RecursiveParadox

RecursiveParadox, 2 months ago

Eh? A broken clock and all?

RecursiveParadox, 2 months ago

I’m not sure your grasp of the situation in BE in WWI or NL in WWII is …accurate. It’s certainly no longer relevant.

RecursiveParadox, 2 months ago

You’re getting downvoted, and I don’t 100% agree with you, but I agree with your principal: at least a decade’s, maybe 15 years’ worth of the best answers to niche questions on the internet are going to die with Reddit, either because people delete/replace their comments or, more likely, Reddit just fucks them up some how in trying to monetize the answers.

RecursiveParadox, 2 months ago

Second time for me. I migrated about ten years ago from Metafilter, which I eventually rage quit. That really fucking hurt, and Reddit filed that niche in my life (but not the meeting IRL or helping IRL part).

Now I’ve had to go through the same thing with Reddit. I’m into Lemmy, Mastodon, and Bluesky, but it’s not the same. I hope it’s just not the same, yet.

RecursiveParadox, 2 months ago

Going to try this, but can you even use operators like this on Google anymore in a any meaningful way?

RecursiveParadox, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

You’re getting downvoted and to be honest I’m not sure where you stand on the issue, but you are spitting truth about what it takes to take up arms against your own countrymen.

RecursiveParadox, 2 months ago

[Given current circumstances, conflicted emotions here…]

RecursiveParadox, 2 months ago

I just wish Endless Sky would migrate some folks over from Reddit to the Fediverse. The Discord is ok, but there is a certain amount of unnecessary toxicity that’s seeped into the development. I kinda feel like having another place to talk about development outside the Discord might help.

RecursiveParadox, 4 months ago

This person petroleums.

RecursiveParadox, 4 months ago

Saved, thanks.

RecursiveParadox, 4 months ago

I would I would! But I cannot seem to find a decent one since Google killed theirs! What’s a good one?

I could keep up with so much more when I used RSS.

RecursiveParadox, 4 months ago

Yeah, no. Crude and coal are still 95% USD denominated, and that’s more than half Russia’s exports.

RecursiveParadox, 4 months ago

I saw it last night. It drags on a bit, and it’s far campier than Kingsmen, but if you like Vaughn, you’l like this. I thought it was fun anyway.

RecursiveParadox, 4 months ago

Yeah I saw this over on Mastodon, and there were a lot of stats folks questioning the methodology. I’m not qualified to do that, but my sons are Zoomers as are all their male friends, and they are all good feminists. This is in NW Europe, so might be a bit biased.

RecursiveParadox, 4 months ago

Fair enough point in general, sure.

RecursiveParadox, 4 months ago

Lots of stuff is easy to DIY if you have some work space. Furniture, fish tanks, thermonuclear warheads. Learning to sew is valuable, not because you should make your own clothes -fuck that- but because you can mend the stitching on your current clothes.

One of those things is not like the other…

RecursiveParadox, 4 months ago

Generics are required to be as efficacious as name brand in the US.

Let me introduce you to the way the FDA actually works.

RecursiveParadox, 4 months ago

I think you’re confusing the poor FBI guy reading our conversation ;)

RecursiveParadox, 4 months ago

Not related to the article, totally anecdotal, and n=1, but it seems Google Maps has really dropped the ball as well.

RecursiveParadox, 4 months ago

Someone very close to me is neurodivergent, so I am very glad you made this community. In getting to know this person over the year, I realized that I too and probably a bit neurodivergent myself.

I hope this community thrives.

RecursiveParadox, 5 months ago

The team I manage are Millennials and Gen Z (I’m a slightly older Xer, born a couple of weeks before Kurt Cobain).

Here is a problem some folks might not have considered that doesn’t really have anything to do with the “nature” of the younger generations. I fight very hard for flexible hours, better compensation, scheduling flexibility, etc. I do not tell my folks how to do something, I leave that to them, and they’ll generally find a better way than the way I initially imagined. Someone needs a day off or to come in/leave at a different time or to WFH, I never ask why.

And generally our CEO has given me what I want, and I can give my people what they want. Admittedly, this is in part due to the nature of what my team does and the visible quality of our work (not IT, btw). So far so good.

The problem is other managers. Other Xers and a couple of Boomers. They see my department getting all this stuff, and they start getting paranoid their departments (or other companies; we are a conglomerate) will start demanding the same. And they do not understand WFH, worse they are afraid of it. Likewise with all the QoL and work/life balance stuff. And if their people found out about the raises my people got, oh boy would that be a problem for the other managers.

That’s often where the real fight inside companies is, between managers vying with each to determine which way the company will go, or to, at least, to keep their part of it a nice ecosystem to work in. Fear of change is a big factor.

RecursiveParadox, 5 months ago

Not going to downvote you since I use iTunes for streaming, but when they changed their policy a few years ago about DRM, they fucking deleted about 20 songs I wrote and recorded solo or with my bands. My friends had backups, but man that sucked. So beware, I suppose.

RecursiveParadox, 5 months ago

Had not heard of this technique being applied outside qualitative research (although its goal is the opposite of qualitative research, the methods are near identical). Thanks for introducing me to this.

Now. We just need to find one, just one billionaire on our side to fund it.

RecursiveParadox, 5 months ago

arc’teryx for life.

RecursiveParadox, 5 months ago

Quality knives do not have to be super expensive. The trick is to maintain them. Honing of course, and unless you are a super enthusiastic home cook, a proper sharpening by a pro on Japanese wet stone twice a year is all it takes. That’s like at most USD 20 in most places, probably less. Even mid range knives are fine, so long as you keep them sharp.

And you don’t need a lot. In theory a good chefs knife and a good paring knife will do. In practice, you also want a bread knife and filleting knife, but you can start small.