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what would be the best way to tell your supervisor to stop inquiring about your personal life and mobbing you into opening up?
  • This is terrible advice.

    OP needs to set boundaries in a paper traceable way after establishing then in person (an email of "dear boss lady, I want to eat lunch alone, kthxbye"), and track violations of those boundaries (dear boss lady, today you sat with me at lunch after I asked you not to, please explain why). (Obviously be more professional).

    Then after a few violations, OP can go to HR because suddenly the boss lady is starting the fire; there is a clear history of personal boundaries not being maintained, leading to a hostile work environment.

    This only doesn't work when the company is like 5 people and HR is your boss's cousin or whatever.

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    Yup...i can confirm that
  • I started using Python ~15 years ago. I didn't go to school for CS.

    Compared to using literally anything else at the time as a beginner, pip was the best thing out there that I could finally understand for getting third party code to work with my stuff, without copy paste... on Windows.

    When I tried Linux, package managers and make were pretty cool for doing C/C++ work.

    Despite all that, us "regular" engineers were consigned to Windows.

    We either had to use VBA or a runtime that didn't need to be installed.

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    Rule
  • There are other more efficient working fluids for power transfer but water is pretty hard to beat due to it not being toxic or an environmental hazard.

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    Jet Fuel
  • Yeah let's ignore the fact that it loses 70% of its strength at like 800 F, that fact invalidates my meme catchphrase!

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    How do you set up wake up alarm and not miss it ?
  • Get a timer controlled power outlet and hook a Hitachi magic wand to it. Place the wand under your pillow. The vibration is super intense and gets uncomfortable at the highest setting. Bonus points you can wake and bate since you have a massager handy.

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    Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race?
  • I have to do the same thing but my natural response isn't to attack others based on physical traits or religious beliefs. My natural response is to figure out who's hoarding the most resources and convince them it's in their best interest to share lest others take a more violent approach at a more desperate time.

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    Dear iPhone users:
  • I'm invested because higher adoption of my preferred platform causes prices of said platform to drop, making the platform economically attractive to develop for.

    Fewer users causes less effort to go into the platform by larger corporations due to lower revenue streams, diminishing updates and feature count over time.

    Eventually, users leave due to pain points not being addressed. Shrinking user bases causes independent developer talent to focus on other platforms since the economics no longer work in the marginal case.

    The shrinking independent developer contributions to the ecosystem make the required effort to develop for it that much higher, since the tools and apps that would have been built weren't.

    Higher development costs slow down feature pacing, due to the increased effort needed to substitute the efforts of missing ecosystem developers.

    Lack of feature cadence drives users to other platforms, shrinking the user base, bringing us back to step 1.

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    It's official: consoles cost as much as gaming PCs now
  • Assume someone is already going to buy a Chromebook for $200-300. Why not spend $900-1000 on a nicer laptop or desktop and need a console at all?

    And if you're a certain age, why invest in an ecosystem that will die with the next hardware iteration, when you've seen it happen over and over? I bought a cartridge of Super Mario Bros 3 in 1993 with my birthday money. Why should I have to buy it again, ever, if I still own the cart? Why not invest in an ecosystem that's by and large always backwards compatible?

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    It's official: consoles cost as much as gaming PCs now
  • Weird comparison.

    I already own a computer to do daily work in other areas of my life. Why not add the extra $700 to my PC budget and access 35+ years of gaming history, vs. paying $700 to access ~700 games that I can't play when the next hardware iteration drops?

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    If you could regulate something relatively inconsequential, what would it be?
  • It's fine. No metallic taste since it's not a reactive metal. In the microwave you just have to make sure it doesn't contact the edge. You only get arcing of metal when there are sharp points or loops, which aren't present on a disc.

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    Make this thread look like it's your first day on the internet
  • I want to throw a lemon-themed birthday party, does anyone know of a good website to get ideas for events and decorations at a lemon-themed party?

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    If you could regulate something relatively inconsequential, what would it be?
  • Yes. I've never had anything in Europe labeled as "spicy" that wouldn't be outclassed by a mild hot sauce in the US. Closest I've come is an Indian restaurant in London. Also the hot sauce at Nando's was an honorable mention.

    Meanwhile the minimum spice level at the hole in the wall Mexican restaurant down the street in Texas is at the same level and hot enough in the high end that I can't handle it. It's perfect.

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