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by yamtaddle 3y ago
What's funny is, it's exactly those fast-cut-30-minute-final-action-scene-CG-shit-flying-everywhere movies that I find improved by being able to tune out and look at one's phone, in home viewing. Most of the Marvel movies a
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
I re-watched Star Wars for the first time in a while (I watched it surely more than 100 times as a kid, but hadn't in a long time). Leia is a straight-up badass the entire movie. She's the only competent one in the main 3 (Obi Wan
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
The 2010s in sci-fi gaves us: - Dredd - Melancholia (may not qualify for some sci-fi fans, I suppose, and I can understand why—it's so very allegorical) - High Life - Under the Skin - Annihilation - Ex Machina - Edge of Tomorrow - Lo
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
You never see the stuff they write that nobody funds. Blame the people writing the checks for what gets produced, not the writers.
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
It does kinda seem like if it's flagged for investigation... like, eventually an investigation should happen, right? And then you either get your money back or are charged with a crime? I get that that's not what actually happens,
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
Everyone freaked out about rising wages because they saw fast-food worker "we're hiring" signs offering $17/hr... meanwhile the $20/hr worker nearby saw a 1.5% COL raise in a 10+% inflation environment (and higher
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
Everyone I know who didn't go in to this with a lot of income above their spending level is struggling, mostly due to price increases in things they can't not spend money on. Housing's way up the list, and food, which, I du
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
> You can do whatever you want of course, but perhaps consider just trusting me when I say if this was as simple and effective as you put it, it would have been done by now. > > > Don't forget that every telco would lobby a
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
... I had no idea this existed. I've been a member since the DVD days (with a couple brief interruptions—and I'll probably re-cancel again pretty soon, until something gets me back in for a while)
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
> they aren't going out of their way to hide who sent it I see an awful lot of bulk mail that's trying really hard to look like something it's not. Some of it's so bad that I'm surprised it doesn't fall af
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
Applying it only to the ones in US jurisdiction would fix it. Telcos in other important markets would comply with the demands of the US telcos, or get cut off (and lose business to other telcos in those markets that did comply). Regardles
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
On the contrary, having a certification not tied to any particular employer (hell, any company could require or prefer X level of that certification) and letting candidates holding that certification skip the grueling, insanely-long hazin
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
Industry associations creating certifications w/ testing?
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
I'm pretty sure it's to keep FAANG workers from jumping ship too easily, in order to suppress wages. If it were actually for evaluation reasons, FAANG and friends would just get together and come up with some kind of certification
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
There are a lot of companies "embracing AI" for CEO-fell-for-the-hype / CEO-hopes-investors-will-fall-for-the-hype reasons, that aren't related to actual business needs or benefits from using AI. Lying (to themselves, an
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
Before I started using zfs and drive names stopped mattering, I'd name my personal storage drives after heroes from the Iliad, and the corresponding backup drives after the heroes' wives.
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
> Personal experience with this problem lead me to think about it, repeatedly. It's a comically-understated way to say "I kept having acid reflux, just, so very many times, and it hurt like a motherfucker so I became preoccup
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
> Gastroesophageal reflux results from weakness or relaxation of the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) [1]. Personal experience with this problem lead me to think about it, repeatedly. LOL. More seriously: Is there something about a moder
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
> Pirating is actually an awful experience for most people, involving shady sites, malicious ads, and a serious risk of malware Yeah, it sucks. It's a pain in the ass and does cost some money, plus time. But it solves 3 problems
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
> but spends most of their time on mobile devices are definately not pirating anything I pirate books more through the browser on my phone than I do anywhere else. 10x as much as all other places combined is a conservative estimate. Vide
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
> But telcos are competitors, and getting them together to agree on how to handle this kind of thing is hard. No one can agree on who should pay for it, and no one wants to go first. Every telco basically passes the buck. So if you are o
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
I have a first-initial-last-name gmail address. Over a period of years, it became basically unusable. A dozen or more people with the same first-initial-last-name have typo'd my email address into enough systems that the volume of crap
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
Is this an apartment thing? I don't receive calls for deliveries. US, live in a house.
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
Can we talk about junk mail, while we're at it? I back-of-the-enveloped the numbers once, and we'd need a $5-10/month tax (or service fee or however they want to frame it) to pay the postal service what it gets from bulk mail
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
The penalties for permitting more than X robocalls through in a given period including those originating outside your network should be so high that legitimate operators under US jurisdiction are terrified of allowing connections from com
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
I'd assumed something to do with roasters, but yeah, maybe it's more mundane than that.
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
> I don't really understand how we can have a so strong resistance to UI changes among IT professionals. It's often bad. Poorly-motivated, poorly-conceived, and poorly-executed. Some of us have watched non-pros suffer through t
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
> Thus, in lieu of a standardized framework we have to invent our own. The FAANGs and similar could easily have created such a thing, and driven wide adoption of it. They find some other value in their very-expensive process, or they&#
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
Our main trouble is that there are like 30 Web- or streaming-capable devices in our house, not even counting ones that are packed away, and getting the balance between "usable by adults with little friction; locked down for kids"
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
The vast majority of the extant housing in the US was built for a world with cheap energy and air conditioning. Take away the AC and it needs extensive refitting to even be kinda habitable. [EDIT] OK, that's overstating it in the Nor

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