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by Cd00d 5y ago
> It baffles me that some people don't seem to care about their audio quality on calls. The most obnoxious are those who use speakers and you get echo on all your talking, and despite telling them, they still never bother to get a d
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by Cd00d 5y ago
Personally, I left slashdot when I felt the community changed. It started to feel less like excitement, and more like cranky libertarians complaining. I remember CmdrTaco leaving the helm, so maybe it was his steering that kept it good to m
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by Cd00d 5y ago
Lots of great advice here, but I want to add something tangential to some of the points, which is less important in a presentation than a meeting. Own your ignorance. Nobody knows everything, and the people that are confident are the most c
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by Cd00d 5y ago
I don't see the connection. A cursory search of that movie's wikipedia page doesn't return anything for 'mado'... Why?
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Outsmart your own unconscious bias (2017)(ted.com)
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by Cd00d 6y ago
We moved into a house in the fall that had an active carpenter ant infestation. We were also getting occasional surges of sugar ants through the winter. As both colonies were kicking back up in the spring, my oldest started asking a lot of
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by Cd00d 6y ago
And that is why I am careful to always store my bike in Scotland!
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by Cd00d 6y ago
I took a helicopter flight once where your seat was determined solely by your weight and that of the other passengers. I felt bad for the person that paid the same as me and got the middle rear, while I got to hang out the front door.
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by Cd00d 6y ago
I actually thought Ms. was not promoted as less-sexist, but as a way to handle divorcees, and eventually merged to be a marital status-independent title. I see now that I was wrong [0]. I got this impression from my father. When I was littl
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by Cd00d 6y ago
I actually thought Master referred to a child male. I didn't realize it was the male unmarried equivalent of the old Miss. My family has an interesting habit of addressing mail to my children by these titles. I don't know why or w
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by Cd00d 6y ago
A friend of mine mentioned she had this problem with US domestic carriers - this was maybe 20 years ago! She used "Miss" to say unmarried female. Her ticket was for unaccompanied minor.
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by Cd00d 6y ago
Actually, I think Blue Apron has been posting promising revenue numbers since covid hit. The post-IPO year-on-year revenue charts looked like a water slide, but they've been maintaining a consistent client base for the last year. That
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by Cd00d 6y ago
I thought this was the norm. I've had the same number for 20 years now, though have moved through many different area codes since. But, I must be the odd one, because I get asked regularly why I have the area code I do, and the answer
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by Cd00d 6y ago
I'm a little shocked by this. I thought the big tech companies and Google specifically were leading the charge in "we will allow significant WFH forever going forward", but maybe I wasn't paying enough attention. Persona
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by Cd00d 6y ago
I'm seeing weirdly negative comments about brainstorming along the lines of 'let people go off and solve the problems'. I don't think brainstorming is about solving specific, well-defined problems. It's about gettin
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by Cd00d 6y ago
Great resource in colorbrewer2 - thank you! I have several color blind colleagues and am regularly concerned I'm not displaying visuals in a way that is easy for them to digest.
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by Cd00d 6y ago
Actually, I think residential real estate as an industry has been moving away from references to master bed/bath. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/realestate/master-bedroom...
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by Cd00d 6y ago
Personally, I'm glad he documented his journey in this way. I'm glad to have shared in it, (mind the sarcasm) without crowding his solitude by watching him in person for a year. It's a real accomplishment. I thought part of t
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by Cd00d 6y ago
I grew up in Colorado, and have never seen a tire requirement. I had all-seasons the entire time I lived there. I got my first set of snow tires in my 30s when I moved to Ithaca, NY.
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by Cd00d 6y ago
Hilarious. I had forgotten gestures. I paid for Opera for years because I loved mouse gestures so much. Now I'm back to moving my cursor all the way back to the top left to hit a back button. I don't know what happened.
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by Cd00d 6y ago
>Greenknight gets his head lobed off Brilliant typo
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by Cd00d 6y ago
I made the same mistake on desktop.
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by Cd00d 6y ago
Huh. I have a 2021 Outback with Eyesight. I don't think it does any facial monitoring. The lane-keeping is more aggressive than the 2017 model I had previously, but beeps at me for not being hands-on enough. As far as I can tell, this
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by Cd00d 6y ago
Oh, but at that rate, how will you ever put down roots ? :)
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by Cd00d 6y ago
At what point is this not "traveling" but rather "moving frequently".
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by Cd00d 6y ago
I think it's in the application for DE Shaw that you're asked to number the lines of code you've written in your career in the various languages you claim to have experience in.
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by Cd00d 6y ago
And the full capabilities of TurboTax still aren't that great. I never felt confident that I was interpreting every question properly. As soon as my tax situation got even the slightest bit complex I started using an accountant. They
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by Cd00d 6y ago
Wildly off-topic, but I recently learned this. Use asterisks in HN to express emphasis* in italics*. I too used underscores (a la Slack) up until a couple weeks ago when I noticed a comment from Dang somewhere saying how to emphasize.
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by Cd00d 6y ago
Short Topps /s
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by Cd00d 6y ago
Please make an app recommendation.

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