wiether

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by wiether 5y ago
> if they're addicted (to anything, really) Like caffeine ? I'm almost sure they have coffee machines in there.
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by wiether 5y ago
Karma and insults ?
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by wiether 5y ago
The funniest part being that it's also parent stating : > Don't let society or TV tell you how much time you need to spend with your kids. That's up to you and your family, not some arbitrary thing that others tell you.
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by wiether 5y ago
That's what code reviews are for :)
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by wiether 5y ago
> fathers are supposed to teach kids how to be moral, how to be honest, how to take responsibility. How to be valuable to the world. > Mothers are supposed to teach kids empathy. I'm sorry, what ?!
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by wiether 5y ago
I don't understand why people who seek freedom from enclosed and proprietary platforms are not bigger advocates of ActivityPub and software that relies on it. After Trump got banned from Twitter & Facebook, the right wing decided
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by wiether 5y ago
But now you know where you money went : in JR's pockets !
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by wiether 5y ago
> Btw this binary view of the world where Amazon is bad and others are good (or vice versa) seems to be a very American thing. It's not. In France it's the same thing. But the "Amazon is bad" is not really about destr
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by wiether 5y ago
I admire your confidence.
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by wiether 5y ago
I'm usually not a "you have to go the hard way before going the easy way"-guy, and I started the easy way actually, but using CLI every definitely changes the way you name your files. And I can't see (and don't wan
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by wiether 5y ago
Dropbox user for personal stuff for many years, I'm definitely not happy about them adding weird add-ons like Paper or even worse, Passwords. Just focus on file sync/storage/sharing. And I absolutely don't understand th
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by wiether 5y ago
> One of my real pet hates is software developers who assume everyone's running their software on an excellent internet connection. It's not the developers' job to assume anything about users. It's the project manager
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by wiether 5y ago
Isn't flaxseed oil... fat ?
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by wiether 5y ago
> I don't even agree with vending machines at work. I agree but still, Jim would have missed a great opportunity to troll Dwight !
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by wiether 5y ago
I was about to post that same link :)
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by wiether 5y ago
No, you're not. But I guess it depends on what you call "restaurant" and "lunch out". Some people will basically eat every working day in a restaurant. So more than £/$/€10 will be seen as expensive. Some
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by wiether 5y ago
Hello https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/16/huge-study-s...
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by wiether 5y ago
Thank you. I'll try to keep that in mind next time I'm in this kind of situation and see how it turns out.
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by wiether 5y ago
> Unless you’re the only competent person on the team, if the team thinks its a good idea then why not? If you’re the only competent person on the team however, you should really leave the company. Sometimes I ask myself this question an
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by wiether 5y ago
> One of my mentors at the first company I worked for in Silicon Valley never said “no” to one of my ideas. He said “okay, we’ll try it out and see what happens.” He was inherently supportive of new ideas and as a junior engineer it felt
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by wiether 6y ago
The public platform being the Internet. Nobody forced Rogan to move their content to a closed platform like Spotify. Before that they seemed to be able to discuss what they wanted with who they wanted. But instead of their freedom of conten
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by wiether 6y ago
As an avid TV show consumer, people regularly asks me why am I still using my 10 years old 32" Panasonic. Well, not only it still works as day one, so why would I get rid of a perfectly working piece of tech, also I'm not sure a b
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by wiether 6y ago
You forgot a "k" after 25 I guess ?
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by wiether 6y ago
Average trip length is about ~12km[1] (we are talking about Europe so no weird units, sorry not sorry) and 22mn. That's about 33kmh, less than most speed limits within the cities. What it means is that most car trips are short and slow
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by wiether 6y ago
> this is essentially how Parisian are supposed to go to and from work, get food, go to school, the dentist and so on How so ? Except for work, all the other thing you describes are basically at a walkable distance. And you also have a l
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by wiether 6y ago
> Outside of a very small number of major metro areas, cities in America are not livable without a car. I guess NYC is one of the "very small number of major metro areas" and yet OP used it to show how you can't live comfo
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by wiether 6y ago
> $2000/month is enough to live comfortably with a personal car Weird how you assimilate living comfortably and having a car.
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by wiether 6y ago
Sorry but I don't see how a software engineer (as me) is doing any work that is in the nature of human beings. There is more and more people doing less than needed jobs while there is less and less people doing useful jobs. The Covid c
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by wiether 6y ago
What would be the goal of UBE ? "we have a job for you". Great, but I'm certain that it means most of the people doing those jobs would not like them and would no work great. Because being forced to do something you don'
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by wiether 6y ago
Nice one !

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