DrBob

joined 1 year ago
[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

Shoes are sized for socks.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 29 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

So MGOW for women.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 week ago

A tablet is a pad of paper that's glued on one edge. You can flip the sheets or tear them out. The full name for a binder is a "loose leaf binder". Because it's designed to bind...loose sheets!

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I am a professor. I'm fine with choosing to consume shorter media - I read very few novels any more either. I think the point that the students appear unable to read long form. It actually matches up with my own experience where incoming students have never had to write long form either.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (8 children)

I'm curious what the downvote was for.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

I drive a 2010 Acura MDX. When I bought it, it was one the largest SUVs in the market. When I bought it people thought it was ridiculous. Jump to today. It's midsize. I can't even find it parking lots as it's dwarfed by every truck and SUV around. Including what used to be economy and entry level vehicles. I have crossbars on it for my kayak to boot.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

133 communities and just 45 users. An old alt of mine is among them for a reason I can't recall. Login trouble or something?

Edited for fat fingers.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd be interested in this too. I'm a bit away from the next vehicle but I was already considering going vintage for physical controls, an honest to god non-electronic mirror, and no surveillance.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I am struggling with "fair" here. I'm pretty well paid for the public sector, but the private sector would offer a 50%+ increase with a noticable loss of stability. So I don't know. I do think they should have promoted me years ago though .

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 52 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

You are thinking of Pierre Poilievre maybe.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

CostCo is a rare good player in the retail space. They have a great reputation as an employer.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 month ago

It's voter suppression. By limiting the number of voting locations and understanding them you make long lines where people will wait for hours to vote. By not allowing food or water to be handed out they hope people will get discouraged and leave the line. The official reason is that it could be construed as a bribe to vote a certain way.

 

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.

 

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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