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agent00shoeon MrBeast has become a viral sensation for his acts of altruism

Recording yourself doing things for views/hits/money is not altruism.

agent00shoeon Apple Music is the most buggy and annoying software I use

Why can't I remove a song from a playlist in the web ui without it removing that same song from all playlists in my entire library?!

agent00shoeon Ask HN: Why is there no good open-source LMS?

I work for an HR compliance training company and we use a heavily modified version of Moodle in combination with our own back end. Moodle was originally chosen as an MVP for the company and it is good at playing industry-standard formats, like SCORM and AICC. But Moodle's code base is around 20 years old and very cumbersome to modify so we do plan on moving to 100% custom in the future.

agent00shoeon Ask HN: How do you manage your personal documents?

I have a small filing cabinet with tabbed, labeled folders for each area of my life: house (mortgage, insurance, etc), me, my wife, car insurance, etc. It's old fashioned but it works incredibly well. Anything I may need to access away from home also gets scanned into Evernote.

agent00shoeon Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?

I know a good one, but it's a UDP joke so I don't know if you'd get it.

agent00shoeon Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

I built a tool to help realtors easily create slideshows from still photos without any technical knowledge.

It hasn't really gotten a lot of traction and there are probably other markets where this might be useful, but I've been so busy with other stuff lately.

https://www.vidboto.com/

agent00shoeon Ask HN: Is it just me or is the IT field becoming discriminatory?

Thanks for the suggestions. I normally wouldn't talk about my personal life, but I currently have a good job and when they ask why I'm looking for a new/remote role, I tell the truth: my wife and I want to move to a small town in a remote area to be closer to family and there aren't any IT opportunities there.

agent00shoeon Ask HN: Is it just me or is the IT field becoming discriminatory?

"we realized that the demographics of people we attract to apply are not inline with the demographics of the people we hope to hire"

This is the part that bothers me. They have a predetermined image of who they want to hire, based on nonfunctional qualities, like race and gender. If a company said they had too many minorities working for them and the demographic they really wanted to hire was straight, white males, it seems like people would be up in arms over that. But the inverse seems acceptable.

agent00shoeon Ask HN: How much do you work at your job?

I worked for about 4 hours this week. Last week it was closer to zero. I get 100% of my work done; there's just not a lot to do. I suspect my job position was created just to use up a budget.

When there's no workload, impostor syndrome begins to creep in.

It's very boring and I'm actively looking for a job that will keep me busy and engaged.