Troy

@ troyunrau @lemmy.ca

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3 yr. ago

Centrist, progressive, radical optimist. Geophysicist, R&D, Planetary Scientist and general nerd in Winnipeg, Canada.
troyunrau.ca (personal)
lithogen.ca (business)

1mo ago

All you do is take!
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Troy @lemmy.ca 1mo ago
I'm in this comic and I don't like it.

3mo ago

Where is he?

Same way you teach a child. Start with basic nouns and verbs and use them in context. Demonstrate and interact and repeat.

Source: have a 25 year out of date "teaching English as a second language" certificate. ;)

5mo ago

1991 Ford S10 pickup, on the farm, when I was 8 years old. I only crashed it on the farm once -- in first gear, stopped. Took foot off clutch and lurched forward into the wall in front of me. In my defense, I hadn't been instructed on how to turn it off yet ;)

5mo ago

[RustyNova] Slow servers

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Troy @lemmy.ca 5mo ago

AI generated, eh?

5mo ago

Profitability

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Troy @lemmy.ca 5mo ago

I'm in a hardware rich business. It really helps to have the hardware in hand to physically try something before telling a customer it can be done.

5mo ago

Stay Mad

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Troy @lemmy.ca 5mo ago

I want that outfit

5mo ago

Profitability

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Troy @lemmy.ca 5mo ago

Certain kinds of productivity, sure. And definitely on the scale of a civilization, reducing total commuters is fantastic both from and environmental and time-stuck-in-traffic perspectives.

5mo ago

Profitability

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Troy @lemmy.ca 5mo ago

Correlation is not causation.

Playing devil's avocado 🥑

The real problem with work from home is a manager's ability to track performance. It's generally pretty easy to track things like output. But what if the goals are not just productivity. Sometimes, for the long term health of an organization, you need to have water cooler conversations, and other horizontal knowledge transfer opportunities that arise organically due to proximity. Friday beers often lead to longer term net positives.

5mo ago

Class Participation

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Troy @lemmy.ca 5mo ago

A nihilistic outlook can be a response to, or defense mechanism caused by depression. But it's also a philosophy that is, ironically, well studied and developed. Not that that matters.

6mo ago

The Age Verification Trap... Verifying user’s ages undermines everyone’s data protection

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Troy @lemmy.ca 6mo ago

Hypothetically: Lemmy instances where every user has to have physically met an admin and proved that they're real or something. And they'll only federate to other instances following the same rules.

It'll almost be like the early 90s dialup BBS small communities, with FIDOnet ;)

6mo ago

The Age Verification Trap... Verifying user’s ages undermines everyone’s data protection

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Troy @lemmy.ca 6mo ago

The end of the anonymous web is nigh. We may not like it, but it's probably the only way. We used to joke in the 90s about requiring an internet driver's license before allowing people on Usenet. It might actually be happening.

6mo ago

Permanently Deleted

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Troy @lemmy.ca 6mo ago

Justifying. Basically you already have a behaviour in mind, but you need an excuse to execute on that behaviour.

It can also be retroactive. You can create an excuse for your behaviour after you've already done something -- retroactive justification.

6mo ago

Trump Punches Canadian Olympian in Bizarre AI Hockey Fantasy Post

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Troy @lemmy.ca 6mo ago

There are mechanisms. See 25th Amendment. But it's not useful: 2/3 of both houses must agree with the incompetency ruling of cabinet, which consists VP plus 50% + 1 of the cabinet. Since his cabinet is stacked by his lackeys, the only way this could occur is if Vance is performing a coup. Still need 2/3 of each house, which is harder to get than impeachment!