MandieD

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by MandieD 5y ago
Also, rash ointment = can be slightly less aggressive about changing wet but not full diapers.
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by MandieD 5y ago
As my husband, a German, says, the judicial system in Germany is blind in the right eye.
813.
by MandieD 5y ago
Oh, yes. Sorry for forgetting about y'all - I translated "traditional family values" a bit too narrowly and self-focused. (Paid parental leave is apparently an attack on the "traditional family".)
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by MandieD 5y ago
I wish that the US could wholesale implement Germany's electoral system. The Bundestag is approximately 1/2 directly elected seats from the 300 or so districts, and the other 1/2 are proportionally divided among the parties t
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by MandieD 5y ago
Oh, that's nice. I get ones that are more "concerned mom" targeted about what various elements of "The Left" wish to do to children.
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by MandieD 5y ago
When I contact my senators and representative about literally anything and give them my email for a reply, they end up spamming me constantly with their newsletters bragging about how they're keeping Obama, and now Biden, from being ab
817.
by MandieD 5y ago
The Clockwork triggers fond memories of the TRS-80 Model 100 (1983) my gadget-mad granddaddy bought and barely used, but let me play with.
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Russia can’t find enough buyers for its oil, considers selling in Bitcoin(arstechnica.com)
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by MandieD 5y ago
This is an extremely interesting idea that pins down a lot of stuff that had been rattling around loose in my head - have you written more about it?
820.
by MandieD 5y ago
Or you could run your containers on BlueMix… Tasteless jokes aside, great seeing you writing useful stuff for the world in your post “large, Franconia-based manufacturer” life!
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by MandieD 5y ago
In my late 30's, with the only indication that we were fertile at all having been an ectopic pregnancy many years before, we gave up. We had wanted kids, but our lives were good, with nieces and nephews we love. A few months before my
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by MandieD 5y ago
Most people here don’t have air conditioners - more than used to, but most of the people I know here (Nürnberg area) don’t. I feel like we temporarily dodged a bullet by sheer laziness - before the pandemic, we were all set to do the whole
823.
by MandieD 5y ago
The worst are government websites (generally state or local) that assume US citizen = US resident. There are about 9 million US citizens who live abroad.
824.
by MandieD 5y ago
Docker Hub was part of why we declined Docker for Business and instead came up with our own WSL-based workaround. Docker Hub is an anti-feature for large enterprises; we had been blocking direct access to it for a while before all this and
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by MandieD 5y ago
I’ll give you the old saw: who do you want to share a checkbook with? Not exactly literally - my husband and I have always had very separate accounts due to the weird issues being a US citizen abroad presents, but we still share a common f
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by MandieD 5y ago
Nice recipes and photos! Is your config publicly available, as in, how you went from their docker-compose to a snazzy subdomain behind https? Or did you use SWAG for the reverse proxy?
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by MandieD 5y ago
And this previous year, Gazprom didn't fill the tanks.
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by MandieD 5y ago
For an academic paper, it was really easy to read, and I say that as someone who has noticed that my own attention span has become alarmingly short.
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by MandieD 5y ago
The discussion around a big monitor with a processor powerful enough for ca. 2020 flagship iPhone is going to be a bit different than the discussion prompted by their phone for people who miss the 2013 flagship iPhone.
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by MandieD 5y ago
Also not as compelling for watching video, aka more ads. Current phone: SE 2020, purchased second hand last summer Previous: SE 2016, purchased second hand fall 2017 Delighted to see this one hit the scene; would have been happier if it wer
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by MandieD 5y ago
"Germans effectively left in the late 40s" - Germans quickly evacuated in the face of the Red Army, because bad things happened to the ones who didn't. My father-in-law's family considered themselves very lucky to have h
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by MandieD 5y ago
The Wayback Machine has got your back: https://web.archive.org/web/20220225092808/http://www.userfr...
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by MandieD 5y ago
It was often hilarious if you happened to work at a local ISP in the era the comic was started (late 90s), back when $20-30/mo for dialup was a good deal, and customers could drop their computers off to have their modems and Netscape i
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by MandieD 5y ago
A webcomic that started back when mid-sized US/Canadian towns really did have one-stop ISPs that employed both experienced sysadmins, the new web designers doing sites for local businesses, and students just getting started in IT - and
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by MandieD 5y ago
Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows" is easier going than I thought it would be, and I'm doing even better than a chapter at a sitting, and sometimes have to make myself put it down. I think he wrote it for people with diminis
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by MandieD 5y ago
Unless I've made an arithmetic error, those two American-sized beers (12oz each, 700ml of beer total) contain 35g of alcohol, and the American glass of wine (6oz, or 175ml) has 22.75g. Less alcohol than the two beers, but still more th
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by MandieD 5y ago
That's true. To really waste time on the internet, you had to go Googling or hit Slashdot.
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by MandieD 5y ago
TikTok was so instantly compelling that I was scared away from further interaction with it, but Twitter is my weakness that I sometimes feel like I've conquered, but as soon as I allow myself back in to check my DMs...
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by MandieD 5y ago
Having a kid made my internet addiction 100% worse. When your free time only comes in brief, unpredictable snatches, and your smartphone is right there in your pocket and can be held while rocking a baby who can't quite sleep, guess wh
840.
by MandieD 5y ago
Nothing to do with age, I'm afraid - I'm over 40, and far more scattered and subject to the lure of the endless internet than when I was 20. In my personal situation, my best hope is that it is mommy brain, and that I'll outg

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