DanTheManPR

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by DanTheManPR 4y ago
It's old tech, for sure, but it's what my parents still use. I occasionally will burn a DVD of some video I've shot for them to watch.
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by DanTheManPR 4y ago
As opposed to the IT department of the NSA?
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by DanTheManPR 4y ago
I suspect OP is referring to articles about how young women make more money than young men in some metro areas. You can look at actual nation-wide data from the BLS: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkyeng.t03.htm
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by DanTheManPR 4y ago
But it's not as though property taxes and ongoing maintenance costs don't exist for apartments. The income the owner receives from the rents has to cover all of that.
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by DanTheManPR 4y ago
This must be a regionalism; I've never heard of them called "verniers" before.
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by DanTheManPR 4y ago
I think people might take your comment as flippant, but keeping zero is a very important capability that higher-end measuring devices can have. You can count on them not drifting when you open them up and take a measurement, and so you&#x27
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by DanTheManPR 4y ago
There are a number of good tutorial channels on Youtube. I think the best is Joko Engineering: https://www.youtube.com/c/JokoEngineeringhelp
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by DanTheManPR 4y ago
Launchers have replaced start menu search for me. They do more, they do it faster. It's frustrating that the start menu doesn't do basic stuff like open bookmarks from Edge, or do simple calculations. Having this functionality wou
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by DanTheManPR 4y ago
I hang on to my old iPod shuffles and nanos with clips on them, and have paid to get them refurbed. It's just so easy to clip them onto my shirt and go. The alternative is... what, to put my gigantic phablet phone in the small pocket o
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by DanTheManPR 4y ago
Beyond the expense and time, mistakes can also be very dangerous. I take a lot of pride in designing industrial machines that are not only effective at their task, but safe to build and operate. The products that I've had a hand in are
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by DanTheManPR 4y ago
> The biggest difference I see between software developers and mechanical engineers is a way of thinking. I realize that sounds very woo, but it's very obvious to me and to other mechanical engineers I've spoken to. As a fellow
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by DanTheManPR 4y ago
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll try that out.
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by DanTheManPR 4y ago
The huge advantage of the RPi is that I can get it up and running doing things that are useful for me just by following online guides. Whereas I ran into lots of problems when trying to do useful things with other SBCs (I'm not a &quot
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by DanTheManPR 4y ago
It's more powerful and full-featured than usually given credit for. But there are a lot of common things that are very annoying and janky to do. Filleting is one of the first things that will be an unpleasant surprise to new users, as
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by DanTheManPR 4y ago
Some people definitely do work 200% longer and harder than a regular employee who is conscientious about their work. Working 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, and not letting off the gas, really putting your energy into it. The author works at
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by DanTheManPR 4y ago
I never had A/C at home until I moved to the US Midwest a few years ago. In a hot and humid climate, you just have to design buildings and communities for the climate and adapt your lifestyle so that you're avoiding the heat. In a
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by DanTheManPR 4y ago
One of the major frustrations I have with my current town is the "last tenth of a mile" that is often disconnected from any sidewalks, or is blocked off with no path through. We're a dense inner ring suburb with a decent sele
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by DanTheManPR 4y ago
I've started open-sourcing all the design files for the stuff I sell online, because IP protection is very weak (and frankly, I've come to think it's basically impossible). It's been a more healthy way for me to approach
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by DanTheManPR 4y ago
I started out selling my own hobby stuff on eBay, and then switched to Etsy because I appreciated the way it presented my products as a storefront. It seemed more "legitimate". But with the way things are going, I'm ironicall
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by DanTheManPR 4y ago
It effectively means that a 4 star review has the same impact as a 1 star review.
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by DanTheManPR 4y ago
What it reminds me of is Network Decay: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NetworkDecay Etsy began as a service to a niche market, and was a good platform for small sellers. But they're a public
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by DanTheManPR 4y ago
Anecdotally: I get about 49/50ths of my sales from Etsy. They have captured a lot of the virtual storefront at least for the stuff I sell (accessories I make for board games and toys). It's almost not even worth your time to list
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by DanTheManPR 5y ago
I wonder why fingerprint readers act up for some people, is there some sort of physiological reason? It works perfectly for me, but I've seen how much a tech-savvy friend of mine struggled with it (for them, faceid was a godsend).
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by DanTheManPR 5y ago
Well of course, there has to be bagholders
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by DanTheManPR 5y ago
I'm glad I bought my house while rates are very low. While sticker prices are very high right now, the price when factoring in very low interest rates on mortgages are much closer to a historical normal (although still elevated because
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by DanTheManPR 5y ago
I use it every day with my family and friends. We're not all on the same messaging platforms, but we can always reliably send MMS messages for pics on group chats.
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by DanTheManPR 5y ago
It seems incredibly weird to me that the start menu search can't do basic stuff like launch browser bookmarks.
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by DanTheManPR 5y ago
His point about enterprise gear being a good value on the secondhand market is well taken. I've refreshed old optiplex workstations with some new components, and given them to kids and organizations who need a new computer, and they wo
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by DanTheManPR 5y ago
It suggests to me that a lot of HN commentators have only been on one side of the interaction between service workers and customers.
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by DanTheManPR 5y ago
One difference is that the VA is a complete system, with it's own hospitals and staff. Medicare is that half-way solution, a public insurance system which buys medical services for the members from the private sector. As for the VA sys

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