PlugTunin

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by PlugTunin 6y ago
You're right. There are certain intangibles like that that can surely enrich the experience. Interesting that the educational value is being diminished by the absence of something without a price tag attached to it. Not as if colleges
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by PlugTunin 6y ago
Just a heads up for any 1974 shoppers: there's no smoking on the sales floor. You have to be over by the cafe.
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by PlugTunin 6y ago
I'm not dismissing the benefit of face-to-face. But there's some % of material in college that you learn by reading the textbook, and using the computer -- especially in tech disciplines. These aspects of learning feel like they w
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by PlugTunin 6y ago
I didn't get that impression.
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by PlugTunin 6y ago
The Donut Prince is a well-known establishment in Burbank, California, located close to the studios. Their donuts are delicious, along with their ham and cheese croissants. I believe the couple that owns it is of Cambodian descent, and I wo
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by PlugTunin 6y ago
This take is garbage. Touch typing and hunt and peck are two extremes. You can be somewhere in the middle and be Ok.
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by PlugTunin 6y ago
Is this an articatle on how to write good looking text, or easy to understand text? good question
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by PlugTunin 6y ago
Gotcha. I only meant the sheer fact that he didn't know who he was, was not in itself anything that makes him ignorant. But yes, it was his response/reaction to discovering the story of this "mysterious" person that inde
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by PlugTunin 6y ago
10 years ago, Captain Crunch was my next door neighbor. Yes, that Captain Crunch. One time he asked me, in reference to the actor's name being mentioned in the media, "Who's Brad Pitt?". I laughed my ass off, because I d
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by PlugTunin 6y ago
It doesn't make him utterly ignorant.
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by PlugTunin 6y ago
That you hadn't heard of him was perhaps not sufficient basis for feelings of astonishment. I guess it's just surprising to people of a certain age, who overlooked the age/background of yourself and others. But I really don&#
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by PlugTunin 6y ago
He doesn't play rugby -- he plays a sport that is arguably the most popular sport outside of the US.
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by PlugTunin 6y ago
There would not be any place for the news of his passing on Hacker News, if that were to happen?!
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by PlugTunin 6y ago
It takes longer than 3 months to acquire the skills necessary to land a job.
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by PlugTunin 6y ago
I'm really sorry to hear this. It's a bit of a surprise -- I'd have assumed that not being able to get a job would be the problem, rather than the one of not being fairly compensated. And while nothing is a meritocracy, shame
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by PlugTunin 6y ago
I'm 45, 5'9 and have a 30-inch waist. How? I subsist on oatmeal, eggs, milk, fruits & veggies, peanut butter, cheese in moderation, TONS OF BLACK BEANS AND LENTILS, rice, bread and pasta. Boring stuff. No meat. No soda. No fas
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by PlugTunin 6y ago
This is often true. Alternatively, some people come to see the err of their parents' ways and realize that in spite of their good intentions, they lacked the emotional maturity to build (a) a healthy marriage and (b) a nurturing enviro
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by PlugTunin 6y ago
In my former life I worked in Finance departments of Fortune 500 companies, responsible for process and report automation, and making Excel-based systems less unwieldy -- often by converting them to Access. I have an Accounting & Info S
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by PlugTunin 6y ago
I support the hiring of H1-B Visa employees to fill jobs that can't be filled by US citizens. However, I'm not in favor of the common practice where employers make no attempt to hire a US citizen and instead hire an H1-B employee
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by PlugTunin 6y ago
This got me thinking of the connection to ageism. Sure, a younger person might be hired over an older candidate for reasons that are legitimate: maybe the more senior person wants too much money, or maybe the hiring powers-that-be want to b
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by PlugTunin 6y ago
Lord and Taylor is well-known to anyone from the DC area but not necessarily if you're from the South. At the same time, some people from the Mid-Atlantic aren't familiar with Dillard's.
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by PlugTunin 7y ago
It's possible to be intelligent but not have an interest in passing on the genes for such.
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by PlugTunin 7y ago
Exactly. I initially liked Pandas, but then I discovered what I can do with data frames in R, visualizations with ggplot, and the SQL-like data manipulation using dplyr w/ pipes from magrittr. R may have the steeper learning curve -- a
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by PlugTunin 7y ago
Came for the comments, stayed for the wonderful community of thinkers that makes this site special. Happy Holidays, gang -- I hope 2020 has great things in store for you and yours.
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by PlugTunin 8y ago
I'm no expert but suspect the empathy deficits present differently. Seems more willful on the part of the NPD, perhaps. With ASDs, it's often a case of not being self-aware enough to know how you come across, but once pointed out,
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by PlugTunin 8y ago
He's obviously not a team player! (I'm totally kidding; your question is an excellent one.) What's funny to me is how sometimes there are two qualities -- being both more competent (than one's peers) and not liked -- t
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by PlugTunin 9y ago
No one is proposing that we get rid of spreadsheets. I understand, though: you hate VBA. And by extension, Access. But Excel, with or without Python, doesn't mean it can suddenly be used as a relational database. But you knew that. So,
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by PlugTunin 9y ago
I feel your pain but not everything built in Access becomes an unwieldy, klugey monstrosity. When Access solutions are born, their useful life, evolving reasons for use and expected storage requirements aren't always well-defined. It&#
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by PlugTunin 9y ago
I respectfully (and strongly) disagree. Decent People refusing to employ anyone who thinks Jews, among others, are subhuman is NOT the same thing as Indecent People refusing to employ Jews. Basis For Arguments Matter™
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by PlugTunin 9y ago
FWIW, the diagram wasn't intended to be a TEST to determine if one is autistic. It was a test to indicate one's inclination for noticing certain detail. Indeed, as another comment states, girls have historically been under diagnos

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