ruraljuror

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by ruraljuror 2y ago
> Nobody is forcing you to eat those. No, I think force feeding junk food is pretty rare but that seems like a straw man. Consider children. Their brains are not fully developed and they have little agency in determining the food they ha
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by ruraljuror 2y ago
Not sure why you are downvoted. I had the same question about who’s behavior we are referring to. Attributing obesity simply to individual behavior and choices is pretty myopic. Just look at government subsidies for corn. There are larger f
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by ruraljuror 2y ago
So you have pretty much the exact opposite position of the original article then (which does not suggest The Odyssey itself is a problem).
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by ruraljuror 2y ago
I feel like it would be hard to choose the best of a commodity, so this is even more perplexing to me.
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by ruraljuror 2y ago
Curious if you have read A Confederacy of Dunces? It is how I learned of Boethius, although I can't say I remember much of either.
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by ruraljuror 2y ago
I’m exaggerating a little (but not much): the risk with tiktok is that it is brainwashing Americans—particularly young ones—with anti-American sentiment. Not only does that suck for the individual, but diminishes the civil-service talent po
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by ruraljuror 2y ago
No. Not at the scale of Tiktok.
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by ruraljuror 2y ago
That is a bizarre standard but I would argue China’s fueling the US’s fentanyl crisis is far worse.
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by ruraljuror 2y ago
The concern over tiktok is not that Xi’s autocratic regime is surveilling you, but manipulating the algorithms in its large social media market share to foment anti-American (& anti-Israeli) sentiment.
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by ruraljuror 2y ago
> Absolutely. This is the worst job market for tech workers in probably 20 years. Any sources for this? Asking out of curiosity—not disagreement.
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by ruraljuror 2y ago
fracking comment was tongue-in-cheek
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by ruraljuror 2y ago
Up! up! my Friend, and quit your books https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45557/the-tables-turn...
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by ruraljuror 2y ago
I like your point. The exception is if the project you work on is itself downstream, in which case maintainers will rebase those “published” commits, probably employing the same technique they use to keep their local development branches up
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by ruraljuror 2y ago
> In May, the lab released a new version of AlphaFold, a landmark tool for predicting protein structures. Hassabis says it could develop into a $100 billion business, but some people at Google have questioned whether he should be dedicat
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by ruraljuror 2y ago
Sure. It's a tool that makes you worse at most things and poisons your body when you drink it, but has proven effective at date rape. It has evolved? I will grant that humans have a complex history with it, but you are mischaracterizin
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by ruraljuror 2y ago
At first I laughed with your astute comment, then remembered Apple and its customers will now be paying (transitively) Microsoft to put this feature on phones. I still agree with the point, but Microsoft has done such an amazing job of evol
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by ruraljuror 2y ago
Love this. I would add: git commit —-fixup $COMMIT_ID combined with git rebase -i upstream/master —autosquash These have become staples of my recent workflow. Julia’s example uses HEAD^^^^^ to rebase the previous 5 commit
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by ruraljuror 2y ago
Check out dfw’s Tense Present for a discussion of these opposing schools, prescriptvist vs descriptivist: https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-2001-...
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by ruraljuror 2y ago
What do you mean? This seems to contradict https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/IBM/ibm/stock-pric...
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by ruraljuror 2y ago
“Red Hat goes into the cloud” sounds like something that hasn’t happened yet. IBM bought red hat (largest historical software acquisition at the time) due to its position in hybrid cloud.
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by ruraljuror 3y ago
This. Attorneys are sorting through documents, highlighting relevant parts, providing summaries. There is a subplot in Better Call Saul where Kim is punished by being assigned to days of doc review. Briefly shown in this clip: https:/
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by ruraljuror 3y ago
It still does. Individual contributor is someone with no reports.
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by ruraljuror 3y ago
Yeah it is a great alternative/addition to cast iron, and can be similarly seasoned.
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by ruraljuror 3y ago
Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion https://a.co/d/917saBb
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by ruraljuror 3y ago
> It passed 100% of spellcheck tests Just like your post does! :)
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by ruraljuror 3y ago
Are you saying that Atmos and Spatial Audio are snake oil, no different than ordinary stereo headphones? If so, seems like Eno would be very low on the list of offenders--though I don't buy it.
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by ruraljuror 3y ago
I hear a lot of this sentiment, but from what I see both internally at rh and news publicly available there is nothing to back up what you are saying. The decision seems to have been made by many long-tenured folk. So what if the opposite o
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by ruraljuror 3y ago
The audiobook for this, read by Tim Robbins with music by Bill Frisell, is spectacular.
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by ruraljuror 4y ago
Better pay? Not for new hires. Most recent reports I have seen (blind, levels.fyi) and my own experiences have shown Amazon skyrocket to the top paying FAANG, with the first two years heavily skewed toward cash and backloading RSUs. I am su
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by ruraljuror 4y ago
Wouldn’t employers be incentivized to give raises as soon as it was more cost efficient than counter offers?

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