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by syndacks 6y ago
The people downvoting you are likely those you reference. Which is painfully ironic as this comment is should at the top of the thread: work is fundamentally a social endeavour, and if you expect to be promoted, you need to demonstrate the
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by syndacks 6y ago
Maybe find a team you think you can really impact with your PM+Dev skills, deliver an impactful project, then use that as leverage to get promoted within this team and/or a fleet of teams. I like what you have to say r.e. learning and
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by syndacks 6y ago
We still very much live in a Foucauldian world: - we're constantly surveilled (school, jobs, gov't) and mostly we willingly submit to this - r.e. "21st century is no longer a disciplinary society", yes it is, see my poin
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by syndacks 6y ago
What do you mean by the two references to not being in the ad industry anymore? Quit? Fired? Why?
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by syndacks 6y ago
Ehhh, he also "modernized" the US nuclear arsenal right before he won the award, too.
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by syndacks 6y ago
Much like the referenced Excel spreadsheets becoming unwieldy, so does a dev's machine [0]. 0. https://xkcd.com/1987/
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by syndacks 6y ago
Sugar and alcohol are the two most (ab)used substances in America. Source: rampant obesity and alcohol abuse everywhere you look, with relentless advertising of both (see Superbowl). There's way too much fucking money being made to cut
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by syndacks 6y ago
End of life care is an incredibly expensive endeavor; why are we so adamant about extending the inevitable? IMO it's a subconscious projection of the fact that we do _not_ live meaningful lives in our day to day, and so we fixate on a
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by syndacks 6y ago
It's called broetry.
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by syndacks 6y ago
In my mind totalitarianism is a means to an end. The end with these "tools" now is to limit death, but the means aren't working well (in the west, anyways). In a traditional auth. situation, the end is usually perpetual power
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by syndacks 6y ago
Edtech companies have faired well in the pandemic (in theory and in stock price), should the students receive a cut of the profit? Teachers? Not trolling, simply restatong the problem in another domain, which has actually left me feeling ev
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by syndacks 6y ago
Yep, though I think a safety vest beats the mirror for me in terms of safety.
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by syndacks 6y ago
I was riding down the West coast a few years ago, met a cycling friend who I rode with a couple days. An RV passed us (my friend was behind me) and he said that the step ladder or whatever thing on the side of the RV was unhitched and came
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by syndacks 6y ago
Cyclist, tourer here. Is the recumbent by choice or necessity? If the former, have you considered a more traditional frame? Recumbents are so hard to see, even if you have flags and what not.
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by syndacks 6y ago
Ocarina of Time The Chronic 2001 Daniel Day Lewis Halo 2 Richie Hawtin Aliens Barack Obama Freedom (J. Franzen)
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by syndacks 6y ago
Sorry, "chunking" is code-splitting. https://reactjs.org/docs/code-splitting.html
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by syndacks 6y ago
The biggest challenge to using Django with React IMO is getting the right blend of isomorphic rendering down. I don't want to go full SPA with Django as this defeats the purpose of Django IMO. Most parts of the site I want server-rende
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by syndacks 6y ago
What point are you trying to make about the purple phone?
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by syndacks 6y ago
I've done two tours in the US: the west coast and the southern tier from CA-->FL-->NY. The latter was a life changing, eye opening journey into the heart of America. Being a "coastal elite", I gained a level of empathy
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by syndacks 6y ago
Not seeing anyone here complain about censorship; is this any different than YouTube taking down conspiracy theories about US presidential election? Nope! Yet this thread is silent on the matter.
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by syndacks 6y ago
Same here. Is this slated for a future release? If so, do you know which one? I've been trying to find an authoritative source to signal when Android FF will support extensions (that previously worked but no longer do) -- any tips much
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by syndacks 6y ago
Nope, not how it works. Free speech is not applicable to private companies.
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by syndacks 6y ago
Wildly different comparison you're trying to make there my friend. Statues on public land very different than a private business doing whatever it wants.
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by syndacks 6y ago
Cool story but not really sure where this is coming from: >Youtube caved to corrupt government censorship Youtube, the private company, is doing what it thinks is best for the business. They are not the government, free speech does not a
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by syndacks 6y ago
For as smart as many of the people on this site are, I'm shocked how many don't understand the fundamental principal that YouTube is a private company and can do whatever they please with speech. This isn't the government, th
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by syndacks 6y ago
YouTube !== Government Your comparison is off.
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by syndacks 6y ago
You're conflating free speech (government) with a business's decision to monitor their platform (private). These two things are very different. >What's the goal here? To make their platform not full of bullshit. YouTube is
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by syndacks 6y ago
I'm sorry but any article that refers to "the singularity" so casually and cursorily loses my respect. At the very least this needs to be defended and/or explained, because as far as I'm concerned it was a big marke
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by syndacks 6y ago
I made a flippant comment during book club about how short stories are nothing compared to novels. A friend suggested I check out Raymond Carver which blew my mind. His prose is one of a kind and his stories usually leave me floored. I reco
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by syndacks 6y ago
I've met similar folk through back roads travel. Something I can't ever put my finger on is the mild squalor (my opinion, not saying this is true for your relatives) people are willing to endure. Sure, they do it for "maximum

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