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by leakycap 1y ago
Goals are not impossible/fanciful or they cannot be met. You're thinking of daydreams or wishes.
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by leakycap 1y ago
This sounds cool - I didn't see anything in the readme explaining how it offers these features without requiring APIs from users (for X, for example)
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by leakycap 1y ago
Your comment was: > COVID years really messed some people up. You seem to think that you said something different than you did. If you don't see where your communication broke down, look closely the first word of the quote above. Th
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by leakycap 1y ago
> The author is clearly trying to be inspirational. Seems they missed the mark, likely because their ideas are pretty far removed from reality.
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by leakycap 1y ago
Look, I get it. Dreams are important. But there's a difference between having personal goals and believing in some mythical perfect society that's just around the corner. Whether or not you agree with my goals/dreams won&#x27
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by leakycap 1y ago
Fantastic resource - I've watched a handful of the author's talks online and learned a lot.
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by leakycap 1y ago
I'm not inspired by this list. > The choice is about which side you want to be on. Do you want to work towards that utopia? No, this utopia is something you're only imagining and isn't a real shared goal any of us can work
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by leakycap 1y ago
AT&T has the worst/buggiest login process I've encountered, and I also have to use Comcast/Xfinity. Logging in to pay AT&T wireless service sometimes takes half an hour of attempts resulting in any number of weird err
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by leakycap 1y ago
My comment is pointing out that I don't agree with the premise. The article may have some truth but isn't necessarily an infallible truth.
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by leakycap 1y ago
I still can't think of situations where it paid off for the dissenter. Maybe I'm limited by the small number of experiences I've had at work related to someone being disagreeable, or maybe it is rare to be rewarded for dissen
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by leakycap 1y ago
I don't think I agree with #5 based on my experiences working in tech a few decades Dissent is rarely rewarded by leadership to the point I can't think of a single example of it happening
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by leakycap 1y ago
I don't agree that it is harder than it used to be, unless you specifically mean there are a few more dialogs to hop through during install and initial setup which is annoying on recent versions. But you do this once, just like Windows
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by leakycap 1y ago
Hey where'd I put my math co-processor?!
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by leakycap 1y ago
You mean like all the people that died? The caretakers in the years after? The medical staff who never got a break? You're right about that.
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by leakycap 1y ago
Ferret7446: > Even Hitler's actions can be traced through a perfectly understandable, although not morally condone-able, chain of events. I truly believe that he did not want to just kill people and commit evil, he truly wanted to b
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by leakycap 1y ago
Level 4 is also described as "This is the fully competent wage level. It is for anyone who have sufficient experience to plan and do work that requires judgement and do independent evaluation, selection, modification and skills. Usuall
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by leakycap 1y ago
Are you suggesting that an insulated shed is the same thing as a home/apartment that a retiree can both live in for the rest of their lives and have installed/completed in one year ... in Australia? With laundry? For the USD sum o
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by leakycap 1y ago
> It's also not a problem, and also there's no good solution. I have worked with people who have this attitude and I wonder how they're doing these days. I hope they haven't ran into any problems they cannot simply di
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by leakycap 1y ago
This way of thinking has excused a lot of evil/malicious actions. I think it's time we actually start shining our collective flashlights at things, especially big companies, when their own systems break in ways that benefit them.
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by leakycap 1y ago
What am I missing? "She handed over ... $46,700 to a family member to build a small guest apartment in their backyard. The plan was to live there for the rest of her life, free from the stresses of an unaffordable rental market, and th
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by leakycap 1y ago
It sounds like Steam offered a great opportunity to be highlighted across the platform after recognizing a mistake in their system. The author(s) have an opportunity now to showcase their decade of work and instead choose to post a wall of
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by leakycap 1y ago
I appreciate this peek behind the curtain but don't share your cheer that humans being involved in the process somehow means it should get the benefit of the doubt when things like this happen.
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by leakycap 1y ago
This is an HOA of a church rooted in unhealthy beliefs. A sample of "Our Beliefs" from the associated church's website... "22. We regard Christian marriage as a lifelong covenant before God which requires the continuous
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by leakycap 1y ago
I read the article, hence why I immediately noticed the disconnect. Mary Had a Little Lamb doesn't tell the whole story, but it doesn't say Mary's Magic Lamb Does Her Homework, either. I guess intellectual dishonesty in links
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by leakycap 1y ago
I'm sure it's an accident and not intentional! A big corporation would never, ever do something like cause a delay so people cool off and don't bother actually canceling later.
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by leakycap 1y ago
We don't have to conjecture about that, the linked article clearly states "The firm said it had filed the lawsuit based on Disney's 'history of aggressive enforcement of intellectual property rights,' including a tr
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by leakycap 1y ago
> "And while it may appear like a historical quibble [...] You can imagine a very strong and compelling narrative [...] Kings and lords gave way to the Dutch East India Company, which laid groundwork for the Industrial Revolution.
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Did you read the quarter-million-line license for your Slack app?(mastodon.mit.edu)
104 points by leakycap 1y ago|57 comments
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by leakycap 1y ago
And we provide these apps with data and collaboration we rely on for our business or clubs day-to-day? Time to rethink.
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by leakycap 1y ago
Cool site - but it's weird to me how every US-government map-based website is a total disaster that requires a tutorial for most users And yet Google Maps figured out a simple interface for something similar in the early 2000s

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