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by settsu 7y ago
> Tie it to deliverables That's a great idea in theory because tackling a real world problem tends to motivate towards a real world solution. However, learning invariably encompasses failure which rarely measures up well with typica
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by settsu 7y ago
Ideally? No. Inevitably? Probably. An operating system is software. Most software eventually stops being updated. Microsoft has historically done a pretty reasonable job at delivering security patches to old versions of Windows but that e
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by settsu 7y ago
Microsoft and Apple are unlikely to ever make this as easy as flipping a UI switch at this point. It'd be careless to provide a simple means of allowing a mainstream user to effectively disable the delivery of security patches.
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by settsu 7y ago
What ‘personal space’ looks like around the world: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/04/24... Relatedly? "...an intact amygdala is necessary for feelings of discomfort foll
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by settsu 7y ago
> Bad press like the Verge article or a CEO shakeup in the middle of a shorter-than-usual holiday shopping season sucks for a B2C retail company. Moving up the start date of the new CEO they've already vetted and recruited earlier t
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by settsu 7y ago
An image of all the solar bodies from that site in close proximity to each other: https://imgur.com/a/dOLVu5m
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by settsu 7y ago
The issue I often have with discussions of remote work vs. on-site, is how much confirmation bias tends to be incorporated into the conclusions made. After about 16 years of on-site work (at various jobs), I did almost 5 years of remote wor
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by settsu 7y ago
Historically, “can” has rarely become “did” with regards to improvements in rural broadband internet access.
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by settsu 7y ago
...until summer rolls around... Having worked from home when only a partner OR 2 kids were present, I can only imagine the additional pressure faced by that situation. But speaking as a single parent of school-aged kids, summer vacation is.
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by settsu 7y ago
What I find most unfortunate in these situations is the number of people with a response to the effect of: > "I worked at [physically-demanding job] for $n/hr [where n≤other person's/current minimum wage] and I didn&#
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by settsu 7y ago
The point in the context of the article had nothing to do with the viability of nuclear power. It was that a bail out was being paid based on questionable net operating losses.
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by settsu 7y ago
Agreed on both accounts. Once I had the means and inclination a couple years back, I began investing in better clothes (re: fabric, construction.) A discovered one mistake I'd made was not starting with socks. Once I purchased my fir
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by settsu 7y ago
That’s fair. Since you mentioned it, I think I’ve read something to that effect. Without having searched the topic myself yet, is wool an alternative in that use case? Seems it’d be far superior though certainly not as cheap nor convenient
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by settsu 7y ago
It's interesting how synthetics were mostly lumped together and largely undifferentiated. To be fair, that post is over 5 years old and some seemingly significant advances in fabrics for consumer garments have become widely available i
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by settsu 7y ago
That’s the biggest mistake I see in that thread: all of the apologies are immediately followed by responses which are, at best, dismissive or, at worst, defensive bordering on vindictive. That person probably got testy because they were bei
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by settsu 7y ago
Unnecessary ad hominem notwithstanding, > the designer of the iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Macbook can also be > degrading the company [paraphrase since the parent has now been flagged] They're not mutually exclusive. There's
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by settsu 7y ago
I’d be curious to see how many people have a cached copy of jQuery from one of the popular CDNs and what the overall real world effects are of that. (That got me thinking of another potentially interesting analysis/discussion about the
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by settsu 7y ago
> Picture the scene: you’re walking through your neighbourhood and see a patch of grass. Grass is lovely and all, but you see this patch every day. It’s getting a little dull and is practically begging for a talented builder to brighten
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by settsu 7y ago
There’s also some very rough bullying behavior by teens of younger players (who tend to talk a lot of game and such), which is unfortunate amd inexcusable. Racist, sexist, and bigoted speech is also not uncommon. However, let’s be frank and
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by settsu 7y ago
Must have been an awkward position to be in, when you tell the billionaires who pay you to research history for them, that things don’t often work out well for them. On a serious note though: • 2017: “Huge Human Inequality Study Hints Revol
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by settsu 7y ago
I'm not one for hero worship, but I want to buy everyone involved a beverage. From '08-'10, I was in web design & development at a company that was neck-deep in IE6 dependency. The animus I harbored for IE6 was so intense
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by settsu 7y ago
I’ve been coding professionally for 20 years and I’m largely no better at estimating completion than day 1, maybe worse since I’m more likely to feign confidence in a figure I’ve essentially pulled out of my ass. At some point, I came to th
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by settsu 8y ago
What the article seems to sidestep (as does society-at-large, it seems) isn’t so much the artifice of an experience or its documentation, but the motivations of the people involved. In other words, we seem to have arrived at a stage where v
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by settsu 8y ago
:sad:
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by settsu 8y ago
> Over the years I upgraded to a MacBook Pro, then the MacBook Pro touchbar and in the middle of that I bought a 27inch iMac. Frankly, the sudden price sensitivity seems odd. Is there something else going on? > With the work I do on p
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by settsu 8y ago
Pandora has an on-demand library for paid users but the catalog has inexcusable gaps for a music service in 2018 and isn’t s pleasure to use. Frankly the user experience for their app has needed help for at least a couple years.
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by settsu 8y ago
> Everyone burned like you and me does this. We own it, because that's the right thing to do. It's the ones who made out like bandits who don't and won't own up to the damage they caused. Same. Painful, expensive less
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by settsu 8y ago
I couldn’t finish the article. It dredged back up the insecurities and feelings of personal and professional failure in the aftemath of the financial crisis from watching my home value being decimated and small businesses tanking, those bei
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by settsu 8y ago
Cash depreciates at the rate of inflation.
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by settsu 9y ago
Deliberately misleading Congress by his ignorance. Two words: plausible deniability. Also see: dog and pony show. This was a performance for the various constituencies that will, save for a few minor exceptions, prove to be ultimately a to

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