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ALostInquirer

@ ALostInquirer @lemm.ee

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I like to ask a variety of questions, sometimes silly, serious, and/or strange. Never asking in an attempt to pester or “just asking questions” stuff.

Will I migrate from Lemm.ee to elsewhere? I don't know yet. If I do, you'll see here. If not, never stop questioning everything!

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  • Are doctorate/grad school programs distinctly competitive? My impression was that they were more challenging but similar in nature to undergrad insofar as loads of coursework to stay on top of to complete courses and ensure you got some of the most expensive, "You endured it!" paperwork in the world.

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  • Is there an AcademicDictionary in the vein of Urban Dictionary for all the jargon and filler patterns?

  • Jill Stein Is Killing the Green Party

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  • Dr. Jill Stein has improved the Green Party; y’all just believe anything the duopoly and owner-class media spit out when it agrees with your thinking.

    In what ways, alongside the one point mentioned, and according to what sources (presumably not from the party itself)?

  • What are your opinions/impressions of top-level domains (i.e. .com & the like)?

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  • Appreciate the thoughtful reply! I can see where you're coming from in terms of opening TLDs up creating a bunch of issues, even though I do still enjoy the more playful ones despite that.

    It's honestly a little surprising that so many have been made available given the issues it can present, but I think that's largely a byproduct of approaching the internet less from a rigidly structured perspective and more of a loose informal perspective.

  • What are your opinions/impressions of top-level domains (i.e. .com & the like)?

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  • do you think you'd be able to tell if it was instead a massive homelab run by the microorganisms in your house?

  • What are your opinions/impressions of top-level domains (i.e. .com & the like)?

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  • Personally, the childish side of me will always get a kick out of .wtf in a website name.

  • Confused about linux as always

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  • And even though this is lemmy, when I searched for “Ubuntu Help”, there’s no community named that. There’s also no community named “Linux help”. Which I find very very odd. Lemmy of all places you’d think would have a linux help community!

    Have you been by !linuxquestions@lemmy.zip yet? Nevertheless, this community should work just as well.

    There's also !linux4noobs@programming.dev or a community with the same name on Lemmy World. When specificity in a search fails, falling back to broader/more basic terms may help (e.g. searching for Ubuntu or Linux).

  • Should bot comments contribute to the comment count for regular users?

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  • I think separating them improves the user experience for regular users, which I think counts as a real advantage. As I wrote in the body text:

    As-is seeing an indication of a comment for a post only for it to turn out to be a bot is slightly disappointing at best, and mildly confusing at worst when their display has been disabled.

    It's a small detail, but small details add up when it comes to the user experience.

  • How can we return to techno-optimism?

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  • I haven’t paid interest in over a decade and have made thousands from rewards.

    I'm not too familiar with credit cards, do you mean this in a literal money sense or something more complex, i.e. the value of rewards & money?

  • Which types of work suit those that prefer to work alone, or with smaller teams?

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  • Anyways. I know you probably wanted a story that was more interesting than depressing, but that’s just one that really stuck with me from that point in my life there. I don’t think that’s a normal experience for a Night Auditor to have, so I wouldn’t take my experience as a reason to dissuade anyone from taking the position, but you asked for a story, and so you got one.

    Even a depressing story is interesting in its own way, so I appreciate it all the same! I can see why the experience stuck with you, it's a rough situation to find oneself in for almost all involved

  • Which types of work suit those that prefer to work alone, or with smaller teams?

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  • Any odd stories from that job?

  • The Immich core team goes full-time | Immich

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  • What's a CLA?

  • Is anyone else tired of the doom posts on Lemmy?

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  • Where are those people in Lemmy?

    Also, for those few posts of creative stuff around here, where are the people to upvote and comment on them?

  • What is OOP, really? Why so many different definitions?

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  • How would one use it if they're struggling to understand it to start with? 🤨

  • What topic do you LOVE to talk about, but rarely get to?

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  • As in, you're still in some way paying U.S. taxes as well as those where you are abroad, or that the taxes abroad are brutal...? I'm not sure I follow which way you mean, mainly as I've never had the opportunity to live in another country.