1323portloo

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by 1323portloo 3y ago
I didn't say that top talent doesn't live in Mississippi, I just said you will get what candidates DO decide to live in Mississippi. If you want top talent, you have to advertise nationally, and be willing to pay the national rate
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by 1323portloo 3y ago
If you are a small shop, sure. If you are a major employer you will either meet market rate and get top candidates (willing to live in your area) or you will get whatever candidates decided to live in Mississippi.
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by 1323portloo 3y ago
The average American is not going to accept an e-bike, moped or motorcycle as a replacement for their SUV/wheeled living room.* Autocycles are starting to become more mainstream thanks to companies like Polaris that focus on performanc
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by 1323portloo 3y ago
These companies (ShiftKey, Clipboard) are not acting as agents for long term 1099 contractors at a hospital or other health care facility. They are filling shifts for as little as a day at a time at a moment's notic. Quality of care is
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by 1323portloo 3y ago
Something you don't want to learn post-graduation: if you don't have the connections to get a job, you simply don't have a prayer.
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by 1323portloo 3y ago
NDRIs were great at causing me brain zaps. So much so, that I could not meditate for more than a year after stopping the medication without reaching a brain state that caused similar brain zaps. Fortunately, that has long passed.
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by 1323portloo 3y ago
Probably. My apartment doesn't have an infinity pool with attached hot tub, a tennis/basketball/whatever court, game room, servants, "servants" or helipad with waiting helicopter.
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by 1323portloo 3y ago
That's not their focus at all. They're trying to be an all-things-entertainment company, currently, they are focusing on movie animation and digital character creation.
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by 1323portloo 3y ago
Yes, unless you build everything from the game engine to the distribution channel yourself, there is a cost to doing business. IIRC Epic Games Store offers a more reasonable 88%/12% revenue split, while Steam uses the same rapacious sp
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by 1323portloo 3y ago
I wouldn't say sugar is innocent. It still has the same damaging metabolic effects as alcohol, but without the inebriation.
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by 1323portloo 3y ago
Ahh, I remember the good old days of MUDding (and not working on my physics homework as I should have been). My old stomping ground is still alive and kicking, surprisingly: https://www.alteraeon.com/ with 70 users currentl
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by 1323portloo 3y ago
I think this is wonderful. It's a human-bootstrapped AI centipede with predictable, inevitable results.
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by 1323portloo 3y ago
>I went on to implement storing numeric values as text strings, which worked exactly as well as you'd expect. It can be made to work. I would've gone with Binary-Coded Decimal if IEEE 754 standard isn't precise enough.
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by 1323portloo 3y ago
I remember my advisor's most relevant advice, "Keep working toward your thesis, and one day, you, too, shall have a mighty hump!"
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by 1323portloo 3y ago
How did Covid restrictions prevent repairs to the system not prevent this cleaner from accessing the same area?