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What is the underrated website you have visited that not much people knows about?
Movies and tv series. Automatically streams from a good source. I've had zero stuttering so far.
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What is the underrated website you have visited that not much people knows about?
Movies and tv series. Automatically streams from a good source. I've had zero stuttering so far.
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As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play extra ads when I pause a video
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I also HATE that if you miss the skip button on the first of multiple ads, they disable the skip button for another number of seconds.
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Everytime I see lava, I want to eat it...
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What are your arguments for or against letting it mellow if it is yellow?
Always flush. I don’t want to drop a log and have that piss water splash on to me. Not to mention that it just stains the bowl and sometimes smells. Just flush, cause if I see it’s not clear water, I’m going to flush anyway.
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Who was your worst coworker?
I used to work in a warehouse when I was young. No training on some things, so sometimes I'd just be just hanging out when my duties were finished, and still get paid for it. Not my fault. Had this one woman and her husband doing delivering of packages for the company, and she made a snobby comment saying "wish I was paid to do nothing", but in fact she was, cause she did nothing. All she did was sit in the passenger seat.
She was a bit of a coward.
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What are some of the best optimizations you applied to your code?
Staying on the SQL theme... The company I work for has a fairly old (~20 years) system. There's a feature for users and site admins to export massive amounts of data, with the option to export data from when the system was first released. Purely CSV or XML data formats. On large datasets, the time for export would vary from 10-20+ hours, and would frequently timeout, forcing you to split exports into multiple timeframes and manually merging them into a single file. The solution? Indexes! Indexes were non-existent. After adding them, export times have dropped to ~10-15 minutes, which is a rather insane performance increase, especially since a single export is accepted per account at a time.
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My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
When I was in high school, the history teacher you got was like winning the lottery. One teacher showed war movies and had “fun” assignments related to that movie. The other teacher had written assignments almost every class.
I got super lucky… He was a fantastic teacher. Last I heard, some students ratted on him and he had to change his curriculum.
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TIL "several nations recognize the right of prisoners to attempt to escape prison or jail, including Belgium, Germany, Austria, and Mexico due to what is seen as basic human nature..."
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That makes sense. Although, I'd imagine if you're trying to escape, your sentence is likely for a considerable amount of time, so any additional time for stealing, vandalism/destruction of property, etc, won't hurt you too much.
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[Done] Server will be migrated (More power!)
What's the operating cost? Thank you, for running this server! :)
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Framework discloses data breach after accountant gets phished
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It is unfortunate. The company I work for enrols all employees in training that takes place every month or so (regardless of your role). They also send out fake phishing emails every so often, and those who interact with them are automatically enrolled in additional training. Stats are anonymous, but apparently interactions with those fake phishing emails have drastically reduced. Training absolutely helps, but it needs to be consistent to keep security on everyone’s mind.
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Milk
Would a pregnant cow be a server?
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My daughter lost her social studies essay because LibreOffice doesn't have autosave on automatically.
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Yeah, I don’t trust the auto save to save my work properly. I work as a Software Engineer, and any small change I make, even if I’m not done with the change and I’m just thinking, my hands immediately default to CTRL+S.
Always always make sure your work is being saved if it means something to you. Especially since windows will force update and reboot your computer. Battery’s can die, power can go out and your computer shuts down. Applications can and will crash.
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Shiiieeettt.......
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A free for all, late Friday deployment is baffling… We’ve got a strict window of Tuesday-Thursday for releases (unless it’s a critical issue), and a 2-3 day merge freeze to help mitigate unexpected changes.
We’ve got a relatively small team with LOTS of moving parts, so minimizing deployment issues is always top of mind.
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Which is which?
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But what if they didn’t know and just winged it themselves?
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When the pizza party is too expensive, you go with the EncourageMint
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I would rather not get anything than get a rock for recognizing my efforts.
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Military Time vs 24hr?
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It's standard in Canada as well. I prefer 24hr personally. There were a couple times where I've napped in the evening, and woke up thinking I was late for work in the morning. Not fun. 24hr clock solves that. Plus it just makes more sense to me than 12hr clocks.
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Its Saturday in Japan, so I got time to make breakfest.
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Half for me, and the other half for me.
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is a hot dog a sandwich
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Not necessarily. A burrito can have one or both ends closed off. So it can also be a quiche or a calzone.
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Save 25% today! (j/k, it's only 5%)
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I mean, the top says “up to”, which technically means Amazon doesn’t even need to apply a discount. I would be more concerned if it said “save 25% today” and then dropped to “save 5% today.”
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Tell me something interesting about yourself
I’ve never had to do a job interview. 5 different jobs, all word of mouth.