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by jbm 4y ago
I loved this story but take issue with the framing. Dishonest reinvention of oneself is not a modern phenomena; my gut feeling is that this was a common occurrence. You have classic fictional books about the premise (IE the Count of Monte
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by jbm 4y ago
LINQ is an interesting case as I can legitimately imagine only using LINQ for 5-10 years as Microsoft is dedicated to it, and I understand that all .NET languages use it. However, outside of the .NET world, there is no common ORM that I wou
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by jbm 5y ago
One of the design decisions I made for a project I'm working on is to skip the ORM layer and make direct SQL instead. This pairs with the "SQL (almost never) changes" aspect; the same SQL I learned in college 15-20 years ago
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by jbm 5y ago
Installed but on my Regolith setup, it seems to result in this only working for sudo. I probably should remove it, but it is already saving me so much time..
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by jbm 5y ago
Japan as a haven for children is an exaggeration, at last in Tokyo. Sure, we can see young children take the train and walk to school - but it is not common to see that. In 12 years of living in Tokyo (Nakano-ku mostly), I didn't see
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Dan's Solar Scooter(builditsolar.com)
2 points by jbm 5y ago|0 comments
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by jbm 5y ago
The Humane Interface is amazing. I managed to build a consulting deal as a single 20-something dev in Tokyo in part due to being able to explain concepts I had learned in the Humane Interface. Even if I don't necessarily agree with ev
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by jbm 5y ago
If I had a family trip and it was raining or it was late, I would take the taxi from the station to my home. I also used the taxi to get home from Haneda - cheaper and easier than taking the train for 5 people with 5-8 bags.
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by jbm 5y ago
This is hilariously wrong. Almost every cab driver I ever rode with in Tokyo would talk to you unless you were talking to someone else, or seemed like someone who didn't want to talk. Even the one taking my wife to the hospital to giv
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by jbm 5y ago
I have had Microsoft Teams open up Microsoft Authenticator and ask me to input my password, twice, and then (within Authenticator) ask me to click a button to get to Authenticator to get a 2fa code - again, while in Authenticator. It's
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by jbm 5y ago
Wow this sounds like we are going through the same thing! MS Teams' sign-in is truly asinine. If that data is sensitive you'd think they would at least try something more than keeping it on screen while a potential thief steals a
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by jbm 5y ago
What arcades are you talking about, if you don't mind me asking? All the Sega ones were about as mainstream as you could get. I would walk out of Sunshine City in Ikebukuro and see it filled with normal-ish people. I even took my ki
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by jbm 5y ago
It is commonly speculated that the Darwinian "10% off the bottom" layoffs were one of the reasons why Enron had so many failings as a company (fear of getting laid off led to dishonest dealing and creative accounting) and that is
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by jbm 5y ago
Your 10% example was used by Jack Welsh GE and Enron right? Do you consider them innovative / forward looking?
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by jbm 5y ago
I live in Calgary and all the complaints about housing sounded ridiculous to me. Then I read about PEI's housing shortage and suddenly realized that I was probably in my own bubble.
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Psychological Operations Capture their minds, their hearts and souls will follow(psywarrior.com)
2 points by jbm 5y ago|0 comments
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by jbm 5y ago
To try to steelman the argument, I believe the main point can be expressed as follows; 1. China is trying to censor Wikimedia at the world stage for their political purposes 2. Some Social Justice related groups have similar outlooks toward
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by jbm 5y ago
They also have Japanese ancestry, why wouldn't I? Frankly I agree with what (I think you are) saying; it isn't the greatest tourism spot if you are a family. Tokyo is allergic to children.
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by jbm 5y ago
This is so sad. I used to take that bullet train back and forth to go skiing at Gala Yuzawa. My kids loved it. Unfortunately, the lack of any real cargo space meant people who were carrying their own equipment had to improvise (a lot). T
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by jbm 5y ago
> SSD and the battery I have a MacBook Pro w/ Retina Display from Mid-2012. It cannot be fixed for a reasonable price, despite it being still mostly perfect for my daughter's school computing. This computer definitely interest
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by jbm 5y ago
I don't think any parent I know actually prevented their kids from meeting their friends other than at the very very beginning of the pandemic (and before vaccinations). Internet hysterics aside, I think most parents appreciate their
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by jbm 5y ago
This hagiography of high school life is a frank denial of reality. I cannot find a single thing I agree with about it, and interacting with immature and violent people of the same age had very, very little benefit to me or most of the peop
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by jbm 5y ago
People on the fitness Reddit have it out for Rip since they feel his beginner's program is not suitable for intermediate and advanced lifters. I used it for about 6 months and I followed a couple of other programs (5/3/1 was
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by jbm 5y ago
This might not be the right place, but I wonder if there is a parallel "Defund the Schools" argument to be made that goes along with the logic of the "Defund the Police". In another thread, some were lamenting how school
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by jbm 5y ago
While テレビ電話 may have been a fad, in my 12 years in Japan I almost never used it, nor did anyone I know use it on a regular basis. (Unrelated, I think LINE completely took over the whole "communication market" and now people are ad
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by jbm 5y ago
This was actually tested by students at one of my universities; now if only I had a 3d printer... https://www.concordia.ca/news/stories/2021/07/26/surgical-ma...
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Making Better Fitting Facemasks with a Quick 3D Printed Frame(instructables.com)
1 points by jbm 5y ago|1 comments
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by jbm 5y ago
I think it is a point of historical interest that Stalin was a bank robber at one point, with his takings being used to fuel the revolution in Russia. https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/joseph-stalin-was-ru... (I&
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by jbm 5y ago
I have a mid-year 2012 MBP. The battery was glued in place and it is generally a PITA to repair. I believe the generation before was the last one that was repairable.
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by jbm 6y ago
Out of curiosity, is there a difference, work load aside, in the end result of the two processes?

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