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by octokatt 4y ago
Both are symptoms of the same cause. Policies need to change.
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by octokatt 4y ago
I'm going to add... since I stopped going into the office, I stopped getting the flu. I have a crappy immune system, and some auto-immune disorder stuff. I would get the flu for about a week, three to five times, every year. Given I&
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by octokatt 4y ago
https://archive.ph/WZ0NO
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by octokatt 4y ago
Bad title: Self-care in the case of Quiet Quitting is deciding to spend more time on yourself, and less time on unpaid, unthanked work. Also, this is yet another article about the quiet quitting phenomenon.
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by octokatt 4y ago
Ideally, interviews should be a chance for both parties to learn something. Normally, this is learning about the position/ whether the position is a good fit. In abnormal cases where it's clear the interview progress will go no f
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by octokatt 4y ago
Controversial take, but how we treat the mentally ill and prisoners is a good health meter for how much abuse is acceptable in a society. We need to do better than this... Stanford Prison experiment recreation.
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by octokatt 4y ago
https://archive.ph/gU3Fe
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by octokatt 4y ago
Eating Cocoa Puffs, watching M.O.D.O.K. because Saturday morning cartoons are awesome. Sometimes, I get in my head that I haven't gotten further in life. Building a career, getting a doctorate, buying a house, finding a surrogate to h
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by octokatt 4y ago
I appreciate this effort, and I want to try it out... but in the README, I did not see how to literally make a note from the terminal. Is this intended to make something like Nano easier to integrate with an extra tool set provided by Jot,
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by octokatt 4y ago
Adding more managers. I was in a meeting for a late-running project where there were two SMEs, me as the lone engineer, and seven managers. Project manager, scrum master, product owner, function vertical manager, project coordinator, and t
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by octokatt 4y ago
This. I take notes in neat block writing, but also slurred cursive when I need to make a personal note (such as “this sprint is going to fail miserably, no reqs gathered”), which is nice so I have a little private space for notes.
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by octokatt 4y ago
> where you fear talking about your pain because you'll be judged, shunned, rejected, mocked, blamed This really strikes to the heart of it. If the outcome of a fifteen minute appointment I’ve waited nine months for will determine
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by octokatt 4y ago
Personal assistants like Siri or Hello Google. They’re not be leveraged well now, but having an assistant to remind you about a complex pill regimen or physical therapy exercises will be huge for medical care (for better and worse). Even st
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by octokatt 4y ago
There's a lot of conflation and paternalism in this article. I get the TikTok tics being socially motivated and reinforced. Expanding that to include social reinforcement of being Fair Ophelia... fine, that can be a subset. The wide s
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by octokatt 4y ago
House prices doubling in three years is not sustainable, and the rate hike was a kick in the teeth. I was financially able to buy a house with my salary last year in my area (greater Portland), and now… I’d be lucky if I could buy a condo.
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California passes bill aimed at making the internet safer for kids(cnbc.com)
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by octokatt 4y ago
TL;DR: Gen Z and Millenials, watching the collapse of their ability to buy a house, and possibly even retire on a habitable planet, are deciding to spend money on things they can actually achieve and enjoy.
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by octokatt 4y ago
https://archive.ph/h1jY6
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by octokatt 4y ago
Realistically... Microsoft owns GitHub, and the weird Azure devops-ish solution for git. If an enterprise is on Microsoft, they're going to use one of those two solutions instead of GitLab. Making IT's life _vastly harder_ to all
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by octokatt 4y ago
Am I able to link to my own markdown docs, or do I only make notes in your closed app?
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by octokatt 4y ago
Schlockmercenary.com — a very silly sci-if comic that for decades updated every day. The writer reached the end of his arc in 2020, and I lost my favorite morning start-up page. I still go there and hit the Random button, but it’s not quit
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by octokatt 4y ago
Cartoons. I start every day with at least a half-hour, preferably an hour, of something silly that makes me laugh. Maybe I watch while on an elliptical, or maybe curled up with blankets, but starting my day everyday with something nice for
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by octokatt 4y ago
Price discrimination is the name of the game in today's world, and is taught in every economics class. At some point, we need to ask folk to price goods for a meaningful cost, not the maximum allowable, for better access and a more ope
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by octokatt 4y ago
“Generation told that the only way they’ll be able to get ahead is networking is nervous working-from-home will reduce networking opportunities, after receiving said advice from older workers who want to work from home and not talk to them.
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by octokatt 4y ago
> This kind of ceremonial setting and the work and care around it, is missing in the days of immediate availability... I'm riffing off of this, and saying it's about the same as trying to find a new opinion by reading Facebook.
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by octokatt 4y ago
I'm hoping this gets established, and then expands so data brokers can't sell data sets with labels like "anxious" or "likely depressed". Right now, corporations are intentionally or unintentionally behaviorall
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by octokatt 4y ago
> For each pair, the rater was instructed to click on the photograph corresponding to the answer to the following question: “I feel like I'm better able to understand the feelings or the emotions of [choice among a pair of pictures
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by octokatt 4y ago
The trick is that not all of the complexity is protective politics -- some of the complexity is carefully created diplomatic language to keep together a coalition of cranky managers who managed to agree on _this very specific version of The
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by octokatt 4y ago
Posting this here: Monte Cook's Consent in Gaming is really helpful [0] as a useful guide for creating the kind of game your players want, and is a free resource. As an aside... I usually house rule that Mind Control and Time Travel _d
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by octokatt 4y ago
> Being self-conscious, then, relies on the gaze of someone else. “The Other penetrates me to the heart,” Jean-Paul Sartre writes, describing Hegel’s intuition about how we are dependent on one another in our very being. “I cannot doubt

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