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by rolandog 4y ago
The same way that wolves are pro-birthers when it comes to sheep.
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by rolandog 4y ago
Regarding the keychain issue, what works for me is using a wallet with a side pocket, that way the yubikey doesn't fall out... (can't remember the name for such an item; clutch wallet?).
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by rolandog 4y ago
Perhaps some sort of convention, like /r/science could be followed (like having OP post a link to the article or reference as a top comment).
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by rolandog 4y ago
I would like to think that we are still able to take things back onto our own hands by making better choices and educating ourselves and shunning for-profit companies. I, for one, would find it better to not spend my final days at the most
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by rolandog 4y ago
Yeah, this is what has kept me from investing. People in ivory towers whipping black-box abstractions of businesses into needing to produce more profits through wage theft, cost-cutting by skirting regulations, or outsourcing to unregulated
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by rolandog 4y ago
> This includes qty, position, motion, & gestures. Wow. That's terrifying.
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by rolandog 4y ago
I'm thinking either production or the warehouse still uses manual stamping of lot (or shipment) numbers with those auto-increment stamps... The number is then captured by hand into a system somewhere. The system worked fine when produc
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by rolandog 4y ago
I learned how to do proper project management by doing everything wrong at an internship during my college years. The main stakeholder was always busy and in meetings, so I would mostly clock-in and clock-out after having waited outside the
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by rolandog 4y ago
Then, automate politicians?
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by rolandog 4y ago
With the high-likelihood of false positives, this is just another Child Benefits scandal waiting to happen if the system were to be completely unsupervised.
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by rolandog 4y ago
Sorry to pile-on on the disagreements, but I also try to keep my scripts as external dependency-free as possible (at the expense of reinventing the wheel a bit) so that I minimize supply-chain attacks, and to keep things as future-proof as
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by rolandog 4y ago
Does usage by third-party apps get bundled with the official mobile app?
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by rolandog 4y ago
I usually avoid most ads by defaulting NoScript to not allow anything to be 'run', not even noscript elements. Granted, most sites become unusable.
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by rolandog 4y ago
Indeed. I feel the benefit of unionizing for managers is making the buck stop earlier in the trickle-down chain of bad policies or orders.
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by rolandog 4y ago
Well-meaning ignorant person here, but always willing to learn. I'll take your comment in good faith. Some of my ignorance may be because the knowledge has been abstracted away, deprived of its nuance, and physically kept at a distance
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by rolandog 4y ago
A suspicious person would think they're billing by the actual seconds and dividing the total amount of actual seconds by the budgeted seconds in the ad to bump up the ad impressions. But I'm not that guy.
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by rolandog 4y ago
Does the Turing test contemplate that the person doing the evaluation should not be wary they are performing one? I would falsely classify some of my fast-typing family members and friends as bots due to the high amount of grammar mistakes
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by rolandog 4y ago
> Given the longevity and frequent re-evolution of Feudal systems throughout history it's worth considering whether Feudalism is the default economic system. Why do we have laws that punish robbery and murder? Because it may be the
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by rolandog 4y ago
Wouldn't it be ironic that this makes Senior Managers realize it's in their best interest to join a union?
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by rolandog 4y ago
Thanks for the advice! Had forgotten to remove it from here.
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by rolandog 4y ago
He has multiplied the ands. Pray he does not multiply them any further.
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by rolandog 4y ago
> political extremism Completely agree. Also, there's the fact that we tell children to "act like adults", like it meant being civilized, educated, and kind to each other; but it's not hard to see that some significan
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by rolandog 4y ago
I can't remember where I read it, but I recall there was a study that argued that it would be "better" (can't recall the hypothesis: more democratic? more representative?) to actually pick people like jury duty (i.e. at
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by rolandog 5y ago
> a message board for paranoid tech nerds? Ah, this explains why I feel at home in this community.
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by rolandog 5y ago
Well, if we overanalyze everything, the same could be said about the neediness of tweeting birds to get the attention of a possible partner [1]. [1] https://i.imgur.com/Ks17qEJ.png
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by rolandog 5y ago
SpaceTime with Stuart Gary is a great podcast where the host goes into detail about the relevance of new studies. I really like it.
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by rolandog 5y ago
I hadn't heard about steelmanning [0], and it was definitely a pleasant thing to learn about. > A steel man argument (or steelmanning) is the opposite of a straw man argument. The idea is to help one's opponent to construct t
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by rolandog 5y ago
https://rolandog.com I had taken it down, but — as I'm learning everything Emacs — I'm in the middle of recreating it with project.el and org-mode... comments be damned... So, there's very little of value at the
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by rolandog 5y ago
Damn. That's the equivalent of having to walk to school uphill both ways during a snow storm. It makes me feel really grateful for the hundreds of thousands of man-hours that have been spent on giving us good and reliable tools.
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by rolandog 5y ago
Agreed; furthermore, your example is analogous to the classical way to answer a test by filling in the answer-sheet's circles with graphite pencils.

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