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by octokatt 5y ago
… Anyone else remember Microsoft Works? I remember liking it a lot more because it was a little faster. The article talked about using Microsoft Word in Windows 95, and all I could think of was Microsoft Works.
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by octokatt 5y ago
For tech and burning out, it's important to know that the lack of a clear output or goal can increase the likelihood of burnout. Double that if you have little control over your environment due to technical decisions made where you ha
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by octokatt 5y ago
Nope, these numbers seem absurd, most likely due to heavy sampling bias.
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by octokatt 5y ago
Try to remember that where you are is a good place to start, and to have compassion for your past self. Your past self did everything they could to get to a better situation. And now, things sound like they're starting to get better.
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by octokatt 5y ago
Dear ye gods, this would be awesome. Pairing up patients with difficult conditions, but who take fantastic data and are compliant to care guidelines with doctors who genuinely want to help patients over a long period of time.
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by octokatt 5y ago
The lack of punctuation, the phrasing of this response, and the Overton Window nudging makes me think this comment is not in good faith.
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by octokatt 5y ago
Might be worth focusing towards either small-business founders (looking to create a lifestyle SaaS or similar) or unicorn-hunting founders (looking to build the largest business possible. The skill set to build is going to be very different
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by octokatt 5y ago
Upvote for chair lift. This is the piece of technology needed to make sure he can stay in the house safely. It sounds like OP’s father is motivated to stay in the house, which means things like exercise bands will be useful things he uses.
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by octokatt 5y ago
I am not sure what the point of your post is, but it seems argumentative and victim-blaming, which is a bit egregious given she’s posting an article about being gas-lighted and trying to recover a better sense of perspective. Can you refram
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by octokatt 5y ago
TL;DR: Family estrangement is more common because families are less dependent on each other for immediate survival, more emotionally aware of the impacts of abusive behavior, and more able to move away from their families. Having been estra
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by octokatt 5y ago
Full agree. Having strict gender definitions isn’t good for anyone. I’m looking forward to people getting to be people, both emotionally supported and taken seriously at work.
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by octokatt 5y ago
Adding context, it’s also worth noting that Massachusetts is a pretty small, narrow state. Anyone who wanted to get a gun can easily go over the border. Right next door is New Hampshire. A state with “live free or die” as it’s motto, and
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by octokatt 5y ago
When I mentioned at work, to fellow managers, a four-day week would be a good idea according to current research, they said the following: My manager: “You mean like four ten-hour days? I could see that.” Peer manager: “I would settle for
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by octokatt 5y ago
I respectfully disagree. For policies like the ones being discussed, assumptions are being made that everyone involved is making their own decisions. I’m refuting the claim that every pregnancy is the result of informed decisions. Other gr
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by octokatt 5y ago
I’m not sure where the leap from “create regulation” to “run-away housing prices” happens. That’ll happen in a growing city, but the effect tends to be a little lower in rural communities, particularly if regulation is tightened around exp
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by octokatt 5y ago
I guess my follow-up would be “How much worse is your job when they’re trying to punish you and you get to do what you want, versus when they’re just normally terrible and you hate what you do”. As well, it’s worth checking how their feedba
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by octokatt 5y ago
https://archive.md/cdWMS
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by octokatt 5y ago
Crazy talk, what if we started tightening regulation so small communities stayed small, and were increasingly built and revitalized in ways that benefited both the community and the surrounding wildlife?
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by octokatt 5y ago
Stop caring, and do the job you want to have as much as you can. I'm assuming you have things in mind for the job you want. Do the bare minimum for what you're assigned, then volunteer to do the parts you actually want to do. Ev
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by octokatt 5y ago
With compassion, may I say the following: Some pregnancies are not planned. Some sex is not consensual. Unless we have free abortions available, people with uteruses are sometimes not free to decide not to be pregnant. The decision to sup
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by octokatt 5y ago
Actually, on average, women tend to make more decisions regarding major household decisions [0]. But hey, feel free to decide the only way a woman could possibly undertake a job is because of tits. [0] https://www.pewresearch.or
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by octokatt 5y ago
This is a useful article about Amazon work culture. And is also why I will never work there, and why they’re going to have ongoing diversity-of-thought issues, as that’s not a culture a lot of people can thrive in.
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by octokatt 5y ago
We live in the (dystopian) future
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by octokatt 5y ago
This is awesome, and rock thee onwards. I wanted to make sure OP knows that “white hood” can mean something _very_ different, and “white hoodie hacker” might provide that distance.
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by octokatt 5y ago
Data science, and probably software engineering in general, needs something like the Iron Ring [0], where you make a pledge to not build bad things. While I understand the author of this Medium post wanted to do something good, and maybe ev
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by octokatt 5y ago
Hard agree. Microsoft going for Right to Repair hurts Apple’s hardware position, just like Apple’s privacy position hurts Google.
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by octokatt 5y ago
So, let’s be clear that to focus on how to get social media content for podcasters spreading more quickly, he made a move to grab interest of a population. This is manipulative and, because of his savings, ultimately meaningless. Worse than
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by octokatt 5y ago
Heidi came out in 1881 [0], right around when the phone was invented and after Switzerland had a decade or so of political turmoil [1]. When things get complicated, nostalgia for the simplicity of rural life, without things like dirt or eco
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by octokatt 5y ago
I’m surprised these guidelines didn’t mention the connection between extreme TV watching and Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia [0]. That said, I can appreciate attacking the potential core problem (lack of exercise and social activity
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by octokatt 5y ago
This is a good article, mainly for highlighting that if kids are falling off of the development track, we see worse outcomes, and more boys than girls are falling off of the track. My take-aways were: * Education needs to be more than a col

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