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by pksebben 5y ago
Was never a PM, but I did just transition into writing code (from bartending, no less) and I'm past 35, so I can say that for usn's ageism isn't a hard barrier. Haven't been through enough of the industry to say that it
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by pksebben 5y ago
Be clear and specific with your questions. Timing may also be a factor. Helps if you're asking people to share a story. Those are easy to respond to. There's also a considerable amount of luck. Sometimes you just get lost in th
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by pksebben 5y ago
It's a little tough to answer because the question is a little ambiguous. What do you mean by creator? Is this an art thing? Also, your use of the term niche-based is a little ambiguous. That may be cleared up if we know who the cre
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by pksebben 5y ago
They aren't close; that's not what I was driving at. China's problems and ours are leagues apart in terms of quality. However, we do have a history of: - assassinating and locking up political dissidents (see: Black Panthers.
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by pksebben 5y ago
The conclusions this article comes to re: the reason for the shortage (that is, that pandemic unemployment and emergency assistance prevent people from looking for work) are backed up by an article that predicates all it's findings o
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by pksebben 5y ago
Yeah, that rational markets bit I keep hearing about sounds more like an example of proof that the markets we have are not rational. Like; "IF the markets WERE rational, they would probably do thing " and then thing is some
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by pksebben 5y ago
To say that we operate on "the rule of law" is a little silly at this point in history, isn't it? We have corruption just as bad if not worse, only in the US we've legitimized more of it and driven it further under the
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by pksebben 5y ago
Me too! Right in the middle of the buy-shit month. This year was a lean one.
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by pksebben 5y ago
Are the boots back to being polishable? My stint was during the dusty oakleys era.
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by pksebben 5y ago
Being fairly new to software as a job and not a hobby, I don't have a ton of experience when it comes to office politics. Does it necessarily follow that because employee A is busting ass, expectations get raised for employee B? Is t
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by pksebben 5y ago
that may be, but I'm totally on board with staggered, a la carte breaks. Esp. considering how many work in places that are mission-critical (or service industry) and don't take the same time off. Moreover, I find (for myself) ver
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by pksebben 5y ago
I grew up in Brooklyn, and I'm currently on team rural. I couldn't think straight with all those noises and distractions, and I was going broke trying to keep up with rent hikes.
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by pksebben 5y ago
I hope my ignorance can be forgiven, but every time I see economist lit it comes off as incredibly reductive. There's always something (like the secondary fight-night line you mention) that seems intuitively obvious to me but gets glo
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by pksebben 5y ago
It does come off as a bit kneejerk, huh. There's this like, cultural thing where folks just get mad at people who do things they don't understand, especially when they perceive it as 'dumb'. My question to that is; why
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by pksebben 5y ago
gotta build a relationship with it. once the two of you have had a heart to heart and accepted each other, you can start smoothing things out. talking about the fear, natch.
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by pksebben 5y ago
thanks for posting this. had no idea about the "use it or lose it" clauses! what the hell, america?
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by pksebben 5y ago
going through whimsicalisms posts, and it's actually hard to build a picture of state-run propaganda. They talk about Taiwanese independence like it's a given, for example. This could possibly be a cultural misunderstanding. Never
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by pksebben 5y ago
I would argue that any single individual is perfectly capable of being unpredictable, so any form of authoritarianism would derive that unpredictability. This is, fwig, the instability that a republic is meant to fix.
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by pksebben 5y ago
These are mentioned piecemeal in other comments, but this refers to four other similar incidents, all with varying levels of goofy horror: - Dublin whiskey fire - Great Molasses Flood - Honolulu molasses spill - Pepsi Fruit Juice Flood
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by pksebben 5y ago
I wish I had had you as a professor. Such a struggle to work around notions of "what normal folks should be able to do". The worst of it was, when I would go to rectify things that got done late or needed extra work, it was all &
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by pksebben 5y ago
second this. Time without other people's stuff in your stuff is invaluable. I would add that pomodoros can be really good for tracking how much you've gotten done, and then being able to walk away after a certain amount of time h
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by pksebben 5y ago
It probably is, but if you have it under control then it's not really disabling, is it? Good job getting there. You're just old enough that you likely had to manage without the social resources to assist, and that's no smal
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by pksebben 5y ago
Man, does that ever resonate. I had years of just beating myself up over not being good enough before I caved and went back on my meds, and since then I have come to believe that the combination of the kinds of lateral thinking and hyper
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by pksebben 5y ago
I recently went on a dive into libcaca. Those devs are the heroes we need.
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by pksebben 5y ago
I feel like RSS / HTML fail to make easy certain components of the social media experience. They don't do a particularly good job of assisting networking, which I would consider a primary function of social media, nor do they do
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by pksebben 5y ago
I use the exact same method. Hello from the magic tavern, darknet diaries, and the dollop are all top billed. what are some of yours?
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by pksebben 5y ago
we do desperately need a social media protocol. something to replace the twitters and facebooks with an email / rss-like mechanism that's open and
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I would be fascinated to read the original copy. there's a lot of information missing in this story.
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by pksebben 5y ago
it's not exactly "all-purpose", but with laptop in hand and Linux connected to the tv... `ssh user@host cat file.mkv | mplayer` it's more one of those things that spark joy because of how weird it is, but I end up using
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by pksebben 5y ago
our terrorists are state funded and better armed. they don't need your house to stay in.

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