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by dvtrn 5y ago
Or highly-outwardly energetic types. I’m outwardly very dull, but also very willing to have a thorough and deep conversation on just about anything. It just happens that…well…I happen to sound like Ben Stein from that scene in Ferris Buell
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Do you have numbers to back that up? https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa-823.pd... I found the section "New Evidence on the Effects of Land-Use Regulation" to be quite
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by dvtrn 5y ago
> You're average game dev studi does not have any of that. I sort of wonder, reading this, what kind of accessibility regulations exist in Canada (FC6 being developed by Ubisoft Toronto) has for gaming and how it compares to other t
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I would also imagine that in addition to those three, regular old-fashioned attenuation would degrade the signal at significant enough distances as well, no? Or is that not an issue in the vacuum of space?
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I wonder if these kinds of discussions can be easier to have if concerns and critiques brought up were framed, from the start with an understanding that the cost to achieve and maintain compliance with the standard is a cost that gets paid
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True story, I once worked with a guy who got out of being "voluntold" to work a weekend long migration project by bringing up "I've got dad duties this weekend, sorry". A few months later he and I were hanging out a
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by dvtrn 5y ago
This much energy and passion about faux-window shutters is kind of impressive.
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by dvtrn 5y ago
That was exactly how we used to do it, from where we used to do it, haha. Are you my friend? Rodrigo? How's the weather in Miami? How 'bout those 'Canes?
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by dvtrn 5y ago
I got in trouble once in high school just for discovering and then using `net send` to send a message to my friend that said "Hi from lab 3". Computer lab access revoked for 6 weeks. Jokes on them, now I send socket messages to my
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Hasn’t fully walked away from the office and probably hasn’t learned that “management by meeting” is probably an indicator that management isn’t sure what they’re managing for. Probably.
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by dvtrn 5y ago
I understand the “why” of team building, but the “what” or “how” the team-building is done often handled in such a hackneyed top-down way that I often wonder “if you just brought the team together, gave them options on ways to spend their t
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by dvtrn 5y ago
No clue why I didn’t bother mentioning it, but agreed! Along with crossword puzzles the local newspaper classifieds section has that same hyper local peep into what’s going on around you from lawsuits (sometimes very funny notices/thre
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by dvtrn 5y ago
If you’re lucky enough to live in an area where halfway decent reporting happens then maybe subscribing to the print edition makes sense. I definitely would if there was actual value to it beyond reprinting AP articles I already read onli
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by dvtrn 5y ago
If only their tech stack was at the same level. No joke. Sometimes I appreciate the way Azure has chosen to differentiate itself in terms of developer experience. Then there are times using it when I want to walk into an ocean. Interestin
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Speaking of those classic weather channel vibes: https://m.twitch.tv/retroweatherchannel
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by dvtrn 5y ago
What ever became of RCS? Wasn’t that supposed to support a good number of these features?
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I picked an awful month to start dieting…again
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by dvtrn 5y ago
A previous boss was like this. Couldn’t avail himself for any of the status updates when I tried to-dutifully-keep him informed on project status, but would then show up to my team planning meetings, be confused, or get upset when he found
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by dvtrn 5y ago
There’s a scene in the movie “Sully” that occurs right after the bird strikes that I’ve seen a few people in commercial aviation respond very positively to in its depiction of checklists during a crisis moment.
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by dvtrn 5y ago
I find myself wavering back and forth. Great fiction? Give me a big cinderblock of a book please. Full of world building and chapters dedicated to a single thread of thought going through a character's mind. Even to the point of someti
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by dvtrn 5y ago
I agree there are problems with our prison system but that is not the same thing as slavery. The actual text of 13A makes involuntary servitude and or slavery a specific statutory exemption to the abolition of slavery. How can one read it
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by dvtrn 5y ago
It's not forgotten, just conveniently ignored. It was with a balled up fist, covered up in a velvet glove that I described the phenomenon as "forgotten" because you're completely correct with this, IMO. It absolutely d
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Once again the prison exemption is completely forgotten about in a discussion of slavery.
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by dvtrn 5y ago
I've had a couple who came very close, circumstance and the usual bureaucracy precluded their ownership reaching the top of the 'extreme' spectrum. Give them credit for even doing as much as they did, to be honest.
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Yeah no don't get me wrong, I served in the Armed Forces and I like you recently intentionally stepped back from leadership back to being an IC. Decided it's just not for me and I'd much rather not ever do it again, or if I a
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Anecdote wrapped in a non-sequitur: It’s kinda funny to me, I had a job once full of leaders and managers who were constantly invoking Jocko, Simon Sinek and other leadership and management tomes and were just as frequently beating their
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Lately one doesn’t even need a SIM card, instead SMS via VoIP or a SIP trunk and bulk-purchased phone numbers
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by dvtrn 5y ago
It might even mean having someone transition down so they can eventually transition up. Anyone have a success story surrounding this they’d like to share? Asked another way: has anyone ever stepped down from leadership and gone on to be a
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If you're a worker sympathetic to the organizing effort, it's probably not. Depends on your presumed union leaders. If you're in management, being 'the adversary' probably means being on the back foot in terms of ne
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by dvtrn 5y ago
I don’t know if I necessarily want to spill out all the details, but very early on for me AOL access came about when I discovered a way to “spoof” payments (not using A-O-Hell) via a checking account and routing number that AOL didn’t both

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