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   by mproud 4y ago

   LaTeX is also free.
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   by mproud 4y ago

   How much of these layoffs are really just trying to keep investors and the stock price happy, as opposed to past over-hiring and stagnated profits?
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   by mproud 4y ago

   My understanding is that rising interest rates means people and businesses are less likely to get loans and do additional business with the banks. Along with bad investments and holdings, if banks aren’t well diversified, and they’re taking
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   by mproud 4y ago

   I’m not so sure about that. People have been trapped in rubble and other places without water for up to a week and still survived. Obviously there are other factors to consider, like how recently someone ate or drank, their fitness level, t
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   by mproud 4y ago

   “Hardly six figures” could be interpreted as very low six figures.
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   by mproud 4y ago

   When I first read this headline, I assumed it must be referring to a long lost specification called “Standard-Definition Multimedia Interface” that pre-dated HDMI.
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   by mproud 4y ago

   I’m surprised there isn’t more conversation around our human desire to treat objects and non-sentient beings like people. Whether it’s naming a sailboat and giving it a gender, or building a robot and treating it like a human. Don’t get me
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   by mproud 4y ago

   THINK OF THE HOSPITAL CHILDREN
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   by mproud 4y ago

   Something a boss of mine told me once was, after drafting an email, re-read it and cut its length roughly in half. If an email isn’t succinct, no one will read it fully.
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    by mproud 4y ago

    Nah, AirPods can’t be forcibly activation locked. So, yes, they can be taken and used by someone else. (But they’re a low cost item.) Anyway, Apple has decided there are only two ways to determine the owner: 1. Find My Activation Lock 2. Or
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    by mproud 4y ago

    Or, you know, people can remove the Find My before they sell it. Because any other loophole will be taken advantaged of.
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    by mproud 4y ago

    Does the author want or need their doctorate? If they don’t, there is nothing shameful about not finishing it. My mom skipped two grades, was valedictorian of her class in high school, and went to Yale for grad school, and never finished he
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    by mproud 4y ago

    Could this have been an export given to someone upon request? Or maybe served as backup?
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    by mproud 4y ago

    A very modern convention is now using “they/their” when a person may not be aware of someone’s preferred pronoun. And even still, I have also seen people abandon gendered pronouns entirely.
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    by mproud 4y ago

    It helps having an active passcode lock. And you can put your phone into Lost Mode with Find My turned on, right away by signing into https://icloud.com/find from any web-enabled device.
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    by mproud 4y ago

    I know a story of a person who submitted a Radar ticket for an engineer to go get a haircut. They closed the ticket a few days later with a picture showing the issue resolved.
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    by mproud 4y ago

    My suspicion was correct after reading the screenshots: “trash” in USA “bin” in UK
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    by mproud 4y ago

    https://thepalindrome.substack.com/p/how-did-the-babylonians...
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    by mproud 4y ago

    I love the journalist’s email, with uppercase letters and all: 73124.1524@CompuServe.COM I also love how they spell it “E-mail” with a capital E no matter where it is in the sentence.
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    by mproud 4y ago

    I read a quote saying managers at Facebook were struggling to get their own employees to want to have meetings on Metaverse. It’s not a good sign when the very product they’re pushing currently sucks where people don’t even want to use it.
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    by mproud 4y ago

    Supposedly the app/site went AWOL more or less a few years? and then got resurrected.
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    by mproud 4y ago

    Some more 1400 upgrades: https://youtu.be/-uBvkJ_fDUs
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    by mproud 4y ago

    Rumor has it this was a targeted leak back in the day. As a PR move.
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    by mproud 4y ago

    Misleading; 2 GB/16 GB or more .
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    by mproud 4y ago

    In comparison, I got pretty damn lucky. I had only one interview. I showed up unscheduled, and uninvited. And I immediately got an offer at the end of it (pending background check). I’ve been there for over 16 years now.
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    by mproud 4y ago

    Discord doesn’t have any limitations on message history, or the amount of messages.
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    by mproud 4y ago

    I’d argue the Mac is nearly as locked down too, at least as far as the permissions that apps have and are granted, for things like the mic and camera.
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    by mproud 4y ago

    How often is the phone on, and when it is, not pointed at you or your immediate surroundings? We’ve had plenty of app developers manipulate the microphone without permission until Apple cracked down on it. With the latest versions of macOS,
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    by mproud 4y ago

    Many people spend the time to cover their computer’s camera — either justifiably so or otherwise — but how many of those same people cover their phone’s front-facing camera?
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    by mproud 4y ago

    Time to take a long lunch. Hopefully it’ll be back soon, otherwise I’ll have to invent a reason to give to my boss on why I can’t get back to the office!