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grimjack00

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    Comment #41809906

    I've never really liked that reasoning. If that's the case, then right-handed people should be playing "left-handed" guitars, with their right hands doing the fretting. Personally,…

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    Comment #41006823

    > I still have no first clue what they're finding interesting about all this. Did you ask them? I'm primarily a casual contester and POTA hunter. Most non-amateurs (and quite a few…

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    Comment #39538988

    One of my main uses of ChatGPT or CoPilot is as a less-opinionated StackOverflow. Either way, I still have to verify the solution, but the LLM gives me a more direct answer. I also…

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    Comment #39494307

    From my experience, companies are more concerned with "in an office" than "working together". Yes, when the whole team is working from a single location, there can be advantages. B…

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    Comment #38666483

    So you're not charging back up to 100% until the overnight stop? When I think about how I would do a long trip in an EV, I envision getting a full charge, because first, that's wha…

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    Comment #36749637

    I am so happy my team, and most of my company as a whole, has an unstated "camera off" custom. There are a few project/product managers and higher-ups that like to be seen, I guess…

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    Comment #36536068

    Depending on the location, soon enough million dollar listings will be average family homes.

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    Comment #36241931

    I'd put more faith in the claims of valuing spontaneous conversation and just walking down the hall if companies actually had full teams in a single physical location, where this w…

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    Comment #35788130

    It was, however, a step up from the shared network drive with a bunch of zip files.

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    Comment #34491371

    If nobody in the company is working in Colorado, they can probably more easily justify excluding Colorado residents, and thus not have to conform to the salary posting requirements…

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    Comment #34339512

    As long as the range is on an exterior wall.

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    Comment #33519591

    "just listen" isn't necessarily any easier than all the other "just " phrases.

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    Comment #33357538

    They don't have to admit being wrong, they should just state that they have evolved and now have different thoughts on the subject.

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    Comment #32782909

    > No plan to come back != a promise to never force employees back to the office That doesn't apply solely to Amazon, or even the rest of FAANG. _Any_ company, even those currently …

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    Comment #31900668

    >force the building of refineries to process domestic crude. Who would want to build a refinery when the current President has stated he wants to shut down the fossil fuel industry…

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    Comment #31732146

    In addition, for things that can't be done easily with ActiveRecord, you can write your own SQL, but then you really need to know SQL to get the performance right. Where I work, ou…

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    Comment #31694890

    > E.g. What if Microsoft has a job opening with a range of $110k - $170k, and the candidate they selected used to make $180k and would like $200k? If I was reviewing job descriptio…

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    Comment #31180038

    > All new smart meters come with an IHD (In Home Display). Not necessarily. My local utility (Xcel Energy in Colorado, US) is in the process of moving to new smart meters, and as f…

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    Comment #31099033

    I have the same issues with my .name domain. Most of the reason I have a gmail address as well is for the sites that don't think "first@last.name" is a real address.

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    Comment #30803065

    It only seems like they do.

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    Comment #30722400

    I did not need to know that.

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    Comment #30460748

    So do the companies. When it's convenient for them, they have no problem splitting up a team over multiple timezones/countries/continents. If physical presence in a shared space wa…

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    Comment #30261390

    It does say _part_ of the severance is the membership, so there must be _something_ else.

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    Comment #30149224

    Not quite a magic machine, but take a look at Lab-Box: lab-box.it And maybe pair it with Ilford's pop-up darkroom: https://www.ilfordphoto.com/catalog/product/view/id/2071/s/p... (…

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    Comment #30107463

    In the production issues I've been involved with, I was not forbidden use of Google, API docs, consultation with others, etc., and I did not have to work out anything on a whiteboa…