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by sumthinprofound 4y ago
In 2020, the average wage of an hourly worker in a Walmart store was $14.76. Over a year, that $1 a day comes out to a month's car payment, or child care. I believe you can be driven to complete college courses and still not be able
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Facebook Promised to Remove “Sensitive” Ads. Here’s What It Left Behind(themarkup.org)
4 points by sumthinprofound 4y ago|1 comments
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by sumthinprofound 4y ago
Absolutely!
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by sumthinprofound 4y ago
Anytime I have brought colleagues in to interview a candidate, during the introduction, I'll note that "Bob from devops will be joining us, but he may get called away" based on the circumstances however I would not appreciate
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Increasing Our Focus on Inclusive Technology(blogs.microsoft.com)
1 points by sumthinprofound 4y ago|0 comments
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by sumthinprofound 4y ago
As I was reading OP's story I flashbacked to my first introduction to technology at that age. I'm most grateful for them raising me intellectually curious, reading to me at a young age, and to never say no when I asked them to bu
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by sumthinprofound 4y ago
At 7 I was banging on an electric typewriter and red LED calculator. My mother could explain how pressing a typewriter key triggered a typebar and left an impression with ribbon. Fascinating. She couldn't explain how the calculator
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by sumthinprofound 4y ago
From the way the author explains the data they are required to enter, it sounds like a HCFA 1500 form they are completing, which is a standardized form. It is not simple for first timers, and it looks like UHC's web-based implementati
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by sumthinprofound 4y ago
frequently I reflect back on a conversation with a supervisor of mine from over a decade ago when he explained "I won't ask you to do anything I wouldn't do myself." then had me show him how to run cat5 under the floor s
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by sumthinprofound 4y ago
once a month I google my PII and then either opt out through the hosting website or go through the google removal request process. After I saw this news article about phone # removal I went to look for the search results that I had previous
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by sumthinprofound 4y ago
This sounds like a solid strategy. Most of my oldest documents were Wordperfect 5, so they were still readable. I have converted them to txt (accessibilty) and pdf (preserve formatting). My biggest miscalculations were using CD-RW media du
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by sumthinprofound 4y ago
I don't trust any consumer storage medium to last 30 years, but the good news is I have had much success keeping document archives accessible for roughly a decade, then transferring the content to current technology. From floppy to me
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by sumthinprofound 4y ago
Moral judgement aside, what makes this "dirty work" in your estimation?
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
What paperwork did you sign, and what did you agree to wrt computer policies? I'd start there.
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
last I checked I would need to login to my local machine with a Microsoft account to do a clean install. deal breaker.
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
Dogs' sense of smell is sufficent to detect a teaspoon of sugar added to an Olymic size swimming pool.
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
within my first week of working for the city of new york one of the police detectives assigned to my agency gave me one of these cards with the disclaimer of "don't pull it out if you are committing a felony, it won't work&qu
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
As a rule I don't trust USB stick swag.
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
Yes I've been using this solution for a few years now it works great with a ton of options.
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
I have run into that and in my experience it doesn't make sense to have dozens of different images for all the different variations. However, after getting a baseline image, one of my employees created multiple batch files (one for e
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
Agreed. Additionally I I think it may look more impressive to novice buyers when the product lists a bunch of free (albeit worthless) software included in their purchase.
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
My first steps with a new personal computer is to boot to thumb drive, format the disk and install what I believe to be a clean copy of windows. In a business environment I've always been an advocate of staging one machine taking a dri
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
It has been my experience while fixing family members computers that unless you uninstall the third-party antivirus software Windows Defender doesn't kick in. If I recall correctly there was an instance where I tried to switch from th
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
My firm belief is the that hardware vendors do end users a disservice by preloading 3rd party anti-virus software that expires ans requires payment after a period of time for virus signature updates. Typically this 3rd party software disa
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
started listening to the audiobook this morning.
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
Still waiting for tabs in WIndows Explorer...
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
"cruel and oppressive government or rule." is the Oxford English Dictionary definition of tyrrany.
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
it has been my experience, even in the poorer parts of inner cities, most gas stations (the ones with convenience stores attached) sell gas cans for ~$5. AAA will deliver you 5 gallons of gas, for members, though it counts towards a call fo
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
What you describe is neither cruel nor oppressive I think "tyranny" misses the mark.
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by sumthinprofound 5y ago
I don't have a generalized rebuttal however in this specific instance they were literally selling poison to children.

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