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by brimble 4y ago
If this causes decent cheese to go past "damn, that's expensive" and into "I can no longer afford this", at least I won't mind death so much, I guess.
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by brimble 4y ago
> However, I think the sheer popularity of this format means that someone lies it, even if not me. Search engines like it. That's the entire story. There's good long-form recipe content, but nearly all of it's only there f
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by brimble 4y ago
Almost none of the sites publishing recipes online created those recipes. Very often, no-one there's even cooked them once.
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by brimble 4y ago
Pro tip: even the worst of those fake-story-before-the-recipe sites usually include the micro format for recipe markup, which means all kinds of existing systems/software can reliably and quickly strip all the crap and give you just th
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by brimble 4y ago
99.99% of that content was stolen in the first place. Most of those recipe sites, no-one involved in the site has ever cooked the recipe, despite what the ghost-written made-up story about it would lead you to believe. That's why so ma
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by brimble 4y ago
> h. they don't get paid for their work; Flip side is that means I can charge them for room & board. Bring it on.
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by brimble 4y ago
> The biggest mistake I see PMs make is coming in with an over optimism bias and assuming that your product must be top of mind for all users when the reality is that the most often scenario you discover from user interviews is that the
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by brimble 4y ago
Not the parent, but I assume they mean the nose stud, green or blue hair that looks like it's needed to be redone for a month (but was, in fact, dyed yesterday), and at least one full-sleeve tattoo, look. [EDIT] For the record, I'
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by brimble 4y ago
> Will a dude with cheeto dust on his star wars t-shirt give a fair shake to a good looking woman who is wearing business attire and makeup The Cheeto-dust legible-t-shirt look is unfashionable in tech and probably not a great idea. Been
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by brimble 4y ago
An editor with always-on help displaying the most common actions one might want to perform, is super-useful not just for n00bs, but for anyone who doesn't work on the command line enough to memorize the commands to operate vim and emac
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by brimble 4y ago
I've seen conservative acquaintances (IRL, not just people I "know" online) posting about how excited they are to use Twitter again/more after Musk takes over, so yeah, seems plausible. [EDIT] Meanwhile, I've also s
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by brimble 4y ago
Everything Everywhere All At Once is almost certain to at least be nominated, and it's a feel-good sci-fantasy family action-comedy... more or less.
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by brimble 4y ago
Interesting. That appears to explain why the review has a strong, "quirky, 'hip' campus Christian newsletter" vibe.
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by brimble 4y ago
> 1099 is definitely the way to go for as long as you can - people still get social security credit. Dirty secret of remote work is that lots of companies are abusing the 1099 system to make it happen. The workers definitely don't m
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by brimble 4y ago
Rather, "Nobody Will Admit that A Novel about Football is the Best Novel of Our Generation". This does not appear to be about people denying that the book is about football. Also, the novel is actually a novella. Also, it seems no
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by brimble 4y ago
An afternoon "shake the after-lunch drowsies" shower is truly a glorious thing.
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by brimble 4y ago
Having an "executive bathroom" is at least 20% of the benefit of WFH. Under-appreciated in discussions about this.
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by brimble 4y ago
At a lot of schools, you can take CLEP tests to get out of (especially) 100 and 200 level courses. Take the test, pay a (somewhat lower) rate for the credit without taking the actual class, and it's done. If you're capable of comp
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by brimble 4y ago
I feel like quitting receiving healthcare when a provider switches their records systems or adds a new one and I have to input all the same shit yet again (what the fuck is even the point of digital medical records? They can't ke
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by brimble 4y ago
It doesn't help that hospital systems tend to be garbage at customer service, so the person's been told to wait an indefinite (but always very long) period without any indication of how long it'll be, and asked to tediously f
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by brimble 4y ago
Consolidation's a big part of it. The last decade has seen nearly all the small practices and offices in my city gobbled up by a couple of huge companies. With that comes the MBAs and the bureaucracy.
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by brimble 4y ago
Can confirm. They paint people who google symptoms as kooks or as annoying, but you have to if you ever want to get an actual diagnosis and treatment, because doctors and hospitals are, quite often, worse than Google at figuring out WTF
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by brimble 4y ago
> Because the teachers all have Education degrees, and that's what they were told in Ed School. So don't anyone dare "demean" their job by suggesting that they have actual work to do in properly educating their studen
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by brimble 4y ago
"You're not going to win the lotto jackpot". [EDIT] OK, one example was a bit flippant and easy to dismiss, but: "No, this isn't going to bring us meaningfully closer to economically-viable fusion power" "
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by brimble 4y ago
Author's just hacking at a straw man and crowing about how much better they are at fencing than it is, best I can tell.
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by brimble 4y ago
TFA gets where it going by defining "pessimism" in a way that makes TFA's conclusions correct. It doesn't seem to be concerned with nuance. You can do the same thing in reverse with "optimism" by pinning that t
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by brimble 4y ago
Because it's usually right? See also: cynicism. Reads article Oh, this is about a very specific kind of pessimism in which a statement like "new economically-valuable technologies will emerge" is purely the domain of optimi
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by brimble 4y ago
A lot of horror is experienced in a way that's most similar to comedy . That's not to say that it's explicitly supposed to be funny to the viewers (but sometimes it is! A significant portion of horror films include scenes of
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by brimble 4y ago
> Metal Gear Solid criticizes the player for enjoying all the killing. Then there's Spec Ops: The Line. Yikes.
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by brimble 4y ago
Welcome to the effects of class socialization. You appear to have about the mix of Fussellian Middle and Upper-Middle preferences and attitudes (plus a bit from his Class X[1]) that's essentially standard on HN. [1] Which, unfortunatel

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