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by 13of40 3y ago
I would agree with that, at least for this site. I wouldn't be surprised if the ratio was 1 to 10, since tech skews it significantly. For example, I work in tech in the US, and the only American I've spoken to today was my summe
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by 13of40 3y ago
That's why I qualified it with "native" - the US has by far the most English-as-a-first-language people. In my head everyone speaks like an Anglo guy from Idaho, and since HN is text-only, metaphorically speaking the lights
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by 13of40 3y ago
I've (unfortunately) got a habit of accidentally assuming forums are "in the US". I think I would put it down to a couple of things: 1. Most native English speakers are in the US, so the accidental assumption that someone i
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by 13of40 3y ago
For today's one, I've only been to [state] once, 20 years ago, but once I saw that bridge in the first picture I knew it was in [state].
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by 13of40 3y ago
Another cool place to visit is the RE-PC on 6th street in Seattle, where they have a small retro computer museum. Years ago I got to watch the old guy who ran the place boot the PDP-8 there by toggling the boot code from (his) memory using
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by 13of40 3y ago
IIRC, at least on the original Stinger, the heat signature of the trees and other objects on the horizon confuses the seeker head so you need a clear shot. You also need the target to be a certain distance away, otherwise the rocket can&#x
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by 13of40 3y ago
The US government's definition of "white" basically says anyone descended from people in the middle east, europe, or northern africa is white.
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by 13of40 3y ago
It's kind of funny, because from my perspective I'm an old man who learned himself a trade decades ago and worked things right to the point that I don't have to drive around a shit-box anymore, but to you I'm a privilege
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by 13of40 3y ago
It's a newish BMW SUV, so both.
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by 13of40 3y ago
The one I heard was that they had terrible yields until they figured out some guy was opening the packages in transit and hand counting the silicon wafers.
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by 13of40 3y ago
Seattle suburbs here. I pay about $500 a year to register my (gas) car so someday I can ride the train they broke ground on 25 years ago.
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by 13of40 3y ago
I'm picturing a rail line that just goes north, and in every town along the way the people are a few years older than the last. You can still live wherever you want, but the subsidies for your age group make it a sweet deal to keep mo
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by 13of40 3y ago
Turning something on by default and then making the user drill down three menu layers to turn it off is equivalent to that scam where you're walking through Rome and someone hands you a flower, then demands five euros for it. If you&#
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by 13of40 3y ago
A non-dark-pattern for that would be a button on the first suggestion that lets you disable the suggestion permanently.
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by 13of40 3y ago
Interesting - I wonder if it's contracting because of the pressure or the temperature or both. I imagine it's probably pretty cold down there, and gasoline is known to expand and contract based on temperature.
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by 13of40 3y ago
It's worth a thought whether you can trace generational wealth back to a time when people were enslaving people. I, for example, did some research a while back, since my family has been in America since the 1600's, and I found on
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by 13of40 3y ago
Interesting point about the Trieste if nobody has mentioned it yet: The big part on top isn't where the crew goes, it's a tank of lighter-than-water liquid that regulates the buoyancy of the rest of the equipment. It's liqu
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by 13of40 3y ago
My anecdote: I go hunting every year and rarely see anything, but almost without fail I get back to the suburbs and see one or more eligible bucks wandering around in people's yards. A superstitious person might think they're ge
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by 13of40 3y ago
Above ground tanks also have the benefit of being gravity fed, so you can use them in rural areas without a power supply or complex pumping equipment.
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by 13of40 3y ago
The bigcorp I used to work for provided every employee with a bottomless metro card that could get you a free bus or train ride anywhere in a 20 mile radius. I would guess that maybe 1 in 5 people ever used it. Give someone enough disposa
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by 13of40 3y ago
That's kind of a funny example, because my go-to on the subject is that if you visit a park in Washington State (or most of the US) you are immediately hit with a wall of text that starts with "no alcohol" but goes on to desc
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by 13of40 3y ago
Where I live, vehicles like police cars have the letters "xmt" on the left side of their license plate. That's because they are exempt from rules like "no vehicles in the park". Per the questionnaire, if the SWAT
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by 13of40 3y ago
Not sure why this is dead, but AFAIK magnetism in iron and steel is dependent on "domains" of iron molecules that are aligned in a crystal structure so the magnetic effect isn't just scattered to all directions. That's
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by 13of40 3y ago
There was some home computer - either an original Apple II or a Commodore PET, I don't remember - where if you splurged for the fancy second disk drive, the computer could be destroyed by a rogue program spinning up both drives at once
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by 13of40 3y ago
Not sure how many are still there, since I read that the State of Washington had a campaign about cleaning up derelicts a few years back, but the canals just north of where US Route 2 crosses the Snohomish river by Everett used to have a to
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by 13of40 3y ago
Well, to continue the analogy, they might be asking me to do 10% more work for 2% more pay. Owning and maintaining a trainer in your build system would be a form of technical debt.
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by 13of40 3y ago
I tried the same prompt with the Bing chatbot and its response was that it couldn't recite copyrighted content. Then it summarized it. Then it gave me the full content. I wonder if their restrictions are more lax because the search e
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by 13of40 3y ago
Prior to COVID, it was tabboo at my company to schedule a meeting before 10 AM. Now 8 or 9 is the norm, and it doesn't look like they're giving that back even though we're expected to start commuting again. It doesn't
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by 13of40 3y ago
Years ago I was doing QA for a flight simulator, and they decided that we would add every airport in the US to it. Not detailed for most, just number of buildings, runway orientation, etc. The FAA conveniently published the info, so they
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by 13of40 3y ago
Ctrl-G still beeps your console doesn't it?

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