jimbob45

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by jimbob45 3y ago
Layoffs ruin human lives. Suicides happen. Breakups happen, with and without kids. Homes are defaulted on. Depression is almost a certainty. If the choice is between layoffs and total company ruin, okay, they’re necessary. If the layoffs ar
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by jimbob45 3y ago
People aren't cattle for you to get rid of. I'm tired of layoffs being a first resort rather than a last resort for companies. I'd like to see something where C-suite executives are required to resign if undergoing layoffs.
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by jimbob45 3y ago
Really need the government to start heavily penalizing companies who lay people off. Layoffs can't be a tool for a company to get ahead financially. We're ruining lives and triggering suicides with these layoffs.
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by jimbob45 3y ago
"Every year tobacco kills more Americans than did World War II — more than AIDS, cocaine, heroin, alcohol, vehicular accidents, homicide and suicide combined." They've started to put the above statement on top of cigarette ca
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by jimbob45 3y ago
Do you mark a difference between hybrid where not everyone goes in on the same days and hybrid where everyone goes in on the same days and stays away on the same days?
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by jimbob45 3y ago
Seems pretty simple. The bottom of Maslow’s pyramid is under attack with unnecessary layoffs and offshoring leading to extremely dismal prospects of stable, long-term employment. What kid is going to feel good if their parents are constantl
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by jimbob45 3y ago
I thought the Houthis were no longer receiving funding from Iran with the SA-Iran deal of 2023. Did that change?
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by jimbob45 3y ago
On the other hand, Windows 98 looked like it was designed by 1955 IBM. It may have been an overcorrection but it was certainly a welcome one.
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by jimbob45 3y ago
The far right is going hard against porn in multiple countries right now. I don’t agree but I get where they’re coming from. However, I don’t get going after porn before going after casinos. Casinos ruin lives and wreck economies far worse
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by jimbob45 3y ago
How would you feel about separating out post-grad and undergrad into their own separate universities?
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by jimbob45 3y ago
That’s what our local gym did. It was ultra frustrating to use and they stopped offering it after a while.
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by jimbob45 3y ago
C++ is usually better because you can start with the abstractions (e.g. new, classes, I/O streams, and strings) and then work each one backwards once they’re comfortable at the high level. (Although C++ wouldn’t be my first choice to b
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by jimbob45 3y ago
Is computer science even science? It feels like we should have called ourselves computationally-applied mathematicians.
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by jimbob45 3y ago
Anglosphere (U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) That’s too arbitrary of a grouping for me to care about these results.
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by jimbob45 3y ago
Alive and Kicking to stop my dial-up ISP from booting me for inactivity during large (600 MB!) downloads. Mostly used it with Gigex, a shareware games service.
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by jimbob45 3y ago
Carbon is really exhibit A of why MVPs exist. Jai and Cppfront have the same problem but Blow and Sutter probably don’t care if they never gain much traction. Conversely, Carbon is Google-backed (IIRC) and will soon die if it can’t justify
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by jimbob45 3y ago
Once again, the first politician to promise an outsourcing ban gets my vote.
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by jimbob45 3y ago
Humana is starting to hire nurses in the Philippines. One would think that’s a national security hole but what do I know. The first candidate to promise an outlawing of outsourcing gets my vote.
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by jimbob45 3y ago
Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco told ABC News in a recent interview that she believes increased federal assistance to local law enforcement agencies is partially responsible for the decrease It’s really difficult when one of the polit
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by jimbob45 3y ago
No, but health is already a protected class in employment laws. Any employer pulling or seeking that information in any way would open themselves up to a class action lawsuit by everyone who had ever been rejected from that company.
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by jimbob45 3y ago
HIPAA was a stupid mistake by the Clinton administration. I really don’t care who has my medical history and the field of medical study would be infinitely better off if it was public.
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by jimbob45 3y ago
That was the original idea behind Hulu back in 2007 (originally free but funded with mandatory ads).
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by jimbob45 3y ago
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/immigrati... China and India combined take in less than a tenth of the immigrants the US takes in yearly. There's really no reason anyone should take their opinio
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by jimbob45 3y ago
Yeah but it's lousy pizza and underadvertised. You get the feeling it was an employee passion project that management didn't care to nurture because they couldn't stick it on their resumes.
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by jimbob45 3y ago
That's what Chuck E Cheese should be doing. They've got the playground/arcade business to be able to subsidize their pizza business to out-compete every other pizza chain out there. Instead, they're cutting costs on both
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by jimbob45 3y ago
The copyright laws are unjust to begin with. Copyright shouldn’t last beyond ten years anyway. Simply claiming that piracy is always bad ignores the evil of the laws in the first place.
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by jimbob45 3y ago
You say that but everyone in my family gets actively angry when they have to buy something from a non-Amazon storefront. I switched shoe brands from Nike because I was so mad they don’t sell on Amazon directly anymore.
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by jimbob45 3y ago
And yet seemingly every US company conducted layoffs of similar scales at nearly the same time with the same specious reasoning given each time just last year.
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by jimbob45 3y ago
As someone who watches NCAAF, this is just the tip of the iceberg of confusing US college names.
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by jimbob45 3y ago
Why fight high-rise apartments? Those are going to preserve the character of a city better than anything.

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