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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Who worked on those ships? Honest question. I suspect it was lower class people who didn't have many life options...?
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I'd never heard of it being used as a slur, growing up in 70s/80s/90s. It just wasn't a word used in my circle/area. Was introduced to it in... late 90s or maybe 2000 at a local Linux group. No one mentioned anyt
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I've had those on and off in 25+ years since HS/college, but they've been more ... regular in the last few years. Not every night, but I think I have "didn't go to class" dreams (nightmares?) probably every ot
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I've seen those ads too, and it seems like it's a fairly recent thing? Maybe it was optional before, but now is standard?
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I wish more people would. Without sharing more public stories like this, there's nothing more some of us can do. My wife used abnb twice: once OK/meh experience, one horrible/abusive. Never again. But that was... 8 years
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> We make money when we help customers make purchase decisions If those reviews help you decide to buy from someplace other than Amazon... perhaps in short term or narrow circumstances it still helps Amazon (reduced refunds/etc).
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Stop buying their products. Stop using services. Maybe... 3-5 years, if sales decline enough, they'll 'listen' to the 'feedback' of people leaving the ecosystem and ... ask what you want, and deliver it another co
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I have, for the life of me, never understood the 'beginner friendly' argument for python. Java, PHP or JavaScript for 'widespread use and longevity'. None of these are going anywhere, and I think you'd find more re
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Someone in charge of an org that large, less than 10 months in, getting the blame for over a decade of skipped maintenance.... pretty unfair.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Tangentially related, a friend of mine planned a shaped run, ran it, then it got picked up by some local media (couple years ago). https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2020...
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> Amazon doesn't have a shopping card for kindle books I don't know what this means. What is a 'shopping card for kindle books'? EDIT: OK - thanks all. Likely a typo of 'cart', unless the OP explains furth
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Someone else goes to the store for them. Or they get driven to a dr appt. Sometimes 'disabled' really is more debilitating than people expect.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Agreed, and I may have been a bit too quick in the reply. I think age and life situation play a much bigger part in this than people recognize, and I'll go out and say "especially younger people". You can pay lip service to
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Not OP, but I'll take a guess that it makes the OP look like a troublemaker. Someone who has the nerve/gall/gumption to be so open as to name/shame other companies may not pull any punches when it comes to naming '
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I think you're in a more fortunate position than many. > Better to take a personal bridge loan You often won't be able to get a loan without verifiable steady income. > Maybe I can put up with it for six months, but what&#x2
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
An issue I’ve found is that often these stories don’t tend to be believed. To the untrained ear, they sound like typical BS everyone throws around. Tiny example: I joined a company and a nightly process was data import. The import was sta
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
"Let me reboot my tv". "Just reboot your phone". These are relatively common phrases now that would have baffled anyone 30 years ago.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
not on demand.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> writing that he had “job opportunities” in three occupations that are nearly obsolete and agreeing with the expert’s dubious claim that 130,000 positions were still available sorting nuts, inspecting dowels and processing eggs. Whether
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
How do you get to that job?
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> Given any default starting date, I can enter in my DOB in: - 1 tap - 2 swipes - another tap =================== How? Reading this, I can’t imagine any scenario where I could enter a specific date on mobile with 4 interactions.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Perhaps overly semantic, but... there's a conflation of "care about customers" and "cared about business goals" there. Ideally, they're the same thing, but not always. And if you care about customers, but are
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Not everything that's spoken in a televised event has a single accompanying speaker to watch for cues the entire time. Separately, relatively dry sarcasm can't be visually picked up directly, but a signer may be able to suggest so
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Going further, having someone - a librarian role - review entries that are > X months/years old seems useful. So useful that I bet it's probably something people who are 'librarians' in a tech/doc sense probably
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
It's never pain that the sales folks have to bear, it seems. :)
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Not sure you'd necessarily need to rely on contrast (or... contrast alone - reader mode and similar might render that not noticeable for folks). Some datestamp next to multiple areas with a "last reviewed/approved on" in
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> It's frustrating to spend time adding yet another hack to account for some new use case while there is a stack of other priorities waiting The key diff between 'build' vs 'buy' seems to come down to an accommod
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Would be sorta nice if their 'issue tracking' functionality in their IDEs would support... Space itself.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Whoops.... you're right. Longest I've heard him speak somewhat coherently without insulting someone living.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Town of 40k here - we have 3 coworking spaces. I started the first one - just leased a small office building, and started subleasing spaces. Some private office space, some shared public/hotdesk seats. We're small - 12-15 peopl

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