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by clickety_clack 1y ago
Isn’t it the “deep state” and “government coverup” type of theories that are conspiracy theories? The flat earth thing is an example of that, where the theory is that “they” (the government or big globe or whoever) are trying to convince yo
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by clickety_clack 1y ago
I can’t remember where I heard it, maybe a Joe Rogan clip, but he made a good point that believing that there are _no_ conspiracies is also an extreme viewpoint that is obviously wrong, given that some conspiracy theories eventually turned
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by clickety_clack 1y ago
I’ve been on both sides of this, and I’ve come to the realization that it depends on the audience of the writing. It seems like this is for Red Hat authors writing miscellaneous docs for a range of users. Consistency is important there, so
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by clickety_clack 1y ago
My thoughts exactly. I used to use Thunderbird back in the day and I would like to be able to go back to it. I can’t even remember anymore what turned me away at the time. I’m always curious to see how it’s progressing though, and screensho
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by clickety_clack 1y ago
I have trouble explaining to my parents how my job is a real thing. I can only imagine trying to explain ‘I study shapes, but only ones that don’t jut inwards’.
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by clickety_clack 1y ago
“The best way to network well is to stop giving a shit about doing it well” is a quote for the ages.
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by clickety_clack 1y ago
I did that at 27, and it took me about 5 years to get into the sphere of where I wanted to be. Best thing I ever did. Even today I was talking about how sad it would be to hit retirement and to never have truly done what I wanted in my life
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by clickety_clack 1y ago
I agree. Sometimes it feels like we’re going thorough a conservative age where people are trying to hold on to as much as they possibly can from the distant past, even when it wasn’t really much of anything in its time. It also seems like t
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by clickety_clack 1y ago
If they said it definitely did, they would be going beyond what is possible to prove with empirical science.
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by clickety_clack 1y ago
Some toggles are labeled terribly as well, so it’s not clear what “on” even means. Or double negatives so it demands that extra mental cycle just for the sake of having all the sliders to the same side in the default configuration.
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by clickety_clack 1y ago
I make pretty good tech money and I can’t imagine spending that much on a car. It would be cheaper to uber everywhere I went.
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by clickety_clack 1y ago
There’s bad ideas like “it wasn’t possible to execute this the way we thought we could”, and bad ideas like “this goes against the core values of what this company is”. The first is something that might have gone better in better circumstan
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by clickety_clack 1y ago
*For definitions of “your”, “information”, “permanently” and “deleted”, please refer to one of the dense, poorly worded contracts you implicitly agreed to when you thought about our site.
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by clickety_clack 1y ago
I am a Canadian working in the US on TN status too (and yes, despite my opinion on it they call it a “status” not a “visa”). I can’t emphasize enough how light of a burden it is on employers to hire a Canadian on TN status. There’s no limit
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by clickety_clack 1y ago
Scrolling back in google chat is another horrendous experience. Trying to see a message you sent last week? Scrolling up is like “here’s 5 messages”… “here’s 4 messages”… “here’s another 5”. It’s like a college student wrote it.
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by clickety_clack 1y ago
You put my reaction to this in much more educated terms. I’ve always felt that thinking of DNA as bits was a bit simplistic. Just because we store information as bits it doesn’t mean that nature does. Not that it means they can’t be right,
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by clickety_clack 3y ago
Ah, when you reached for immortality you selected "digital horcruxes of your personality scattered all across tech".