. Everything meaningful and special about them is gone.
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by bitzun 3y ago
Google can't figure out how to make an mp3 player that doesn't shit itself randomly (Youtube Music, which I pay for).
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by bitzun 3y ago
Maybe some context for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39366476
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Funny hiring email I got from ReMatter
9 points by bitzun 3y ago|7 comments
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by bitzun 3y ago
In Texas, if you don't get in an accident, cops will rarely spot that your registration is out of date and definitely won't check if you have insurance. If you do get in an accident and are lacking a driver's license and&#x2F
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by bitzun 3y ago
In e.g. Texas if they fire you without properly documenting a flimsy non-protected-class-infringing cause, you may be able to draw unemployment. I don't know what the success rate is like for IT workers.
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by bitzun 3y ago
> We also had one hire who went through the whole process and proceeded to do almost no work at all for 6 months unless a manager was breathing down his neck at every step. This unfortunately happened pretty often pre-pandemic/in-of
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by bitzun 3y ago
I compulsively left and right click random shit all day. It helps me encounter bugs like steam locking up for a few seconds on Linux if you right click the steam windows or overlay too quickly.
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by bitzun 3y ago
I've been a pain in the ass in quite a few feedback sessions when people brought up a candidate not making "enough" eye contact. Usually I mention that they could be treading into infringing on a protected class and they shut
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by bitzun 3y ago
I could work with good colleagues/"work friends"/acquaintances (all people I truly like in the right context), but I wouldn't want to work with close friends. I think it's sort of related to the feeling I get t
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by bitzun 3y ago
Could be the basis for a pretty funny class action or mass arbitration.
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by bitzun 3y ago
They've been updating single player games with new DRM. Maybe it's not malice towards Linux users specifically, but I'd call it malice towards their customer base.
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by bitzun 3y ago
Just refund it now and buy it again later if they fix it. Refunds will also put a little pressure on.
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by bitzun 3y ago
Sorry, I jumped in because I hadn't seen it before. I agree it's difficult to generalize at this point, I just chafe at the suggestion that homeschooled kids do better overall since I've heard it my whole life and my experien
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by bitzun 3y ago
My observatiom has been that a lot of unschooling families have parents who do it because of their own neuroses and are otherwise ill equipped as parents. Conspiracy theories and fringe religions are common. Emotional manipulation and abuse
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by bitzun 3y ago
I was completely unschooled prior to college and while I did fine in school I was generally very poorly adjusted. I actually don't know a single homeschooled person who came of age nearly as prepared for the world as anyone I know who
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by bitzun 3y ago
I found an small old copy of The Specialist without any attribution in a junk shop a few years ago and went down a short research rabbit hole about Chic Sale. Thanks for the reminder!
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by bitzun 3y ago
I didn't learn about Leave the Leaves until ten minutes after I raked the last of our oak's fall leaves. There's always next year I suppose.
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by bitzun 3y ago
I would be really into a phone with the double-tap keyboard and rocker of the Blackberry 7100, maybe adding the trackball.
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by bitzun 3y ago
At first I thought this was a flippant joke, but I can actually see the value in saving time writing junk without having to alter existing bureaucratic processes from which nobody gets much value.
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by bitzun 3y ago
It has the same intrinsic value as the other cryptocurrencies: Illegal activity (in this case, piracy).
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by bitzun 3y ago
Most application webservers (by default) handle one request per thread. For mostly IO bound stuff (which many projects are), it makes sense to me that threads become a bottleneck in relatively ordinary scenarios.
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by bitzun 3y ago
One addition IMO: If anyone in your life tries to push you to seek their validation and do what they think you should (which is mostly just validating themselves), ignore and avoid them, or at least try to knock them down a peg.
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by bitzun 3y ago
I love your sentiment. I've been fighting off the intrusive "when people ask me" thoughts to eliminate the absurd hypothetical shame/embarrassment. I think it's improved my life.
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by bitzun 3y ago
I like working on (relatively) nothing. I quit working a few months ago and now I don't want to go back. I've spent these months reading books about everything, working out, playing with hobbies and relaxing. The experience has re
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by bitzun 3y ago
The parts I found the most insufferable about Villeneuve's Dune are two pieces of dialogue towards the end: At one point, Chalamet says "You good?" like an American teenager, and Jessica has some other similar exclamation I c
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by bitzun 3y ago
Several women have told me they thought Lady Jessica was a strong female character in Dune pt 1 after I complained that she was more abject/emotional than in the book. It felt like we had watched a different movie, but it sounds like I

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