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by zikzak 4y ago
Not to mention what was done, when it was done well, took pressure off the health care system (which was, and is, extremely stressed by the pandemic) which ultimately saved so many lives.
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by zikzak 4y ago
They are referring to The Last Of Us.
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by zikzak 4y ago
A large number of people think empathy and sensitivity to others is bad, and we should refer to it with a pejorative term. That's... not a great sign.
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by zikzak 4y ago
Yes, I think it might be SQL specific but you can normally do this in any transnational db I have worked with (I am old, I don't use GraphQL or NoSQL dbs very often, if at all). Basically, it is just a journal of all queries (really AN
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by zikzak 4y ago
I keep seeing things indicating this is good for your teeth (e.g. chewing gum with xylitol) but can't tell if it is astro-turfing or not (on my list of things to research when I retire).
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by zikzak 4y ago
When I cut up an apple or wash some strawberries for my son, I eat a slice or two or maybe a strawberry. Blueberries work well, etc. It's just a choice to balance your diet a different way (I am not nearly as strict as OP). There'
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by zikzak 4y ago
I end up helping developers when they get stuck all the time and it is really amazing to me how many people get to the "senior developer" point in their career with very little understanding of how to use SQL tracing (e.g. MS SQL
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by zikzak 4y ago
There is a reason that it is normally recommended that serious/deep meditation practice be done with a teacher. It's isn't so people can scam newbies out of money. When you really practice meditation consistently over a long
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by zikzak 4y ago
I plugged the elevator pitch of "my novel" and asked it to write the plot of that novel (I will never write it, I just like to think about the elements of it and have some notes and snippets) and it spat out almost exactly what I
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by zikzak 4y ago
again...
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by zikzak 4y ago
Please don't take away my ability to feel smug because I told a bunch of other people what to do and they mostly did it. I can't go back to doing things myself, I just can't.
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by zikzak 4y ago
No, I manage a bunch of dev teams. I'm lucky to be where I am. I don't think gbi would have helped me, I already had a privileged existence. My family is not wealthy but we faced no really economic insecurity and were all decent p
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by zikzak 4y ago
I'll go one step further, it's total BS. :) I tested as a genius level IQ in elementary school. I went to special educational programs in grade 4-5, then a school with a stream just for "enrichment learning" (bused in wi
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by zikzak 4y ago
Years ago the resized them so they don't fit LPs, or so the legend goes. When I was a kid, every grocery store had a mountain of these behind it and every audiophile had a wall of records in them. When you get dairy deliveries at a res
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by zikzak 4y ago
It's also playing a role in his shareholders of Tesla view Musk. A recent Opening Arguments podcast explains how they could actually sue him for irresponsible behaviour that goes against his fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders
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by zikzak 4y ago
When I worked as a cook, in smaller restaurants we would have a walk-in fridge but a chest freezer or two (mostly fresh ingredients). Each freezer was just a bunch of milk crates with frozen product in them. You just shuffle the crates arou
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by zikzak 4y ago
The way I view these types of objections - I know one or two people who have lost their wallet more than a couple times in their live ("I need new ID!") and the rest of the people I have know have NEVER lost their wallet. Even peo
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by zikzak 4y ago
A von Neumann probe, to be more specific: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_spacecraft
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by zikzak 4y ago
"If you can't replaced, you can't be promoted" -- sometimes attributed to Lee Iacocca Don't manage your work from a place of fear. If you really don't want to be promoted, that's fine. I respect people tha
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by zikzak 4y ago
That's, like, your opinion, man.
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by zikzak 4y ago
I completely agree. I worked as a cook when I was younger and so I had a considerable amount of formal and informal training in safe food handling. None of differed from what I learned in my families kitchen, and our never really had food p
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by zikzak 4y ago
Have you considered a move to Canada? We always need good people and you can forget about stressing out over healthcare. If I moved to the US right now, I would (as I understand it) probably have a lot of difficulty getting any insurance co
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by zikzak 4y ago
I was like you once, then I read The Hobbit to my son and had to (HAD TO) sing all the songs to him. It kind of forced me to slow down and appreciate them as atmosphere enhancing and world building that really does improve the experience fo
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by zikzak 4y ago
When I was, I guess, grade 5 a kid showed up at school with a "TV watch". It didn't require extra connections, it tuned in OTA broadcast TV (basically CBC, at the time). This would have been in the early 80s. I have no idea w
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by zikzak 4y ago
I find his smart but not stuck up approach very enjoyable. He is clearly intelligent but you also get glimpses of "fun Lex" in between his slow, thoughtful questions and thoughts. He elicits responses from guests by being quiet an
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by zikzak 4y ago
Not knocking this product, but I personally prefer a trackball on top with buttons to either side. My thumb get very stressed out using the "on the side" arrangement where the top I can vary how I interact with it more (hover hand
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by zikzak 4y ago
You still need to accelerate and decelerate and you need to alter the course of this object to match your course. But you get all the resources for almost free. How would this compare to a raft of asteroids you select in your home system to
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by zikzak 4y ago
Do you submit a feed to Google? https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/7439058?hl=en
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by zikzak 4y ago
And this heat degrades the component. And it is almost never worth replacing a control board over buying new. There is, of course, no hidden agenda.
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by zikzak 4y ago
I watched an old guy die in a parking lot because of this. His hat blew off, he bent over to pick it up, and then fell forward onto his head. He died soon after. Now, he could have had some kind of other issues leading to this (he was elder

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