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by yepitwas 1y ago
The only ways I use social media would be better served by RSS. I follow specific businesses, organizations, and people, and want to see everything they post, in chronological order. I do my best to achieve this with social media, but RSS
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by yepitwas 1y ago
The US had one killed within the last two months, with an attempt on another, and the attacker had a list of other targets. You could be forgiven for not knowing, since the collective coverage and attention to it since has probably been les
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by yepitwas 1y ago
One hour with a camera pointing at my face is like one hour of someone staring into my eyes. It’s exhausting and feels gross.
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by yepitwas 1y ago
One of the most popular arguments in favor of the necessity of the second amendment as an individual (not collective) right is precisely so ordinary people can engage in political violence. The current president even suggested doing so wa
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by yepitwas 1y ago
I can't edit this more but to temper this: I don't mind camera-on for 1-on-1 conversations, I don't mind camera-on while actively participating in larger meetings, that kind of thing, that's fine. Camera on all the time
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by yepitwas 1y ago
On the Mac side, can confirm how useful this is. As soon as transparent text selection in images was added to iOS and macOS, it went from that being a feature I'd never even though about, to becoming a table-stakes feature for consider
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by yepitwas 1y ago
... anyone got stats on what happens to mortality rates during such an evacuation?
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by yepitwas 1y ago
That's worrisome since I've seen those be for-sure wrong a pretty high percentage of the time. [EDIT] Incidentally, are there any sites that do actual web search any more, better than Yandex? I'd rather avoid a Russian site
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by yepitwas 1y ago
Reading the actual study, this appears to be a preschool program of 2.5 hours minimum , not adding on to an existing school day. There are also a lot more details about outcomes and they're wildly positive for an intervention period
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by yepitwas 1y ago
Screw presentability, having a camera pointed at you and on all the time is creepy and awful. It’s not the same as being in a room with actual people, it’s way worse. Just meetings with 100% camera-on, even, are awkward and draining in wa
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by yepitwas 1y ago
I once moved to a company that still mandated relatively formal work clothes—suit and tie no longer required, but still seen fairly often. The first casual Friday I was struck now how energized I felt as soon as I walked in (and I didn’t pa
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by yepitwas 1y ago
I'm surprised that 2.5 hours a day for 2 years was enough to make that big a difference on outcomes through age 40. Like... damn, that's a big effect!
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by yepitwas 1y ago
I don't get why the various tax incentives and such (plus stealth layoffs) aren't enough to explain it. I've seen companies do some weird shit for those "X workers at location Y at least Z hours per year" tax ince
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by yepitwas 1y ago
It's pretty funny to watch e.g. some little FOSS console game system emulator—an actual toy, or at least, a project in service of a toy and of game-playing, to a large extent, but also technically more challenging than a lot of corpora
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by yepitwas 1y ago
Yeah, I wouldn't mind seeing the LE leadership at that particular, ah, event, plus maybe many of the other law enforcement folks present, subjected to some... consequences. Whatever the victims' parents want, really, I'd be p
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by yepitwas 1y ago
Fussell was such a fun read, and so useful in little (also fun) ways. I distinctly remember seeing, several years ago, a photo of one of (I swear this is going to be basically apolitical) Trump's kids with their family, including one
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by yepitwas 1y ago
I'm so used to bouncing between environments my code's running in (and which project I'm working on) that I tend to just assume I don't have debugger access, or at least don't have it configured for that environment
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by yepitwas 1y ago
One key claim appears to be that there are so few buyers for their products, and sellers of their inputs (and, speculation on my part, those are maybe sometimes the same parties) that “magically” the numbers always work out that their costs
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by yepitwas 1y ago
Monopolies are a huge problem in every sector of the economy. Republicans and especially Chicago school folks forced a change in how we enforce antitrust in the ‘70s, such that now we hardly enforce it at all. (The resulting concentration o
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by yepitwas 1y ago
To be fair, there’s also a set who think their kid needs a phone on them at all times so they can make a call if there’s a school shooting. This doesn’t make any statistical sense as a justification (it might if more “school shootings”
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by yepitwas 1y ago
It’s mostly that. Basically the only genres that still sell meaningful numbers are YA (with lots of adult readers, and if we want to count that as its own genre) and romance (99.9% of which isn’t more challenging than average YA, and usuall
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by yepitwas 1y ago
Huge ESOL population, too (but to be fair, Texas and several other states also face that challenge)
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by yepitwas 1y ago
Doing math without memorizing some basic arithmetic facts is like reading without knowing what the hundred most common words in the English language mean, and having to look them up every time you encounter one. Sure I guess you can do that
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by yepitwas 1y ago
I don’t think advising kids to make their first and possibly only call to an emergency number where someone’s all but guaranteed to pick up quickly and dispatch help instead of to a parent who might not pick up for any number of reasons and
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by yepitwas 1y ago
Very much not an accurate description of what was actually happening, despite what the court’s majority claimed (egregious and surely, at least often, willful factual errors in majority opinions are a hallmark of the Roberts court) Luckily
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by yepitwas 1y ago
Republicans, including some of the current crop, have been making noise about putting the money in the stock market, one way or another, for a long time, and if anyone’s gonna actually do it it’s these guys.
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by yepitwas 1y ago
To be very blunt: trashy parents with too much time on their hands will become enraged and raise a huge stink if their kid can't text them or answer their calls (!) while in class. So many will do this that schools just gave up. That&
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by yepitwas 1y ago
We've got one locked-down shared phone for our kids, for scheduling stuff with friends and calling & texting relatives or whatever. We almost have a teen so we'll see how long we can keep that up, but we only relented that m
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by yepitwas 1y ago
It's legit kind-of great, because you can't be doing much productive, so the dozen things you should be doing (most of them due to kids...) if you were at home are out the window. You can just chill for a long stretch of time,
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by yepitwas 1y ago
If I'm in those situations and staring at my phone, it's because I forgot to bring a book. Staring into the middle distance while my kid sits on the bench for fifteen minutes and a bunch of kids I don't know ineptly play socc

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