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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Would police officers ruminate about mistakes they may have made during a shift? My suspicion is 'generally not', and if that's true, maybe they should? But police - and most physicians, etc - don't have a WFH option.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Millions of people know what an 'outline' is without knowing what CSS is. You might need a better example than 'outline'.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
"Tell me where in any dictionary does “introducing” something imply who created it" I just did, then you moved the goalposts.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/introduce to create... as if for the first time;
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
The psychological impact of scarcity probably continues to help the daily ru not always sell out.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I'm going back closer to 25 years, and a lot of my experience has been in smaller orgs (less than 50 people). I think I've seen this work once in a larger orgs (>1000 people) but the core issue at stake was overall pretty smal
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Frustrating to read that, because while I've seen enough to generally believe that, there's always a few counter-examples to prove that "no, see, they're listening and really want to change. how can they change/imp
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
The other side of that is browsers. Even if you don’t change your code, the platform people are running your code in changes, automatically in many cases. New JS or CSS behavior in next safari or chrome? You need to patch/push to ac
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> Our diagnosis is that individual developers do not pay for tools.” Sadly, I never heard of Kite until copilot came out. As someone who pays for tools, I would have considered it (have paid for JB for years, various atlassian tools, an
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
"then you can go out of network and get covered" I can get the care, but nothing in what you're describing sounds like what my paperwork details say. It indicates that any non-emergency services undertaken outside of their n
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
The US seems to have invented (or at least normalized) medi-begging - the process of posting to gofundme-type sites to help pay medical debt. The very existence of 'medial fundraising' as a thing should be the damning indicator t
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Any criticism of banking at all would be met with "we have the best banking system in the world!", ignoring the 40 million 'unbanked' people.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Assuming that 10 or 100k of services is 'in network'. The only plan I can remotely afford now offers no functionality in any 'out of network' facility. The columns are all just 'n/a'.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
The article mentions a lack of "undo" with git. This is one of the reasons I use a GUI git tool - specifically I use Tower for Mac right now for most of my day to day git. I still CLI stuff now and then, and Tower still spits
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I bet most of the software they use just sucks. I've had some first hand folks tell me some of the bad stories of using various online grade book systems, and years ago I built one myself, and the accommodations people were requiring
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
It may be easier to find 2 or 3 projects/engagements that are 10-15/hrs/week.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> This is not really a problem because if you have not used the app for one week, you can just replicate the data from the server again. You can't if you haven't been able to push up the data for a week. But in that case, you&#
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
holy tamole that's incredible. EDIT: posted too short a comment... I had a ZX81 in the early 80s and... the level of visual sophistication shown in this game - and others by the author - is simply astounding. Knowing what I know about
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Number I saw this morning showed meta had added 15k workers since Jan 2022. Laying off 11k still has a higher headcount than a year ago. The question of who those 11k were May be more interesting, but this doesn’t seem like some end of th
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
wondering if it lets you account for that money separately. IIRC, 'tips' don't necessarily count as 'wages', and would be taxed differently. however, also, IIRC, automatic tips - like you described - aren't c
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
It seems both are true in this case, but yeah, those two statements don't really mean the same thing.
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Good simple ideas. I too have been able to help debug rails code, despite not having touched rails in years. "Debugging .net code" is often just like "debugging python code" or "debugging java code"... it&#x2
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Agreed. I'm up in Youngsville (20 miles north of Raleigh) and... it'd be hard to get housing for a family of 3 for under $250k. Under $250k, it's mostly mobile homes. There's a smattering of condos in that range, but
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
FWIW, there are orgs that do that, but they almost always end up being somewhat regional, and... it ends up being a lot of work. FreelancersUnion, in New York, I believe did/does something like that. Some chambers of commerce and sim
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> Shift jobs to cheaper locales. ... I live in Raleigh-Durham. Me too. Moved here 17 years ago. It's becoming far less a 'cheaper locale', much like many of the other formerly cheaper locales. Housing here is one of the
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Just spoke to a company with a booth at a conference a few days ago. "We've got 1000 job openings right now! What are you looking for?" Yet... I don't actually think even if they found 1000 perfect fits tomorrow they&#x
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
I first learned what 'no doc' loans where in 2004. I worked inside a mortgage company for a while, and was a bit shocked by some of the numbers I saw. BUT... I don't think a housing bubble/crash was a foregone conclusi
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
> untie healthcare from employers This 1000 times. I don't think we'll see a meaningful change in my lifetime, but it's an existential burden that we, collectively, have had for generations. So much so, really, that hund
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Just ran some arbitrary numbers. Someone earning $190k in mid Ohio would have take home of around $140k, between state/federal. That's before any other retirement savings or anything else. A 'fantastic' insurance plan
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by mgkimsal 4y ago
Throwing up another Ultima memory... I've got great memories of Ultima II on C64 and some Apple II as well. It was far more expansive than I, but still relatively fast. I remember when III came out, it was just... comparatively slow

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