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by shantly 7y ago
Two adults earning incomes and a third (and maybe also a fourth) keeping house and taking care of the kids sure seems a lot better for everyone concerned from my perspective (normal 2-parent household with three young kids).
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by shantly 7y ago
IMO both games are best played at max difficulty with most of the HUD junk turned off, and no save-scumming. You're a friggin' superhero, and even at top difficulty the only thing keeping you from shredding your way through the le
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by shantly 7y ago
The Delta Force series liked its realism. In another genre, Bushido Blade & Bushido Blade 2 are semi-realistic (jump height's exaggerated, but otherwise pretty real-ish) weapon-based fighting games. I'd love more like them but
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by shantly 7y ago
The most disappointing thing about Far Cry 5, for me, was the lack of a sanitized version of the map without creepy death cult murder sites and such, that you could drive trucks around, hike, and hunt & fish as you please. My (much too
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by shantly 7y ago
Nature is an honest-to-god 24/7 horror movie and we only get to pretend it’s not because we’re on top and happen to be intelligent and social. And it fucking still is for some of us. And the social games and shared social fiction t
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by shantly 7y ago
And many of those turn out tons of successful people you’ve heard of, too. Bet the ones that do so at the highest rate tend to be among the most expensive.
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by shantly 7y ago
Especially since going to any kind of private school tracks closely with “parents have lots of money” which probably has a lot more to do with it.
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by shantly 7y ago
The McDonald’s kiosks require more work than telling a cashier your order, IME. They’re crap.
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by shantly 7y ago
> poor people don’t have to worry about having a car that keeps up with the Joneses Neither do the old-money (or socialized to behave the same) rich. That's the behavior of someone who's worried about being mistaken for poor.
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by shantly 7y ago
It's amazing how fast we went from "talking on or looking at your cell-phone in public for any length of time, or frequently, is something only self-important dicks do", to the point that we could use such behavior as univers
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by shantly 7y ago
I'm not sure how it is in other countries, but at least here in the US there's this cultural tendency to want to crush anyone who's made any kind of mistake, or even made the right decision but happened by chance to have h
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by shantly 7y ago
That'd all go for about 80% of my exposure to same, can confirm. Doltishness and lack of self-awareness re: the same sorts of things the consult on for others were especially surprising to me.
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by shantly 7y ago
> The other thing management consultants do is industrial espionage -- they go into a company to learn how it work, and then advise other companies on how "industry leaders" operate. This one doesn't get mentioned enough,
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by shantly 7y ago
Bit like if someone asks you to teach them to paint and you show them a Monet and go "like that!", yeah.
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by shantly 7y ago
> Never ran into anything like this. Show me a package that doesn't work with yarn Been too long, don't remember. Happened more than once. Options were "debug package under yarn, and assuming there's a way to fix it w
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by shantly 7y ago
I recall running into: - Messing up certain cases of dependency resolution such that you'd get a different version than NPM would give you. - Something involving not checking paths they should have been, that caused brokenness. - Local
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by shantly 7y ago
> `yarn` is a generally superior alternative to `npm`. I’m about 18 months out from last using it, but people were saying this then and it was, in fact, full of bugs and missing features. The company I was at kept starting projects with
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by shantly 7y ago
Oh boy we’re exploiting people by not listening to parts of the mp3s they gave us now? This gets more exciting by the minute, do continue.
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by shantly 7y ago
... or just parts of it.
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by shantly 7y ago
Transaction? I asked for an MP3 and you sent it. Transaction over.
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by shantly 7y ago
> Edit: also, it's super unethical to have a paid app that profits by taking away any scope for content creators to monetize. Leaves a very bad taste in my mouth. Absurd. Software's whole deal is wrecking people's jobs to
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by shantly 7y ago
Yes, one is much nicer, as I can achieve it with no ongoing effort without being so rich I can afford to pay someone else to do it for me. When tech lets me preserve my time and attention in exchange for little or no money, while doing the
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by shantly 7y ago
Depending on what you mean by inception, maybe yes, maybe no. It was not initially written down exactly as we have it today, no. It was eventually canonized into its current form, yes, if that's what you mean, though exactly when and
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by shantly 7y ago
I think it's a fact that our system, even for relatively high-profile "centralized" efforts, is in fact very decentralized already. I don't think we've tried centralized command of instruction methods and various th
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by shantly 7y ago
To determine relative school effectiveness. You could come up with some measure that's different for every school but it'd be a lot less useful for answering questions like "which schools are having trouble, so we can go try
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by shantly 7y ago
Higher cost mostly because you need better teachers, and probably more of them (20+ kids per teacher makes it hard to give all of them what they need). Tracking would help contain the costs because it's easier to teach 20 kids roughly
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by shantly 7y ago
I think some of us geeks have an unusual perspective on what's confusing and what's straightforward or easy. I've been repeatedly told GH issues is "too confusing" or "too technical" versus Asana and Jira
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by shantly 7y ago
IRC and XMPP are relatively easy to set up servers for, too. I looked at Matrix a little while ago and it's a serious PITA by comparison, so far as going from zero to achieving client-talking-to-server. Of course the company behind it
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by shantly 7y ago
Making better use the huge amount of time we stick kids in school would probably require a whole lot more money (mostly for more and better teachers) and, to bring the costs anywhere near the realm of feasibility and achieve maximum benefit
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by shantly 7y ago
It's not the money, exactly. Our struggling-to-regain-accreditation city schools, for example, pay teachers significantly better than AFAIK all the suburban schools in the area, thanks to all kinds of funding available to struggling sc

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