balladeer

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by balladeer 6y ago
You mean "legal" system.
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by balladeer 6y ago
Then that's rather pretty shitty of rest of us. The rest of us should just have someone's "No" and bugger off.
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by balladeer 6y ago
I think I am coming from the perspective that incessant trolling forced them to issue an official response and that's "snap enough" for me. You seem to be coming from the point of view (that's my assumption based on our
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by balladeer 6y ago
So an admin at a university (probably a person who should be sensitive to PR) should have said "You #$&*^$ #^#%&%$#$@, stop doing this already!" to make it look like a true "snap"?
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by balladeer 6y ago
To phase out TikTok usernames/handles and force users to move to Live/Outlook emails e.g tiktok-user@outlook.com. Then sit back and gleefully marvel at their own accomplishment.
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by balladeer 6y ago
Since you mentioned Sweden Sweden's Lund University admin snaps after being trolled by Indians on Facebook - https://www.freepressjournal.in/world/swedens-lund-universit...
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by balladeer 6y ago
What is that intelligence you’ve mentioned?
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by balladeer 6y ago
You meant to say dealing with - indirect consequences such as a very late recovery of economy, social habits changed for ever, - or literally keep dealing with this pandemic (resurfacing again and again), - or direct consequences such has r
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by balladeer 6y ago
What is it always com.au and not co.au, or just .au in Australia?
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by balladeer 6y ago
I love that there’s no open office anymore which I hated. It had nothing good to offer other than saving rent for my employer. I hate that meetings have already started to spill into Saturdays, Sundays, and beyond 6pm and attendance in thos
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by balladeer 6y ago
Are there there similar but open and private solutions to Garmin/etc for h/w and Strava/RunKeeper/etc for software? Some solution where I can track my runs, swims, cyclings, treks just like Strava (et al) does does but I
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by balladeer 6y ago
10 hours ago they linked a ridiculous and ridiculously short FAQ in this tweet https://twitter.com/GarminFitness/status/1287101514750754816
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by balladeer 6y ago
Many would just need, at least me, a decent salary for sustaining comfortably (in my case that would be fine in just 50% of my CTC or even less) but a stellar medical insurance (yeah, I want that covered!) and work-life balance which also i
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by balladeer 6y ago
A friend who has always worked in NGOs/charitable trusts shared an interesting observation about all this. She said that people in the top at these NGOs and trusts are usually get paid filthy rich like a CEO/Director would get pai
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Apple hires economists to argue App Store commissions aren't anti-competitive(cnet.com)
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by balladeer 6y ago
Most of the times when I face a problem on my Mac or iPhone I am surprised to find an official support article by Apple for that problem. But the answer is almost never in that article and then I have to anyway hunt for the answer on the In
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by balladeer 6y ago
> I am sure they're at par if not better than their Googleplex counterparts I have heard it's not. PS. Amazon's work-life balance is is non-existent in most teams.
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by balladeer 6y ago
> One way is heard immunity Without a vaccine - wouldn't herd immunity just be letting the virus spread and then let Darwin take over, more or less?
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by balladeer 6y ago
FSNotes isn't subscription based. I am not yet paying or Bear and I don't think I'd go for it either.
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by balladeer 6y ago
Other than a combination of fiddling inside ~/Library and some more SQLite circus there's really no way to make Apple Notes notes portable (across platforms) and even such circuitous hacks might break in any update or upgrade. Tha
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by balladeer 6y ago
OT, but as a non-American I have always wondered what are the origins of those "smiling, teeth slightly showing" corporate mugshots? And I've started to see these from other places as well (like in my own country), of late. A
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by balladeer 6y ago
Yes. Pretty much everyone I talk to would happily go to their small town, or village close to their homes and families but they don't. They say they can't.
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by balladeer 6y ago
Shorter code block doesn't mean unclear code. Besides, in your very implausible example (unless there's some underlying library - or an esoteric language maybe?) 1 line of that code (apparently) replacing 1000 line of clear code c
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by balladeer 6y ago
Is there an iMessage support for Apple? I never knew that. I only see website chat and phone (call back) options in India.
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by balladeer 6y ago
EULAs and T&Cs should have a layperson readable maximum characters limit.
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by balladeer 6y ago
I am sure OP meant it hypothetically. Besides geopolitics might shift quite fast. If, and that's a gigantic if, China lets go of is habit of looking at a map and declaring "yeah, that region is ours!", or Pakistan gets rid of
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by balladeer 6y ago
iCloud sync. It's broken and it has been broken since a long time. Considering it's run by a company as wealthy as Apple (on their closed ecosystem) it's an utter disgrace.
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by balladeer 6y ago
That happened to me few months ago when a new submodule was added that gets updated regularly (old ones are some legacy libs just lying there). I literally had to beg some colleagues to not forget to commit the changed submodule ref to host
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by balladeer 6y ago
Thank you, this looks nice. Do you know something similar for /r/worldnews? Something that's more like what you shared and /r/askhistorians.
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by balladeer 6y ago
On-topic guideline essentially allows everything, rendering off-topic guideline moot. Could have been avoided by defining "a good hacker" but that's missing as well :)

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