colmvp

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by colmvp 2y ago
Couldn't agree more. "Kids are hard. People are selfish." - More people than ever before want to live a life free of the responsibilities of having children, which is totally fine but never gets talked about in this discussio
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by colmvp 2y ago
I thought the rule was to keep the title the same as the article? The title is: "Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe"
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by colmvp 2y ago
Aggressive moderation can be very toxic. The /r/toronto and /r/askTO subreddits are modded by essentially the same people. They remove comments/posts without explanation as to what rules were broken, and then when y
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by colmvp 2y ago
Or possibly financial assistance from the Bank of Mom and Dad.
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by colmvp 3y ago
> As for Udacity, which was founded in 2011, it gave the usual kinds of statements a company makes when it gets acquired by a much larger organization like Accenture. That is, it believes that it can reach more people and help them acqui
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by colmvp 3y ago
YT search results also show results that have literally nothing to do with the query. Stop showing me videos I watched previously when I'm literally in the midst of trying to find something specific.
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by colmvp 3y ago
> Do Finales Define a Show? It's mind-boggling how much Benioff and Weiss dropped the ball on the final two seasons of GOT. It's hard for me to even re-watch clips of the early seasons on YouTube because of how much I know its
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by colmvp 3y ago
You'd be surprised. I remember meeting a woman who said she doesn't date men who don't have at minimum, a Masters. A doctor I matched up with on an online dating app asked me to clarify my occupation, and when I replied, she
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by colmvp 3y ago
I'm not sure why roundabouts are so uncommon in North America. Where I live, at a 4 way small street intersection, two of the entrances have stop signs with a roundabout in the middle. At that point, you might as well get rid of the ro
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by colmvp 3y ago
So, is he still going to lead some team at Microsoft?
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by colmvp 3y ago
To be frank, isn't it weird to appoint an interim CEO who sides with the person you ousted? Why not have appointed someone more sympathetic to your position?
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by colmvp 3y ago
I disagree. Browsers like Chrome and Firefox have the ability to install different engines, yet I'd be shocked if Google wasn't at least 90% of the current default search engine on both browers. Most users might be technical enoug
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by colmvp 3y ago
Wow that brings me back. I remember being on AskReddit when it was relatively small (maybe a few hundred thousand subscribers). My favorite contribution to that subreddit was one of the first logos. They held a contest and my submission was
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by colmvp 3y ago
Exactly. Sometimes you play a game, and you realize, shit I invested points in these attributes but upon reading strategy guides, I realize I fucked up the distribution and there's no way to reset my character. What is the solution? Ab
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by colmvp 3y ago
I'm unclear as to why that is hard to imagine. I live in a city that has many free tech meetups. One of them involved going through fast.ai. Tech companies were happy to host us for free. Another was about doing Kaggle competition to p
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by colmvp 3y ago
It's really strange, people here are encouraging about online dating and you'd think it'd be easier than ever to find a compatible mate what with the ability to have "access" to people you'd never encounter oth
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by colmvp 3y ago
No, it's only shared with the provider you choose (e.g. if your default search engine is DDG, then the search terms are shared with DDG, etc.)
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by colmvp 3y ago
Totally understandable. That said, on subreddits I see people who post content without attribution all the time. I recall in /r/aww you can't directly link to an Instagram post but you can "steal" the image and post
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by colmvp 3y ago
Yup. In Canada, he funded over a hundred libraries.
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by colmvp 3y ago
I never thought we'd hit a point in my lifetime where artificially generated porn would be compelling, but I'm utterly impressed by the quality of SFM adult content. And I'm thinking if porn sites can combine the various form
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by colmvp 3y ago
On the other hand, they exist in other forms, like interviews or talks viewable on YouTube, or podcasts that can be re-listened to at any time.
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by colmvp 3y ago
> > Our early analysis of performance data suggests that engineers who either joined Meta in-person and then transferred to remote or remained in-person performed better on average than people who joined remotely. This analysis also s
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by colmvp 4y ago
No one forced my friends or people I pass by to use any of the products provided tech companies. Hell, most of my friends don't care about privacy or being tracked online, or having their information shared amongst other entities. How
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by colmvp 4y ago
Yeah I'm not sure why that's controversial. I have a plethora of books on programming languages. Know what helped me learn it the most? Solving small bugs on open source projects. If I told an AI to code the solution in the langua
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by colmvp 4y ago
Your statement made me realize I should empathize with the machines in the Matrix. After all, a human life is objectively worth less to machines than to humans. A machine can last for centuries and can have more utility on a daily basis tha
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by colmvp 4y ago
+1000 Point A: Biggest wake up call for me going from a startup to big tech. Point B: A year into a company, I'd be exaggerating if I said I knew more than 1% of the codebase. So many things the product needs to operate that users don&
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by colmvp 4y ago
I've used apps many times over to travel to Asia/Europe/North America, book accommodations, rent cars... and haven't had a bad experience. That's not to say that I believe bad experiences don't ever happen, but
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by colmvp 4y ago
I'm just going to chime here with another anecdata: I've lived in London, Paris, Toronto, Melbourne, New York City, and San Francisco. The two times I've had things stolen (computer, bike) were in the Bay Area lol
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by colmvp 4y ago
Serious question: Is there a law that says a person cannot be working two jobs? I mean, I get it if the people fired failed to do their job, but if they were fulfilling their duties and weren't working for a competitor, I don't se
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by colmvp 5y ago
While I enjoy learning stuff that's out of my expertise, I do worry about whether or not being a generalist is more of a hindrance as both the backend and frontend have a LOT of ways one could expand their mastery. There is a bit of ze

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