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by corrral 4y ago
Thanks for the reminder—I often forget about Google's various less-prominent tools and services.
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by corrral 4y ago
> What would be the best alternative to Wikipedia at getting a list of citations on a topic quickly? If you're looking for major/important sources to read on a topic, not just a quick way to halfway-fake a works-cited section,
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by corrral 4y ago
Easiest is probably a dedicated WordPress hosting provider like Kinsta or WPEngine. More expensive, but they definitely take away $20-30/month worth of hassle and worry. Stick a free CloudFlare plan (they have some WP-specific security
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by corrral 4y ago
> One of things I understood too late is what a proper shit takes 2-3 minutes at worst, I just used that time to be alone with my things and thoughts. Becoming a parent is what finally made me realize how wise it is to tack a couple extr
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by corrral 4y ago
Apple Notes. Everything else is too high-friction, I always end up back at Notes.app. I always have my phone, that's already installed, and it syncs to every other device I'm likely to want to take or read notes on. I don't d
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by corrral 4y ago
> their pronoun pin That's... a new one for me. Ah, they're all over Etsy—if anyone else was thrown by that, they're exactly what your first guess would be based on the name: a big round pin with your preferred pronouns pr
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by corrral 4y ago
> They said no such thing, > > In the world I want to live in, we don’t have to set negative rules like “don’t harass people.” Instead, we could get by with positive guidelines like “be welcoming” and “be kind” and use our giant hu
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by corrral 4y ago
> This type of "because I told you so" style only works as a show of power, A show of power expressed through "low", indirect language. Might not be sending the intended message. "That doesn't work for me&qu
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by corrral 4y ago
"Great, so I can sign up for the same plan again, since my use falls within what you're offering?" "Well, no, because now we know you'll actually use what we say we provide, and we don't really want to provide
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by corrral 4y ago
Every time I start to think, "hm, maybe I'll get one of the cheaper VR sets, even if the games suck it's probably pretty awesome for porn" I recall the guy with the VR headset in the music video for Do the Evolution (Pea
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by corrral 4y ago
"We—on purpose—didn't mean what we said" is identical to "we lied".
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by corrral 4y ago
"I know I leased you this entire acre on an ongoing basis, and said you could plant on the whole thing, but now that I see you're actually planting the entire acre and not just a quarter-acre, I'm terminating your lease at th
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by corrral 4y ago
Jobs were a lot more local, too. People didn't move around as much. In general, not just in software. You also couldn't just spend a couple minutes and get a ballpark for what employers were paying in another city, let alone get a
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by corrral 4y ago
Gotcha, sorry for the misunderstanding.
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by corrral 4y ago
> refuses to do so in a social setting (i.e. an interview). Interviews are very different from working together collaboratively. They're very different from presenting work to or working with a client or stakeholder, too, and even
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by corrral 4y ago
Of course advertising one thing then saying, "well, actually, no" means you lied. Even if you're "nice" about it. It's not that big a deal. People lie tons. It's not murder. But it's still a lie.
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by corrral 4y ago
> I'd like to see how many people in this thread saying "but they promised UNLIMITED..." have ever actually worked in network engineering for a colo/hosting ISP. Raises hand The fact that these kinds of lies are nor
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by corrral 4y ago
> Gaming as-you-define-it is surely dying and it took maybe 15 years for microtransactions to do it in. But tons of non-microtransaction games are coming out all the time. I game lots and don't see any impending shortage of that k
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by corrral 4y ago
At least as early as the late 90s, servers were sometimes sold with parts—disks, controller cards, CPUs (in the days when multi-socket was more common), et c—disabled in software, unlockable if you paid for an upgrade.
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by corrral 4y ago
> The author looks down their nose at microtransactions so they have probably missed all the innovation even as it continues to cross pollinate with every aspect of the games industry. I've been doing some serious innovation in plum
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by corrral 4y ago
I'm pretty sure choking is behind most of the "LOL I caught a faker" stories from interviewers. I think it's far more common than people who've somehow been employed multiple places and can "talk the talk&quo
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by corrral 4y ago
But programming is special ! The same approaches to hiring used for accountants or electricians couldn't possibly work! Don't you know programming is like painting? That's why we make people regurgitate algorithms they mem
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by corrral 4y ago
I can assure you that the upcoming generations aren't much better at any of this, on average. And no, it's not smartphones' faults. Most people just don't "get" desktop OS paradigms, or how web pages work, or a
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by corrral 4y ago
It's a pretty damn recent shift even in the US. Tons of movies from the 00s up to the early part of the 20-teens still used it freely and there was no major uproar over it—in general, no-one thought anything of it. Practically no-one b
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by corrral 4y ago
Private-sector customer support can also mean contacting your local representative and hoping they take up your cause. That tactic once got a health insurer of mine to stop trying to wait us out and just pay the damn bill they were supposed
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by corrral 4y ago
IMO 40 hours per week, for weeks on end with very few breaks, is already a shitload of time to spend on a single activity. It's well beyond what I'd willingly spend per week, with that kind of year-round consistency, on anythin
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by corrral 4y ago
If I were any good at spotting problems for which writing novel software is a good solution, valuable enough to be worth the time it takes, I wouldn't need an employer because I'd have (or at least be a co-founder of) one or more
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by corrral 4y ago
One could, with as much justification, claim that someone who spends much time writing code in their free time is likely a junior or otherwise immature developer who still likes code for code's sake and can't be trusted to make go
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by corrral 4y ago
I'm kinda impressed by the hubris, really. Usually it's emperors, kings, and big multinational governing bodies that try to screw around with the time standard that ordinary people have to live with. Occasionally strident revoluti
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by corrral 4y ago
A huge part of the Anglophone Web, including much of the left, is currently casually referring to Russians as "orcs" and gleefully speculating about how many sunflowers will sprout from their corpses. "Modern standards",

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