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by kcplate 2y ago
Alrighty, so I guess what we have learned that apparently some number at 100% or perhaps less of all software is apparently released bug free. However, we don’t know for sure “the perhaps less”, despite all of the numerous historical examp
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by kcplate 2y ago
I was talking about iOS so yes, I missed that the conversation was about Mac. Shame on me. In a sense the use case for a Mac is less ubiquitous than a smartphone, so the need for vetting may not be as great because users of the device don’
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by kcplate 2y ago
> Your personal desire for controlling other people. Well that’s just childish, pouty, and not a very well thought out train of thought on the subject. The control isn’t over people, it’s about finding a solution to creating and preservi
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by kcplate 2y ago
If I had 1.4B active users I would want to mitigate the ability of almost all of them to accidentally fuck up their devices instead of worrying about irritating a few tech folk because they can’t load broken apps on it.
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> Apple is well on its way to ensure you can only run things they allow via app store I am totally ok with this. I have personally seen apple reject an app update and delist the app because a tiny library used within it had a recent secu
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by kcplate 2y ago
Feel free to name any conference that happens in your part of the world in the middle of December “summer”. I promise I won’t be offended in the slightest. With love, A North American.
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by kcplate 2y ago
I honestly felt the need to check the date on this article to make sure it wasn’t April 1st. I am disappointed that it wasn’t an April Fools day prank. Of course I may be risking offending somebody who practices April Fools day on another
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by kcplate 2y ago
Not just Trump—any republican.
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Point was that leadership of a media company might make editorial decisions that are in its best interest—whatever that interest might be. Not necessarily profit, but could be personal.
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> but nothing much changed Two of the three platforms (and the former CEO of one) have publicly admitted what was done at their companies was a mistake and the third has quietly reversed much of the topic controls around pandemic and vac
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> suck up to the rich guys if you want power You don’t think this is a recent lesson? Pretty sure every politician already realized this. Since literally forever. Hell, I worked for a company whose wealthy owner had a steady stream of
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The press is free to report on whatever they want. That freedom however is not a mandate that they must report on everything. Newspapers and other media companies have ALWAYS focused on profit. Nothing new there. Plus in this day and a
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It influences no one, but it sends a pretty loud message to the Democratic party that (now two, LATimes did same thing) normally reliable media orgs have lost confidence in the democrat party’s ability to bring forth a competitive candidate
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by kcplate 2y ago
Honestly it’s surprising to me that people really think that the news side of a media company operates with complete autonomy from the business side. They might claim it exists but that’s a fallacy. I worked at a major daily newspaper 30 y
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by kcplate 2y ago
I can only offer what has worked for me, at one point losing over 170 lbs. Admittedly gaining 50 back thanks to the good old pandemic making some bad habits easy again and limiting my chosen form of exercise due to swimming pool closures.
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Well you have degenerated your conversation to insults, which is to be expected when people skate around the edges of Marxism and their optimism about that utopia where people of all classes will willfully give up their human condition for
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by kcplate 2y ago
> I've worked hard jobs where I'm on my feet 9+ hours a day. So have I and in an industrial laundry no less—picture a big steaming hot and humid warehouse loading dirty shop rags and food service mats into giant washing vats.
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by kcplate 2y ago
And turquoise kitchen appliances went out of style in the mid-70s along with shag rugs and leisure suits. Styles and tastes change.
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Folks sometimes think that unions operate by threat of work stoppage and they dictate all terms to the company’s chagrin. However, people who have been at those tables realize that unions operate by compromise. If you unionize with the ho
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by kcplate 2y ago
You are never going convince someone whose job will never be able to shift to remote that you are pulling up anyone but yourself with a crusade for WFH. You just won’t get the sympathy because having to write code in an office is not equiv
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by kcplate 2y ago
> But the Church and some others didn't like the answer The church does not have a position on it. You’re expanding the number of people of the religious side who really deeply care about it. And this forms my opinion of the moti
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by kcplate 2y ago
No, it’s reality. Outside of a pure tech audience, literally no one gives a shit that your company wants you to RTO. I work from home but visit customers in all sorts of industries—manufacturing, finance, healthcare, insurance, retail. Al
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by kcplate 2y ago
I post this every time this topic comes up. But WFH and remote work ability are an exception to the rule in almost every industry/job type other than tech (and sales). Effectively everybody else goes someplace other than home to do th
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by kcplate 2y ago
> The earliest sources we have on it, also from the 14th century, are a Bishop calling it an obvious fake, to which a Pope acquiesces. That’s circumstantial evidence, not scientific. Like I said, I think it’s a forgery, but I don’t need
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> the weight loss curve usually decelerates with time and this pattern is not captured by a straight line either I have done keto for weight loss across several stints, one lasting 4 years (I had a lot of weight to lose). I encountered
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by kcplate 2y ago
> Both believers and non-believers should agree on the scientific evidence about this particular object. Sure, you would want that, but what does the science actually say at this point? Recent news stories are claiming that the shroud cl
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by kcplate 2y ago
Nah, it’s not a court of law and the burden of solving the mystery lands on the shoulders of the unbelievers. It’s a sacred relic of a specific belief system—sacred to those Catholics who already believe it is real and are further encourag
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by kcplate 2y ago
Correct, but it’s fair to say I don’t have an opinion on its validity at all. It may be, or it may not…neither of those states affect my own personal convictions. The shroud isn’t really for the unbeliever, it’s for the believer…as a reinf
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> Second of all, if you believed it were a real ancient shroud, you would have to explain how the image on it was produced. Corpses don't leave images on shrouds Well, they have haven’t they? I think you need to put yourself in t
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by kcplate 2y ago
My comment was a response to the parent comment “It's still like this in Cuba. people still beg, BUT they have a home to go to at the end of the day. I don't think this is a particularly bad thing” My point was it is a bad thing

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