jenkstom

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by jenkstom 3y ago
Wow. The assumptions in this article are deeply misguided. "Modern" doesn't equate to "better" at all. It's dismissive bordering on insulting to the actual people and technology that make our digital world actu
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by jenkstom 3y ago
Not when you believe that the absolute standard for truth was written thousands of years ago and never has and never will change. Forget historical truth, we already know that's absurd, but plenty of people think that way.
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by jenkstom 3y ago
Or maybe the government should just pass a law requiring AI companies to create those jobs... That would be entertaining.
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by jenkstom 3y ago
As a resident graybeard in my 50's, I have to say I really dislike working with rude and dismissive kids.
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by jenkstom 4y ago
You know that's a lie, don't you?
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by jenkstom 4y ago
You entirely missed the key point of the original statement. These are not normal loans. You can't get rid of them in bankruptcy. The collectors use predatory (and somewhat terrifying) collection techniques. Stop comparing these to con
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by jenkstom 4y ago
Cool... can we get that "too big to fail" bank bailout back then?
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by jenkstom 4y ago
Nah. 1,000. That's what I tell my 11 year olds.
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by jenkstom 4y ago
I'm done with wired magazine. They no longer produce content, they produce drama. That article about how there's no point in identifying evil people because there's no evidence supporting it was massively harmful to people in
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by jenkstom 4y ago
Might as well make the same criticisms of dentistry... I'm not sure what you're talking about, but it isn't Buddhism.
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by jenkstom 4y ago
This article is paywalled and there is no way to read it without paying.
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by jenkstom 4y ago
Throwing out paradigms because they are complex (but flexible) in favor of paradigms that are simplistic and easier to understand. A good example is Object Relational Models.
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by jenkstom 4y ago
That's really not at all fair, the NWS has put a lot of effort since the Joplin tornado into localizing warnings as much as possible to the affected area. They may geolocate the warning based on the tower rather than the phone, but tha
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by jenkstom 4y ago
That's what credit reporting agencies like Dun and Bradstreet are for.
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by jenkstom 4y ago
Because businesses, along with society in general (especially US society), is very bad at making evidence-based decisions. That extends to changing policies and procedures according to evidence of what works well and what doesn't. In f
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by jenkstom 4y ago
Obsidian has been a life-changer for me. I finally learned that I needed a certain amount of chaos in my organization, and Obsidian lets me rearrange things any time I want.
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by jenkstom 4y ago
Because of Britney Spears this has become a lot harder to do in the past year or two.
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by jenkstom 4y ago
If we're looking at obscure, then I think cudatext https://cudatext.github.io/ deserves a mention.
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by jenkstom 4y ago
I've noticed this with native Californians.
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by jenkstom 4y ago
This makes me reconsider my opposition to a death penalty.
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by jenkstom 4y ago
Very, very rarely does that email address exist.
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by jenkstom 4y ago
I'd like to point out that sometimes a "regular" generic is not an option. For instance, anyone who has a sensitivity to one of the non-active ingredients in a medication is going to jump through a lot of hoops to find medica
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by jenkstom 4y ago
For those of us maintaining any of the billions of lines of legacy code that runs the majority of IT... nope. A lot of use cases can be covered by the web ecosystem, but a lot can't as well. This seems to be a common fantasy or fallacy
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by jenkstom 4y ago
I can't read the actual article, but the summary implies a distinct lack of understanding of a Narcissistic Personality Disorder. The issue is more that the NPD lives in a fantasy world and compulsively must "prove" that they
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by jenkstom 4y ago
As an old timer it's pretty hard to take this post seriously. I honestly can't tell if it's a troll or not. I'm not trying to offend, more to point out that there are some big generational gaps in software development.
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by jenkstom 4y ago
An excellent illustration of the difference between a professional and an employee.
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by jenkstom 4y ago
I believe (s/t)he(y) means in the sense of risk management. A lot of things are done to ensure that certain risks are minimized.
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by jenkstom 4y ago
Pretty much every criticism leveled at the left has a far worse corollary that could be directed to the right. The closing of ranks on the left is simply a reaction to the regimented authoritarianism of the right. Sure, some questions are r
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by jenkstom 4y ago
Just so you know, a significant portion of the population who are sensitive to fragrances experience a great deal of suffering due to perfumers and chemists. Did you know that chemicals like propane are classified as a scent? The scent indu
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by jenkstom 5y ago
I mostly only see these in websites found in a feed, like the Google Now feed on my android phone. If it's annoying enough I just block the website. If I can't trust them to track me then I don't really need to read whatever

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