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by bowlich 9y ago
Worked in the Park Service for four years. Worst days for most visitor conflicts was always, always, the free entrance days. Everyone dreaded having to work on one because everyone was super expecting.
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by bowlich 9y ago
Man 5 months? I'm on two right now. Still getting idiotic automated responses from their customer support. I ping the ticket every couple of days, and nothing. Been thinking of going the Twitter route. No way to get in and retrieve the
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by bowlich 9y ago
Sure, my understanding is that's how Oxford works.
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by bowlich 9y ago
The fact that almost all the traffic to my personal blog are just one-hit wonders from google actually made me feel a lot less pressure to "grow" the blog or to even keep to any kind of coherent theme. These days, I post about wha
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by bowlich 9y ago
The article seems to engage in a bifurcation fallacy in suggesting that if you have company data on a personal device, then you must or ought to have MDM. Trusting me to be able to access my work e-mail from my own equipment without the nee
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by bowlich 9y ago
I think you hit it the big difference between public/private sector work -- the rules. My spouse has spent seven years in a land agency specializing into a position that really entails knowing, and keeping abreast of a very narrow, spe
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by bowlich 9y ago
Close. #7 is actually not true (although a lot of hiring managers seem to think that it is). You are not required to hire the veteran per OPM regulations. They only get the point based boost. In practice, the veterans benefit becomes meanin
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by bowlich 9y ago
This last year I made the connection that Facebook only provided the illusion that I was socializing with past friends. Sure, I know what is going on in the lives of my buddies from high school and college. I know when they have a kid, boug
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by bowlich 9y ago
My folks (living in the upper peninsula of MI) went from being able to pick up all the stations from Greenbay from across the lake to being able to pick up one random analog station out of Canada. Everyone ended up on satellite to compensat
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by bowlich 9y ago
The For-Profit thing has continued to irk me about Patreon and Kickstarter. Why haven't we seen a 503(c) come out with these services so I can make my contributions to the arts as a tax-deduction? If I donate to the local theatre, art-
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by bowlich 9y ago
I'm starting to think that the hyper-engagement of fighting over every $CANDIDATE, $CAUSE, and $OUTRAGE is going to drive people away from Social Media. I started doing blackouts on Twitter and Facebook every time some major news event
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by bowlich 9y ago
Switched back when Rust went alpha. It encouraged me to really look into some of the side projects that Mozilla had going on and it made me really want to support them and see those projects succeed.
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by bowlich 9y ago
Latest one seems like it has a memory leak on linux. Starts off fast, but I've found that I need to close out all of Firefox about once a day. Not sure if that's the vanilla build, or the multi-account containers extension that&#x
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by bowlich 9y ago
I've gotten into the habit of organizing my feeds into two groups. People who post infrequently with high quality articles get put into one group. Sites that generate loads of articles (NPR, Guardian, HN) go into the other. I generally
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by bowlich 9y ago
I switched to Startpage last quarter as my default search engine. I did this mostly to make myself consciously aware of every time that I actually use Google. My experience thus far. Google beats out Startpage when it comes to queries relat
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by bowlich 9y ago
This story makes me think of the colloquialism in the northern plains states where if two drivers come to an all-way stop on some dusty dirt road right-of-way is determined by a nod of the head or wave of the hand. Legally, I don't thi
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by bowlich 9y ago
The weakness in the teaching of ethics, and in particular the lack of discourse in ethics amongst business in this nation is utterly frustrating. That you can do something (within the law) or that no moral outrage would occur is itself not
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by bowlich 9y ago
But that doesn't answer the ethical question. Success and imminent failure are not a justifications for unethical actions. If success cannot be achieved without unethical action, then perhaps it is best to fail. Misrepresenting the nat
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by bowlich 9y ago
For a "corporate death penalty" why would the state need to concern itself with the notion of shareholders to begin with? Loss of stake would merely be a part of the penalty. There's certainly precedent outside of the US for
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by bowlich 9y ago
That assumption doesn't work for a big chunk of rural and small town America. I make the once-a-week trek to the post office to pick up my mail. I tried to sign up for the informed delivery service, since it would be nice to know if it
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by bowlich 9y ago
Been working remote now for four or so years. The big items that I found useful: If part of the team is remote, then the entire team is remote. Keep this in mind for meetings. If anyone in the meeting is phoning in, then it's best to j
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by bowlich 9y ago
I remember seeing it a lot used around the context of media piracy and attempts by companies to control the narration and dissemination of content via legal grounds. Stuff like region-locked DVDs, control over distribution of a game or film
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by bowlich 9y ago
Been slowly weaning myself off Google's products. Switched my default search engine to Startpage. I still end up on Google for half of my searches -- particularly if I need to get a map to a business -- but it helps that I now have to
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by bowlich 9y ago
Fork it, fix it. Pull in upstream changes until the maintainer fixes it. I suppose file a ticket with a snippet of what I did to fix it so a regular contributor can create a request faster. If this is a random one-off drive by bug, then why
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by bowlich 9y ago
My employer is not SF based, but they do pay the same to all employees regardless of location based on the market rate for their base city. Lots of folks taking advantage of that to live in cheaper environments. Although there are a couple
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by bowlich 9y ago
"Double Dipping" as in working two jobs simultaneously and billing two employers for the same hours? No. My current employer about 60% of the employees are remote and my entire team is remote. Almost everyone has their own on-the-
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by bowlich 9y ago
In most of the west the inverse is true. If you hit livestock, under any condition (if it got loose and was wandering the highway), you are liable. Livestock always has right of way.
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by bowlich 9y ago
Back when I was doing a lot of brochure sites I often thought that there was a correlation between the quality of content and the amount of filler -- big text sizes, lots of graphics. If I have a lot of meaningful content, say essays of 5,0
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by bowlich 9y ago
I held a similar attitude through college. An exam exists to test my knowledge and abilities, give me a solid idea of what I learned and where my deficits lay. It is not a test of short-term memory. If I didn't learn the material good
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by bowlich 10y ago
Providing your own materials isn't really a unique thing. There's a lot of blue-collar jobs that require you to bring your own tools to the job. When I applied for a construction job back as a teenager it was a requirement that yo

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