AvocadoCake

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by AvocadoCake 5y ago
It's not reasonable to compare the mortality rate of working people to the global average across ages, disabilities, etc.
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by AvocadoCake 5y ago
Your memory is very close. Here is the relevant scene: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pU-uZztJEcQ
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by AvocadoCake 5y ago
ProBoards exists and is nice to use, but it's not obvious to me it does anything better for software than Github issues.
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by AvocadoCake 5y ago
In my experience, going from 11 to any version above it is quite trivial. 8 to 11 can be tricky, but I believe even that is easier than it was two years ago (thanks to improved library support).
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by AvocadoCake 5y ago
Having used Paramount+ recently, it has really made me appreciate Netflix as a tech company, in addition to their FOSS contributions and other innovations. I think it's silly to say that only a company that directly sells tech (whether
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by AvocadoCake 5y ago
Furthermore, it would allow me to turn off my ad-block for certain creators, without making me suffer through ads on videos made by creators I'm not willing to support in that way.
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by AvocadoCake 5y ago
I think a large part of learning faster is having a better willingness/eagerness to learn. That's something that can be gauged to some degree during both the technical and non-technical sections of the interview.
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by AvocadoCake 5y ago
I found the game strangely addictive: http://www.playonlinedicegames.com/senet
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by AvocadoCake 5y ago
Yeah, but this is the equivalent of bulldozing a house because someone committed a crime in it. Sure, I get you're serious, but I also get you're being wasteful.
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by AvocadoCake 5y ago
Good health and proper nutrition is the not the baseline, as over 40% of children in the US are overweight, obese, or severely obese [1]. Two parents, let alone parents who "don't suck", is also not the baseline, as 25% of ch
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by AvocadoCake 5y ago
Whenever I make a PR for a bug fix or a change in behaviour, I'll check the LOC delta. Given all I'm doing is changing an existing thing, rather than adding a new feature, I would often consider it a soft red flag if the LOC has i
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by AvocadoCake 5y ago
>Then an expression like (Foo bar (Baz qux)) could be rewritten as (Foo bar Baz qux) Until you want to pass Baz as an argument of Foo. I understand the value of sugar in a language, but I also think that sometimes you don't need mor
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by AvocadoCake 5y ago
I used SaaS pass at work for a while, and it made my day a little bit worse every time I had to use its 2FA. The app's login on push notification thing was very slow, and would fail too often (maybe 5-10% of the time). I ended up using
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by AvocadoCake 5y ago
I agree, but if you're feeling tired or overwhelmed, taking a day off is in everyone's best interest, and I don't think standing in a vertical coffin for a few minutes is an adequate alternative.
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by AvocadoCake 5y ago
I know my expectations of worker rights are skewed by living in a country that isn't America, but that's what annual leave/sick leave/mental health leave is for. If, after all that, work is still unbearable, there's
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by AvocadoCake 5y ago
The 81st hour's productivity might not be 0, but if you worked 81 hours last week, that will impact your productivity in the current week, including reducing your productivity in the much more important first 32 hours.
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by AvocadoCake 5y ago
Brave already blocks ads on YT (on mobile and desktop).
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by AvocadoCake 5y ago
https://wire.com/en/security/#audits Yes, with published reports, but it looks like they haven't published new ones in a few years.