vncecartersknee

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by vncecartersknee 4y ago
As I've gotten more into cooking as I've gotten older it's frustrating how often people don't really understand why they do things the way they do when they cook something, yet will doggedly insist that it must be done t
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by vncecartersknee 4y ago
Helen Rennie is another good one
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by vncecartersknee 5y ago
wfh vastly better although I enjoy going into the office on occasion to catch up with coworkers over lunch or something
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by vncecartersknee 5y ago
Nope, don't ever want to go back to the office, except for monthly team lunches or something.
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by vncecartersknee 5y ago
Amazing! great to see worker solidarity on HN
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by vncecartersknee 5y ago
Good for you I guess. Virtually no one has the privilege of being able to just quit their their shitty job and take a risk like that but nice if you can.
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by vncecartersknee 5y ago
what do you mean by "And the HR director, feared by many, turns out to be the best advocate for those who run the other way when she is near." ?
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by vncecartersknee 5y ago
Oh, thats great haha.
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by vncecartersknee 5y ago
Dunno why but I love the phrase "Roast Jupiter" sounds like it would taste really nice
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by vncecartersknee 5y ago
Ivermectin is an FDA approved drug and is regularly prescribed to humans. Sure, it probably doesn't do anything for covid but it's not just 'horse dewormer'.
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by vncecartersknee 5y ago
Can you give an example?
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by vncecartersknee 5y ago
Why do you think that people keep voting for the blatantly corrupt LNP? and why are the other parties above becoming corrupt? Is it possible that the LNP are constantly in power because they are corrupt?
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by vncecartersknee 5y ago
"blindly letting the government erode our rights" what else are we supposed to do? how do you stop the government from doing that?
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by vncecartersknee 5y ago
Seems reasonable
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by vncecartersknee 5y ago
I don't think just any old person can make money off OF though, like presumably you need a reasonable camera and maybe lights or something, you need to be able to edit photos, the time and energy and motivation to learn how to use thos
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by vncecartersknee 5y ago
Sorry, what does "Traditionalist conservatism places a strong emphasis on the notions of custom, convention, and tradition." have to do with the left?
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by vncecartersknee 5y ago
That's cool I'd love to hear more about it, I've actually been thinking about ways that a language app could work better. Seems like all the current research is that "immersion" in the target language is critical, a
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by vncecartersknee 5y ago
yeah babbel seems better although iirc the interface was a bit clunky. I also found busuu and linq to be okay as well.
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by vncecartersknee 5y ago
Why do they so badly want us back in the offices? I really don't understand what they stand to lose by SWEs working remotely. I don't know anyone that actually want to be back in the office full time, some are ok with part-time wo
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by vncecartersknee 5y ago
Honestly from using duolingo pretty heavily for a couple of years, attending language classes and doing my own individual study I've found duolingo pretty useless. It's "fun" and gives one the sense of progress without r
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by vncecartersknee 5y ago
Even as someone thats only just above a junior engineer, I feel like I've been made to feel stupid or that I was wasting other peoples time or such for "just asking questions" so many times. I'm extremely reluctant to do
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by vncecartersknee 5y ago
The lengths that hackernews commenters will go to to defend capitalism are insane
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by vncecartersknee 5y ago
> They never even pull down the changes they are reviewing! To be completely transparent, I’m guilty of that myself. How often is this even feasible though? sure if there's little difference between the PR branch and whatever the la
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by vncecartersknee 5y ago
breaking news programmer figures out answer to societal dilemma humans have been grappling with since society came into existence
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by vncecartersknee 6y ago
Do you really need to pretend you're a fighter pilot to be productive at the office come on guys
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by vncecartersknee 6y ago
What is the point of doing all that? Like what value do you get from knowing the 'Dark Patterns' ?
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by vncecartersknee 6y ago
Based? Based on what?
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by vncecartersknee 6y ago
Who would I vote for who is "in my interest" to vote for?
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by vncecartersknee 6y ago
How many people are even at liberty to just say “no sorry I’m not attending any meetings in this 4 hour block” ? My boss/team leader/other manager would just laugh in my face if I said I couldn’t attend meetings or asked to have
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by vncecartersknee 6y ago
Bela Lugosi's bed... the bat has left the film set

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