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by shantly 7y ago
I don't so much mind that as mind that they do it as that their calculation's way off for where I live (others have reported same for other cities, IDK first-hand though). I can do (presumably) easier interviews (zero whiteboardin
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by shantly 7y ago
Always-on video staring at people's faces is weird in the best circumstances. It's a bizarre view to have passively, rather than during active conversation.
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by shantly 7y ago
I find I have to keep these sorts of always-on things (some kind of text chat aside) on a dedicated device (iPad, another laptop) or they drive me nuts. The resource use of Yet Another (probably) webtech memory hog in the age of 750MB-memor
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by shantly 7y ago
Audio books are fine but I've heard from teacher friends that a very high percentage of middle-school-aged kids now strongly resist reading without also having the audio version playing . I suspect access to such has stunted their abi
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by shantly 7y ago
The Iliad has nothing on other literature from around the same time and earlier, most of which is Egyptian or Babylonian / Akkadian. The latter, especially, I find damn near un-readable for that reason. What little Ancient Egyptian sto
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by shantly 7y ago
> That keeps prices down and doesn't allow enough control. What resulted was repeated mergers, until most industries were dominated by a very few number of companies. This was promoted as desirable. From the point of view of a singl
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by shantly 7y ago
> - The "cut" of it is great, as in it fits my form really well I find it odd how much better off-the-rack fit tends to be on more expensive clothes (for men, anyway). You'd think that'd be one thing the cheaper brand
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by shantly 7y ago
Once you get your sizing dialed in on a few "nice" brands (thrift stores are great for trying several brands, just go in knowing which ones you're looking for) you can wait for sales & seconds (shoes) & used (thrift s
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by shantly 7y ago
To what extent do studies or indices or whatever indicating that prices of goods have dropped under liberal economic & trade policies of the last few decades factor in quality of same goods? I'm not sure decent goods have actuall
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by shantly 7y ago
Agile equals a bunch of complicated "workflows" in Jira. This is a real thing that a non-small number of managers believe. Or if they don't believe it, they sure act like they do.
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by shantly 7y ago
Non-programmers are more comfortable in the Wiki. And it's probably safer to keep them there anyway, and edits can be allowed there with fewer safeguards. Then again I'm not sure how many non-technical folks are willing to dig int
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by shantly 7y ago
Yeah it takes like a weekend of practice or study at many things to reach the 99th percentile. Most stuff’s not that widely practiced or known.
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by shantly 7y ago
See also: tiny houses. Mobile homes or RVs were too low-class, I guess. Not enough hand-planed teak or whatever. Tiny home, now that signals you've attended higher education and have made a thoughtful philosophical choice rather than j
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by shantly 7y ago
I've seen (owned a house having) dual-fuel natural gas + electric light fixtures, mounted to walls, gas pipes to every room right alongside the (knob & tube) electrical wires. So we've done weirder shit in the past to deliver
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by shantly 7y ago
I remember it as a worse Perl, but with a bunch more web-batteries included. It's the latter that got me interested, way back in the day. Deployment story wasn't that different, aside from that cheap hosts were more likely to le
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by shantly 7y ago
That some may get around it isn’t the point. Most won’t risk charges to share recipes with aunt Edna or family photos with Grandpa. Some will keep using it and stay under the radar but any time someone’s caught using it, even if it wasn’t p
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by shantly 7y ago
They can make it so if they spot you using it (for other than communication with approved banks and retailers and such, maybe), that's instantly something they can charge you with. Then go after a few people who're spotted using i
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by shantly 7y ago
Do any of them not have price controls and a “public option” of some sort? And sometimes prohibition on for-profit insurance (Switzerland, for example, IIRC)?
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by shantly 7y ago
I've always kinda suspected this just because so many execs seem to have time to be on multiple boards, CEO of whatever, head of some charity, advisor to some startup they have a stake in, et c., all at once, and "they work a lot&
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by shantly 7y ago
I don't think it's commenters' fault if the article's... you know, like this, and they comment on how it's like this. Topic's fine but if commenting on the article's not OK then it should be different arti
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by shantly 7y ago
Yes. Granted more people were on dial-up, but while the promise of an AJAXier web was one that felt faster, the effect in practice has been one that feels slower, if anything. There was a brief golden age in which, if one had broadband,
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by shantly 7y ago
There's a difference between open team rooms and the kind of office where there's a whole floor of a building with nothing but structural obstructions from window to window. The former can be very nice, the latter is awful.
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by shantly 7y ago
Warren did, with a pretty decent line something like "I've talked to a lot of people about this and I'm not sure I've ever heard someone say they like their insurance. Their doctor? Their hospital? Sure, but not their in
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by shantly 7y ago
I thought they started to get kinda crappy back in '08 or '09, it just took until recently for the consensus to catch up.
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by shantly 7y ago
Huh. My wife uses Chrome (won't switch to Safari, even as she constantly complains about her battery life—go figure) and the last couple days she'd been saying that her battery life on her Macbook Air had suddenly dropped to like
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by shantly 7y ago
Technicality? Huh? I asked for a document and you sent it so now I'd better make sure I only read it with software that also requests every link in it and runs any code it finds? LOL no. No technicality about it.
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by shantly 7y ago
Make plain, no funny-business HTTP GET, server responds 200 and sends some text. Guess they wanted me to have it. I'll decide what I do with it, thanks.
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by shantly 7y ago
"How to Use Apache and Postgres to Serve a High Traffic Website on a 1U Server and Use the Leftover Resources to Host an NFS Server with All Your Pirated Music On It"
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by shantly 7y ago
The UI, mostly. Email threads are harder to read than the same thing almost anywhere else. And yeah, spam doesn't help—most people don't know how to set up filters and automatic categorization and such, even in programs that make
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by shantly 7y ago
"How Perl 5 is basically fine and gets the job done" "If node is so fast why does my PHP site feel way faster than this React+Redux+Node thingy? An inquiry into what 'fast' means." "Why GUIs in things othe

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