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by monkeybutton 5y ago
My spouse is working in a government run long term care home. The conditions are bad and so is the pay. We're not the only couple like this I know, and at this point I feel like techs high salaries are indirectly subsidizing the system
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
Want to unlock your car with the keyfob? Want to use the heated seats? Subscriptions. Anyways, please drink a verification can. Consider also reading "Unauthorized Bread".
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
I imagine it would be implemented as mundane looking levers and configurations. Especially easy to do in ML powered systems with lots parameters and moving parts.
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
>Even more when you have an idea, share it, someone who’s not in the corner takes it and runs with it. That experience is even more isolating because the immediate reaction is to just not share any more ideas. This! But I learned the les
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
The optimist in me says that the elite have learned from the past and is consciously trying to avoid a "Let them eat cake" moment. The pessimist in me says that if your constantly trying to maximize share of wealth, you will inevi
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
The photos look like something out of a 3rd world country.
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
>The Goa'uld on the other hand were flamboyant and arrogant They were great villains because they had distinct personalities and were rivals with each other. Ba'al and his clones were especially fun to watch.
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
Speaking of National Geographic, I just let my subscription lapse and have no intention of renewing it. I used to love their longer articles but now they've just been getting less and less engrossing. Sometimes I wonder if it is me tha
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
Not sure if these count as company culture but: Frequent hiring freezes, blown out projects that never make progress, IT support outsourced to SEA where tickets that took hours before take days instead, upper management more focused on maki
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
>service called Plaid that requires your bank username & password, which then screen scrapes your financial details That is hefty accusation. Wouldn't doing that be illegal? Edit: Looks like they have an entire controversies sec
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
Making you think twice before opening tv tropes is probably for the better. Do you really want to go down that path right now?
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
I have one and it's working perfectly. I use it to store bags of bird seed in my shed, where there are most definitely mice present. So far this winter there's been no sign of them getting in and having a feast.
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
They will chew through plastic.
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
When I discovered that Microsoft Teams lets you write your missed call voicemail message in text, I copied the first few paragraphs of this poem into it. Any coworkers that tried to start an uninvited voice call just got to listen to the TT
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
>How could someone higher up not say "this is the dumbest thing ever, merge the teams or reassign one to something else"??? Seriously! Executives at Google surely must be aware of the memes by now. Are they so delusional they d
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
Pastebin!
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
Rather than directly taxing obesity, countries are starting to target its causes with taxes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugary_drink_tax
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
Its not like they redeemed themselves since 2 and 3 either; Jupiter Ascending was trash. What did people expect?
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
I think there's a connection to be made between Conway's law, domain driven design, and building silos within an organization to reduce communication overhead between teams. Teams and project ownership should be structured so that
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
Who owns repo? The author has a right to package code, but he doesn't want have the right to use other people's platforms to distribute it. This is a lot like twitter bans isn't it?
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
What about growing human organs in pigs? Like the pigoons from Oryx and Crake. http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=1177
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
Certainly a popular solution for harsh winters in Canada. Even some of the universities have tunnel systems. E.g. Carleton with 5KM of tunnels connecting almost every building.
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
GANs with human evaluation of the discriminator.
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
Very neat. Just looked up a regional park I like to go camping in and its already deep in shade by midafternoon: https://shademap.app/#47.1987,-71.39085,11.31012z,1641497311...
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
Sorry if I was a bit ambiguous. They are at Amazon and Google now. The point is treat your staff well or they might spend their time between tasks prepping for a FAANG interview.
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
Depends on how motivated you are to to your current job. On two occasions I've witnessed a fellow developer mentally check themselves out after a round of layoffs, start doing the minimal amount of work necessary, and then spending t
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
Mines operate 24/7 with 12 hour shifts. Many build and run their own infrastructure, including power plants.
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
Seconded. Is pumping bags some kind of cross between pump and dump + bag holder? Searching pumping bags only got me results about bags for breast pumps??
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
The connection to covid is pretty loose but when people are driven to questioning what the very purpose of schools are (education or state sponsored childcare so both parents can work and contribute to the economy?), I think connection is f
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
So, is Covid the shock that leads to the education system being reinvented for the better or do school boards just keep bumbling along like before? Do zero-tolerance policies really work? Why are students falling behind in mathematics compa

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