I think I still have a Texas Central polo I got from that company back in 2018. I'll probably never ride a light rail in my home state but maybe I can keep shaking down tools in marketing departments for shirts.

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    Man I loved OTW! I need to get back into it.

    I rarely used Google bc I apparently have a masochistic desire to make things harder than they need to be, I mostly just looked at all the man pages (type man command name here) and it usually brings up a helpful manual that has it's own controls to navigate with. Helpful to know that 'Q' is the key you want to press to leave the man page and go back to the terminal. It took me a few tries to learn that. But seriously, I had fun just getting lost in all the features and options in each page for awhile even if it wasn't the fastest way to complete the levels. Man pages are mostly dry and sometimes funny but they will get you through a lot of Bandit without using google IMO.

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    This is bs. For the last decade I've been absolutely sick of sham, feel-good, self-fellating article by Gen X/Boomers about how millennials are the worst scum of mankind, the gooch of satan himself, and the cause of all things wrong or mildly inconvenient for the world of older folks. I'll be damned if I let the same media cycle trick me into doing the same thing to the next generation. Gen Z drives me nuts sometimes. A lot of Gen Z content on youtube is preachy and critical of my generation and I don't always get their humor but even if I did think their demographic had a lower IQ on average than mine I'll never give the fucking media the satisfaction of my engagement at this absolutely useless, needlessly divisive slop. FUCK this. FUCK. THIS. Gen Z is doing the absolute best they can with the hand they were dealt just like all of us when we were younger. FUCK THESE KINDS OF ARTICLES AND THE PEOPLE WHO PRODUCE THEM.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (8 children)

    Texas did all this? What are you talking about? Yeah it's a large population center but Ted Cruz is Canadian and Trumpf is from NYC. Idk what your logic is to somehow restrict an international hate/populist movement geographically to one (admittedly egotistical) state, but judging by your account age and name I'm going to assume you're a bot or another paid ruzzian actor. Hope the FSB, PRC, or DPRK pays you well.

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    Wall, into drywall studs near the ceiling. These are so stinking heavy that they have to be empty before I can move them and I have to put a good deal of force into tilting them before gravity will take them the rest of the way down. A heavier child climbing on them like a ladder would likely be the only thing that could accidentally knock these over. Which is coincidentally one of the likelier scenarios.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    This March. Oracle layoffs (based in Austin, TX) were well beyond 19k. Then another round of them came in mid-September. While it is a very distributed company, I'm sure that second round of layoffs account for at least a decent chunk of these the Dallas Fed is reporting on.

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    Hi Lemmy! It is obvious that being a fast learner is advantageous. People like people that can get up to speed quickly and contribute to a project or team. Heck, I could put 'fast learner' on a resume and no one would think that's weird. But what about slow learners?

    Is there ever a time where it would have been better to learn a skill or get acquainted with something more slowly?

    Are there any general benefits across all circumstances where being a slower learner can be advantageous?

    And if there are any positives to taking more time to learning, is it something you could ever bring up on a resume or job interview? Would you ever find yourself saying to a hiring manager "I'm a slow learner, and here's why that's a good thing for your organization." Or is it some abstract, unquantifiable positive thing like "I struggle to get good at things and that has built character," or something like that?

    TL;DR: In Avatar the Last Airbender terms, if you could have a choice between being a slow learner and struggling with everything (child Zuko) or learning fast and dominating at everything (child Azula), why would anyone ever choose the former?

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