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by scandox 6y ago
Can someone please build an evil-o-meter? Just send me an email when a company/service changes ownership or TOS. Thanks in advance.
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by scandox 6y ago
I think "convenient" may be a mild understatement. Many parents are enduring serious mental health issues because of their inability to sleep. I should say that was not our case. > They will eventually shut down in self-defense
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by scandox 6y ago
Everybody's situation is different but in our case we did sleep training around 4 months and we had whole night sleep from then on - with a few minor regressions and a bit more training. My wife found letting the baby cry out very diff
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by scandox 6y ago
Serverless is a bit like Stone Soup [1]. This I guess is the point at which the Tramp says: "Now if you just add a few onions it really helps the flavour..." [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup
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by scandox 6y ago
> it's insulting to have my work dismissed so shallowly You haven't had to deal with end-users much have you? I've seen years of really excellent work (not my own) blithely dismissed with expressions such as "but what
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by scandox 6y ago
What I meant was that in a tech support context if you ask people what browser they're using they will often say something like "I went to Product Name" or "I'm on Product Name". Then ask them what actual addre
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by scandox 6y ago
I agree. What I'm saying is clearly if you want to defeat this then a totally different approach needs to turn up because 20 years of mainstream internet use has resulted in zero user education.
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by scandox 6y ago
I'm against this. But: it's 2020 and still a huge number of people I deal with every day type the name of our product into their search bar and then login at the first site returned. Most don't know the difference between a b
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by scandox 6y ago
Those clients may have trouble taking those projects in house or bringing them to another 3rd party developer! As an advisor on these kind of projects I usually advise clients to be very conservative about the tech used by 3rd party develop
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by scandox 6y ago
Agreed
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by scandox 6y ago
It's not proof but it is evidence
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by scandox 6y ago
Small talk is the foreplay of human discourse. Frankly most people's inconsequential talk is more interesting to me than their views on Big Topics where we mostly adhere to some tribal imperative.
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by scandox 6y ago
I have moved more than 2000 mailboxes with over a terabyte of data with it. Worked well for me.
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by scandox 6y ago
Recommend IMAPSync: https://imapsync.lamiral.info/ Have used it at pretty massive scale and it handles a hell of a lot of different options.
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by scandox 6y ago
There's not much logic in my statement just an understanding of what the journalist is trying to do: dramatize something quite ordinary. They want to establish a historical context where Hiroshima was a recent event and somehow tie thi
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by scandox 6y ago
Well it's a classic journalistic technique. Put two statements adjacent to each other and imply a connection but actually you can see there is no formal conjunction.
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by scandox 6y ago
Well that's why I put a question mark on the end. It was my best guess.
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by scandox 6y ago
Well unfortunately there are people that can perfectly conceal their true feelings and intentions. Perhaps they are the ones that you need to interview. Though I suppose by definition they won't be very forthcoming.
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by scandox 6y ago
Presumably they're creeped out because they believe your emotional responses are simulated and that your engagement in phatic discourse is inauthentic? But how they can they tell the difference? And even if they can how do they know th
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by scandox 6y ago
Met a chap who spent 7 years not talking in a monastery. When I met him he was a mountain climbers which I'm indifferent to...but the monastery thing impressed me.
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by scandox 6y ago
There was a phase of my life where I felt a nomadic existence would be ideal. Later I went through another phase in which I imagined finding the perfect place and establishing an amazing existence there in an environment uniquely suited to
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by scandox 6y ago
I repeatedly see this trope about Bezos' hyper intelligence. I mean he appears to be intelligent but how did his reputation for being the smartest of billionaires arise? What proof is there of it? He generally comes across as a well re
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by scandox 6y ago
So pure can't-be-arsed by the sounds of it
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by scandox 6y ago
Is that a difficult problem? I'd be interested to hear what they got stuck on. I guess I naively imagine that in a world of text chat and voice to text it would be pretty doable.
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by scandox 6y ago
The mistake here is equating English with the set of symbols borrowed from the English language for the purpose of creating a new language. I like British spelling but this is surely a pernicious additional layer of transformation.
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by scandox 6y ago
Well this is more about Dystopian fiction which is rarely terrifying. I think bleak visions and grim conditions in fiction are satisfying though. I know that whenever I read 1984 I find the very grimness of Winston's life gives me plea
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by scandox 6y ago
One of my favourite quotes from The Evidence of Things Not Seen: "The dream of safety can reach culmination or climax only in the nightmare orgasm of genocide." There's a preamble to it, but it's an incredibly powerful i
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by scandox 6y ago
Well some people are in the useful business and some people are in the useless business but neither have a higher claim to significance in the cosmos. Ultimately the set of questions remaining when all the usefulness is complete will be the
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by scandox 6y ago
Didn't Lidl abandon a 500 million SAP integration recently? I mean perhaps this kind of failure is part of their motivation, but it certainly seems like a leap. I'm certainly hoping a major European player emerges in cloud but it
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by scandox 6y ago
I don't think it's necessarily fair to frame it this way. Disagreements over values have always been a potential flashpoint between parents and children. Especially where the children's values are in fact a reaction to their

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