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by filoleg 3y ago
Don't bother much, that user just replies with "but the relative impact is low" to some of the most well-supported and obvious examples in this thread that argue presence of significant historical influence of imperial China
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by filoleg 3y ago
> Do you think HR runs background checks before or after the team greenlights a candidate? No idea how it is at all companies ever, but i can tell you about the ones I worked at. At both, I was asked to do the background check after i al
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by filoleg 3y ago
> There's time after the technical interviews and before the background check. Yes, and? I said as much, you will get to work for about a week or two before the background check results come back, and then you get fired. Or was your
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by filoleg 3y ago
I am far from being a card-carrying member of the ethics police, but this is a terrible advice even on the most practical level. You are just gonna get fired during your first week once the background check comes through. No matter how much
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by filoleg 3y ago
Thanks for putting into words what I couldn't articulate well, but what has been bothering me for a while. Very concise and to the point, saved your comment. It is just tiring seeing all those fearmongering articles in the news media a
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by filoleg 3y ago
> why would they make a product that devours smartphones? Likely because they expect AR to eventually devour smartphones, and they would rather devour it themselves than let others do so. Plus, it will be a painful growth with rough edge
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by filoleg 3y ago
This is fantastic, thank you for sharing! Literally a no-fluff cheatsheet for drum patterns presented in the simplest to digest form possible, and without losing any important parts. Programming drum patterns has always been daunting to me,
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by filoleg 3y ago
> I think Americans are just parroting pop culture from GB, and doing their best to sound, I dunno: posh or proper or whatever Agreed with your take, but there is another reason as well - just the whole "rubbing off" effect. I&
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by filoleg 3y ago
> If I like causing people pain and anguish and suffering, and my weapon of choice is words, should I also be incarcerated because I hurt people intentionally? No, you shouldn't be incarcerated for that. You would be an asshole if
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by filoleg 3y ago
You are correct, that's "optimized charging" setting, and it is on by default (but if one is inclined to turn it off for some reason, they can do it in settings).
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by filoleg 3y ago
My local synth shop (Patchwerks in Seattle, heavily recommend, they even have an online store; no affiliation with them besides being an occasional customer) keeps restocking in noticeable numbers and selling out of their TE equipment (and
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by filoleg 3y ago
Oh, that's interesting. For context, I am a guy and definitely went into the men's restroom in that anecdote above (so i cannot speak for the women's restroom in that same hallway). I just assumed they would make the same set
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by filoleg 3y ago
Ah yes, as opposed to all those professional people in finance wearing suits doing cocaine on regular? Is it their choice of the drug that makes it more professional? And no, I am not speaking just based on stereotypes, I personally observe
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by filoleg 3y ago
> Says you, but historically a lot of parents have disagreed. Historically, a lot of people disagreed with honor killings being not ok either (and in some regions of the world, they still do). The fact of the matter is, in the present da
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by filoleg 3y ago
> I find iMovie for Mac pretty useful, honestly. Agreed, but only because comparable alternatives are even worse imo. Hopefully, one day Apple will nail it like they did with GarageBand, as GB used to be pretty meh as well not that long
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by filoleg 3y ago
> That's not "twisted idea," unless you think it's OK for parents to beat their kids. The "beating" bit has nothing to do with raising children. It is not ok to beat people in general, so I don't see wh
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by filoleg 3y ago
> What is more important is what the person who is writing the article doesn't have an idea about what it's about. > Just like "Anna Denis Vnrhoturkina Kulkov" and "Kommunistrecheskya St" Not trying to ab
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by filoleg 3y ago
Current best practice would depend on what you are trying to do exactly. But overall the fastest way to transfer files to/from iPad (both in terms of ease/speed of use, as well as the actual transfer speeds) is just hooking up an
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by filoleg 3y ago
Yep, I totally forgot about this use-case, but there were plenty of situations where it would've saved me. With one a couple a years ago that I vividly remember. I volunteered to edit a demo video for our internal hackathon project, an
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by filoleg 3y ago
Yes, bloom and motion blur are disablable in settings.
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by filoleg 3y ago
Fully agreed, but, at least personally, I have a much lower quality bar for random internet comments than I do for financial articles written by people calling themselves journalists. Those articles usually being just slightly better than r
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by filoleg 3y ago
Yeah, I am with you on this one. I even tried googling for it, but couldn't find any articles referencing both Guantanamo and casio watches, aside from the general ones talking about the whole phenomenon of Al-Quaeda preferring those w
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by filoleg 3y ago
> guess once you tell someone about your health data then it's no longer health data protected by hipaa? It is a bit more complex and involved than this, so a simple answer would be "it depends". However, no matter who it
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by filoleg 3y ago
Typo'd, meant to say "when you call internationally, each phone number has a country code ", not "has a country country".
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by filoleg 3y ago
Yep, I actually ordered that exact same textured sheet you linked, and it got delivered a couple weeks ago, but I am yet to try it. I still want to make PETG work for me, as the prints i actually managed to finish with it were great. > W
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by filoleg 3y ago
> > 79608229389 — is exactly like Anna’s, only minus the (mis?)leading “8”. > Ah, those falsehoods programmers believe about phone numbers This actually has a reasonable technical explanation that will come to mind of most people w
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by filoleg 3y ago
I don't know what you are on, I admitted in multiple comments on HN over the past year that I was russian. Never got any "calls to violence" or "insults of ethnic character" or heard people justifying terrorism insi
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by filoleg 3y ago
Could have been, but they just replied that they live in the pacific northwest, which is, incidentally, where I live as well. So that shouldn't be a factor.
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by filoleg 3y ago
Thanks for providing a detailed counterpoint, gave me some ideas. Next thing I will try is a textured sheet. For additional context, my main issues with PETG were prints detaching from the printing bed midway through (but i fixed that one b
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by filoleg 3y ago
No, that wasn't my intent, and I felt like I articulated it well enough where it is obvious I didn't even imply that. Artist style evolves over time, and it is influenced by outside sources, I agree with you. That evolution of sty

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