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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Employers love it because it gives them plausible legal cover for two essential freedoms:

    If they like you anyway, they can hire you and defend any discrimination claims with the fact that you had the strongest resume.

    Whenever they stop liking you, they can expose the lie and fire you on the spot for good cause.

    So really, it’s a win-win situation for both you and your prospective employer.








  • If I need more than 2 decimals of precision, I’d use the calculator. But by the time I type it in I already know to expect an answer of about 0.23. If the calculator give me anything else, I’ll redo it more carefully.

    A good student knows enough basic math to know whether or not their calculator did what they thought it did, or if they mistyped something, had it in the wrong mode, missed order of operations, etc.



  • If I don’t block ads, then I’m stealing from the advertiser who’s paying per impression to someone who isn’t interested in their crap.

    If the ad makes noise, moves around the screen, crashes my browser, or otherwise actively interferes with my ability to obtain the information I was looking for, It’ll leave me with such a negative impression that I won’t buy anything from that brand, now or ever – or from the creator who allowed them to break an otherwise good website.

    So really, by blocking ads, I’m defending the good reputation of both creators and their sponsors.



  • wumpus@latte.isnot.coffeetoAsklemmyDeleted
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    1 year ago

    I take both. Box B will be be empty. It was empty as soon as I walked up because the predictor knows I’m logical enough to know to take both. Trying to confuse it by taking only B leaves me empty handed because it knows I know better.

    A lot of stupid people given the same choice will be richer than me. Math isn’t fair. Knowledge isn’t power. Ignorance is bliss.


  • I was told it was better for load balancing if we didn’t all use the same one. So I just looked for one that had easy signups and didn’t seem overeager to block stuff. Apparently, some from this instance come form /r/china. I’m not, but I do drink coffee. Anyway, I think it’s working out so far; better than reddit anyway.



  • Some folding money, a bank card, some loose checks (ragged from wear as I prefer the previous items for most retail transactions), some ID cards, a gift card that I might use, another that I’ll probably give away to someone who shops at that store, a local library card, a library card from a place I lived 10 years ago but is probably still valid, a torn piece of paper with some unexplained writing on it (some phone numbers, but I forget whose; I think a pin for a card I don’t have anymore; a gate code for a storage locker I no longer use), a blood donor card with blood type (A+), a partially accurate vaccination card, some other things that are either expired, or never mattered.