🅸 🅰🅼 🆃🅷🅴 🅻🅰🆆.
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Is there an alternative to LinkedIn?
I guess, in a way it’s a good thing, since it’s a sort of zoo for corporate bootlickers, but the career-related social connections are useful. It’s just so caustically pro-business. I guess anything work-centric will inevitably become that way, regardless of how it starts.
The fact that Github and LinkedIn are both owned by Microsoft rustles my jimmies, though.
There are. Several, in fact.
Hell, you can buy a laptop with Linux pre-installed from Amazon!
That’s mostly focusing on just laptops; there’s a dozen other companies selling desktop and mini-PCs with Linux, and some hardware manufacturers (Raspberry, ODroid?) don’t even have Windows as an option.
There is a wide variety of laptops, desktops, mini-PCs, and SBCs to buy with Linux pre-installed. I’m more surprised that there’s someone who thinks there isn’t, than by how many options there are.
I would love to hear the author’s justification and examples. And then I’ll repeatedly slap them in the head with Player of Games, where one of the characters changes genders every couple of decades and it’s unclear whether anyone remembers what they started out as because it’s utterly irrelevant to everyone.
Also, seriously yeah, WTF? Several of The Culture’s major operatives - their James Bonds, their spies, counter-spies, and black ops - are women, and to my recollection the only agent that used sex as a manipulation tool was a man.
Of all the terms you could try to insult Banks with, “mysogynist” utterly misses the mark.
You sure you got the mouth-to-ball relationship correct there?
Not anymore. Now it’s a self-perpetuating capitalist oligarchy, with a fair helping of totalitarianism. Any hint of communism has been stamped out, although they can fairly claim some (very selective) socialism.
I agree, this may be the most important lore to get a canonical answer for.
Quick, someone go to Anne Rice’s crypt and hang around until sundown, and get an answer… either way.
The hoops providers have to jump through to get around our horrible healthcare and insurance systems; it’s astounding there hasn’t already been a revolt.
Honestly, it’s the worst of what’s bad about capitalism.
As far as you know. I suspect most Fox presenters are AI.
Man, what a missed opportunity for the networks. They could do Naked News, but with preferences set by each viewer. We could have weather reports given by a capybara in James Earl Jones’s voice! Sports presented by a koala with Ryan Reynolds’ as if he were huffing helium!
Damn. Now I want customized AI newscasters.
I’ve wondered what it’d be like to have houses both above and below the arctic circles, and switch each equinox to maximize the dark days.
A pretty girl is a pretty girl… I can overlook a little espionage.
But… it’s the smell.
Actually, really good point. Sorry, person-I-responded-to. I thought you (PIRT) were comparing Maria to Postgres, when you (PIRT) were referring to Maria vs MySQL.
Both PostgreSQL and MariaDB are OSS and free; MySQL is covered with cooties and boogers, and you don’t want to get any of it on you.
I can’t answer why you’re getting calls, but I’d be suspicious.
It’s where your primary care physician goes independent and stops accepting insurance. You pay them a flat fee a couple of times a year, and get their service for free. That is, you’re obviously paying them whether you use them or not, but you don’t pay them every time you see them.
You still need insurance, to cover things like specialists, and many tests the doctor performs - blood work, etc - can still be billed to insurance. But you go to a flat fee for your doctor.
My wife and I did it because our primary care physician, who we’ve been with for years and like, went concierge; we decided to stay with her despite it costing more than to switch to a different doctor.
Many things changed, mostly for the better.
There is really the only one downside: insurance does not cover concierge, and it is not cheap. It’s within reason for middle class, but it’d be utterly unaffordable for lower or lower-middle class. It’s totally entitled. OTOH, if we had a single payer universal healthcare system, or if every provider were concierge, healthcare would be cheaper all around and maybe it’d be affordable.
Anyway, we did it because we followed a doctor. I don’t know that I’d jump into it with a provider I didn’t know. In our doctor’s case, she only offered it to her existing patients and doesn’t take on new ones (or, not often), and keeps her work load more manageable; I’d expect this to be common.
If insurance is trying to get you to do this, there’s an angle and I’d be suspicious. Either because they have to pay less (because concierge fees aren’t paid by insurance); or some company has figured out a way to “give you insurance” where you pay them and they pay the concierge fee, in which case they’re just a middleman skimming money and you’re paying more.
We are extremely happy with our concierge service, but we love our doctor, we can afford it, and it’s been a massively better experience for us. But that’s us. YMMV.
Maria database is free and open source.
Why are you implying that PostgreSQL isn’t?
Haven’t seen The Matrix, huh?
Someone tell this person about audio books! She’ll be ecstatic!
(This was said in jest; I neither believe they give the same experience, nor prefer them)
What now? Really? You’re not just pulling an immigrant’s leg, are you?
Okay. I don’t think it’s a bad map; I think it would have helped to define what counts as “a coast,” is all.
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