emmanuel_1234

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Comment · 8 months ago
See https://archive.is/twft6 for context. The diagram is a bit lower on the page.
Comment · 2 years ago
Any recommendation for a prettifier / SQL linter?
Comment · 2 years ago
+1, strongly. Anybody selling meditation as a silver bullet is deluded or selling something.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
What's with the weird 'i' in "tıtle"?
Comment · 2 years ago
edit: none of this seem to be true, big-ass pickup trucks are just not popular in Europe.

Isn't it for Australia only? Are those models even sold there? I know F150 are not sold in Europe because (I think) they're not road legal, because they're monstrous killing machine.

Comment · 2 years ago
From alcohol, I love:

- drinking it: I really enjoy the feeling of just ingesting beer, wine or spirits, especially with friends or family

- having a nice buzz from it.

However, those two things are, for me, incompatible. If I start drinking a little bit, I usually don't stop until I'm way beyond the "nice buzz". As the joke goes, "one beer is not enough, two beers are just enough, three beers really aren't enough".

Having something that would allow me to keep drinking without jeopardizing my body, my mind, and the day after would be a huge game changer.

Comment · 2 years ago
Workday may be bad, but it has nothing on Taleo.
Comment · 2 years ago
I personally love teams. I don't particularly like my job, and Teams is so buggy that I can blame it for all the miscommunication.

Example: I've not responded to a message. Is it because I was away for 2 hours, or is because Teams shat the bed again? You'll never know!

It also makes my severely limited, monitored and controlled work laptop even more sluggish to the point that it takes a whole minute to simply start a shell, and 10 seconds to run any command on it (before the command actually runs). When coding, any keystroke takes a second to register. Is my productivity shit because I hate my job, or because my laptop is a dumpster fire in large part because of Teams? You'll never know!

Comment · 2 years ago
A bit late, but maybe someone will read this. I live in Toronto and installed a heat pump this year. We've been through the worst of Winter, I believe, and although the cost ramps up on the coldest days, the heat pump worked perfectly at -15C (it claims a COP of 2 at that temperature). I watch the auxiliary circuit, that is triggered if the heat pump fails to heat to the required temperature, and it never ran for the whole season. Yes, Winter can still get a lot worse and a lot cooler, but my house also has insulation and there is no scenario where I will freeze to death.

In terms of cost, it's a lot cheaper than gas + electricity (it evens-out on the coolest days, and is cheaper otherwise). It will not amortize the cost of the heat pump itself for a while, but that's a cost I'm happy to eat right now.

Comment · 2 years ago
Why not consider non-intellectual work? Woodworking is a humbling and gratifying experience when it comes to "working harder for things and making incremental progress".
Comment · 2 years ago
Working in France, I remember having to provide a "Scan of an original of Bank Account information slip" (approximate translation). It's just a number! That I could have copy/pasted in an email to make sure the secretary won't fuck it up, or I could download the document from my bank and email it, but no, HR insisted it had to be an original.

I eventually downloaded one from my bank, converted it to JPEG, added a light coffee stain with Gimp and sent that, to pretend it was an actual scan of an actual document actually printed by the bank.

Comment · 2 years ago
Late reply, sorry.

They do, but it's nothing compared to what they make loaning money, which is their (and any banks) core business.

Comment · 2 years ago
I sold a few piece of furniture on Marketplace, and had so many occurrences of "My employer is relocating me and I need to furnish my new place, I'll send movers to pick up the piece". Looking at the seller profile, it's often an account that has seen no activity for a while, and the job rarely matches the type of position that would get an envelope for relocation (e.g.: Amazon warehouse workers surely don't get a package to move to a new location).
Comment · 2 years ago
The infuriating part is how easy it apparently is to highjack dead people / inactive accounts, and use them for fraud.

Case in point, I never use FB except for the marketplace every now and then. I naturally forgot my login/password, hit the "Forgot password" option, put my phone number and... got given access to someone else's account, that they've not used in years. They likely had my number before, I guess, passing away.

I contacted FB and did my best to try to lose access to the account, starting with login out, but I kept receiving notifications through text messages, and was permanently given the option to "switch account" with no authentication whatsoever. Out of option, I ultimately deactivated the account in question, but that pisses me off because I really really did not want to alter it in any way.

Long story short, it's not a surprise Facebook is riddled with shit like that.

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