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- Comment on Homer 7 months ago:
He’s portrayed as a loser due to being self-unaware and generally clueless.
- Comment on One day 👏 8 months ago:
Does it have better features or interface for it than kbin? I’ve tried using microblogs on kbin but I find it sorta confusing.
- Comment on Why is living with your parents considered a bad thing? 8 months ago:
Please go back to reddit and stay there if you can't stop trying to police my grammar.
- Comment on Why is living with your parents considered a bad thing? 9 months ago:
My family is from Venezuela but thanks for pointing out my poor phrasing as if I don't know the difference.
- Comment on Why is living with your parents considered a bad thing? 9 months ago:
Somehow this became a cultural thing in the US. In some other countries like South America it’s perfectly normal for 3-4 generations to live under 1 roof.
My guess is it’s tied to making people spend more money for capitalism. The effect it’s had on families is not very positive. It leads to things like elderly people draining thousands from their savings or family members a month for nursing homes. People have to hire child care when otherwise family members could watch a child. Children grow up with more distance from older relatives. Buying additional homes and cars is way more expensive than sharing them. Additional cable and utility bills. More appliances. More food waste.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
It makes my browser window flicker and I thought my entire system froze for a moment…. right click menu was stuck on the screen. I haven’t seen an image that did that before and images this size are fairly common these days.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Something about this image file totally fucks up my browser.
- Comment on [Weekly thread] What have you been watching lately? 9 months ago:
Definitely! I do a lot of cooking and like making things as much from scratch as possible, so that angle is interesting. Haven’t worked in a pro kitchen much though.
- Comment on [Weekly thread] What have you been watching lately? 9 months ago:
Not sure if this counts but I’ve been watching Gordon Ramsey shows for the first time… Kitchen Nightmares and Hotel Hell. I can’t really figure out what to make of them or whether I like it so far. I think I like the restaurant ones better as the hotel ones are sort of depressing.
- Comment on How is it possible to start a business if you have no money and skills, but have an idea? 10 months ago:
That would be fine. If the “idea people” I talked to were proposing a partnership where they brought valuable skills to the table, like anything - salesmanship, advertising expertise, accounting, investment, financial knowledge, graphic design - that would be totally different than just “I have this killer idea”.
- Comment on How is it possible to start a business if you have no money and skills, but have an idea? 10 months ago:
If people wanted to pay me to make their project, I’d consider it. But usually I’ve gotten people who think I’m going to work on their “idea” for months with no investment or compensation, then release it and cut them in.
- Comment on What is wage theft exactly? 10 months ago:
It's more complex for salary jobs and why sometimes it's worse to go salary if you're hourly. Some salaried positions are exempt from receiving overtime, some aren't.
- Comment on What is wage theft exactly? 10 months ago:
Wage theft is when they don't pay what you agreed on, or are violating laws about things like overtime and minimum wage. For instance if they make you clock in and be basically at work but they're not paying you, that's wage theft. Or if they have you work 55 hours a week but don't pay you time and a half for the extra 15 hours over 40, that's wage theft.
- Comment on Why do some websites have a "Continue Reading" button? 10 months ago:
Google offers an analytics package that a huge amount of sites embed. Many other companies like Facebook have software available as well. Mostly people have these to track performance of Google-published ads, but it gathers a LOT more data than that. You also don’t need to use their ad system to put it on your site.
For people developing or running a site, it really gives you a ton of useful information - where your visitors are from, what pages people viewed, how they got to your site (search terms, ads, referrers), how long they spend on your site, even a “heat map” that shows what parts of the page people hovered on with their mouse pointer. The tradeoff is that Google gets all of this information too.
- Comment on Why do some websites have a "Continue Reading" button? 10 months ago:
They’re constantly tweaking it, partly to stay ahead of the blogspam farms who make thousands of low quality or total bullshit pages just trying to get clicks for ads.
- Comment on How is it possible to start a business if you have no money and skills, but have an idea? 10 months ago:
There’s a maxim in the startup community that ideas are worthless. Tons of people have ideas. The value is in executing them. As a former entrepreneur I talked to a dozen people with a plan like “I have this amazing idea! You do it, then give me half the money!!” Uh, no. I’d rather work on my own plans, thanks.
- Comment on WebMD forcing employees back to office. "We aren’t asking or negotiating at this point. We’re informing" 10 months ago:
There are plenty of benefits from remote working too, as well as drawbacks from office work, and it hasn't been decisively shown that at-office work is always better. For some management styles, sure, I guess. The sort of work they do - website development, I'm guessing? - has been shown to be amenable to a remote work style. Advantages include being able to hire people from all over, not have to spend big money on an office, employees can save money on housing and cost of living (don't have to live near a city center) and automobile (don't have to pay for gas to drive in or maybe even have a car) and time of commute - rather than get up, shower, drive for an hour and park, they can just start work. If the employer makes tasks and time flexible, also child care, which can be crucial for some people (it can be very expensive). And if the employer really wants, they can pay people less and save those costs themselves.
Of course, some employees like it, some don't - there are people who work better remote and some prefer being around colleagues. I agree the choice of offering remote work belongs to the employer.
- Comment on People who order "a decaff coffee with an extra shot" - why? 10 months ago:
It seems like OP is talking about an espresso drink. Yes, that’s typically espresso in water or milk, maybe steamed milk/froth. The decaf would contribute flavor but little caffeine. I’m not sure why OP is confused about this.
- Comment on People who order "a decaff coffee with an extra shot" - why? 10 months ago:
I’m aware of how espresso drinks work. I was picturing the decaf being brewed decaf, not an espresso drink. So in terms of flavor, it contributes, in terms of caffeine, it does not.
- Comment on People who order "a decaff coffee with an extra shot" - why? 10 months ago:
I don’t get any sort of milk in my coffee, so it would be strange for it to taste like milk. But it’s true that a lot of people want a coffee milkshake with a ton of sugar, like a Frappuccino.
- Comment on People who order "a decaff coffee with an extra shot" - why? 10 months ago:
I don’t really understand either. Caffeine wise, I’d think decaf + a shot = 1 shot, not 3.
- Comment on When nobody shows up but you don't let that "party" sized bag of chips go to waste 10 months ago:
My dad went to the ER yesterday because he was constipated for like a day and a half. Wouldn’t listen to us and got angry “you don’t know what I’m feeling!!”. Then got there… and had diarrhea so they gave him advice about that. Some people really have no ability to judge or treat their own minor health problems. I guess it’s better than ignoring it.
- Comment on Does anyone wish they could go back to the beginning of schooling and re-live their education/school experience from the start? 10 months ago:
The experience was torturous overall, but considering it’s basically time travel and I’d know everything about the future up to 2024, I think I’d do a lot better at everything a second time around. I’d be amazingly good at BASIC and Pascal when I was 7, and would definitely buy that Amiga C compiler this time. I’d be pretty bored with all the 8 and 16 but Sega games since I already played them but I’d also get an SNES, since I missed all that last time. School would be easy af, and i’d feel like a pervert dating middle and high school girls so might as well just test out and get a PhD when I was 12 or something.
- Comment on "Hey Google, find the nearest Burger King" - "Sure, here is one on the other side of the globe!" 10 months ago:
Lillipad Cafe in Sydney, AU. I was going to order a kangaroo burger with deep-fried saltbush, but turns out they're closed :(
- Comment on "Hey Google, find the nearest Burger King" - "Sure, here is one on the other side of the globe!" 10 months ago:
I was reading an Apple Maps “best restaurants” guide and it had a button to get Uber Eats from a restaurant listed as 7,900 miles away.
- Comment on Why didn't SBF flee? 11 months ago:
Being a programmer for JS who does trading is very different than being a regular trader.
- Comment on Why didn't SBF flee? 11 months ago:
Yes, he interned there and then worked for them for a few years after graduating from MIT. If you’re not familiar, they’re a financial trading firm known for heavy use of esoteric functional languages such as OCaml and being difficult with job interviews.
- Comment on Why didn't SBF flee? 11 months ago:
Jane Street doesn’t hire non-smart people, also.
- Comment on Gastronomical Masterpiece 11 months ago:
Ketchup would be one of my last choices anyway. Maybe with certain mains like fried chicken or chicken fried steak (ok, some people say that's weird but it's what we did at Furr's Cafeteria).
Right now, probably Marie Sharp's Beware Habanero sauce. Second choice, chimichurri.
- Comment on I'm locked out of my 6 year old Chipotle account because they now say my email address is invalid when I login. Here is me asking for their help: 11 months ago:
Incompetent verification is definitely a problem, like they applied the most simplistic concept of 'what's a valid email address'. I had a problem like this with a website that needed an address, trying to sign up for a phone at my new house. My address went like '123123 State Road 533' The name of the road was State Road 533, that is, as in Highway 533. However, the address interpreter read it as a road called State Rd and ignored the 533, and told me the address wasn't found.