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TNCaver wrote: Sorry, but I can't develop software and answer the phones at the same time
Most Managers and Project Managers think developers can be interrupted by phones / Teams msgs / unplanned meetings / etc at zero notice and still do a full day's development work. At least, with working from home, you can try to carry on developing the difficult part of that complex algorithm that has taken hours of concentrated thought whilst pretending to be listening in on the external babble.
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That's very true. But it's one thing to shift focus from one project/code base to another project/code base, and shifting to "How may I direct your call?"
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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I think the website is https://www.personnelstaffing.com/[^]
looks semi legit. But all recruiters are barely legit.
If you get an actual interview with a real person then you can know it is legit and they should never be charging you any money EVER!
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Slow Eddie wrote: I am being recruited
It's a scam.
I now hate recruiters more than politicians and lawyers, and that's saying something 
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Sea Salt is an ingredient that is listed in large letters on many products. Seems to be just hype. Other than the size of the salt crystal, can anyone detect a difference with table salt? It's all NaCl. I know there can be traces of other elements, but that's unrelated to the basic salt, right? (I'm ignoring other kinds of salts such as KCl.)
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Table salt means nothing, every salt is table salt. You can have mine salt or sea salt.
In my experience mine salt is cheaper but it' freaking dirty, with a lot more minerals - you can see it, black specks, grains of sand and earth. The one I bought was also quite saltier.
Sea salt, apart usually containing iodium which is quite good for the health is much much cleaner.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I grew up in a place where most salt was mine salt. Sea salt was all the rage and everyone said it was better.
When I went to India, most salt was sea salt. Mountain salt (Himalayan) was all the rage and everyone said it was better.
Now here in Canada, Himalayan pink salt is better because... well, it's pink 
All you don't have is better and neighbor's grass is greener.
We also import water from Fiji in a country with one quarter of the world's fresh water reserves. There is no limit to how gullible some people are.
Mircea
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I'm Italian, I have both salts at a stone throw and I only buy italian salt (there is literally no reason to import any). I never understood the trend of himalayan pink salt, I bought some and apart from being a bit harder and less salty I didn't find anything different.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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But, but,... it's pink! 
Mircea
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Thought you would prefer Sicilian salt that is produced manually, I once visited the salt pans and the museum over there 
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The word "Manually" only means they can charge more money. Advertising.
Produced manually, versus say, automatically. lol silly talk
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Adriatic Sea is nearer than Sicily, though the amount of salt produced by Sicily far outclasses the amount produced by our Adriatic facilities. Not that anyone can tell the difference except for the price point.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Quote: There is no limit to how gullible some people are.
The word "gullible" has been removed from the dictionary.
Nothing succeeds like a budgie without teeth.
To err is human, to arr is pirate.
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The word 'dupe' will be next.
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The pink colour comes from clay contaminates.
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For the most part you're right. But Fiji water I'm pretty sure I could pick out blindfolded. I don't go out of my way for it, but when I need bottled water, I try to find that. It may be simply the fact that they use a better plastic bottle than others.
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And the exquisite smell of oil burned by the ship that crossed the Pacific... priceless
Mircea
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It is all about Advertising.
The same can be said about the latest craze here in the States; plant based butter. In actuality, there are no major differences between "margarine" and "plant based butter". Which sounds healthier? Which sounds more wholesome, and vegan/vegetarian friendly?
At the end of the day, it is all bullshitery.
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Slacker007 wrote: there are no major differences between "margarine" and "plant based butter".
I guess that today, you are essentially correct. But historically, margarine has been made from both animal fat, like lard, and marine oils, such as herring or whale oil. In my childhood, margarine based on soya was something new; the old margarines where whale based (and hard as stone when you fetched in from the fridge). The brand names are still the same, but they have been 'improved' (sounds better than 'changed'!) into pure vegetable based versions today.
Maybe animal / marine based margarine never was very common in the States, but margarine is certainly not by definition plant based.
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You may live in the past, I sure as hell don't. Margarine currently, here in the states, is almost identical to "plant based butters". There are tons of web site articles on the subject.
So, my comments are still true, and still stand. You have not convinced me otherwise.
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My father told how margarine was sold with a separate packet of coloring -- to mix in at home. Apparently pressure from the Dairy industry would not let them sell margarine that was the color of butter. No idea what ingredients were used to make that margarine.
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Wikipedia: Margarine[^] tells about the raw material in old days, as well as about the 'color wars'. Norwegian Wikipedia tells that German butter manufacturers demanded that margarine be colored blue or green, to distinguish it from butter (the demand was rejected).
Also, margarine was to be packed in cubic packages, whereas butter was sold in rectangular prism packages. I remember this from my childhood, but I never knew that it was a legal requirement!
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The only differences between the various brands of NaCl are the trace elements & impurities. Many commercial brands add some iodine and a dessicant (makes the salt run more easily in damp climates), and I suppose that the impurities could affect the look of the salt and perhaps the taste.
IOW, it won't make any difference whether you use the cheap stuff or salt collected from the Himalayas by underage Sherpas.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Eh, not really.
I had experience with some premium salt with more potassium (because it's better) and it was bitter, it ruined every dish.
The mine sal I bought, which I admit was the cheaper I ever found, was too fine, dirty and ruined every dish - I used it for the road.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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There's "Sea Salt Chocolate" which taste better (I'm convinced) than one made with table salt. Sea salt seems to taste less salty. Then there is the black kind for variety (I guess).
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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