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by TrueGeek 3y ago
omg, that's disturbing. I would have assumed most people pull over and help a turtle finish crossing the road. I can't believe people, especially this many people, purposefully do this.
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by TrueGeek 3y ago
There is effectively no speed limit in many rural areas in the US as it's unmonitored that far from cities. It's not uncommon to get passed by a pickup, with a grill literally 6 feet in the air, going either 130 km/h or slowi
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by TrueGeek 3y ago
Yeah, it's fine for me as all my stuff is rechargeable and cordless anyway. But my wife needs her hairdryer. In the US any plugs that could get wet are GFCI [1] so you just wait for it to dry out and then push the reset button. I'
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by TrueGeek 3y ago
The Terminus building in Atlanta works like this. You select your floor as you walk in (it's possible to do mid stride) and then the screen says "ELEVATOR 4" so when you get there you just walk in to an elevator that has no b
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by TrueGeek 3y ago
The difference really is night and day between a US and UK kettle. The worst part of the British system though (although I don’t think this has anything to do with voltage, IDK) is there is nowhere to plug-in your razor, hair clippers, hair
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by TrueGeek 3y ago
A lot of these comments are saying they get sick days. I’m a senior dev in the US and only one company I’ve worked at in 24 years has given me sick days. One company justified the combined bucket of vacation / sick days by saying it’s
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by TrueGeek 3y ago
We can’t staff for the current level of demand of our healthcare systems, how would we “scale up”? Additionally, this article is about the UK where healthcare is paid through taxes. Are you suggesting the overweight pay higher taxes?
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by TrueGeek 3y ago
> I'm not sure visually-impaired individuals are the intended beneficiaries of this site... I’m know you’re making a joke but I want to point out that only a small percentage of blind people have 0% vision and it’s important that we
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by TrueGeek 3y ago
hey, this is Bill in sales. I’ve shared your prototype with a few of our customers. They love it! Can you add the follow features by EOW?
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by TrueGeek 3y ago
We bought a Rad Power City 4 bike and absolutely love it. But so much is proprietary on it. When a piece broke it was in the shop for over a month.
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by TrueGeek 3y ago
I'll give a data point as a parent with an older child. When they're younger it's not so bad. You can simply say "only 1 hour of screen time a day" and the kids don't put up a fuss. I even went a year without a
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by TrueGeek 3y ago
What about arranging IRL protests, union strikes, war zone evacuations? OP's statement of "Politics rots people's brains" is a very head-in-the-sand statement and ignores one of the truly good and powerful aspects of soc
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by TrueGeek 3y ago
Maybe it’s for his own wall because he’s WFH and doesn’t have any other Amazon swag.
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by TrueGeek 3y ago
> EDIT: If everyone ditched their cars, the housing crisis that is currently happening in literally every city in the developed world, will only get much worse. Or more funding will go towards public transportation. There will be more ro
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by TrueGeek 3y ago
That one didn't work for me, here is another: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2F...
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by TrueGeek 3y ago
A friend of mine switched from IT work (roll outs of retail systems) to driving a fork lift. He was able to stay with the same company and kept his seniority and vacation time (they give an extra week per 5 years so he’s up to 6 weeks PTO).
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by TrueGeek 3y ago
> Given a few years, every work from home job will be outsource to some country where the pay is less I’ve been hearing this (and worrying about it) for longer then I’ve been working from home. Coming up on 18 years this December.
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by TrueGeek 3y ago
"the People's Republic of China is an adversary of the United States" - sent from my iPhone
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by TrueGeek 3y ago
"encouraged to pay tithing before all other expenses" is an understatement
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by TrueGeek 3y ago
This ^ but it's an employee owned company. And since the company is doing so many things, like running schools and towns and pensions and scholarships, we should have some of the employees represent all of the others to make sure all t
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by TrueGeek 3y ago
I get your point, but your “17th century” example isn’t in the past yet https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-60046320
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by TrueGeek 3y ago
I find this true as well so I just subscribe to those specific subreddits via RSS and Newsblur. I also create a new Reddit account once a month so that I don't fall into a habit of letting my account share too much personal data or let
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by TrueGeek 3y ago
*centered
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by TrueGeek 3y ago
What's your vantage point though? Are you a "normal" senior seeing salaries going up from $175k and GP is a FAANG seeing salaries going down from $400k? note: I don't have data points for either, I'm genuinely curio
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by TrueGeek 3y ago
My experience has been the same. Take out is either cold or a long wait. The estimated time the app gives is WAY off and there are no notifications unlike other apps letting you know how it's progressing. We've tried delivery thre
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by TrueGeek 4y ago
I've been using Windows iCloud client to backup to a VPS. It works okay for files, but for photos it pegged disk usage even when there weren't any new photos to download and my VPS provider wasn't happy. So far my solution is
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by TrueGeek 4y ago
From what I can see (my in-laws use them) if you are signed in to apps that rely on their SSO then you are good. If you need to login or if your token need to refresh then you’re screwed. If you are just watching broadcast you’re also good.
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by TrueGeek 4y ago
Dish Network has been down three weeks now...
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by TrueGeek 4y ago
Twice I’ve seen one of the higher ups add a private bathroom attached to their office. (in additional to the bathroom that the normal employees use by the elevators). Once because of IBS and once because they liked taking mid-day showers. A
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by TrueGeek 4y ago
I’m super interested in this. I might have missed it but did the author never report on how it tasted? It sounded like she was in a room with a ton of samples.

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