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  • That’s a little confused. From what I remember, it’s the server that matters, not the domain when being blocked. If you self-host this is a problem, but not if you use your own domain on a commercial service.

    The “MX records and such” are all a function of domain management. You’ll have to do this whether or not you self-host.



  • HamsterRagetoProgrammer Humor@programming.devThe Right Skills
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    As an IT/Development manager, I only had one role that I hired for where the skills for getting the job matched the skills for doing the job: Business Analyst. Not job entailed presenting information clearly, both written and verbally. So I expected the resume and cover letter to be organized and clear.

    Programmers, on the other hand, I wouldn’t expect the same level of polish. But I would expect a complete absence of spelling errors and typos. Because in programming these things count – a lot.

    A lot of the people that applied, and that I hired, did not have English as a first language. So I gave a lot of latitude with regard to word selection and grammar. But not spelling. Use a goofy word or two, but spell them right.

    I figured that most people were highly motivated when writing a resume – about an motivated on you can get. And if not level of motivation cannot get you to take care, then you’ll just be a bug creation machine if I let you touch my codebase.











  • You are forgetting that other countries respond with tariffs of their own. Ultimately, the outcome balances out, just with higher prices for everyone. Local producers that rely on exports lose while those that sell locally win - as long as they don’t rely on imports for raw materials.

    Consumers lose, especially on stuff that will never be produced locally, or rules on raw materials that can’t be sourced locally.




  • Maybe…but two things:

    If the number of obese people is lower, then what are the people who aren’t mildly overweight? They are healthy weight. So even if the percentage of mildly overweight people stay the same, the day to day comparison is with a bigger group of healthy weight people, so they probably were more recognizably overweight.

    Secondly, with less really obese people you wouldn’t get desensitized to seeing fat all the time, which makes mildly overweight people seem more normal. Somebody with a BMI of 26 and about 15lbs overweight would have been more likely to be described as “plump” or “husky” back then. But when crowds are full of people that are 50+ lbs overweight, that 26 BMI seems downright healthy.

    This is all speculation. I can’t remember how I perceived overweight vs obese people back in the 80’s.