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by CommenterPerson 9mo ago
Great, my 20 year old car is now avant-garde!
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by CommenterPerson 9mo ago
"The Emperor of All Maladies" by Siddartha Mukhejee. He is a medical doctor, researcher .. plus writes great science / medical books. This one won a Pulitzer prize. Check out his other books "The song of the Cell" a
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by CommenterPerson 9mo ago
To the author: was there an open process to move to another role within your previous company? That could be another path to finding a better environment where one could grow in salary and responsibility?
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by CommenterPerson 10mo ago
You are special. There are lots and lots of "software engineers" in the world. Very very few can bring scientific experience and knowledge to the job. I might look for a developer role in a large university project where they need
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by CommenterPerson 10mo ago
Hear hear. The word "Technology" has also been redefined to mean computer or phone stuff. As a real (manly) engineer, this pisses me off no end! :-) To answer the OP, this Civil engineering blog / video site is really good. I
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by CommenterPerson 10mo ago
Knowing SQL, and knowing how to optimize queries has pretty much paid my paycheck for 20 years.
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by CommenterPerson 10mo ago
The $445 million campaign contribution / bribe from Big Oil is clearly paying off.
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by CommenterPerson 10mo ago
I ordered a basic Windows laptop, it comes with Windows 11. It's going to be my Linux starter computer. I'm not a computer person. Wish me luck!
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by CommenterPerson 10mo ago
Firstly, Thank you to the entire DuckDuckGo team. DuckDuckGo is the browser I use most all the time. Any product that stops or reduces tracking and surveillance capitalism, I am happy to use and support. Do you have plans to build an email
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by CommenterPerson 10mo ago
We had driven to a small remote village on Vancouver Island BC, to catch an early morning ferry. We had reserved a room at the only motel in town. We got there around 9PM. The a*h** owner ignored the doorbell and did not let us in (we could
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by CommenterPerson 10mo ago
Yay for the Aussie government. Hope the sociopath tech bros take notice and clean up their toxic products. And the little tech bros protesting here. The Aussies passed strict gun control laws in 1996 .. suicides and homicides decreased sign
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by CommenterPerson 10mo ago
Well. Good that you were revived and shared your experience with us! Being born can be compared to a one in billions lottery win. We're given this time. "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us". I
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by CommenterPerson 10mo ago
I shop at Walmart and Costco. The customers at the Costco appear much better off, but they seem much more arrogant and inconsiderate. They leave carts in the middle of the aisle, talk on phones with their families blocking the way, and so f
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by CommenterPerson 10mo ago
The big revenue isn't going to come from improvements in coding, or writing better emails, or protein folding. It's going to come from more seductive and compelling ads (using all the data vacuumed up from your apps and your psych
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by CommenterPerson 10mo ago
Nice Work! I found our credit union posts the mortgage rates clearly on a plain text like page. There's no BS and no games. Whereas with the big banks, you get the games and higher rates .. no matter if they have records of 10 years of
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by CommenterPerson 10mo ago
The charges you mention are likely all from hospitals. How about Pluvicto for advanced prostate cancer at $42,500 per monthly dose? All the players are in on it. The sound way to manage costs and avoid these games is via Medicare for all, w
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by CommenterPerson 10mo ago
Had the same reaction when I saw how the 40K was calculated (BTW I strongly believe in Medicare for all to control costs and to pay for civilization. To be paid out of progressive taxes on all income). If Aaronontheweb had the misfortune of
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by CommenterPerson 10mo ago
I use an older Garmin, purchased from ebay. Works fine, updated maps via a laptop recently. Needed an extra SD cards for space.
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by CommenterPerson 11mo ago
For me personally, indoor plumbing wins hands down. If you took society at large, I'd suggest the answer is still indoor plumbing .. the amount of disease and excess deaths would overrule surveillance capitalism easily.
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by CommenterPerson 11mo ago
Firstly, Good work. Ironical but one HN front page item today is this: "Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams and banned goods, Reuters reports" Glad you're leaving, hopefully you're in a good place financia
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by CommenterPerson 11mo ago
Maybe someone is tailgating it. And it's trying to annoy them by speeding up, then slowing down. There seem to be so many fudge factors in the whole chain of analysis we won't have an idea until we can make vastly improved measure
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by CommenterPerson 11mo ago
Let's go even further back. Why not to when we were wearing skins and foraging for food. Or even further, when we were plain slime.
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by CommenterPerson 11mo ago
Sorry about this. This hairsplitting is common on HN comment threads. We lose track of the main theme and nitpick at great length on some word. .. A grateful F-Droid supporter and user.
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by CommenterPerson 1y ago
Words words words. I'm addressing the commenters there. The OP is 100% correct. Please show up peacefully at the next No Kings. Take some small steps and do something.
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by CommenterPerson 1y ago
Already in their future plans I can see the seeds of enshittification. I loved Arduino and built many projects with it. Hoping I am wrong about their future.
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A Billionaire's Plan to Reach Another Star Fell Apart(scientificamerican.com)
6 points by CommenterPerson 1y ago|1 comments
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by CommenterPerson 1y ago
Found this fascinating, not just due to the plans of another billionaire. One, even if that project seemed more feasible, it shows the risks of depending on one person's whims for a very large project. What if they, you know, changed t
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by CommenterPerson 1y ago
I do banking, bill paying, etc from a laptop. I have the minimum number of apps on phone, mostly from Fdroid, plus Uber (my location turned off except the rare occasions when I need to call uber).
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by CommenterPerson 1y ago
It's highly likely that payments to Middle East are actively tracked. Because "terrsts" /s. So people may be reluctant to enter into business dealings.
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by CommenterPerson 1y ago
1. Ask yourself what kinds of things you really enjoy doing deep down inside. This is going to matter in the long term. You did mention you liked programming, but was that triggered by the glamor and promise? 2. Assuming that it is still to

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