DrBob

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Daughter's older rich boyfriend is throwing a big party & she wants us to pretend being rich in c/[email protected]
[–] DrBob -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I understand this 100%. My father imagined himself to be a character and the life of the party. He would dress like a biker no matter the affair. He had been a systems analyst on big iron.

Guess the Episode [Medium] in c/[email protected]
[–] DrBob 34 points 2 days ago (2 children)

🎢but there ain't no whales...🎢

Anybody here whose main use of computers is NOT games? in c/[email protected]
[–] DrBob 2 points 4 days ago

I am an adjunct professor. My evenings are taken for making slides and marking. I wish I had time for gaming.

Is there a better sequel than Terminator 2? in c/[email protected]
[–] DrBob 11 points 5 days ago

Godfather II. The first is honestly kind of hokey and people are really stupid when they are trying to be clever. GF II has higher levels of tension and the execution of everything is smarter. And Robert DeNiro just slays playing young Marlon Brando.

if you work night shifts, do you have a life? Are you healthy? in c/[email protected]
[–] DrBob 19 points 1 week ago

I worked 3rd (23:00-07:00) shift for years and really enjoyed it. Shift premium was great, workload was low. Almost no management in place (hospital). I'd socialize in the evening and then go to work after. Didn't have any problem sleeping during the day. It's also true that I was a bachelor so no kids or pets depending on me.

Scientists sound alarm over concerning find beneath Arctic sea ice: 'It is hard to predict what impacts this could have' in c/[email protected]
[–] DrBob 9 points 1 week ago

You'll never believe what's under Antarctica's sheets!

How do you make friends? in c/[email protected]
[–] DrBob 2 points 1 week ago

Volleyball and pickleball have robust adult communities in most places. And you don't even have to be good! The point is usually to mingle and drink.

Teacher who gave birth to 13-year-old student’s baby started molesting him when he was 11, court docs allege in c/[email protected]
[–] DrBob 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Isn't that how Arnold Schwarzenegger was caught out?

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That's the good stuff in c/[email protected]
[–] DrBob 6 points 1 week ago

YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO! I'M A MAN NOW!

Dr. Berry - 11 Myths about red meat in c/[email protected]
[–] DrBob 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That was the advice of Barry Sears 30 years ago in the zone diet book. IIRC his actual advice was two hamburgers rather than the quarter pounder

To what extent is this accurate? in c/[email protected]
[–] DrBob 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb talks about this when he explains his own career. He realized the amount of effort he had in him was never going to change, so he wanted a field where earnings weren't limited by his own effort - the dream of passive income. He became an expert on risk and a well known writer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb

1004 ft freight James Barker stuck in the ice last night in Cleveland in c/[email protected]
[–] DrBob 4 points 1 week ago

/laughs in -40 C or F? Doesn't matter!

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I didn't eat supper tonight. (self.dull_mens_club)
submitted 1 month ago by DrBob to c/[email protected]
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I ate so many cookies I wasn't hungry. I'm sure there will be regrets - I might need a Tums before bed.

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Friday Night (self.dull_mens_club)
submitted 2 months ago by DrBob to c/[email protected]
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I don't know if this is what your after, but I flew into Denver today. I ate a takeout burrito in my hotel room while watching tv. I'm going to be in bed by 8.

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So my wife thinks we're getting shelled tonight. (self.leaf_nation)
submitted 1 year ago by DrBob to c/leaf_nation
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She doesn't really watch hockey so I don't know what her opinion is worth. But she wanted to do Leafs Lucky Guess with me this morning. Evidently we are going to lose 16-1 or something.

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Do audits actually matter? (self.news)
submitted 1 year ago by DrBob to c/[email protected]
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The US 2nd circuit has ruled that auditors opinions aren't relevant in cases of investor fraud because the statements are too vague for people to rely on. Whut?

Wall Street Journal article here for those who have access.

Here is a professor's blog entry for a barrier free commentary on the importance of the case.

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What is the biggest corporate heel turn that you know? (self.asklemmy)
 

I was thinking about this after listening to Marc Andreassen blather on about how he doesn't trust government as a repository of trusted keys and other functions. He advocates for private companies to perform critical functions. Standard libertarian stuff in many respects.

The problem of course is that corporations lack accountability. They can shift terms and conditions or corporate purpose and there is little meaningful recourse except to stop using them. I can think of small examples that don't widely resonate (Mountain Equipment Co-op I'm thinking of you 🀬) but are there big examples that I'm missing?

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Recommendations for lightweight WSYWIG page editor? (self.webdev)
submitted 2 years ago by DrBob to c/[email protected]
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I am finally going to join the '90s and set up a blog. The audience is mostly students to show how the academic stuff blends with real world professional practice. I'm an adjunct so I have a foot in both worlds.

I have my domain names (parked for years) and free webhosting through my university - but the university doesn't provide any development tools. All of the recommended tools I've run across (weebly, wix, webflow etc.) either want to host the page, manage the domain name, or require a fee to link the page to my host. I'm simply looking for a low cost site builder where I can edit my files and move them to my webspace.

Any recommendations for a WSYWIG style editor? I'd be happy to not have to learn any actual coding, but will if I have to.

The last time I did any of this I was manually tagging static pages in notepad (lol).

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