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by genthree 7mo ago
The golf one’s especially weird to me. The overall effect of the fancy gear is that courses doubled in acreage and… you hit the ball over most of that new land on your first stroke anyway (at least, that’s the idea, lol). Like, the advantag
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by genthree 7mo ago
Teach me your ways. I’ve long wished for an actual, human secretary to handle that for me. The context-switching and digging around in a painful, slow interface (I don’t just mean Jira, 100% of the ones project managers find acceptable seem
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by genthree 7mo ago
Yeah, I’d have a mental breakdown within weeks if I had to pair more than an hour a day, max (even that much, consistently, would probably harm my quality of life quite a bit—a little every now and then is no big deal, though). No exaggerat
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by genthree 7mo ago
AI autocomplete and suggestions built-in to Jira are making our ticket tracker so goddamn spammy that I’m 100% sure that “feature” has done more harm than good. I don’t think anybody’s tracking the actual net-effects of any of this crap on
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by genthree 7mo ago
Basically every contest tends to lose interest, for me, either as a spectator or participant, the more “refined” the play. From board games to sports. I’d love to be able to go back and watch some of the goofy stuff that went on in, say, ea
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by genthree 7mo ago
“… on Opposite Day!”
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by genthree 7mo ago
> I've found that everywhere else, certainly in the midwest, where I live, either gets too hot in summer or too cold in winter Much of the midwest gets both. Stifling humidity and temps often in the 90s, sometimes topping 100, for (
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by genthree 7mo ago
Good office with a short walkable or bike able commute is my preference. I've never had "good" plus that kind of commute. I've only had one of those at a time, and about half the time, neither. So skipping the commute—an
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by genthree 7mo ago
These limits don’t apply to self-funded programs that are administered by big insurance companies (most large employers’ plans, then) or plans less than two years old (whether there are measures in place to prevent simply rotating plans oft
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by genthree 7mo ago
Try really low doses. I hate being truly high, but a weed "buzz" is great for falling asleep, especially when ill (I often suffer more from severe lack of sleep than from any of the other effects of whatever common virus or bact
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by genthree 7mo ago
Docker's what lets me spend more time using the software on my server than fiddling with it. I got the fiddling out of my system years ago, I just want shit to work now. I don't really care about it per se but having a cross-dis
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by genthree 7mo ago
Yeah I basically don’t trust anyone but Apple for wireless audio because every time I’ve tried allegedly-good non-Apple Bluetooth audio devices, they’ve been a ton worse, so bad I ended up barely using them. In this case these are more ex
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by genthree 7mo ago
The most-crippling part of this is removing their ability to use wire services (AP, Reuters, et c). It means they can only cover news if they send a correspondent. They cannot cover much at all that way. It basically means it’s just a compa
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by genthree 7mo ago
Consider the motivation behind the new nickname. It’s plainly not an attempt at honesty. Watching almost any speech by Hegseth makes it clear it’s another “tough guy” thing—his latest effort included announcing “no quarter” in the war with
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by genthree 7mo ago
I bounced off it in about the same amount of time, just the other day. I’ll probably return to it at some point given how talked-about it is, but as soon as the woman was revealed to be pregnant the implicit “ho ho! Who’s the father?!” made
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by genthree 7mo ago
The new norm is blanket pardons for everybody at the end of a presidency. And a lot more even-more-openly selling pardons in those final weeks, than already went on. Real fear of malicious prosecution of out-of-power political enemies (we’r
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by genthree 7mo ago
1) Get a couple million dollars you’re willing to gamble. 2) Spend a few tens of K creating some amount of a front of having a company. 3) Buy a dinner or two with the right people in the admin, ideally Trump himself (you can literally do t
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by genthree 7mo ago
Some more taxes are a lot better than being disappeared with no due process whatsoever, or having huge amounts of your property seized with no due process. The rich benefit immensely from liberal democracy. The alternative is being forced
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by genthree 7mo ago
Right-wing media strategy has been a lot more heavily-planned and intentional than you’re suggesting.
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by genthree 7mo ago
“Climate change safe” for the rich: - Hard to reach by land (not vulnerable to migration waves) - Not so small there will be incredible deprivation if sea trade volume plunges (this rules out the vast majority of island nations) - Not badly
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by genthree 7mo ago
My experience has been that a good small team, even full of people who’d stand no chance in a FAANG interview (fwiw) can outperform at least 5x as many devs in your median bigco, while maintaining a relaxed pace. The reason for this has not
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by genthree 7mo ago
Similar story here, I love wired headphones but have to admit that, after being gifted my first set of AirPods, my actual use of any sort of personal speaker device went up like 20x or more. It’s exactly that factor of being able to get up
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by genthree 7mo ago
The specific example was indeed a poor one since we have extensive data on that, and even high-touch non-surgical interventions involving hours per week from multiple specialists (read: incredibly expensive) with very-willing participants h
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by genthree 7mo ago
Depends very much on whether the kids' interests leans toward doing computer stuff, or doing stuff with computers. And they can do the former in a VM anyway. Install Linux, or a BSD, and go. With the bonus that you can experiment fearl
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by genthree 7mo ago
I'm a computer nerd who started on DOS on IIRC a 286, all the Windowses (OK not quite all, though my first job did expose me to a couple NT versions and 2K in addition to nearly-all the home versions I upgraded through on my own) and v