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Toledo's pretty good too, and there's a bunch of smaller cities around that have already shrunk as much as they're going to. Roads are decent too, even though everyone complains about the construction (until they take a trip
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To be honest I haven't the slightest idea. If forced to guess, I'd say it was the quasi-realistic wargame simulation of a potential conflict within living memory awakens violent nationalist rhetoric in people? Either way, it&#x2
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I was kind of disappointed to be honest. I was expecting either weirder ideas, or at least defenses of past policies deemed atrocities today, like "the Holodomor was justified", or we should do more research into performance enha
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For getting out of the "just follow instructions" rut and for the joy of exploration, I can't recommend Outer Wilds enough. Go in absolutely blind, don't look anything up if you can help it. You'll have to piece t
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What I'm really worried about is the people who think this kind of damage is good per se, either out of general misanthropy or some sort of tribal hatred. Meeting these kind of challenges are well within our technical capability, but
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Looks like baby boomers retiring is what's fueled this decline for the last 20 years or so, and the pandemic has forced people to reevaluate their situation. I'd be shocked if we got back up to pre-pandemic participation barring a
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This is extremely painful to debug and troubleshoot compared to normal code.
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> a good IDE will provide type-checking and even data-source checking to raw SQL anyways I've never in my life heard of this, which IDE are you talking about? I'd love to use something like that! I'm in C# land where I c
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"Blizzard is being ransacked by the Woke Mob that doesn't actually care about any alleged abuses towards any employees", "Real wealth is actually shrinking" (while not mentioning climate change), "The Elite are
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In addition to this, OP should also prove that these people have others' best interest in mind. Without some sort of accountability, increasing most people's standard of living is irrational. I've read enough early US indust
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> applies himself constantly (works after hours, weekends, during vacations). He writes at least 5x more code than me These are not good things. Ideally you should want to ship as many features with as little code as possible, more part
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> As a recent grad, so many of my friends are heavily invested in TikTok and have been since quarantine began, some of them for a bit before. The amount of time they spend there is absurd. Consuming 30 second content for three hours can&
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That software is Microsoft Access. Trouble is it's not updated much anymore, and it comes with Excel and doesn't need Corporate Approval, so it has a gigantic moat compared to other competitors. There's tons of room for impr
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To learn yourself, also go over the execution plan when running a query and Google absolutely everything it tells you, and look through the MSSQL documentation at what it all means. It won't lead you to what you don't know, but i
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Most of the things in this article are deliberately avoided in cities these days. Sufficient seating, public transport, and walkable streets make things easier for poor/homeless/other untouchables, and making their lives worse is
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The bigger trouble is going to be convincing people who want to deliberately accelerate climate change, either because it will hurt the people they hate, or can be used as casus belli for the next resource war. "The problem is too man
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Hey, if you had fun building the thing your time was not wasted.
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> That said, I've seen many really solid developers be motivated by solving complex technical challenges instead of work that actually creates business/product value. Complex technical challenges create value for the developer
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What Amazon (among other corporate titans) can do to others, they can do to us eventually, and it won't be the first time even well-off white working men have been screwed over by those who own for a living rather than work for a livin
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I've heard good things about Path of Exile, if you're into Diablo type games: https://www.pathofexile.com/ If you're willing to shell out $6, I can't recommend Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri enough, esp
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You may also be thinking of Snow Crash. Creepy stuff!
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I'm in a small company in that position, what's also helped is wrapping UPDATE statements in a transaction with a verification SELECT statement to make sure everything worked ok, then committing the transaction. Saved my bacon mor
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I'll stand by most of the other recommendations here that I've read, here are some books I liked that I haven't seen here yet: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) is a pretty good and campy series. The Dresden Files series is also goo
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I've been looking for that essay for years, but apparently my google-fu is weak. Thanks for posting it!
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A social casual game that's not a giant hairball of money-grabbing dark patterns, that's a tall order. You might find something here, I've found some pretty good games on Android at least: https://nobsgames.stavros
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I don't mind the punctuation noise, but I might just have bad taste. I'm stealing the "had a one night stand in the middle of Chernobyl", that's hilarious!
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Phaser 3.50.0 Released(phaser.io)
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Can personally confirm. I had to stop lifting when I got a mild COVID case, and a couple weeks in I kept getting the random aches and pains everyone always complains about. At least for me, lifting weights makes them go away (at the cost o
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One of the devs runs a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pippin GIMP also has sponsors, though I don't know how much they contribute: https://www.gimp.org/donating/sponsors.html That still isn&#x27
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Between remote work becoming much more of A Thing and mortgage interest rates being six feet under, this is not surprising at all. I share everyone else's concerns about what happens if the economy keeps going on it's downward tre

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