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Mandatory 'back to office' one day a week after July 4th weekend at my employer. Combined with airline cutbacks, no rogue "work from low-COL area across the country" here!
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prefect posted:a benefit of always working from home: when my eyebrows get too long, i can just blast 'em off when i give myself a haircut. nobody sees me up close, so nothing to worry about 
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psiox posted:i mean it's not really accomplishing anything but at the same time i don't care enough to put any effort whatsoever into resisting it You want an executive order / law insisting that all uses of "master" in software shall henceforth be replaced with "trump" if you want to sell to the US federal government?
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Jul 6, 2020 21:42
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Stubbornly using localization and internationalization as interchangeable terms is a really fun way to piss off pendantic tech people who keep trying to correct you.
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Jul 6, 2020 23:37
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Midjack posted:the fancy ones with heated water and steerable streams do. The ones that use a camera to "automatically" locate the target area are an always-popular category of HITs on Mechanical Turk.
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Methanar posted:I haven't had a haircut in over a year. Sure you can! 
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Aug 10, 2020 17:34
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Jonny 290 posted:its cause we dont wanna ack that one of the major end goals of institutional racism is to divide the classes and avert their solidarity Definitely the bolded phrase near the bottom. You can't say stuff like that in polite society, come on.
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Aug 15, 2020 19:12
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:If you have to drive at all, transit is ruined. I'm sure that, in most circumstances, adding a bike segment to a trip is increasing your likelihood of dying due to a car, not reducing it. (But still a superior choice for lifestyle reasons.)
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SO DEMANDING posted:watching bands die like this is the saddest thing. that's definitely the terminal stage, the phase before that is the big reunion concert/tv special (to be aired on PBS most likely) where 3-5 original band members (all in their late 60s, probably fat, varying degrees of ailments showing, all needing money) perform with 20 random backing musicians. suddenly a song originally with only guitar, bass, and drums has 3 other percussionists, a grand piano, some dude with more keyboards than rick wakeman, far more guitars than needed, and a small gospel choir. Hey look, Metallica just released another symphony album!
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Aug 31, 2020 18:46
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Except Philly. I miss Philly. Has anyone else ever said this?
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:membership chat always makes me wonder why banks don't have a super simple way to generate a one-time daughter credit card number that can be revoked without affecting my actual card that i can hand out and kill whenever i want. that's the only foolproof way out of some gym contracts i've found. Thing is, just because you've stopped paying them doesn't mean you're not in violation of the contract you signed and accumulating debt for the service you may or may not be using. They could come after you for it in small claims court and most of the time win a default judgment, send it to collections... If the cancellation process isn't too bullshit (client has documented unhonoured cancellation requests) they'd probably even win a contested one. I'm sure there are precedents on this but be damned if I'm going looking for them.
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Sep 15, 2020 20:15
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fart simpson posted:everyone should buy their children an account The still-in-diapers regdate will buy them credibility far beyond their years!
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Sep 28, 2020 10:24
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My wife and I have discussed our disappointment that "Only the tooth fairy is real, all the other fairies are pretend." hasn't been subjected to greater scrutiny.
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Uptime Sinclair posted:was stockwell day the shithead who had a private plane he called prayer force one or was that someone else Come on, Canadian politicians not named Gaglardi, Martin, Morneau, or Stronach don't have *that* much money even if they get lots of patronage board directorships. 
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Oct 1, 2020 19:19
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:hell yeah cutting 401k contributions by 50% and starting the answer to the question of “whats up with bonuses” with “well we dont think people work here because of compensation” Save that line for the exit interview. "I guess you were right, because now I don't!"
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Oct 7, 2020 15:41
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My mortgage is just shy of 4000/mo and I moved out to the suburbs to get it that low. 
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Oct 14, 2020 20:06
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Jonny 290 posted:nbd just sell it to somebody else that can afford a 4500 mortgage if you get in a pinch. ez At these interest rates, it's more like "two thirds of the payment is equity, just take a bit back out if you need to", with interest + tax + maint being massively less than rent, but still. (That's how people have rationalized these prices through our twenty+ year bull run - "the principal doesn't count!")
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Oct 14, 2020 20:36
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Environmentally friendly flight: gliders and railguns!
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Oct 22, 2020 02:14
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:only if she has a covid patient, otherwise just basic PPE. if she does have a covid patient she only takes care of her + the bab(y/ies), otherwise she has 2 moms and 2n babies Is that NICU? We've had a few kids and that "normal" staffing ratio is unreal.
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Seriously, if we saw a nurse for more than five minutes every three or four hours after they were done weighing, measuring, and implanting the microchips in our newborns I'd be shocked. It was pretty disconcerting with our firstborn when we didn't have a clue how to do anything but really no different except for lowered expectations for the return trips.
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qirex posted:my company did the “oops barely any money for raises this year, y’know, covid and such but we’re a strong team!” followed by announcing two 5 year new customer deals the next week I'm expecting to hear our raise budget any day now, expecting even more paltry numbers than usual because of "market conditions" even though we've had a barn-burner of a year massively exceeding all growth targets.
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Public health where I live is absolutely ignoring the "hold second dose for later" in order to inoculate twice as many people up front figuring they'll have lots more supply by the time the second dose is due anyway.
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lament.cfg posted:He used mommy and daddy's apartheid emerald mine money to start x.com, a loving bank. Then he bought competitors with actual products, and ended up selling Paypal to eBay for 1.5bn. Now he uses that money to play scientist & inventor. Hasn't everybody started a bank? Yo, I'll take your money and pay you no interest right now!
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Don't forget there are already a couple strains (? - definitely Brazil's) that seem to have significantly reduced vaccine effectiveness, like 50-60% instead of mid-high 90s. I think "vaccine and over" is denial unless everybody just kinda goes "well, gently caress it then" after there's plenty of vaccine for everybody who wants it.
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spankmeister posted:So the 50-60% less effectivity of "the" vaccine is a number that's pulled out of the air completely and honestly is tantamount to fear mongering by uninformed journalists, because nowhere in the scientific paper (preprint honestly) do the authors arrive at that conclusion. I believe I'm extrapolating the Sinovac Brazilian results as potentially being tied to the local variant more than "hey Sinovac just sucks unlike the two approved mRNA vaccines" which is absolutely premature and not the least bit well founded "yet", but I'm personally much happier with having low expectations and being surprised to the upside than the opposite. Aren't most people?
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:I am going to own the noble kia niro plugin hybrid and drive it until the wheels fall off or I die in a battery fire. I expect this will take upwards of 20 years since it isnt a tesla Pretty sure both the Hyundai Kona and Chevy Bolt have "well, poo poo..." recalls going for spontaneous battery self-ignition, attributed to the car overcharging them. The recall "fix": diagnostics that kill the car if the battery looks out of sorts, and if that happens you never actually get a new battery, people have been in loaner vehicles for months. Lately, gossip has some cars with "fix" possibly catching fire anyway. But hey, maybe the Niro's batteries suck less?
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1326-Rockland-Ave_Pittsburgh_PA_15216_M35199-11963 As a Vancouver-liver, these posts always make me think I'm making a mistake if I don't buy up like ten houses in/around Pittsburgh to rent out via property managers for way less than my own mortgage costs up here. Higher prices normalize given time.
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oh god how did this get here I am not good with computers https://twitter.com/lawrencehurley/status/1359207169091108864 Sassafras fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Feb 10, 2021 |
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But are they dying with car crashes or of car crashes?
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:gatdamn A lot of people who need to be on site and used to use public transit aren't very keen on transit right now so bought cars.
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Still say it doesn't matter what nominal house prices are compared to your mental perception, probably formed in teens, of what they should be (I'm guilty of same). What matters is interest and currency debasement, both of which make housing cheap, dead cheap. Prices gonna fly up longer and harder than the early 2000s. https://twitter.com/SolidusMax/status/1363297444927266820 https://twitter.com/RaoulGMI/status/1367140971385917445?s=19
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Captain Foo posted:what in the gently caress is this The desperate self rationalizations of someone who owns a house in an expensive market. But prices can and will climb so much higher - people still find a way.
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Kazinsal posted:the covid vaccine signup system opened up today for seniors 80+ and first nations people 65+. It's actually only for 90+ year olds who don't live in any sort of assisted living / long term care type place, plus aged 65+ indigenous. Especially given that a lot of indigenous people have already been vaccinated and only 3.8% of population is indigenous (ie 190,000 total skewed young), there are probably fewer than 20,000 people who have any business calling.
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I suppose a continuous flow of screwing around pictures is pretty on brand for the "working from home" thread.
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PCjr sidecar posted:i cut my trees with a saw on a stick With the US border being effectively closed for the past year, the price differential for everything expensive I want to buy on Amazon.ca has now cleared 40% (after FX) from its usual 15-25% since manufacturers know we now can't take half an hour and duck into Washington (or 'insert state here') when the gap gets too big. I've got a bunch of yard stuff I want to buy.
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Sassafras posted:The desperate self rationalizations of someone who owns a house in an expensive market. But prices can and will climb so much higher - people still find a way. Just following up, I didn't particularly cherry pick these, they're two side-by-side pairs with poorer curb appeal among the most recent 7 house sales reported in Vancouver and only the 4.95m one is among the most expensive (there are a bunch of others in the 4s in the last week, one 6, couple 5s). 100 CAD = 78.94 USD (live mid-market rate).  You can't really buy any manner of detached house within an hour+ of downtown for less than 1.2-1.5m depending on suburb reputation - everything cheaper is straight-up torn down. The median household income *after tax* was 52,000 in 2017, though obviously you aren't buying a house unless you make 3x that - but still, enough people find a way! Sassafras fucked around with this message at 01:57 on Mar 9, 2021 |
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Few years ago I had a brilliant six month stretch where I went swimming every day at lunch. Already had two of my bunch of little kids so it was getting hard to get away in morning or evening but I was probably more productive overall ducking out for that 75-90 minutes in the middle of each day than working through lunch.
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:fyi it was an 8 year renewal probably last time you had one What strange family 'new baby' rituals do you have where boomers infect babies and/or themselves with tetanus? Is crucifixion involved?
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