MandieD

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by MandieD 4y ago
Cheer up - I met the man I married via the Yahoo personals (now that shows my age!) when he was 32, and was his first serious girlfriend. Just keep enjoying and putting effort into your work, family, friends and hobbies, and you’ll be a mor
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by MandieD 4y ago
I'm on the $95/2 year plan, with about 30GB stoage, and have several domains attached, all set up for catchalls. Trying to explain to a business why their name is in the email address you just filled out on a form is fun sometimes
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by MandieD 4y ago
Tech advocacy for older people should be a core role for groups like AARP; not just rating which devices they might like best, but having UI/UX staff who specialize in understanding the needs of older people AND lobbying to make sure “
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by MandieD 4y ago
Being able to give a well-reasoned opinion about a matter in your particular area of expertise to a manager who isn't deep into it during a face-to-face meeting without pulling out your phone or laptop is essential to career progress
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by MandieD 4y ago
As John Scalzi said, "the failure mode of clever is asshole" - as in, how you are perceived, especially in low-context situations.
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by MandieD 4y ago
My baby was failing to gain weight at all (discovered with baby scale at home between appointments), and once I started pumping, realized that I wasn't producing much. With an aggressive schedule, I got to an adequate level. We supplem
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by MandieD 4y ago
Fun fact: we're still not quite sure how acetaminophen/paracetamol (aka, Tylenol) works! https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18811827/
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by MandieD 4y ago
I was about to be the third generation of women who relied on formula (grandmother tried and failed at age 20 around 1940 despite plenty of help from her mother, mother didn’t bother at 35 in 1980), but for a modern miracle: portable, confi
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by MandieD 4y ago
Infant mortality right before the 20th century, even in the UK and US, was staggeringly high - yes, a lot of that was childhood diseases that we now have vaccines and better sanitation against, but much of it was also “failure to thrive”.
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by MandieD 4y ago
We still have several a year involving sudden neighborhood evacuations in the Nuremberg area, and I expect my son, age 2, will still be dealing with this when he’s an old man if he stays anywhere in Germany. It’s especially chaotic when one
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by MandieD 4y ago
In Germany, https://www.afbshop.de/ provides PC disposal services, and then sells the reconditioned machines with new hard drives/SSDs. They also have retail shops in some German cities; I bought an HP Prodesk micro PC
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by MandieD 4y ago
It’s also part of why a lot of amateur radio-related sites still serve unencrypted HTTP, either optionally or exclusively. (The other part of why is that there are an awful lot of valuable amateur radio sites that haven’t been updated in 15
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by MandieD 4y ago
As someone who was a young female CS major half a lifetime ago, thanks for sticking your neck out to explain this to your fellow fellows.
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by MandieD 4y ago
Mine’s now a bit older (2.5), but will play with plastic cups and dishes and the dish brush in the sink with the tap on trickle until I turn it off and pull him off the chair. He occasionally demands a drop of dish soap.
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by MandieD 4y ago
One wrinkle: you have to be on public insurance if you're employed and making less than about 60k EUR/year (adjusts with inflation, more or less) AND (starting a few years ago) have been working less than three or four years. You
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by MandieD 4y ago
I was a weird edge case, so had to get private: at the time of my residence permit application, I was a resident of a country that did not have compulsory health insurance (pre-ACA USA), married to a German with private insurance, and not y
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by MandieD 4y ago
German doctors and hospitals will cheerfully bill you directly, no insurance necessary. They would be hesitant to schedule you for a very expensive procedure without an insurance card, but I just had surgery to insert and later remove pins
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by MandieD 4y ago
When you're at your wits' end, remember that your primary job is to keep them from killing/permanently injuring themselves, and that they will manage to injure themselves anyway. You will be amazed at how profoundly stupid th
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by MandieD 4y ago
“Don’t you ever start, Mandie,” said my grandmother, lighting her next cigarette from the current one.
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by MandieD 4y ago
I'll chime in with hearty agreement. Being able to let my son watch what he finds without my having to watch it all first (as I do now)? I hope this product/service is available in about 4-5 years, when he's at an age where h
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by MandieD 4y ago
He might have decided that his fastest path to the Senate (indeed) and presidency (failed... so far, anyway) was to play the stereotypical big-mouthed, empty-headed Texan, but he went to the Ivies for his undergrad and law degrees and has s
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by MandieD 4y ago
Even worse: when a translation of the page you clicked on into the language the site is forcing into your browser to doesn't exist/isn't properly linked, so you get bounced to the homepage in said language, possibly in a doma
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by MandieD 4y ago
Getting into amateur radio had had me do this re-think. The Icom IC-7300 has apparently been the best-selling HF transceiver for several years now (think Toyota Corolla for relative cost and performance), but even so, numbers in the low ten
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by MandieD 4y ago
“She needs to be able to press the same buttons every time she goes on that app and [insert app name here] doesn’t let her do that” must sum up at least 90% of user problems.
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by MandieD 4y ago
All of the drama of the last three months has helped me finally kick that filthy habit, so thanks, Elon.
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by MandieD 4y ago
Amusingly enough, “blue hairs” has long been slang for elderly women - a lot of old women used to put a bit of bluing in their yellowish grey hair to make it look whiter/more silvery, and some of them overdid it a bit at times. What’s
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by MandieD 4y ago
How I explain US federalism to Germans: in 2014, an amount of marijuana that could be purchased in a nice, state-regulated shop in Colorado by anyone over 21 years old could have gotten you a $100 fine in New Mexico, and up to 6 months in j
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by MandieD 4y ago
"How else would I pay a cybercriminal without Crypto?" Before cryptocurrency became widespread, they were limited to gift cards and MoneyPaks, which kept the ransoms to the several hundred dollar level, and therefore to the "
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by MandieD 4y ago
As someone who graduated into the Dotcom Bust, your expectations need to be pulled back a bit from what you saw your somewhat older friends get right away. Not only the amount of your starting salary (it was about a 30-50% decrease for thos
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by MandieD 4y ago
My home state’s (Texas) online ballot printing site for small counties got its mails to my GMail sent to spam in 2018 and 2020, and not even that far in 2022. That domain doesn’t have SPF or DKIM configured, and the link to click for genera

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