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by vundercind 3y ago
First release: 1985 20 years later: 2005 Current consumer Windows in 2005 was late-lifecycle WinXP, so this actually checks out. It just got a lot worse again some time after that.
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by vundercind 3y ago
It’s pushy here, too. I think the difference is willingness to be pushy if that pushiness results in more total sales. Which I take as a symtom of general lower consideration for others, objectifying them as a system you just need to press
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by vundercind 3y ago
This is similar to the experience (if not so similar on the implementation side) of running MacOS with Homebrew or Macports: the stuff you directly use stays up-to-date, but the base system is separate so it’s nigh-impossible to mess anythi
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by vundercind 3y ago
Yeah if my heat were 100% electric I’d have to install a wood heating-stove to feel like I wasn’t being irresponsible. Or maybe get a couple portable kerosene heaters.
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by vundercind 3y ago
I’d say -15°F or lower is something you need to design for at least into the light-blue area on this map: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tdK_AMaZ9pg/Vb51WrvPDhI/AAAAAAAAD5... Which is quite a lot of the country. Light
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by vundercind 3y ago
Oh, I’ve not see that kind, only the sort where the “e heat” feature on the thermostat is tied to a separate furnace.
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by vundercind 3y ago
> Death is coming for the old-school gas furnace—and its killer is the humble heat pump. Uh, you still need a furnace (though it could be electric) if you live somewhere that ever really gets cold, right? [edit] I mean, seeing it prese
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by vundercind 3y ago
Any of the major document signing web services. That’s one of the few of those that works just as well on a desktop or laptop—the difference is, if it’s something time-sensitive and comes in while you’re, say, in the line at the grocery sto
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by vundercind 3y ago
Why does it indicate that? Every election in every country took place without Internet or (meaningful amounts of) cell phone service not that long ago .
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by vundercind 3y ago
Yeah, there are lots of other little aspects that push something closer to or farther from being the kind of thing we usual mean by “social media” (“so it’s a fuzzy category?” yes, like approximately all other categories and labels). Downpl
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by vundercind 3y ago
The term doesn’t have to mean what the literal words on their own do, or apply to everything that the individual words might, taken in their own. [edit] and in this case the term is far more useful if it is not as expansive as you suggest
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by vundercind 3y ago
Yeah, I’m under no illusions one could eliminate this stuff via education, but scams and scam-adjacent behavior part people from so incredibly much money every year that even reducing that 10% or 20% would be a pretty big deal.
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by vundercind 3y ago
It’s a document scanner, a document-signing device (we did basically the entire house search, offer, and closing process all on our phones, last time), flashlight (I use this daily), camera that can do “live photos” (they’re magical, I ha
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by vundercind 3y ago
No personalized feed or “watch next”? Not “social media”.
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by vundercind 3y ago
It’s probably not the whole story, but having tropical locales in which to film your marketing materials (which is often videos of yourself, these day, for most or all of the categories you mentioned) can be part of selling your image as a
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by vundercind 3y ago
Many of the courses offered by the folks a level or two “up the pyramid” include instruction on finding people who are a good fit for your coaching—which, I shit you not, includes not asking too many of the kinds of questions they absolute
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by vundercind 3y ago
“Business coaches” who’ve never had a successful business of note aside from selling business coaching (and usually, the impression of success at that is just them “faking it until they make it”—aka lying, which is to say, they have had
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by vundercind 3y ago
I think practicing scenarios and developing fallback heuristics and patterns could help. You don’t need to think when you have a rule to fall back on (“I never, ever buy anything from a salesman who approaches me unsolicited, period, end of
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by vundercind 3y ago
See also: “how to get rich selling a ebook online!” (Offered as an ebook, sold online—guess what it’ll tell you to do?) I’m not sure how popular that still is but my god it seemed like every other website was operating on that model for a f
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by vundercind 3y ago
This kind of shit is why I think a “defense against the dark arts” class should be standard in high school. It should cover, among other things: 1) How cults recruit and retain members. How to recognized it and tell them to fuck off before
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by vundercind 3y ago
It’s a similar model. There’s not enough demand for yoga instructors so you make money by coaching coaches. To do this you have to convince prospects there’s a big market for it (there’s not). “Winning” in the market is graduating to coachi
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by vundercind 3y ago
I’m watching this happen to someone I know. Similar stories abound. The way they rack up so much spending: 1) Cult-like sales tactics. I don’t mean that as a simple put down, I mean literally a lot of the same tactics cults use to gain recr
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by vundercind 3y ago
Go is what I reach for when I might otherwise write Python but need to actually, like, distribute my program.
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by vundercind 3y ago
It’s both corporate English, and quite recent. I’d say your likelihood of being misread or of giving a poor impression by using the word increases with the distance to the nearest person (other than you) holding an MBA.
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by vundercind 3y ago
In the bad old days of self-managing some servers with a few libvirt VMs and such, I’d have considered a 3-day outage such a shockingly bad outcome that I’d have totally reconsidered what I was doing. And k8s is supposed to make that situat
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by vundercind 3y ago
Dose level, too. I find being very-high terribly anxiety-inducing. I don’t like it at all. But ~5-8mg of gummy is amazing as a sleep aid (which is largely, for me, about shutting down anxiety hard ) and ~3mg (as needed, and rarely, for m