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by fcatalan 4y ago
Uh I don´t know what this has to do with the rest of the discussion but... The University sells some official swag through their "Mercatus" store, including clothing, and in fact in recent years had a lot of it related to the 800t
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by fcatalan 4y ago
Japanese grammar is way more regular, "logic" and almost "computer-like". There are fewer and clearer rules and they are made very explicit by the usage of particles marking every part of speech. The phonetics are quite
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by fcatalan 4y ago
My kids' school and high school use Teams for some stuff. I have to use it occasionally for work too. The thing is that's nigh impossible to simply log out as one user and back in as another, so we have to take a lot of care of wh
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by fcatalan 4y ago
Nice! I dreamt about making exactly this for years, also after reading Patrick O'Brien. Learned some 3D modeling, tried a few game engines, thought a lot about water rendering and bought a very nice book: "Seamanship in the Age of
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by fcatalan 4y ago
The prompts that made it simulate command line systems don't work as well anymore. It still does it but the output is more terse, for example 'ls' just produces a plain list of a couple filenames instead of a full one with si
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by fcatalan 4y ago
I clicked, not really sure what it was about and started reading the first paragraph, armed only with my STEM-derived knowledge of the alphabet and I got it instantly. So it seems to work. Very interesting concept.
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by fcatalan 4y ago
I'm that one man show, within a very dysfunctional org. I write a lot of internal tools, unprompted, just to save time for me or colleagues I like. I get bored sometimes, so deep inside some of them there's a naive Forth interpre
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by fcatalan 4y ago
In my experience, Duolingo is as good, in fact better than the average class you can get. It won't get you to fluency by itself, but years of bare lessons won't either. A few years ago I got randomly interested in Danish, so I sta
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by fcatalan 4y ago
A secular place won't execute them on the spot, but their sworn enemies for 1500 years would most probably do.
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by fcatalan 4y ago
My uncle bought an imported ZX Spectrum in 1984 when I was 10. I was instantly hooked. I read BASIC books from the library and programmed on paper every day, then tested the programs every Saturday morning. He still had the Spectrum in pris
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by fcatalan 4y ago
While you are the party in the right here and others have given sound advice, some part of me is rooting for the guy. It sounds like someone jaded, maybe well into burnout. He might not have been like that always, might be worth exploring w
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by fcatalan 4y ago
I work at an 800 year old institution. I have been here for 20 years. My wife works here too. Salary isn't great in global terms, but puts us within the top 20% national household incomes. Enough no not really care about money. We work
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by fcatalan 4y ago
I was in college in 96. Email accounts were only for some limited staff and foreign students, but we all wanted one. I managed to get hold of one, with console access, because the mail interface was elm. I downloaded the passwd file and too
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by fcatalan 4y ago
I had to hastily evaluate a bunch of online proctoring systems during lockdown. They went from dismal(1) to borderline scammy(2). I advised against using any, and got a lot of pushback from the department heads. Someone in the regional gove
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by fcatalan 4y ago
Dead weight would be people doing nothing. After those come the negative contributors: they do stuff but is all politicking and scheming, or just waste others time. Doing strictly what you are really paid for is bad now?
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by fcatalan 4y ago
It would be about 99% unfair. In my experience Wikipedia style moderation setups are a magnet for small minded petty martinets. Of course rules and some criteria are needed, but soon those people run over any shred of common sense while wie
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by fcatalan 4y ago
Back in the summer of 1999 I had finished college and an internship and was weighing my options. Many afternoons I was hanging around the office with a friend that had just been hired by a startup. One day there was some issue, I don't
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by fcatalan 4y ago
My entire job was doing that for a university for a few years. You won't catch me doing it again even for 2x my current salary.
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by fcatalan 4y ago
I'm experiencing a version of this. I'm burned out at my job, but my life circumstances and personality keep me from looking for another one. What I have done is strictly confining my job to have a minimal impact on the rest of my
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by fcatalan 5y ago
That's another reason for them. Can't make verbal promises to you and then forget about them via email.
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by fcatalan 5y ago
It's the same here as in your partner's place. Even the proportions. This is government work: hiring practices are bad by design and "firing practices" unexistant. No one is ever fired. This means that the place is pere
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by fcatalan 5y ago
Oh I also have stories about this... maybe for another thread. I should really just leave, but I know I won't
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by fcatalan 5y ago
Welcome to government jobs, where it's way easier to squeeze those who do the work than fire those that won't.
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by fcatalan 5y ago
"Nailed" it. Perfect description of my situation. I wish I weren't like this
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by fcatalan 5y ago
"Emergency" WFH at my workplace have been slashed, everyone back in full since the start of the month. No reason publically given, been privately told "not about people like you, but some others have taken a 2 year vacation s
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by fcatalan 5y ago
I've sat twice in the last month with my 9 year old to start making simple games with Scratch following a book someone got him for Xmas (Coding Games in Scratch by Jon Woodcock). So far it's going pretty well, the concept introduc
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by fcatalan 5y ago
I loved following this one a few summers ago and even went beyond the end of the tutorial adding functionality and trying more advanced data structures. I think I would have ended with a completely usable hyper-personal editor but unicode s
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by fcatalan 5y ago
The same exact people that I saw domain squatting and left behind when told to put pop-unders on our pages are now closing their scammy SEO outfits to go full web3.
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by fcatalan 5y ago
But the project isn't pointless! For example, most of my help was to make sure she took 10 different containers and placed them in different locations around the house to increase the probability of getting a few decent crystals. I dis
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by fcatalan 5y ago
When I was a kid I never got help from my parents either and I now think that I would have benefited from a bit of closer attention. I developed a huge spectrum of bad practices and behaviours that I'm inclined to think I could have av

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