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by issa 4y ago
Ha. I am indeed. And this is not the place I usually expect to discuss hardcore!
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by issa 4y ago
What bands were you in?
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by issa 4y ago
I've written many a hardcore punk song, and I am a pretty poor guitarist. I think my main comment on the video is that playing barre chords very fast is extremely easy. The good guitar players in the punk world add things beyond chords
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by issa 4y ago
30 years ago was probably the only time in my life I wasn't really programming. But 40 years ago, programming (for me at least) consisted of going to my local library, bringing home a computer magazine, then manually typing in the line
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by issa 4y ago
I feel like you could make a whole movie about the weather in LA. It would change your life. Twice.
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by issa 4y ago
"forever" is very relative. If you have one kid, and a partner to raise them, then what you describe is very accurate. But if you have two kids spread out over a few years, then you can pretty much assume 15+ years of your life ar
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by issa 4y ago
Short of having some acute emergency, it was for all intents and purposes IMPOSSIBLE to get a doctor's appointment of any sort through the height of the pandemic. At least that was my family's experience in Los Angeles.
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by issa 4y ago
Maybe the article was updated since you read it? It goes into their methodology: "Arias and her colleagues calculated life expectancy using a technique called a period life table. This involved the researchers imagining a group of 100,
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by issa 4y ago
Totally off topic, but I don't think the events will be "unforeseen". There are so many plausible predictions of what the future will hold, it's unlikely we will be surprised. At least, science fiction readers won't
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by issa 4y ago
I am fairly certain this article could either be read as totally serious or complete satire. It works both ways.
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by issa 4y ago
I knew I should have added some obvious cases where this didn't apply. But curious, what are you doing that you have to manually scale?
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by issa 4y ago
There is certainly a lot of choice, but when is the last time you had to: - really worry about disk space or memory size - check if something would work on IE - worry about version control - manually scale something
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by issa 4y ago
I realize that real life is more complicated than this, but if you tell companies "privacy is important to people" and "you will make more money by reading their messages", it is safe to assume companies will assure you
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by issa 4y ago
I don't know if they are trying to grab porn money while pretending to grab right-wing money or something else is going on. But I do know that there is nothing on their site that implies they do anything NEW or DIFFERENT. So not sure h
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by issa 4y ago
Certainly buying a brand-new EV (from any company) isn't making a positive impact on the environment. But, writ large, switching from ICE to electric cars is a giant step in the right direction. So I think it's safe to call that o
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by issa 4y ago
That is a good question. I would answer by avoiding it completely and just pointing out that I used to have to say to people: "Hey, give up something you love to save the planet" and now I can say: "Hey, get solar panels and
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by issa 4y ago
I've been concerned about climate change for decades and I think it is important to point out how certain fundamentals have changed in the past 30 years. Until recently, all that individual people could do was make sacrifices. the main
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by issa 4y ago
100%. These things have not happened by accident or in a vacuum.
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by issa 4y ago
People always forget that it isn't a question of leaving American cities as-is and expecting everyone to give up cars. The solution starts with building walkable cities that have public transportation.
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by issa 4y ago
My father grew up in a small village in western Africa. Visiting there as a child, with no running water or electricity, was such an impactful experience for me. It is very hard to imagine if you haven't experienced it, but it is certa
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by issa 4y ago
The "years of experience with a language" is a question for non-technical recruiters. They need some sort of proxy for skill, and length of time is the best one they have. I don't think any actual technical engineers would us
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by issa 4y ago
ha. Full disclosure, I spent a decade as a professional musician and another decade as an audio engineer at a recording studio. I've just always had terrible pitch. Grew up completely tone deaf, but managed to train myself to hear note
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by issa 4y ago
I think it is more a pitch thing. Playing the scale up from C, the F sounds off. Not sure why. My first guess was it was a sample just playing at different speeds and that was causing some issues.
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by issa 4y ago
I wish I had a better ear and could tell you what sounds funny to me about the piano at the top. Can anyone explain why it sounds off to me?
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by issa 4y ago
I am curious if you will find any useful advice here. I mean, there is some great advice in this thread, but it's really hard for anyone who isn't you to help in this situation. Here are some questions you should ask yourself that
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by issa 4y ago
Just to use your example, you would have a VERY hard time convincing me to spend $3,000 a month to speed up testing time. Running tests isn't exactly dead time. It gives engineers a break, they can think about other things while runnin
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by issa 4y ago
This 100%. Things can be both learning and earning, but in practice they never are -- at least not on purpose!
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by issa 4y ago
I think it is important to remember not to value judge these sorts of widespread skills. Does it matter today that I can't shape a flint or ride a horse?
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by issa 4y ago
This sounds like EVERY agency I have ever worked for. I am sure there are good agencies out there and others have had better experience, but the few agencies I have worked for would have considered this scenario a success.
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by issa 4y ago
I think the difference is pretty obvious. But maybe it is not. The important context is that, in your example, those left handed people haven't been kept out of power and influence in society for generations.

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