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by learc83 5y ago
Still a bit early to celebrate. You really can’t trust aggregate review scores these days—even if you scan them with a 3rd party tool.
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by learc83 5y ago
Average height isn’t the most useful statistic for this. A quarter of men are 6 feet or taller. When you factor in the fact that people aren’t likely to buy cars that their spouse can’t drive comfortably, there are an awful lot of people wh
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by learc83 5y ago
It's not just technology either, the character back stories get updated too. There's an episode from the 90s where Homer feels old because he doesn't understand grunge rock. Then, more than a decade later, they made a flashba
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by learc83 5y ago
Many states don’t have non-medical exemptions for vaccine requirements.
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by learc83 5y ago
> What is "much higher" in a number? The Pfizer vaccine as I believe 94% effective against severe disease, so around 20x higher.
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by learc83 5y ago
They used a nebulizer to spray infected brain matter into the air. There was no aerosolized mouse to mouse transfer.
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by learc83 5y ago
The game manuals always were pretty gritty compared to the in-game art.
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by learc83 5y ago
I grew up on Warcraft 2, and to me the cartoonish look of WoW was a direct continuation of the art style from that game. I was in the WoW beta. The first time I played it my initial reaction was that it looked exactly like I had stepped int
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by learc83 5y ago
The parent edited their comment after I commented. It originally said >Did you not remember the Equifax hack? Of course I didn’t remember it. I explicitly mentioned it as something that didn’t qualify as an Quebec Bridge collapse level e
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by learc83 5y ago
Did you not notice that I referenced the Equifax hack?
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by learc83 5y ago
Software engineering hasn’t had our Quebec Bridge collapse yet. It will take an enormous visible disaster that does more than cost a company a few tens of millions, or exposes a few hundred million social security numbers before we start ho
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by learc83 5y ago
I grew up in Lithia Springs. They still bottle and sell the water from the spring.
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by learc83 5y ago
A former boss used to be a higher up at Kaseya before I worked with him. From his description of their development process, and his general lack of respect for developers, I’m not surprised. According to him, they outsourced the majority of
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by learc83 5y ago
I’m in the US (Chattanooga municipal internet). $67 per month for 1 Gigabit symmetrical.
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by learc83 5y ago
A quick google search shows around 5 billion goats, cows, pigs, and sheep, 1.5 billion cats and dogs, and 8 billion humans. Compared to an estimated 130 billion wild mammals. That’s without the vast herds of herbivores that used to roam the
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by learc83 5y ago
There were smaller populations of humans, but not smaller populations of mammals in general.
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by learc83 5y ago
Yeah it’s just harder and potentially less performant. There are different levels—deterministic across the same architecture, different architectures etc… The simplest example I can think of is being deterministic across different frame ra
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by learc83 5y ago
Your posts are clearly designed to elicit as much outrage as possible. Either that our you need treatment for paranoia. Not only are your incompetent employees screwing you over, but your competent employees are also out to get you by “hidi
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by learc83 5y ago
If you don’t have at least a small office where you can shut the door, I have no idea how you’re getting anything done with small kids running around. But that’s really a requirement for WFH and companies should start offering some kind of
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by learc83 5y ago
Personally I can’t imagine voluntarily choosing to spend any time on a daily commute. I asked my wife if she was a stay at home mom, would she let me take a 45 min to an hour lunch each day away from home if I worked from home if it meant I
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by learc83 5y ago
Someone else is watching the toddlers—-no one is doing a full days worth of work while taking care of multiple toddlers. If that person and/or day care can take care of the kids for x hours of work plus a 1 hour commute, they can take
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by learc83 5y ago
So it’s better to put yourself in a position where you are forced to drive an hour to work each day and spend 10 hours away from your infant just to get an hour to yourself? Also this isn’t about your infant, no one is getting work done whi
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by learc83 5y ago
Why don’t you sign up for a coworking space, or work from a library, cafe, or similar? Or heck just tell your spouse you need some me time and get out of the house for an hour a day.
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Resistance to Vaccine Mandates Is Building. A Powerful Network Is Helping(washingtonpost.com)
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by learc83 5y ago
This looks pretty cool, but it’s windows only and doesn’t work outside of VS code. If you want something more full features that works everywhere, I’ve used https://talonvoice.com/ for a while now.
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by learc83 5y ago
$12 an hour is barley enough to live on in most of the country. In many places, it’s not enough to cover rent. The average cost of community college tuition is around $3.5k a year. Add in books, fees, transportation, lost income from not be
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by learc83 5y ago
The cost of hiring the wrong person and letting them go because they can’t program in the US is very low compared to the price of running a SV style hiring pipeline. And in other countries where it’s harder to fire people, there is a almost
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by learc83 5y ago
Right but there's an assumption of all else being equal when making a comparison like that. Obviously you can get away with paying below market rates if you provide some other benefits to make up for it.
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by learc83 5y ago
> ability to explore different areas. When you are a contractor, you are expected to be top notch at what you do. Often that means you don't get to explore new things (except on your own time, which you should do). It's nice to
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by learc83 5y ago
One reason for a senior engineer to move to consulting is that they are tired of being forced to prove that they know how to program every time they switch jobs. Companies are far too risk averse when hiring, and the amount of hoops you hav

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