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by dvtrn 5y ago
I tried to. Even got an offer letter. The pay would have been lower than what I make now, but still been enough to live a comfortable existence. Which has been, and forever will be enough for me. I was thrilled to be exiting tech to go do s
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by dvtrn 5y ago
At least from a US perspective, a long history of labor organizing, labor laws, and more organizing, more labor laws that got us to 40 hours. I think it’s less an “obsession” and is probably more realistically a fossilized anachronism of al
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Too many places have horizontal silos, elaborate bureaucratic policies, throw it over the wall mentality While looking you dead in the face and saying "we've broken down all of our silos". Current job is this way. "We
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I think they're just enumerating the entire address space Even when you consider most calls now for SIP/VoIP platforms (which is where a lot of these scammers get their DID/phone numbers from) are charging fractions of a ce
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Check out http://intelx.io , depending on your risk tolerances, putting your email and phone number in yet another search bar may not be in the cards. If you can swallow it though, depending if (1) anything you care about has bee
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I have a nice collection of "throwaway" phone numbers for all kinds of reasons, while one of them is dedicated to job hunting, I don't think merely having it would have stopped this agency from sharing my CV across to whome
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Deciding to disregard any recruiter opportunity is just shutting out quite a few things that you probably won't hear about otherwise and that policy is doing nothing to advance your position (career, earnings, etc.) Are readers sup
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Recruiting farms like Cyber Recruiters (yuck) will do everything in their power to waste your time Or share your data. I made a throwaway, but not obnoxious email on my domain just for recruiters a few years ago, so I could try tracking w
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by dvtrn 5y ago
How long before greed is literally evolved out of our brains?
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I’m a fully remote worker. To my managers the work I do is a lot. To me it’s about 4 hours a day. There’s no deceit in this. What I tell them I’m working on is what I’m working on, what I’ve declared as ‘finished’ is factually ‘finished’. T
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They want the maximum amount of short term profit possible. Build things fast, sell them, next project. Not a graduate but instead an industry veteran. If what you say is accurate then Im happy to have my bias of “maybe it’s time I go the
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Speaking of eelslap, another slap-happy nugget from those days: https://www.addictinggames.com/funny/spank-the-monkey
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Very similar story with cheaper no-name bluetooth wireless earbuds. Honestly..despite the other complaints in the thread here about regular bluetooth earbuds…I’ve had a MUCH better experience with them than the airpods at doing one thing: b
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Which is why I wish the webmention had taken off more than it did https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/
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"A person is smart, people are dumb, dangerous, panicky animals" - An alien invasion movie Not gonna say I subscribe in text, but in merit...I mean...
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by dvtrn 5y ago
I was a long time reader of antiwork because of the former, and ended up leaving because of the latter. These days it’s absolutely reeking with stupendously bad takes about employment law and workers rights that in most cases aren’t actual
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by dvtrn 5y ago
I’m going to clone and fork, this looks like a really great project for me to cut my golang teeth on for that very purpose.
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DankPods, is that you?
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by dvtrn 5y ago
These apps look wonderful, only taking a casual glance at the repo, has anyone used, or would one recommend using Skate ( https://github.com/charmbracelet/skate ) as a personal PW manager or even keychain?
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by dvtrn 5y ago
“ Is it the cool factor of being able to identify aircraft out of the sky with a camera?” Yeah, pretty much. But for short we just call it “planespotting” in the hobby community ;)
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by dvtrn 5y ago
The mattress analogy was perfect and brought about the “aha” realization, so thanks for that!
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Gravity waves? The way you described this in your other post as "in which the air column itself is transported vertically", did you mean pressure waves , as in a change in air pressure? I'm not a geologist, so don't t
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by dvtrn 5y ago
It's exhausting when you can just work somewhere with more autonomy and less bureaucracy. And trust. Bi-directional even, but in my mind that’s implied.
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> Maybe people should resume doing it. Check out http://indieweb.xyz The premise of the IndieWeb aligns closely with what you just described I think.
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Generally speaking, what's the general opinion on 80/20'ing your way into a lateral transfer? I've done it a couple times, at best I ended up leaving, at worst, HR never actually recorded the transfer so when time came a
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by dvtrn 5y ago
proactively reward your ICs, don't wait until they're halfway out the door. [Insert frustrated comment here about how capable, sufficient and well-performing ICs are absolutely rewarded.....with more work and additional duties]
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Fun to see the phenomenon of "staff meetings that could have been a memo" extends even to the service industry.
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Isn't that the point of the channel? Making astronomy accessible to "Everyday" people?
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As the owner of an ultrawide... so much whitespace.
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Good question. Had to sit here and think about how I wanted to answer that one. Proscriptively ? Probably. Inherently, not as much, but maybe. What I mean is, in some cases it probably is just a ‘brand’ in that I’ve just had too many exper

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