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by jzb 3y ago
"I can't understand how people consider bundling teams with office to be anti competitive" It's a judgment call to be sure. Google has integrated Meet with their office tools, but nobody (AFAIK) has shouted about it bein
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by jzb 3y ago
Low-value answer. I'm in my 50s, I've lost track of how many times I've moved and culled books. (About to do that again, cull anyway...) There's also ebooks, library books, etc. After, oh, ten years, I'm likely to f
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by jzb 3y ago
I wish we had world culture education as a part of grade school, including things like how to address people / naming conventions. I've learned a lot (and continue to) in the last 10-15 years through working with people and readin
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by jzb 3y ago
The last time I saw my grandfather he had advanced cancer and knew he'd be dying soon. He was a little shy of 80. We had a good conversation, the kind I wish we'd had more of, and part of what he said was basically "I just fi
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by jzb 3y ago
One of my Mothers-in-Law has macular degeneration. Her vision in the time I've known her (about 7 years) had declined significantly. (She's now about 77.) She could drive during the day in good conditions locally a few years ago b
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by jzb 3y ago
Why the interrogation about pointing out that it’s not FOSS?
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Dolphie, your real-time MySQL monitoring assistant(percona.community)
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by jzb 3y ago
"And I hope they find new jobs soon." Where, exactly? If everybody is 2-5x overstaffed and is cutting people, where are all those people going to go? Form startups to sell things to people forming startups because they were laid o
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by jzb 3y ago
Assuming hosting costs, credit card fees, etc. - $420,000 a year for 4 people doesn't sound like enough.
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by jzb 3y ago
If anybody has the magic formula for pricing, I'd be all ears. Yeah, $100 a year seems steep - but OTOH are twice as many people going to subscribe for $50? Five times as many for $20? (Or more...) I don't know what the answer &#x
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by jzb 3y ago
Okay, why is Good Person (TM) and Bad Guy (R)? Are Good People still waiting for approval?
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by jzb 3y ago
I’m not sure how that made it here, but I wish there was an HN for music. Interview was fun, but I’m definitely going through and creating a playlist of everything he mentioned…
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by jzb 3y ago
“Everything you're allergic to is something you were exposed to at least once” If you’re saying first exposure is what triggers/causes the allergy, I don’t believe this is true. Some people find out they’re allergic to penicillin
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by jzb 3y ago
Clearly that isn’t the case, given that ask culture has perpetuated itself. Something like this: “I was thinking of seeing New Movie” “Oh, I’ve been wanting to see that” “I’m going Friday after work. You could join me if that sounds good.”
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by jzb 3y ago
That’s not the case. Offering help is just fine.
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by jzb 3y ago
The problem is that people do get upset. Basically, you're forcing someone else to be the asshole by saying no or justify why they don't want to share or do something. Rudeness is, of course, a subjective thing. Some people thin
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by jzb 3y ago
As I said upthread - lots of caveats and it's context dependent. For one thing, this usually assumed there was not a "close human relationship" but social situations where you aren't that close. It has to be OK to sa
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by jzb 3y ago
I can honestly say I don't regret a policy of not asking people for things in general. If somebody wants me to have some of their cake, or whatever, then I'm usually happy to accept. But I can't think of a time when I am like
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by jzb 3y ago
Well, exactly - it's about things like consumables where you're asking to take something. For example, "may I have a glass of water?" would have been fine with my dad. (And it was drummed into me it's rude not to
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by jzb 3y ago
It's one of those things I keep thinking I'd like to try but actually implementing it seems like it'd be a huge pain in the posterior at first. Am I wrong about that?
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by jzb 3y ago
I think "western society" is way too broad a brush. Within the U.S. there's extremes between ask and guess, IME. (Some of that is breaking down due to mobility... regional differences are much less pronounced these days, I th
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by jzb 3y ago
"It’s rude to put someone in a position where they have to say no to you" I feel this in my bones. When I was a kid my dad went off on me after we visited someone's house and I saw cake on the counter and asked for a slice.
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by jzb 3y ago
“I don't think the cast members of Cheers were exactly toiling in the fields all day long.” No, but they probably “worked on their tan” a lot. Instead of accidental exposure they’d roast themselves to keep a tan. Agreed on smoking, tho
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by jzb 3y ago
Lennon was 22, McCartney was 21 when the song was released. (Feb. 1963 recorded, Mar. 1963 released on “Please Please Me”) But yeah, still not quite half plus 7. You could argue they were writing it for teens, though - the audience singing
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by jzb 3y ago
If you consider Red Hat “on the dark side” but not Canonical, I’m curious how you’re defining dark side.
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by jzb 3y ago
To be fair, SUSE before Novell was in a worse state. If I’m not mistaken they were close to missing payroll and has tried to shop themselves to Sun before Novell agreed to buy them. Evil IBM(TM) threw in $50m to help the deal along and pr
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by jzb 3y ago
Thanks for the laugh! ... oh, you're serious. OK, this is categorically untrue and observably so. 1) One could write a book on consumers buying things or entering into deals that are long-term bad for them but have some combination of
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by jzb 3y ago
Other way around, really - Slackware was based on SLS.
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by jzb 3y ago
That's a nice goal, but the site doesn't deliver the promise of the headline. You don't cite a single study or back up that headline on the site. The site title doesn't match the headline. It's spammy to bait-and-sw
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by jzb 3y ago
Expected a study, got an ad. Literally the "above-the-fold" piece is an ad to buy a MAWA hat and then a beg for a documentary that isn't yet produced. Ugh.

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