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691.
by pluc 3y ago
They said the same about Viagra.
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by pluc 3y ago
That was Splinter Cell for me, 2 years before Far Cry. Always saw Far Cry as more... toonish whereas SC was all about realism
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by pluc 3y ago
Where in Rome can one find this painting?
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by pluc 3y ago
Stop using Javascript on the Internet and you'll find yourself back in 1998. Advertisers, marketers and front-end devs have ruined it. Only selectively allow each JS source, fuck them.
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by pluc 3y ago
20 yrs here, going on my 2nd month. 300+ applications, about 1% return. I tell myself that after 6 months, I'll sell my house and buy a farm or travel for a few months or something. I can't imagine how many qualified people the ma
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by pluc 3y ago
The consequence of this is cynicism and the use of AI on both ends. Applicants are using AI assisted tools to apply because of the sheer quantity of jobs they have to apply to to get anywhere and recruiters are using AI assisted tools to sc
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by pluc 3y ago
This week in the news literally was reporting a record season. Don't know about ROC but QC has been freezing/thawing for weeks, which is great for the production.
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by pluc 3y ago
Depending on which link you follow, this article either quotes an article by slashdot that quotes an article by Ars or quotes an article by slashdot that quotes an article by slashdot that quotes an article by Ars. The Ars article: https:&
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by pluc 3y ago
Could "private" mean "kept from the outside world"?
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by pluc 3y ago
there are plenty of ads on reddit
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by pluc 3y ago
It can be useful to know who's near the door so that you may rectify the situation, it doesn't necessarily have to be slimy. Benefit of the doubt I guess. DX (getdx.com) has it and it's very pro-worker.
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by pluc 3y ago
FAQ Does it scale? No. oh good
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by pluc 3y ago
That's odd considering cannabis use was shown to decrease REM sleep and thus memory processing and consolidation.
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by pluc 3y ago
Reading vs hearing is akin to tasting vs smelling. The signal reaches the brain but the path it takes is different.
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by pluc 3y ago
"They were right and so was he" well thank the lord for that level of accountability
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by pluc 3y ago
Just turn off Javascript with No-Script and selectively turn it on. It makes the web such a better place.
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by pluc 3y ago
> That way, you get some of your self-esteem back, you'll have less stress. Seriously this is something you have to start figuring out. Nobody can get refused hundreds of times and not get into self-doubt. Once out of a few referr
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by pluc 3y ago
When you're running out of savings, everyone else can get f*cked.
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by pluc 3y ago
This is what I do. Since your resume is your point of entry, if you're not hooking anything then it's easy to say the issue is that you didn't manage to grab the attention/interest of whoever filtered those resumes. I ch
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by pluc 3y ago
I'm past IC (which I did for 15 years) and onto director/head/vp of eng, though I can be hands-on. In Canada, applying for full remote gigs. I've made a point this time not to come out with a salary expectation and inste
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by pluc 3y ago
I have 25 YoE and talking to walls too. My only suggestion is to ask everyone to review your resume. If that doesn't work, start lying. The last time I was looking for work, I applied to over 600 positions. I've been off work 2 we
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by pluc 3y ago
I haven't read it yet, but I have "Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State" by Byron Tau in my cart and that feels related so.. maybe look it up. https:&
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by pluc 3y ago
We just bailed them out too. And covid relief. And they have the worst customer complaint resolution record of all the airlines. You can't get them to do shit, they just take take take. It's a national embarrassment, right next to
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by pluc 3y ago
WeAI would arguably be a much better name
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by pluc 3y ago
Never understood the point of "a desktop" because of this. Why bother to have programs you only use on-demand just sitting there? The same thing, that I find more useful, can be achieved by actually running the programs you need (
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by pluc 3y ago
"joining" implements the merging of two things. When you toss one of those things out, it's called absorbing.
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by pluc 3y ago
it means don't travel with it, and if you do get caught with it a zealous officer could say you were "carrying a prohibited device" or something like that.
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by pluc 3y ago
That ability is not the product they're offering though, that's something you can already once you identify where your data is. And obviously that's if they have a way for you to do request removal and if they feel like d
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by pluc 3y ago
haveibeenpwned.com has been offering the same service for free for years.
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by pluc 3y ago
Discipline. For work, and for personal time. And good gear. Don't cheap out on what you use to make 100% of your income and has an impact on your health.

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