sillyquiet

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by sillyquiet 4y ago
no, its not. Not in any white collar professions, not in any blue collar jobs, not in the military, not in academia. You are only safe when you don't have bosses and all responsibility and power rests on yourself.
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
> but that argument depends on assuming we have a complete archaeological record, which we of course do not. In other words that argument depends on the available evidence rather than speculation, like, you know, how science should be
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
Just because they don't mention this not-widely-accepted hypothesis you're going to dismiss it? Ok.
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
Anybody looking for information not filtered through science journalism wouldn't go wrong checking out the Twitter threads of two of the researchers: https://twitter.com/KristerVasshus/status/16152365316896071
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
Eat your own dogfood right?
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
See also the trailers for "Predator". Movie is still fantastic, but plays out so much better if you don't know the nature of the predator.
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
this is a 'haha Americans so dumb' myth that's been blown up - it's the result of a NY Times article that outline a private restaurant chain focus group result. So tldr; some people in a private focus group questioned
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
I gotta say that your distinction between 'hackers' and 'developers' is pretty ill-informed - just out of curiosity, have you primarily worked in start-ups?
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
Sprints when used correctly are invaluable to a development team. Source: My own experience as a junior dev and a lead dev on teams working in this methodology. Note it's not useful in all (most?) scenarios or in all stages of a prod
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
So... developers aren't productive? This is a weird take.
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
My mother-in-law was a nurse at an orthopedic surgery center. She always said the major classes of patients she saw were: 1. old folks getting joint replacements 2. young athletes 3. middle aged construction workers or laborers
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
Speaking of cats and the Viking age, cats played a prominent and mixed role in early medieval Scandinavia: https://www.academia.edu/42251199/The_Warrior_and_the_Cat_A_... Pull quotes from the summary: "Cat bones f
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
Way too early. From the dates, its more likely to be Roman sailors and/or Roman-affiliated traders.
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
Blind being the semi-toxic mess it is, I could see this being true, but I could also see this as an epic troll.
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
I know this is a joke, but pottery is kind of the road sign of archaeology. Pottery can tell all kinds of stories about technology levels, trade routes, cultural patterns, foods eaten and agriculture (from seed impressions and residues), th
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
I kinda wish everybody here had forgotten about that option. Was prepared to get some serious heads down time.
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
Yeah, as much as I think the whole concept of social media influencers is sad and dumb, this smells like one of those 'dang kids and their <x>' articles that have cursed us since Aristotle. As a Gen-Xer, I don't know ho
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
I get nostalgic for some of the toys I had during the late 70s and 80s too, but really, I am super jealous, if that's the right word, of my kids for the toys available to them. Toys today are superior in nearly every way to toys from m
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
Whatcha mean useless? There's some serious SEM money behind that from AT&T/Warner/whatever. I am sure Google is enjoying the sales revenue.
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
Wow. "We conclude that it is impossible to say that taking SSRI antidepressants is worthwhile, or even completely safe. People need all this information to make informed decisions about whether or not to take antidepressants."
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
I started a few years after you, around about 2003. There were certainly pockets of industry that still operated exactly the same as the article described, especially defense and aerospace. Which makes sense, given working in embedded hardw
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
>One of the things many people who've never had to wear armor for an extended period of time on a hot day don't realize is how horribly uncomfortable armor is, and how that discomfort can be a severe distraction under battlefie
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
Yeah exactly. Usenet wasn't what it was because of the technology, it was because the participants were mostly there to have 'professional' conversations, and the kinds of conversations that nerdy techie-minded people have ov
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
The article mentions the need for the ramped-up steel producers to find an outlet post WWII, hence the rise in popularity of steel cabinetry. I wonder if this also what led to the increase in other steel furniture like file cabinets, desks,
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
I am not saying this isn't true, but EV's have a set of maintenance requirements too - there are still a lot of mechanical parts - tires, suspensions, doors, etc. Not to mention electronic maintenance but I guess dealerships would
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
No OP's correct, the US surpassed the UK both in population and in GDP sometime around the middle of the 19th century.
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
yeah, this was really my point. A (maybe terrible) modern analogy is how concerned would we be with a civil war in say, South America, where a significant chunk of our lithium comes from? We would probably be concerned, but our economic
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
Right right, you are absolutely correct, but I meant that the U.S. was inconsequential to Europe militarily .
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
Well yeah you are correct, and I wrote clumsily. That was meant to read 'although the U.S. was gaining steam economically, it was not of much consequence militarily '
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by sillyquiet 4y ago
I think the real answer and probably why the article is a bit light on actual anecdotes, is that Britain or its military at the time probably didn't think much of it all, especially from a military point of view. Plus they were super b

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