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At my org - I've been using it to counter disappointing performance reviews in a professional way that aligns with policy to "further develop the employee". I've use it to create f…

Hmm. I will say from past experiences I've only found the 'valley girl' accent to be in certain parts of California, and not representative of Californians. Growing up I remember w…

I work in a very large organization with 50,000 people. It's painful and discouraging listening to the person at the top, or their close deputies, because the documents they publis…

If you sound disinterested and don't articulate your speech for the technical audience you have -> you deserve the perception you get. Biases exist for a reason. If I'm not hearing…

Why would I blame a bank when it's easy to impersonate me? There are root-cause issues here when identifying a US citizen, and US law enforcement.

I watched this, and the commentary from the 2nd tour guide seems non-serious. I did think the "valley girl" accent is what threw me off, but I stopped watching at "super cool sled"…

Why are we blaming the companies because the police are easy to impersonate?

This is very cool. I remember I got sucked into things like Ramda going down this functional programming rabbit hole :-) https://ramdajs.com/

I think I'm misunderstanding what this can be used for, but something I'd love to see become "perfect" is preserving a GUI application state across reboots/logins/etc. Especially w…

I'm equating this to condition-less coding, where you're trying to eliminate branching logic with bitwise operators or other math.

I appreciate you making this distinction; it's one I haven't understood clearly. My outside impression is that right-to-work is a campaign to smear unions, though I understand in s…

I'm not saying it's practical for everyone, but while the default is LinkedIn I have found great opportunities without it.

Trading 1 trash platform for another. LinkedIn could be such a great place if it didn't abuse your information and subscribe to such dark patterns. I still remember having my entir…

I maintain a daily email to myself in a shared mailbox. I have 3 sections: SIGNIFICANT \* topic1 \* this happened \* topic2 DONE \* This project \* Made this change \* Made another…

Neat date format :) I use these for work within SharePoint lists: "2023 Q3 August" "2023 Q3 08/02" "2023 Q3 Monthly" "2023 Q2" "2023" "Weekly" "Monthly" "Annually" I had an issue s…

That is a good story :) It makes me wonder what future Wayland protocol may enable clients/apps to advertise themselves as screen-reader capable.

Not to draw seriously messed up parallels: I frequently get in arguments with my extended family because I believe pedophiles and criminals have rights. I talk about the documented…

Something I would love to find is a practical/succinct guide on Linux kernel performance tuning. I'd love it to give examples of sysctl's you'd adjust for specific use cases like: …

I often feel this is what's happening: Portland and a few other cities around the nation prioritize helping folks in a big way, and we wind up serving a national need not a city ne…

My counterpoint to this is there have always been a ton of bad drivers. The most important skill to have is to be a predictable driver. Bad drivers will always exist. You cannot ch…

There are many [cheap] HDMI multi-viewers. I am lucky to work from home right now. I want to connect both my laptops (personal + work) to the 4k UHD TV on the wall mounted over my …

My understanding is currently they do not vet user age. How could they? There are a few billion users. Even among different ethnicities people look younger or older depending on th…

Most of the advertisers and influencers I know personally are children.

Social media was ruined a long time ago. Even here it's a disparate, incomplete conversation. I commented knowing the response I'd get from HN about false positives with AI determi…

Yes. True. I think if you use someone's photo for Facebook, they're likely to already be on the site. You could also have the AI look at the photos that are uploaded over time and …