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by zztop44 4y ago
Sometimes maybe? Sometimes stereotypes arise because of inaccurate portrayals of a group in popular media.
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by zztop44 4y ago
But most early computer programmers were women. If it’s just the environment they grew up in, then why did programming computers shift over the 20th century from being a job dominated by women to a job dominated by men? For the record, I
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by zztop44 4y ago
This is called “seeding” a list and is standard practice for data brokers. But maybe that’s a sign they’re Bond-esque criminal organizations…
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by zztop44 4y ago
Haha we had the exact same experience. My mind was blown by PHP as a teen and I even made decent money in high school making websites - all without ever setting up a local environment. I didn’t keep doing dev work and had a different career
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by zztop44 4y ago
Actually from reading this thread I can’t see anyone who suggested paediatricians are requiring the COVID vaccine. In fact one clarified that in requiring all routine vaccines they explicitly did NOT mean flu or COVID
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by zztop44 4y ago
Maybe 30 years ago. But there has been a US president who admitted to cocaine use and still got elected in a landslide. Of course it depends where and in what milieu but in the US mainstream I don’t think the stigma to some past drug use is
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by zztop44 4y ago
That depends a lot on where you live.
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by zztop44 4y ago
I think by working so hard to remain off-radar this whole time, they’ve been setting themselves up for a rug pull if the music truly stops. I mean yeah I think they’ll try to defend the peg for a while but if it’s clear it’s over, the incen
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by zztop44 4y ago
An English speaking country like Ireland? Or an English speaking country like Jamaica, Nigeria or Pakistan?
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by zztop44 4y ago
Really? I live in Japan but am not Japanese. I speak Japanese and have many Japanese friends. I’d feel quite different about joining a hiking group that was 100% Japanese as opposed to one that had a mix of Japanese and non-Japanese people.
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by zztop44 4y ago
I think I remember Facebook was pretty toxic even before it had an algorithmic newsfeed. Maybe not as wild as now, but people being mean to each other and saying awful things was very much a thing. Same with oldschool forums, too.
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by zztop44 4y ago
I started a small agency and do consulting. So now I’m a guest in various different project channels across several client Slack teams + manage my own contractors etc. Much quieter :)
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by zztop44 4y ago
Yeah this is definitely a good idea but I think personally I need the structure of having specific set times to check it, as opposed to it just always being an option whenever I encounter a boring or difficult task.
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by zztop44 4y ago
I don’t have ADHD but I get very distracted by Slack. Here’s what worked for me. 1. Slack app uninstalled on my phone. If I need it for something, I install it, use it, then delete again. 2. Slack app on my laptop fully closed by default. 3
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by zztop44 4y ago
Many of the artists I know personally are blue collar workers. One is a house painter, one an airport luggage handler, one works in a restaurant (which is perhaps working class rather than blue collar per se). Honestly, I think “learn to
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by zztop44 4y ago
I don’t know why you’d ever want to play anything other than dust2 /s
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by zztop44 4y ago
Just rent a deposit box at the bank and put your cash there. They won’t touch it. Just like having it under your mattress but probably safer from criminals.
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by zztop44 4y ago
That sounds super serious. Of course on one level I’m extremely envious but on another I can’t quite imagine what it’d be like. And I was born and raised before the internet became ubiquitous!
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by zztop44 4y ago
You’re free to negotiate whatever contract you want with the voice actors you hire.
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by zztop44 4y ago
I’m a freelance developer. My clients pay for a perpetual non-exclusive non-transferable license to the software I write for them. I explain this very clearly to every client, and tell them explicitly that I hope and intend to sell the same
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by zztop44 4y ago
For what it’s worth I found this to be a very worthwhile read. And not too hard to follow. He’s very open about his responsibility for the miscommunication. And says he does not blame Carl (except for apparently hiding the Microsoft buyout
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by zztop44 4y ago
I think you might be missing the forest for the trees. Barbies and lipstick are not exclusive to one gender, but they are associated with one gender. I don’t think it’s controversial to say that people in general will respond differently
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by zztop44 4y ago
> it’s hard to be more cruel than nature Obviously “nature” is a difficult concept to pin down, but I disagree with this sentiment. I think probably most factory farming (especially of chickens and pigs) is waaaay more cruel than nature
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by zztop44 4y ago
This (human) ChatGPT detector says this text was written by a human.
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by zztop44 4y ago
Sounds like you went to five cities and Miyakojima. And yeah if you don’t like tropical islands (in winter) then it’s not surprising Miyakojima wasn’t your tea.
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by zztop44 4y ago
Same. I normally prefer boring old tech, but I’ve migrated all my projects over to Sveltekit. Yep, breaking changes are annoying but it’s worth it. It’s got the point where you’d need to pay me lot to work on a Vue or (especially) React p
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by zztop44 4y ago
Those are the equity investors in FTX, but it has been reported that there are about a million retail customers owed about 8 billion dollars. You might think they’re not “crypto people” because they sent their coins to a centralised exchang
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by zztop44 4y ago
To be fair, journalists are meant to also use their own knowledge and judgement to assess the relative validity of sources and frame the story in a way that communicates the truth as they see it (as opposed to just uncritically reflecting w
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by zztop44 4y ago
Is it really the case that a decade ago journalism was not telling the story that media conglomerates wanted the public to hear? Or did that just seem to diverge from what you personally wanted to hear about a decade ago?
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Or use popular Wordpress plugins that don’t have captchas or rate limiting

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