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by valdiorn 4y ago
My startup ideas :) I've been designing and building audio software and hardware components for musicians since I was a teenager. VST plugins to start, then moved on to digital guitar effects and now Eurorack synth modules. I've a
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Plaster is almost unheard of where I'm from (Nordic country) but here in the UK it's basically everywhere. Old-school plaster is the default option here, even more so than plasterboard. Lots and lots of tradesmen who specialise in
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You can be very talented at your job but a shit worker. I much prefer working with good people who are average coders than brilliant coders who are insufferable colleagues.
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"the company" is it's investors, or the will of the majority of the investors, at least. A company does not have agency or free will.
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The art direction of that game is probably the best I've ever seen. It's incredibly cohesive and very, very deep. Everything from the architecture, to clothing, lighting and colour palettes is in perfect harmony.
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Cue the crowd of "you can't ban math and numbers!". Yes I can. I might not be able to effectively stop it for operating, but I sure a shit can put big, fat roadblocks with long jail sentences at every on- and offramp to priva
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Audit the audit is great because it's actually very balanced, and they spend equal if not more time digging up laws that might justify the police officers actions, often with some surprising results.
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You have drawn a very incorrect conclusion from this whole process.
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> This is not how hedging works I read his tweet like eight times, going "wait I don't understand what he's saying, what am I missing?". Then I finally realised he was full of shit. No, that REALLY isn't how hedg
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Made fairly famous by Van Halen, who used it as both an album name and the name for his signature guitar amplifier (still in production, and very, very popular to this day). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5150_(album)
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Somewhat unrelated, but getting on TRT has been the best thing to ever happen to me. I've suffered very low test levels (well below reference range minimum) for a long time, due to being in SSRI meds for anxiety. Those meds do their jo
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Specifically, domestic dogs are significantly affected, indicating they might be affected by the same condition as their owners.
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> I've rarely seen individual contributions able to be evaluated 'fairly' at any scale. Your skills may be top notch, but you were focused on a project that was killed after 10 months because.... budget cuts? Bad managemen
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If your staff is acting like spoiled bratty children, you talk to them. If they don't adjust, you fire them. If you can't fire them because they're hard to replace, guess what; they have more value than you attributed to them
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Except it is, to your employer. Unless you are close friends or family with the people who run the business, you are just a brand of coffee beans to them. (and if you are friends or family, these decisions will still need to happen, but the
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Can I identify my employers, call out specific people with a large online following by name, and declare that they were let go for budgetary reasons? No. I can't. For really obvious reasons :) But I've seen this happen quite a few
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Define "same job". I'm on a team of six people, all classified as "senior engineers". None of us do the same job, even if we all work on the same stuff. Some deliver tons of new features and code. Others think and d
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well, it's true. The first people to go in every layoff operation, at every company I've worked for, were always the "rockstar programmers". The guys that came in with reputation, because they are known in the tech world
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> Companies generally don’t pay tenured people as much as new hires across the board. It’s not about negotiating. But that IS negotiating. If you show you're willing to stick around in the same role for an extended period of time,
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> Everybody just wants wants wants and act like children when they don't get. Wow, what an immature attitude YOU have. Of course everyone "wants wants wants". You're displaying that attitude right now. You're fee
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At this point, just get rid of search entirely and force feed me the one exact video that maximises your ad revenue. Stop beating around the bush.
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Yup - I just skip over youtube shorts if they come up. There is no indication how long they are, neither can I seek. I don't know if I'm about to watch a 5 second video, or a 2 minute one (or whatever the max length of shorts is).
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damn, that is so sad - it's objectively an amazing soundtrack. It's really sad that this whole experience has damaged his perception of his incredible work so badly :(
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> We're talking about a disappointing audio track for a stupid game Uh, the Doom eternal soundtrack is widely regarded as one of the absolute best game soundtracks ever created. I've not actually read this whole thing (am about
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Email became popular and commonplace for "the public" when Hotmail and Gmail came along. Before that, you had ISPs offering some POP3 services which people used to send and receive a few emails per week. Maybe your workplace provi
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"Is it really too much to ask for people to host their own content on a cheap VPS" That is the most out of touch question I have ever read on the internet. It is hilariously ridiculous :) I'm a professional developer with a
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Yes, elsewhere. Anyone in the hobby CNC or 3d printer community knows this as 8020 or 2020 extrusion. the numbers actually are supposed to reference the dimensions of the beam... not a damn company name or the 80/20 principle. That see
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I was also very confused by this. I kept thinking "that looks like 2020 extrusions, why does he keep harping on about 8020?". Googled the company and found they've named themselves not after the dimensions of their products b
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So, basically Pied Piper Net?
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Tumblr who? Never heard of them. Seriously, do they think they can revive the platform 4 years after killing it?

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