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>do you typically feel better or worse after browsing the internet? I know it's common to say the "internet sucks" but I'll go against the grain and honestly say it's the best resource in my life. I like learn
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>when your credit card is telling people where and when you work This article's domain (Ramp) is a SaaS company that tracks employee expenses for other companies . Tracking employee credit-cards and reimbursements is part of thei
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>This is as if you started explaining how an ICE car works by diving into chemical properties of petrol. But wouldn't explaining the chemistry actually be acceptable if the title was, "The chemistry you need to start underst
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>I want to read blogs by people who are passionate about their topic [...] I didn't downvote but want to try to explain some of the mindset of some of the authors who do care about analytics and how it affects what they work on. T
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>, unpaid overtime is fraud, gp was talking about salaried employees which is legally exempt from overtime pay. There is no rigid 40-hour ceiling for salary pay. Salary compensation is typical for white-collar employees such as anal
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>When / How did versioning enter versioning the awkward state we have today? There is cl.exe, MSBuild and build chain The multiple confusing version numbers are caused by each software component (e.g. "cl.exe" vs "
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>and proghress should be made towards removing the distinction. [...] history shaped this distinction The point I'm trying to make is that society can't make progress towards unifying alcohol into a category with fetanyl -
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>Somehow alcohol always gets separate consideration and categorisation, while most people would laugh if asked "is moderate tobacco/meth/ecstasy/ The "drugs" of alcohol and caffeine are more deeply integra
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>What amazes me about this phenomenon and so many others is just how long the executive class are willing to stick with a counterproductive trend. RTO, open offices, The issue is that executives and managers don't see it as count
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>IMO the nice thing about Erlang and Elixir is their foundation of representing data is rock solid. Because data is fully immutable, you get a lot of nice things "for free" (no shared state, reliable serialisation, etc). [...]
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>A direct analogy here would seem to be a newspaper publisher arguing that if a reader chooses to fold up the newspaper into an origami duck, No, that type of manipulation isn't the legal argument Axel Springer is trying to use.
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>Every "add-on" and layer beyond the .txt happens to run on a complex wetware device that came built-in with my body. He was addressing the comments such as mine that determined a txt file without any runtime software layered
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I've had a plain TODO.txt file for over 20 years so I agree with all the benefits the author mentioned. However, I don't like it because without an app, there's no runtime loop to notify and alert me of what's comin
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>Creating the necessary prose is torturous for most of us, so Bob fires up the LLM du jour, types in “Please create a 4 paragraph long business case for my manager, explaining why I need to replace my old, slow computer” and copies the
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> is just proximity. What I didn't emphasize enough is that the high school teen years is really _just_ proximity. But adult employment adds more than proximity because you choose what kind of place to work at . (E.g. you studie
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>It's a shame we spend 18ish years making friends, then in our 20's ... I think the thing we don't like to say out loud is that the "friends" we made as children and up through high school were really friends c
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>A pilot is expected to demonstrate exactly what they do on the job every day. They don’t need to practice for interviews. Airline pilots that were laid off and are trying to find employment with another airline do study airmanship in
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>A brick layer isn't asked to build a wall prior to getting a job. A certificate confirming he did learn the job is enough for companies to employ them. It depends. A welder looking for a job -- even with a certification -- will
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>Why would you keep using an app that you suspect was cynically exploiting your generosity like that? I’d drive every time rather than encourage such behaviour. Surely you already know that choosing things doesn't always simplify
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>To my knowledge, a radio station or music streaming service doesn't have to negotiate with the record label to play a given song, they just have to pay a small royalty as defined by law. The copyright holders can legally prevent
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>Why is this so hard for the film industry? It boils down to money. Movies & tv have higher monetary value to the studios than songs to the record labels. So the ip owners of video content get more revenue by restricting it as excl
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>, how come sales people are unable to do things for a fixed monthly salary? You have to separate out 2 different ideas of the "theoretical idealized salesperson that works for fixed salary" -vs- "real-world salespers
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>Reading up on "bona fide occupational qualification" and thought this might be helpful, as there is a Wikipedia page on it: Yes, and notice that the page you cited refers back to the actual text of the Federal laws : >I
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>, but I don't think this changes the legality of the discrimination against male independent contractors, because the riders are employing them. Riders don't create a official "W-2 employee" relationship with a Ube
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>I think the direction we should go in is not to separate genders, but unify them. For example, there shouldn't be separate bathrooms This Uber gender option is about safety for women. Some women are afraid of male Uber drivers
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>Sure, Java was slow and clunky but at least it was free of the memory unsafety that plagued C/C++. What was the mainstream "safe" alternative? There was no Rust back then, Before Sun Java in 1995, companies built enter
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The word "hype" is being used in 2 different ways. definition #1 is about Java features : The original "Java is criminally underhyped" essay by Jackson Roberts is talking about "not over-hyped" in terms of
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>while the sheep that paid wait in line. The supposed "sheep" that want to get on the plane first are people that want to get that precious overhead bin space to avoid checking a carry-on bag at the gate. Boarding last me
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>You remember when Google used to do the same thing for you way before "AI"? [...] stack trace [...], but a plain search used to be capable of giving the same answer as a LLM. The "plain" Google Search before LLM ne
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>and make my videos interesting and where can I find royalty free music and clips. reply to commenter akulbe: >Do you think using AI for text-to-speech lessens the value of the content? You really don't need any music soundtr

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