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rgs, to random
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When investigating a new bookshop I usually go looking for Ayn Rand, Charles Maurras and Jordan Peterson. If they are all in stock I move my business elsewhere.

rgs,
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@ainmosni small independent bookshops don’t have shelf space for books that don’t sell or that they don’t want to sell. If they have one of the three it’s ok, maybe it will be sold soon or they’ll return it. If they have all three it’s more suspicious.

wordshaper, to random
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Y'know, the one thing I think our new sparkling autocorrect overlords will be good for is killing off, once and for all, college entrance essays and graded cover letters. Both of those are classist (and, in the US, therefore racist) garbage. These things have been useless-to-actively-deceptive as means of judging a large number of people who produce them, and the sooner they die the sooner we can get on with a slightly less awful way of pre-screening people.

rgs,
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@wordshaper Also, no other country uses this cover letter bullshit. Or maybe the Brits still do? Sounds like something the Brits would do. Anyway, every peculiar thing that the USians do and that no-one else does is either because racism (guns, tips, and so on) or because of the Brits (even though the Brits themselves have given up on it) (like the imperial measurement unit)

rgs,
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@wordshaper I totally agree. As an adjunction to a resume they work. Not as a grading tool. — Also: who needs headshots when you can have zip codes?

0xabad1dea, to random

in the Dutch audio book of Lord of the Rings, they pronounce Gollum with a Dutch g, which really sells the “they call him that because that’s the weird noise he makes” idea

rgs,
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@0xabad1dea for some reason I am reminded of https://cafegollem.nl/ now

rgs, to random
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The fact that credit cards offer credit lines in the US is merely the product of two historical accidents: 1. That banks are state-bound, 2. That without sound privacy laws, a universal credit score agency exists

gergelyorosz, to random

A curious thing I noticed: it's so rare for an engineering manager or Staff+ engineer to have a direct chat with a business stakeholder. Most rely on PMs to do this, and do the "translation."

And yet, talking with the business directly is such a high-leverage activity for engineering.

I have yet to see pushback from the business: almost always it's the opposite, as they usually want to get more attention from engineering, and not less.

rgs,
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@gergelyorosz It seems to me that it's a relatively new phenomenon. I had plenty of direct contact with "the business" (sales, customer service / support, finance) until about 10-15 years ago.

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