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by smelendez 7mo ago
They explain it in the article. Someone, often the funeral director filling out the death certificate, asks what the deceased did for most of their working life. I’m a little skeptical of the category “ambulance drivers; not emergency medic
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by smelendez 7mo ago
In my experience, a slow connection can be less usable for some apps than none at all. If there’s no connection or you’re in airplane mode, some apps will let you access locally stored/cached data, but as soon as there’s a bad connecti
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by smelendez 7mo ago
Always ask for a quote. That means every ride, not every visit to that city. And confirm what methods of payment they can take before you get in. If they're evasive or you get a bad vibe, don't get in. If you decide to change your
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by smelendez 7mo ago
I think this is an Apple bug. I’ve seen it with non-Google apps too. I’m not sure what causes it, but I believe sometimes you can long tap the link and select the correct option. I believe the behavior where you say no and it still tries to
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by smelendez 7mo ago
Yeah, I generally think people make adult diet choices on their own. People regularly cut out meat, alcohol, sugar, dairy, gluten, caffeine, fats, etc. based on things they’ve read, moral considerations, medical recommendations, and persona
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by smelendez 7mo ago
Also, a DJ isn’t typically tasked with playing an entire symphony (or pop album, for that matter) on request from start to finish. I’m sure there are a handful of DJs in niche situations who do this at listening bars and on the radio, but i
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by smelendez 7mo ago
That’s funny. I don’t think I’ve opened a pack of Magic cards in about 25 years and I can still remember the smell.
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by smelendez 7mo ago
I mean, if your kid or friend gets a parking ticket in your car you probably already pay it and collect from them. It doesn’t seem that different to extend this to camera tickets.
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by smelendez 7mo ago
It’s interesting, a lot of use cases have migrated to tools like that, including Apple Notes, Notion, Slack Canvas and, of course, Gmail and Outlook. I think a lot of people “need” Word the same way they “need” a pickup truck. It feels bett
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by smelendez 8mo ago
You expect more nonessential roles and slower hiring in a slower growing economy, especially if companies only hire for full-time roles. For example, your company might need a full-time network admin once its network grows to a certain size
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by smelendez 8mo ago
You can see the full article here: https://www.cpsp.cps.ca/uploads/publications/pxy155-Teething... It looks like it has a short intro paragraph that talks about a specific case with no identifying details (beyond
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by smelendez 8mo ago
It’s possible that their departments give them computer recommendations that exceed what they actually need. I’m not sure why this happens or who formulates these recommendations, but I’ve seen it before with students in fields that just do
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by smelendez 8mo ago
They’re usually reasonably rainproof. Paper can survive in humidity for a few weeks. Think of all the antique stores in old buildings that almost certainly don’t run AC all night in hot and humid environments, and how many books survive fro
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by smelendez 8mo ago
I’m sure that happens but it may still be a net benefit. The original owner gets rid of a book they don’t need and don’t need money for, somebody who needs money takes the book and sells it, and somebody who wants the book buys it. But some
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by smelendez 8mo ago
I’ve found it can be helpful to shift your own attention after someone answers you, but not to a phone (which just makes you look like you’re communicating with someone else). Look at a flyer on the wall, or your beverage if you’re in a bar
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by smelendez 8mo ago
That’s not really true, as an American. We spend a ton on healthcare anyway, just inefficiently and in a way that causes stress and struggles for patients.
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by smelendez 8mo ago
This exact thing happened to me with a State Farm agent. After a few months, I told them I was concerned about the privacy ramifications and would have to report it to their state insurance regulator, and it was very quickly fixed.
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by smelendez 8mo ago
Yeah, Meta wants you to have a single Facebook account under your legal name that you use for all your personal and professional contact with them. Never mind if you’re freelancing for three companies that don’t want to be linked to each ot
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by smelendez 8mo ago
Highbrow US publications (The New Yorker, Harpers) kind of do this too, right? They basically write their own article about the subject of the book, in which one of the notable things that has happened recently is that the book came out.
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by smelendez 8mo ago
I have this problem with Microsoft software in general lately. Last time I had the Office suite installed on a Mac, it was constantly popping up focus-stealing (literally and figuratively) notifications that it was updating PowerPoint or w
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by smelendez 8mo ago
I’ve wondered about this. Presumably they have some idea of who you will initially match with? Maybe they have enough data to say things like “when someone like user x matches someone like user y, they are relatively likely to both stop usi
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by smelendez 8mo ago
I feel like dating apps almost exclusively take off via word of mouth. It doesn’t have to be marriage, though, just people finding matches worth meeting. Almost every dating app is scammy, buggy, heavily paywalled, and barely used. If you s
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by smelendez 8mo ago
There’s a great radio museum in Howth, Ireland, a waterfront town near Dublin. The founder was a lifelong radio enthusiast who grew up in a poor rural community and was mesmerized by the power of radio from an early age. I remember him tell
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by smelendez 8mo ago
That sounds really familiar—I think that must have been on my Packard Bell from that era too. Mine also came with a CD-ROM game called The Journeyman Project. I think there was also a "Family Cooking" CD with recipes and maybe dem
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by smelendez 8mo ago
It depends on what you’re doing with the instance, where you and your users are located, etc. If you create an invite-only Zulip chat for your pub trivia league or school parent association that’s all adults, probably not.
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by smelendez 8mo ago
And we have giant "big box" stores and overnight delivery that together are good enough for a lot of purchases. Some huge portion of the American public belongs to Amazon Prime and/or Walmart+ and/or Costco. A lot of mal
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by smelendez 8mo ago
Did everyone get flagged then thanks to Barracuda? You’d think they’d realize there’s a problem if there’s a 100% fail rate. Edit: also, to be fair, you basically told them you had opted out of the test, so it’s not completely ridiculous fo
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by smelendez 8mo ago
I think I might be misunderstanding. Why wouldn’t it? It’s not like the human is manually decoding the SVG or getting the PNG.
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by smelendez 8mo ago
I often think the best way to defeat email open tracking would be for a mainstream email client to prefetch every image when a non-spam email is received and cache it for 72 hours or so. Every email gets flagged as “opened,” so the flag is
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by smelendez 9mo ago
Absolutely. With Real ID, the biggest pain for a lot of people is proof of residency. Rich people just print out some combination of a bank statement, a pay stub, and a copy of their mortgage or lease or the electric bill, but poor people m

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