justizin

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by justizin 3y ago
“Anyone who can be fooled by an internet scam should be sent to war” is faulty in two ways, given that it hinges on a young person making poorly informed decisions: - being sent to war should probably not be the result of being young an
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by justizin 3y ago
Oculus already lets you watch Netflix and stuff, visually it’s a pretty decent experience, but like … 42” TVs are $300 or something. you’re not gonna fall asleep on the couch with your headset on, or at least you certainly don’t want to. I
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by justizin 3y ago
> We cram our secrets into git Excuse me?!
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by justizin 3y ago
When I studied art history in school, a major theme was that most of the artists from long ago that we have heard of did some kind of work for whoever was in power, to make money, to create their masterpieces. Let’s not pretend the CIA is p
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by justizin 3y ago
> Really depends on if the cost increase is due to Apple taking a cut. Apple only takes a cut of virtual goods. This is why you cannot buy Kindle books on iOS without going to the website, but you can buy a television.
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by justizin 3y ago
> I could see they justify this as value-based pricing. As in, it would have costed more for you to travel farther to get the food from that particular restaurant if you were to order pickup. If this isn’t going to the driver, it’s absol
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by justizin 3y ago
i am of two minds on this. FIRST, obviously, there are probably fewer dark patterns in anything than the intuit / us tax situation. there are so many problems with our tax system and the way it eats away at working people while barely
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by justizin 3y ago
> Wow, not even Debian has done this. What a world in which RHEL is more adventurous than Debian. Adventurous is adding things. Why remove things that work if some people are using them? Debian is less prescriptive than RHEL, and is w
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by justizin 3y ago
yeahp when there is load bearing python 2.7 code written by someone who has left, puts folks in a tough spot. :/
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by justizin 3y ago
> Stop visiting sites who treat their users this badly! The problem is the individual sites aren’t making these highly technical decisions, people are using what seems to them an innocuous security product. Not visiting a random website
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by justizin 3y ago
okay then who else? when i last interviewed at apple, the office i interviewed in was so far from the spaceship, it was almost in another city. apple seems to be occupying just about every office park built since the 1970s in cupertino. al
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by justizin 3y ago
How long have you lived here? What were the conditions when you arrived, versus what you see now? What areas do you frequent? Have you ever made friends with a homeless person? Do you know anyone who has been homeless in the past? In my ~2
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by justizin 3y ago
I saw a reply to a thread on twitter where a woman said to one of his friends, something like, “sorry to burst your bubble but bob was a champion of ‘diversity’” and if that isn’t saying that quiet part out loud, hoof.
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by justizin 3y ago
Yes and they rushed to cast this tragedy as part of an imagined crime epidemic. There are some good contributors to the Chronicle, but they skew fairly conservative for SF and have for a long time.
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by justizin 3y ago
> He wasn't doing a great job The previous DA was doing a fantastic job, he had finally started focusing on violent crime instead of, “quality of life” crime like shoplifting and vandalism. Doing this is difficult because people wi
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by justizin 3y ago
The Walgreens CEO was forced to admit on a public investor call that they had completely fabricated all of their concerns, that these closures were simply planned because San Francisco has far too many drugstores (in some areas there migh
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by justizin 3y ago
IQ has racist and eugenicist origins, not understanding that in 2023 can only be described as willful ignorance.
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by justizin 3y ago
i love this, i often try to wrap things up 100% while in flow and sometimes end up screwing things up. this makes perfect sense.
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by justizin 3y ago
the lyrics definitely read like ChatGPT output for, “write a 90s alternative rock song that explains why people should use zendesk”
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by justizin 3y ago
you think it’s reasonable to put someone in jail for 20 years for logging into a social media website? also: how are they going to determine that you did? what if you have malware on one of your devices and it accesses something banned?
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by justizin 3y ago
sometimes estimates are useful for deciding what not to do.. “oh, that’s gonna take 6 months? we won’t need it by then, let’s do something else.”
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by justizin 3y ago
none of those things listed are minor things, those things are the entire job. no, a CEO isn't going to know what a clopen is like, but if they're responsible for people who are designing a process / choosing a set of tools &
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by justizin 4y ago
if you ever find yourself needing to modify files at the shell on any sort of remotely modern unix/linux system, you're probably going to have vi or vim available. it's worth knowing an editor that doesn't require 6GB of
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by justizin 4y ago
Yes.
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by justizin 4y ago
Use a large provider's DNS. I can't suggest supporting CloudFlare because of their dubious selective enforcement of ToS regarding sites that actively organize and encourage harm to people, but there are much lighter weight altern
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by justizin 4y ago
This is called, "The Tyranny of Competence", and is hostile to other workers. Companies also don't have a way to quantify this, and sometimes will hesitate to term someone, until they are fed up and will just decide it is wor
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by justizin 4y ago
It can't be that difficult to contribute to the achievement of absolutely tanking the company's value by investing in a dead-end VR-for-work platform that was always just a distraction to avoid responding in any way to Congress pr
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by justizin 4y ago
i found my therapist via a therapy app, which we both left long ago. Apps like BetterHelp and TalkSpace can be very hit and miss, but they're a place to start, and can serve as good matchmaking services. Be prepared to pay out of pock
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by justizin 4y ago
It's not the best time to be looking for work.
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by justizin 4y ago
if the belief is that employees using sit/stand workstations will improve productivity and output, it's a business' own choice not to do so for employees who have collective bargaining. there is also a cost associated with ma

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