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by irrational 2y ago
Hardly anyone is protesting in the streets about it. There are protests, but they are a minuscule percentage of the population. Not protesting is basically supporting, just like not voting is basically supporting whoever wins.
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by irrational 2y ago
> How are professionals expected to communicate with each other? Usually with empty platitudes to kick things off like "Hey! How's it going? How's the family? How are you doing?" Messages are expected to be written ac
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by irrational 2y ago
That sounds perfect, but it looks like it only supports linux and windows. I'm on a macbook.
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by irrational 2y ago
Location, location, location. Some parts of the country are nicer than others. Most people don't consider rural areas where the land is flat and mostly cornfields (with a possibility of tornadoes) to be a nice place to live. I live abo
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by irrational 2y ago
Is it the difference between a church building and a temple? The Romans would put a wall (or it could have been a ditch) around some ground. The wall was called a fanum. That which was outside of the fanum was called the profanum (pro = bef
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by irrational 2y ago
I wonder if it is similar to people who camp out in trees to keep them from being cut down. Maybe it is the same sort of veneration in both cases?
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by irrational 2y ago
Please tell us more, because I'm in accordance with the other person. What do you talk about in your 1:1s? Are you driving the conversation or is the manager? What are the topics of conversation? How long does it usually last? My manag
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by irrational 2y ago
> The incentives to investigate and call out fraud are non-existent. In fact, the opposite is true: If you find something fishy in a paper, your mentor, colleagues, and friends will most likely suggest that you keep quiet and move on (or
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by irrational 2y ago
Firefox seems to do fine without Google employees.
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by irrational 2y ago
It's not his lifestyle I'm worried about. There was a healthy youtuber who made videos about wilderness survival who was killed when he was rear ended by a drunk driver while stopped at a red light (the drunk driver, of course, su
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by irrational 2y ago
Sometimes when I'm wearing glasses, never when I'm wearing contacts.
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by irrational 2y ago
If someone doesn’t use the CLI, they are a newbie? I’ve never needed to learn or use the CLI, the GitHub tools built into JetBrains IDEs and VS Code have always worked fine for me, and I’ve been a professional developer for nearly 30 years.
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by irrational 2y ago
Back in the 1970s I had a bed wetting problem. They tried a medication called Ritalin to address this problem. This medication had an interesting side effect of making me pleasant to be around for the first time in my life. Both my parents
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by irrational 2y ago
20 years ago, but with gigabit Ethernet speeds and 5g WiFi. Oh, and modern dev tools in the browser. I’d hate to go back to only Firebug.
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by irrational 2y ago
> Then Irving would either walk back home to his wife and two children What the... he'd leave his wife at home with the kids while he hung out all day at the pool with "magnificent-looking young women, full of theatrical drive&
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by irrational 2y ago
> I’ll conclude this long piece by saying (1) obviously the bill should pass, and (2) it should be called “The Chapman Act”. (3) I imagine Chicago greatly regrets towing Matt Chapman "over a facially bogus ticket".
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by irrational 2y ago
It seems like it would be more useful if the Russian and Greek words were transliterated into the Latin alphabet.
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by irrational 2y ago
You would think that at a certain point he would never have to pay a personal traffic citation again since they would probably believe him that it wasn't him.
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by irrational 2y ago
So, who is the worst? Is there someone pumping out multiple new papers per day?
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by irrational 2y ago
This isn’t a software company. It is a Fortune 500 manufacturing company. Making physical products is the core business, not software.
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by irrational 2y ago
Because after spending years building it out, the company will be loathe to redo all the work, especially since it is so tightly integrated with the third party system. They won’t replace it until they replace the third party system someday
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by irrational 2y ago
I work in HR for a large company. A third party system was chosen to use for part of the HR functions. This third party system uses an integration system that involves dragging and dropping components and doing some config work (think of Ni
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by irrational 2y ago
See Typhoid Mary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon?wprov=sfti1
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by irrational 2y ago
Scientists keep talking about the three sisters rising, so clearly there is action happening there. And St Helens keeps erupting, says clearly there is action happening there. It doesn’t seem surprising that the other volcanoes in the area
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by irrational 2y ago
Major Dick Head must have been praying for a promotion to Lt Colonel.
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by irrational 2y ago
My wife had an elementary school teacher Richard Weiner who went by Dick. You can't make these things up.
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by irrational 2y ago
You can't fit that many wars in during the next year.
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by irrational 2y ago
We don't need ships to go fight the next war. The next war is going to be right here.
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by irrational 2y ago
Fact checking is things like Republicans claiming that people in a certain town are eating cats and dogs or their are pedophiles in the basement of a certain pizza place. There isn't any need to model and scrutinize data to fact check
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by irrational 2y ago
> With a few simple changes For certain values of simple.

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