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by tbrownaw 3mo ago
> Why should there be a difference in the degree being conferred at all? You are asking why there "should" be a difference between a CCNA cert and a Computer Science degree. That difference isn't a "should" thi
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by tbrownaw 3mo ago
So have community things where people give free lectures at the local library or whatever.
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by tbrownaw 3mo ago
I read the parent comment as claiming that some colleges select student bodies that are on average worse than the average of people who don't go to college at all.
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by tbrownaw 3mo ago
I would think that in this case, credit would mostly go to people expected to not have negative net worth after that 7 year limit.
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by tbrownaw 3mo ago
> pejoratively named "trade schools" That's an accurate name, and only seems pejorative if you see learning a trade as lesser than studying academics. > name university can confer a bachelor's in some bullshit f
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by tbrownaw 3mo ago
> just make even cheapest CPUs support 8/16 DDR4 channels Isn't adding pins kind of expensive?
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
> Also, the manufacturers can never be held responsible, because they have legal immunity for the COVID vaccines. Since there was basically a soft mandate for it, especially on top of some of the usual official red tape being cut, the
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
I suspect that those other groups are largely not trying to generate fiction.
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
I've heard that word used to refer to (still) pictures, and in more casual/offhand use to refer to text. I don't understand it as being quite so restricted by media-type as you seem to.
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
> The unit needs to be tied to the relative usefulness for its time. That requires baking in assumptions, and makes the data less general. You can go from $/gb to $/usefulness fairly trivially by adding assumptions, but you
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
It could also be that business conditions provided a convenient opportunity to run some experiments.
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
> If you've ever worked in hospitality or retail, you'll know that managers will call/contact you at all hours to make sure they have coverage. It's irritating. I vaguely remember a few years ago there was some news
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
I don't really see any other interpretation of saying that if someone says you're wrong you should update your worldview. There isn't much that could be other than a call for unquestioning belief.
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
The comment I was replying to appears to be a call for unquestioning belief. Which is the far extreme in the opposite direction.
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
> Someone is telling you the world works differently for them than it does for you, which means you've got an opportunity to learn something new about the world and expand your model. ...than it does for you, which means there&#x2
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
> a lot of people who are victims of Are there statistics somewhere about what percent of people in various roles get asked but know they're safe declining, or mistakenly think they can't decline, or correctly think they&#x27
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
> Indeed. If $job is not willing to buy and hand me a "work phone" then they are out of luck My employer has a BYOD program with a monthly stipend that is somewhat more than my phone provider (Fi) charges for an extra line. I
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
> Maybe I just have abnormal leverage It could also be a personality thing or a worldview thing. Some people just have a hard time saying "no" in general, or are constantly looking for reasons to jump at shadows. Or there&#x2
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
How would this interact with existing rules around exempt / non-exempt (roughly, salaried vs hourly) employees? I would think it would already be expensive to make someone paid by the hour do extra work stuff during time they're n
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
> I’m unsure what you mean by gated free speech zones. Sometimes specific areas are closed to vehicle traffic for a protest, but that doesn’t mean those locations are exclusively for protesting. In general protest is allowed wherever, p
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
Still doing what, flagging attempts to derail threads into off-topic flamefests?
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
How so? I would think that "whose fault is it" and "what can be done about it" are independent questions.
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
Are you implying that leaning on standard tooling is more arrogant than "hold my beer"?
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
> The reason people reach for Kubernetes (and similar) is because they need to scale past that single host dependency. I have some stuff on single-node k3s. Because it's standard so I don't have to care.
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
Here's an older article, talking about how the reason the authorities found this person was because one of the other defendants called him from jail to ask him to remove things: https://www.foxnews.com/us/man-bus
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
> would be explicit in the article. This is blatantly an advocacy piece, so that's not a valid assumption.
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
I would think that a coverup should always be treated as slightly worse than the thing being covered up. Because of general "don't design systems with perverse incentives" principles.
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
Headline: "for Common Protest Activity" Body: "material support for terrorists, attempted murder, possession and conspiracy to use explosives" Um?
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
Hiding evidence tends to be bad, even when that evidence wouldn't itself be a problem without a crime for it to be evidence of.
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by tbrownaw 4mo ago
I read that question as a suggestion that the claim is unfalsifiable (ie, bullshit, unscientific, etc).

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