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by yamtaddle 3y ago
There's also such a thing as acclimatization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_and_heat_adaptations_in_h... If you're living in a hot area but used to AC, you're far less able to cope with loss of AC t
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
Ha, yeah, reinforces the idea that if you don't have crazy-good opsec you better not post anything online—including in places as relatively-safe as IRC or direct messages—that you don't want in the newspaper, with your name next
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
Maybe it's how you raise a generation that understands you shouldn't post a single thing online that you don't want the whole world to know about. Prior generations have entirely failed to understand that, certainly (cf. Zuck
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
Those all read like great reasons to cull and replace a great deal of tech management .
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
Oh well you see writing a CRUD app is so much more important and serious and difficult than saving human lives . And bad programmer hires are uniquely damaging in a way that bad hires aren't in any industry with normal interview p
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
Haha, mine was within a couple years of your story, even. I wonder if that still happens—kids pick up some light computer skills, accidentally end up with a tech career and find it hard to leave because everything else pays a ton worse and&
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
> I'm only doing this to support my family. There is not a single day where I don't dread sitting down in this fucking chair and staring at a screen for 8 hours. Thankfully I'm able to stave off depression with hobbies and
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
Oh shit. I had stopped really paying attention to those pick-ups (I think I've used... maybe two? In more than 20 hours?) but now that you mention it, I think one I got was a mirror—I totally could have used a mirror to turn a 15-min
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
What are they into, tiktoks/instagrams (I'm still annoyed that I can't know if an instagram link is going to be an image, or a video, these days—it's for photos, damnit!) with captions? That's just gifs with worse U
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
> I need hackers and now the market's flooded with very academically strong, much smarter than me and easily more talented PMCs. > so now we may resort to paid novel take homes e.g. write a simple device driver from scratch for t
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
If it's fun, that's great. Adding multiplayer elements to otherwise single-player games or franchises usually just shits them up, though.
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
... and you don't need any more than you'll just stumble on for free to advance in the game, and if you're a seasoned RPG-item-hoarder you'll beat the game never having used any of them, anyway, "just in case you ne
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
> Everyone I know started drinking at like 14/15. Very few people I know started drinking that young. Though most had had a drink by 19.
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
Every kid through history was horribly isolated before we got smartphones and social media, I guess. They're already spending the best hours of every weekday for like 3/4 of each year with their peers. More, if they do any other a
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
But if they don't have social media, how will they see other kids calling them names for not owning the right backpack outside of school? Think of the harm to their socialization!
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
> I have friends who are doctors.....their work doesn't feel meaningful. They are constantly pressured to move from patient to patient like they are cattle. Yep, doctors stopped being in charge of healthcare entities (hospitals, cli
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
I'm literally only doing this because tinkering on computers in high school got me skills that had me accidentally landing jobs that paid better than anything I actually wanted to do, with comically little effort. Never intended to
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
> Giphy has plenty of competition and gifs seem to he waining in popularity anyway. Am I in a bubble? I post and receive like 20+ gifs per day with my IRL friends and family. The rate has shown no signs of declining. [EDIT] And what&#x27
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
I see Schitt's Creek and a few other shows, where a high percentage of the gifs have the same logo in the same spot and/or identical, fancy, pop-in captioning. They seem to be "official" gifs of some sort—I'd just a
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
> Another one is if it’s a foreign dish and you can somehow find all of the ingredients in your local supermarket. Fun one I noticed: if you search for Hungarian (as in, written in Hungarian) recipes for paprikash, you'll get one di
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
> The tablespoon of olive oil is to kickstart the process, after that enough fat will render out of the meat to keep it going. Agreed on meat, but I consistently see way-too-small amounts of oil suggested for cooking veggies, too. It&#x2
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
Recipe writers routinely lie about how long a recipe takes, too. Most reporting a time requirement much under 30 minutes get there by ignoring how long it takes to process & prep the various ingredients. "15-minute meals" ofte
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
School stuff, coloring & activity sheets, miscellaneous uses in craft projects. Way cheaper than an iPad per kid, and some of them (strongly) prefer paper activities to their digital equivalents. A printer's easily one of the most-
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
> How often do you need to print something anyway? Everyone has a document viewing device in their pocket (or more likely, in their hand) right now. Printing is obsolete, legacy tech that we really by and large don't need. Don'
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
Star Wars had a very specific kind of influence, in two main ways: 1) The lesser of the two is that it inspired a wave of imitators of its aesthetic, kit-bash FX, and space-opera elements throughout the 80s—pretty much all firmly in &quot
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
I'm not a fan of rigid adherence to user story format, but when they're used well one tends to prefer personas or kinds-of-users over "as a user". "As a job seeker, I...", "As an employer, I...", &q
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
> As a developer
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
Providing hosting, or an Internet pipe, is pretty different from accepting user submissions and adding them to your own systems to be presented to others as you see fit, often with broad claims of ownership over submitted content.
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
Hard to say what's already known to be known by foreign intelligence. Doesn't hurt to publicize it if you already know that major potential adversaries know about it. Also hard to say exactly how cutting-edge anything we get to
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by yamtaddle 3y ago
It's to create a stable target for the OS. You can target "Debian [version]" and know there's some stability & consistency to the versions of various packages. There's: 1) System packages. Any OS with discrete r

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