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by orev 4y ago
New tools should be looked at as opening up new things you can cook. Pressure pots excel at dry beans, soups, and stews. If you don’t cook those, you won’t see the benefits. 1 hour in a pressure pot vs 8 hours in a crock pot is a game chang
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by orev 4y ago
The typical comment about toaster ovens is that they’re bad at making toast and they’re bad at being an oven. Just learn to use the oven that’s already installed in the kitchen.
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by orev 4y ago
> How can they possibly do this without exposure to liability? They can’t, just like human drivers can’t drive without liability, which is why insurance is required for all drivers. Auto insurance companies determine rates based on risk
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by orev 4y ago
> a culture or mindset that prioritizes short term benefit/feelings over long term benefits even when there are other options. For example, things like getting a dog, signing up for cable TV, getting an unnecessarily expensive new p
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by orev 4y ago
PIPs are mostly used so they can get rid of people without fear of a lawsuit. It generates documentation that “hey, we tried” in case it’s needed as evidence later.
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by orev 4y ago
You’re fundamentally misunderstanding how prices work (as does the vast majority of people, including journalists who report on these things). The price of anything is dependent on one thing alone: how much someone else is willing to pay fo
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by orev 4y ago
The people being convinced in this scenario are VCs, not customers, and the point is that VCs want to hear how your tech stack is going to morph into the second coming of crypto so they can get a huge exit. It has nothing to do with actuall
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by orev 4y ago
> How does a modern website operate under this law? As someone who has seen the web evolve from basic pages to the apps of today, the way “modern websites” are currently built is absolutely horrific. Web developers don’t seem to have any
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by orev 4y ago
Obviously the power output goes down if they’re covered in snow. But you already knew that. No need to be facetious.
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by orev 4y ago
There’s a big difference between preventing ongoing distribution of someone else’s content after a contract has ended, and deleting personal copies of that content. Labeling this as “library recordings” makes it pretty clear that anyone usi
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by orev 4y ago
That’s also the benefit (to companies) of consultants — they can bring them on and get rid of them as needed more easily, so if you’re a consultant you might be able to find more gigs. Companies still need to get the work done, and having a
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by orev 4y ago
If they had foresight, they wouldn’t have made CDs at all. They do not want people ripping them and getting “perfect” copies.
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by orev 4y ago
When ripping with EAC, you want EAC to be doing the error detection/correction, not C2. EAC tries to read the data multiple times and takes the best results. C2 will hide issues in the raw data.
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by orev 4y ago
> Why is it corporations can "layoff" without notice but as an employee you are expected to give 2 weeks notice? Both sides can equally give as much notice as they want. 2 weeks is only customary, but also seems to be rarely ho
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by orev 4y ago
Outlook.com webmail. But separately, MS is definitely killing on-prem Exchange as well. Maybe not today, but they have been very clear that they want everyone in their cloud.
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by orev 4y ago
My iPhone 13 is still fully functional, even after they announced the 14.
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by orev 4y ago
>> Yes, absolutely. Recovering lost TOTP keys in a secure way is a difficult problem, and this happens all the time when people get new phones. With SMS the code is tied to your account, not the device. > You can store your backup
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by orev 4y ago
>> Rarely does a life leave time or energy for child-rearing, a paid job and a fulfilling avocation. > I could not imagine living a world where this becomes the norm. The norm should be "It's rare for a person to have a s
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by orev 4y ago
For Gen X, Fight Club explained it clearly: “We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact.“ In th
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by orev 4y ago
Recruiters typically get paid a commission based on the final salary, so it’s in their interest to get you as high a salary as possible.
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by orev 4y ago
I think many here will disagree, but this is spot on. Having a fixed salary range also implies there’s a fixed/well-defined set of tasks for that role, which is only applicable to typical lower-level jobs that do repetitive tasks. Once
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by orev 4y ago
This sounds like container kool-aid to me. One can implement exactly the same processes using regular OS management tools as with container tools. They both still need the same information about order, testing, etc. If you’ve only ever put
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by orev 4y ago
I’ve seen ads sometimes on airport WiFi, but rarely anything of consequence at hotels, other than a basic splash page promoting the hotel itself. The hotel also already has all your personal information from the booking, so I don’t see how
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by orev 4y ago
The point is that we’re not actually recycling plastic. Never have been. It’s all been a sham and being burned or shipped off to other countries (and many times those bins on the ships “accidentally” just get dumped in the ocean. Secondly,
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by orev 4y ago
Automatic faucet/dryers/soap dispensers in public toilets. Always delays before they start. Or don’t start at all. Or start/stop before you’re done. They seem to work as (un)reliably as they did 20 years ago.
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by orev 4y ago
You might be interested in Monitorian https://github.com/emoacht/Monitorian
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by orev 4y ago
When layoffs start, the lazy companies use a last-in-first-out approach, so switching jobs now likely makes one a higher risk to be laid off.
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by orev 4y ago
Swap space is used for many other things than just running out of memory. Given the huge number of comments on this post that get it wrong so badly, I'm not going to respond to all of them, so please do your own research. The short ans
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by orev 4y ago
It doesn’t even have to be bluffing. Salary for a new position should be decided based on how much value you can bring to the position, and how much each party is willing to accept. Previous history is the most irrelevant part of the proces
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by orev 4y ago
You’ve just identified the (obvious to systems engineers) problem of every movement that tries to bypass IT Operations and has Developers just do it. System engineering is actually a completely different skill than development, and past a v

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