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by MandieD 5y ago
RIPScript was the bane of my existence as a Trash-80 BBS user - a screen full of slowly-unfurling rubbish from which I had to pick out the actual text. (I never called my Model 4 a “Trash-80” at the time - her name was Trissy, and she was d
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by MandieD 5y ago
A nerdy girl fighting with her much more socially-adept little brother over use of the phone line their parents gave them for Christmas, typing AT commands into XModem on the TRS-80 her uncle gave her after he moved on to PCs, using a 300 b
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by MandieD 5y ago
All of the AR/VR/metaverse talk has given me a bit better understanding of my dad, who had no interest in even learning how to use a PC ca. 2000 and still has no desire to use the internet, and my mother-in-law, who has a deep ske
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by MandieD 5y ago
Since my purchases of shares appear to have driven down the prices of XOM and T, I volunteer as tribute ;) I will either make the world a better place, or make a (in)decent amount of money.
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by MandieD 5y ago
Yeah, I feel a bit bad for sticking my 15-month-old in a 2m x 1m playpen with his favorite toys so I can attend to something else for a few minutes. He also apparently hated being swaddled, managing to break loose by about six weeks old. Ba
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by MandieD 5y ago
That’s how I handle visits back home. TV off, unless it’s sports or movies, and if one of them brings up anything political, I slam the brakes with, “So-and-so, you know that I love you, right?” “Well, yes…” “What have I said about talking
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by MandieD 5y ago
Bit of a side-track, but if you ever get to go to Korea, spend a few hours learning how Hangul works. I am crap at learning how to speak languages (17 years in Germany, and I still have most people shifting to English as soon as they hear a
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by MandieD 5y ago
It’s basically a peace treaty. There are things about it that I think are incredibly counterproductive to democracy (and they were designed to be so!), but I shudder at the thought of rolling the dice on scrapping or heavily re-writing it
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by MandieD 5y ago
Heck, it seems to be doing some of its worst damage to the over-60 crowd. Me, 20 years ago: I wish Dad would try to learn how to use a PC so he could understand what I’m studying. Me, 10 years ago: I wish Dad would try to learn how to use t
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by MandieD 5y ago
And some of us think that the category of “legal business” should be restricted a bit more, just as we don’t allow alcohol and marijuana producers to sell to minors, or financial institutions to loan money at high interest rates with self-e
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by MandieD 5y ago
I reacted the same way, so glad you brought it up for people who know more about biology to calm us down :)
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by MandieD 5y ago
We’re a dual engineer couple, but still only pay 400 EUR/mo for 8-9 hour/day daycare for our 1 year old, and it would be a bit less if we had more than one kid, and a lot less if we were significantly under Germany’s median househ
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by MandieD 5y ago
To be fair, I also saw that headline and thought “guys going around selling squirrels they had caught/shot,” and half my family is from East Texas!
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by MandieD 5y ago
The very old school way: church/religious group. Doesn’t have to be fundamentalist/conservative - if you’re in a US metro area, I guarantee you have the more open-minded variants of all the major religions rather close to you. The
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by MandieD 5y ago
I made my two best college friends during sorority rush. None of us actually ended up joining a sorority :)
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by MandieD 5y ago
4) do this after you get home - don’t literally jot that stuff down in a notebook while talking to them. You may forget some details, that’s ok. The important part is that you’ll think over that interaction while it’s fresh on your mind. 5)
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by MandieD 5y ago
Decoupling health insurance contracts from employment is absolutely necessary, though not sufficient. Do it like the UK, do it like Germany, or do something else, but as long as the health insurance contract itself (not just the payment of
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by MandieD 5y ago
As my (devout but quietly Baptist) boss at my childhood town’s local ISP told me, “if you ever run into a businessman who is eager to tell you what a strong [Christian] believer he is, or has a [Jesus] fish on his signs or business cards, w
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by MandieD 5y ago
Heating a whole free-standing house to comfort in long sleeve t-shirts and jeans (68F/20C) in a cold climate is a luxury that’s only a few decades old, especially taking into account how much average houses in the US and Canada have gr
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by MandieD 5y ago
Today, I realized that I am now old. Bubbly startup pitch: “… WebGPU, WebXR, and WebAssembly are going to replace the photo, text, and video sites you use currently into 3D spatial ones that you can experience and live in...” My reaction: “
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by MandieD 5y ago
Philip Morris --> Altria
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by MandieD 5y ago
OMG. You may end up having changed my life - it had never occurred to me that a) this was a thing I could just up and buy, and b) it really isn’t that expensive. No more worrying that I’m about to stick myself with the wrong prescription be
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by MandieD 5y ago
Somewhat tangential, but I, and my elderly relatives on the other side of the country and Atlantic, would love for me to have the same level of optional supervision for their accounts that I automatically have for accounts associated with m
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by MandieD 5y ago
A lot of HN (myself included) is older than ciabatta (1982!) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciabatta
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by MandieD 5y ago
Like those old coal power plants being retained or even fired up explicitly for crypto mining? https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoin-miners-are-giving-new-l...
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by MandieD 5y ago
Another confirmation here: I, an American citizen living and working in Germany, have been able to get simple checking accounts, but no one will open a regular brokerage or tax-advantaged retirement account for me. However, that's kind
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by MandieD 5y ago
Do you use a VPN to connect your corporate laptop to your employer’s network from home? Do you use Wireguard, or its easier-to-use derivative, Tailescale, to connect any of your devices? Do you use any form of VOIP (Voice over IP)? (Edited
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by MandieD 5y ago
“Start taxing digital advertising revenue ” That’s it. Not profits (too many games possible), but the revenue itself. Call your senators and representatives.
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by MandieD 5y ago
“… it was exported from white supremacist America to Germany.” Stumbling upon that particular panel in the permanent exhibit at the Dokumentationszentrum at the former Reichsparteitagsgelände (“Nazi Rally Grounds”) in Nuremberg was an eye
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by MandieD 5y ago
Because you’re a single mother, and must at least attempt to work full time. Our society to single mothers with poor career prospects: get a job, you mooch! We don’t care that it won’t pay enough for decent childcare and your other basic li

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