octokatt

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by octokatt 3mo ago
For the sake of mythological accuracy, I hope that Unicorns sunk by debt and managing to pull into negative ARR (due to overhead costs) will get called Nightmares. But Zombie Unicorns being an accurate term is enough to make me happy today.
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by octokatt 1y ago
So, this is using a behavioral trick common to magicians. It's skewing words towards ones similar to those used in a burger commercial. "Most famous", "truly satisfying", "robust" are all words you'r
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by octokatt 1y ago
Interesting. What do you think he was doing?
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by octokatt 2y ago
Dear ye gods, this was the first time I clicked on something in the internet and then had fun in freaking _years_.
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by octokatt 2y ago
Your maxxed-out HSA will not save you if cancer comes. You're still gambling.
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by octokatt 2y ago
A nice distro of Linux that autolooads Kodi or something similar would solve this, and be utterly lovely. While that means the smart TV wouldn't be able to phone home with usage data, which is what this fight is really about, EU legisl
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by octokatt 2y ago
Differing perspective but wanted to share: I find trying to socialize and make friends in an office situation to be incredibly stressful. Everyone in an office is there to primarily make money, and the politics implied make it hard for me
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by octokatt 2y ago
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by octokatt 2y ago
If you miss Chuck Norris jokes and want to know the Ancient Grecian equivalent, I highly suggest reading more quotes about Milo of Croton. The dude won six Olympic wrestling events in a row. The seventh Olympics, he came in second. A twen
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by octokatt 2y ago
Ran comment through Google Translate: The photos in the article are superb, as expected from Japanese camera people. これらのフォーラムでさまざまな言語を見て、返信できるのは素晴らしいことです。私はいつも言語が苦手でした。またすぐに戻ってきてください。あなたの視点に感謝します。
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by octokatt 2y ago
> false the chance of getting cured and not needing any more visits is big enough that the risk factor doesn't get a chance to grow In general, most mental health issues are chronic, and need multiple visits. In this case, that&#x
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by octokatt 2y ago
Hard agree. Have gotten to play this dance with getting migraines treated. To get the treatment I know works, I had to try taking a medication both me and my doctor were reasonably certain would make me sick. Sure enough, the medication m
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by octokatt 2y ago
This is horrible, and I wish it was more surprising. I stopped playing Pokemon Go when it wanted forever access to my location, because that's creepy, and sure enough that was the right call.
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by octokatt 2y ago
"Above all else, do no harm" - Hippocratic Oath (translated) The reason why a big concept in medical ethics is Do No Harm is because it is very easy to justify some bad outcomes for the sake of many good ones, similar to what is
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by octokatt 2y ago
Adding the ProPublica article which talks about United Healthcare specifically denying claims for terminal diseases for greater profits. https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-i... edit: We do not k
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by octokatt 2y ago
If you're seeing that your efforts are being wasted, then that means you're in a good spot to half-ass the solution. Use the other half for things you find meaningful to prevent burn-out. Not sure if it applies to your situation,
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by octokatt 2y ago
> Wait, is any of this Parasite SEO stuff a good idea? > I don’t think so. > If I thought it was a good idea, I wouldn’t be sharing any of this stuff. > > Google clearly has a long way to go before the parasite SEO era of Goo
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by octokatt 2y ago
> Metallurgy may be a key part of how the city could sustain itself at such a high altitude. The mountains are rich in iron ore and have dense juniper forests, which could be burned to fuel the smelting process. The researchers have also
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by octokatt 2y ago
> Most of these suggestions are detached from reality, I don't move away from my family because I feel some arbitrary social expectation, I do it because I want space and freedom. I'm going against the grain a little here, and
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by octokatt 2y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this sounds like the wave of economic prosperity that happens whenever agriculture turns to manufacturing, it just happened later in this county because of the large Amish community. The fact that other loc
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by octokatt 2y ago
This book won't go into field surgery, but will go into emergency care for field-setting a broken limb, how to clean wounds, and when to use/not use medications. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/540113
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by octokatt 2y ago
Not a professional, n=1, but I've successfully NaNoWriMo'd a few times and do regular amounts of creative writing for both D&D campaigns and for fun. Absolutely freaking yes. Lots of mental drift. Swapping over to a new wind
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by octokatt 2y ago
So, if you scroll through LinkedIn, you can see an influx of leadership migrating into WotC from Amazon. These are folk who have never even played Dungeons & Dragons, looking to monetize and assuming they know how an internet marketplac
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by octokatt 2y ago
Truly, Phoenix is a monument to man's hubris.
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by octokatt 2y ago
Quoting the article, because from your comment I'm not sure you got to the end, which is a shame as it addresses your point. TL;DR: If we're not going to aim for better, what's the point at all? > If it weren't for th
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by octokatt 2y ago
I lost my mom to ALS six years ago, and those final months still haunt me. When the time comes, make sure your remembrance service has pictures of when he was all of himself, the way you want to remember him. One of the worst things these
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by octokatt 2y ago
Perhaps an overwhelmingly obvious finding, that doomscrolling and existential anxiety are related, but important so we know it with scientific proof and can move on to doing something about it.
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by octokatt 2y ago
That's entirely fair, and precisely why I posted the framework. Thank you! I guess what I'm solving for is trying to tag a specific person or group with why a decision got made, which... if there was an easy way to do that, polit
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by octokatt 2y ago
I know folk are ripping down this straw-man, which is reasonable, but what are better best practices? I'll start, I'd rather have YYMMDD_xx_title-words.md, where xx are the principal engineer's initials. It'll handle th
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by octokatt 2y ago
Wow. I was going to start kicking an old gaming Meetup back to life, but looks like I'm going to invest my sanity elsewhere. Likewise, I've only used Meetup for non-profits/community organizing, and frankly I can get most of

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