sedawk

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by sedawk 4y ago
>what did I really gain? This is what I was trying to say: gain being the good effects dream vacation had on your mental health. Cost, of course is time, but you'd pay that anyways.
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by sedawk 4y ago
I might have some recommendations, please reach out to me if you're still struggling to recover the files
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by sedawk 4y ago
I don't know why nobody has brought this up yet... while you embark on the journey of finding a good therapist that you can work with, if you are not opposed to the idea, adopt a small pet, dog maybe. A pet has great potential to enri
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by sedawk 4y ago
> That's only possible because the science itself is difficult. So was (and still is) landing a man on the moon, but we still managed to do it. Difficult doesn't have to mean "impossible" and accepting wrong/bad
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by sedawk 4y ago
> Thought experiment: if you could take your dream vacation at no expense but would have no memories or photos/videos of the trip would you do it? Of course I would, there is no downside to it. Even if I have no memory of it after
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by sedawk 4y ago
That is assuming the (much debunked) trickle down economics. A 20c increase in taco price is not going mean an increase in the worker's pay (if any at all). Minimum wages haven't increased (much) in the States for over a decade,
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by sedawk 4y ago
Good luck getting that (potentially every changing) list from the hands of your HR and legal departments! Remember, that (at least in US) lot of protections and laws change quite frequently and not knowing where an employee is would put th
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by sedawk 4y ago
They would still be using a lot of city/state/country local infrastructures (utilities, roads, parks, emergency medical/police/fire services, local libraries, to name a few), won't they? Costs for these might not b
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by sedawk 4y ago
I use bookmarks extensively and the bookmarks experience on Edge and Chrome is so horrible that they have been relegated to 3rd class citizen in my workflow, I ONLY use those browsers when I MUST. All the bookmarking for me happens in Fire
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by sedawk 4y ago
And air circulation, or lack thereof! Yes, the one in my building has crappy air circulation (no pun intended!) and the facilities people know this, but they "won't" fix it (too expensive for FANG company to fix a toilet). Th
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by sedawk 4y ago
Book-binding... I have been wanting to do this so I could bind my own books, mostly for fun and "wow" factor, if nothing else. But it either got pushed out due to something (seemingly) more important/immediate or I didn'
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by sedawk 4y ago
Thank you! And decent ink to go with the Lamy? (I've heard about Lamy from various pen reviews, so I'm going to for it!)
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by sedawk 4y ago
I have been a sucker for nice mechanical pencils for well over 2 decades and gone through tons of books or just bunch of papers stapled together, nothing fancy. Been meaning to get into fountain pens, any good recommendations please?
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by sedawk 5y ago
> Edit: With that said, I'm not convinced this is the kind of the king that would actually hurt MS's reputation outside of geek circles. I kind of disagree with this, if enough geeks denounce it, this spreads like a wild fire.
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by sedawk 5y ago
Current MSFT employee... I can say that PMs often wield a lot of power over decision making than most people in the org, esp the customer-facing decisions. And while it may not have been the PM in the lowest-rung of the chain, the parent co
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by sedawk 5y ago
Good intent or not, the management execution of it was completely botched. They could have even come out on top by projecting that they care about older devices' usability, if they had announced the feature; it was a no brainier and PR
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by sedawk 5y ago
> If she had an Android anything, I'd be spending at least an hour per week on tech support First: I hope your wife doesn't read this ;-) Second: I can believe this to be true if-and-only-if you tried to run it on a language se
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by sedawk 5y ago
I'm one of those who's in the RSYNC school and take snapshot-style backups of my data. I wonder, how a folder under syncthing that has RSYNC snapshot-style backup data work, which is, how does SYNCTHING deal with hardlinks (I su