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by core-questions 9y ago
> I've been doing that for more than 15 years and the payback has been huge. What about the opportunity cost from not looking as good as you might with a nice haircut? ;-) Just bugging you. Wish I had a nice round skull that looked
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by core-questions 9y ago
You can do log scales in Grafana, but not with this banding thing
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by core-questions 9y ago
A better target would be a Grafana plugin.
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by core-questions 9y ago
> Journalism, where the incentives of profit don't align well with the mission, might need another model. I agree with this sentiment, but I don't know that I've seen another model demonstrated that works much better. Stat
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by core-questions 9y ago
> Talking about "whiteness" and "white people" is actually more like "blackness" and "black people" where dark skin can come from a range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Lumping all dark-skinne
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by core-questions 9y ago
Doubling down on a narrative that is severely lacking in historical evidence. Please, do, show me where all the white people got together and decided on this definition? Let me know where I'm supposed to get updates on who is, and who
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by core-questions 9y ago
> That's because "whiteness" is an invented category. This is a common narrative now, and it seems malicious (or at least, misguided) to me - it's an attempt to deconstruct the generalized European identity as formed
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by core-questions 9y ago
QR codes on archival paper?
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by core-questions 9y ago
This is so easy to type, but I imagine it would be much harder for you to devise any kind of system wherein I get to maintain a high standard of living and somehow don't have to work for a living. My employers tell me what to do, yes;
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by core-questions 9y ago
Seems like there's plenty of deviation in North America, more even than the European grid is complaining about. Quebec and the Maritimes seem to oscillate between low and normal, and the west seems to always be a bit too fast.
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by core-questions 9y ago
For the lazy, here's the magic: <script> document.currentScript.remove(); setTimeout(function() { // no rights reserved (BSD0) by Jeremy Banks <_@jeremy.ca> const html = document.documentE
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by core-questions 9y ago
Sometimes it feels like some folks will only be happy when life is completely hive-like, when there is nothing to differentiate anything from anything else, everything is grey, nothing is whimsical, and nobody can put their mark on the worl
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by core-questions 9y ago
Luckily, none of this stuff applies to humans, who are all completely the same.
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by core-questions 9y ago
> I'm not sure high stress environment test is a good measure. Talking with a few of your future coworkers in a room where nothing is on fire shouldn't be "high stress" - interviews are always a bit of a stress induci
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by core-questions 9y ago
For me, this kind of assessment is based on a number of factors: 1. Personality and language skills - are they sufficiently outgoing and conversant to be able to interface well with others? Introversion is common in our profession but in or
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by core-questions 9y ago
Hate to ask, but how do you know you're actually going to get some gold? Are deliveries ensured? Are the coins/metals held in escrow with a trusted third party?
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by core-questions 9y ago
Agreed, it would be excellent to have someone with opposing views actually have a proper dialectic conversation with him. So far we've only seen rhetorical counter-arguments which accomplish very little - and have in some cases pushed
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by core-questions 9y ago
> but then he found out arguing with transpeople about pronouns made him more money so he let himself be adopted by the far-right. I don't think this is a fair characterization at all. The issue with pronouns is just a microcosm of
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by core-questions 9y ago
> Jordan Peterson's rhetoric is just another round of reactionary sophistry Reactionary? As far as I understand it, a 'reactionary' is someone who wants a return of monarchy. There doesn't really seem to be anything i
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by core-questions 9y ago
I used to be really against DST, but honestly, it's the only thing that actually lets me see the damn sun at all in the winter, so now I'm a fan.
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by core-questions 9y ago
This could work, but ultimately it's just more and more duct tape. It's high time to start with a cleaner, more secure slate and let people migrate maintained applications over; the old stuff can run in a more secured, more limite