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by a3n 6y ago
Thanks. It's not especially long, you just drive one day at a time and go to sleep at night. And then you drive one day at a time to the next stop. You're either sitting in a chair behind a desk all day long, or sitting in a chair
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by a3n 6y ago
I'm working on getting my semi truck to Chico CA. I left Laramie on I-80 westbound this morning, having been shut down the previous two days for wind and ice. That road is still closed to light high profile vehicles, but this trip I&
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by a3n 6y ago
I notice that the open book that this course is based on was developed with some relationship to the Washington State community college system. I wonder if community college systems could save us from the tyranny of expensive commercial tex
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by a3n 6y ago
Instead of naming rights for a stadium, it's running rights for a whole town. What happens if your town account is opaquely closed?
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by a3n 6y ago
> I think the time is ideal for the "next Python". We could call it Python 6.
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by a3n 6y ago
Firefox, because I've used it since Netscape, and for ublock origin, and that it's not from Google or Microsoft and their current or eventual motivation to thwart tools like ublock origin. However, it's pretty annoying that c
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by a3n 6y ago
There are a gazillion ways to make a living (or not), driving a truck. Yep, some drivers are independent and own one or more trucks. Some "independent" drivers are more closely associated with a large employer, leasing their truck
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by a3n 6y ago
Semi truck driver. I work for one of the largest nation wide trucking companies in America. We have these in all our trucks, but only one forward facing camera. The driver is not visible. I have been flagged a few times for following too cl
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by a3n 6y ago
So, they recommended paying distributors to kill people. Because, in addition to the profit distributors would make by merely being in business, they would make even more money for each related death.
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by a3n 6y ago
Nit: "Effect" is an Entity, a noun. They both start with "E." "Affect" is an Action, a verb. They both start with "A." Effect is sometimes used as a verb, especially in bureaucratese, but not in the w
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by a3n 6y ago
A mere licensing fee.
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by a3n 6y ago
Form a team, create a product, get aqhired.
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by a3n 6y ago
The Bloomberg podcast Switched On is interesting and eclectic.
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by a3n 6y ago
I'd turn that around. Airlines are very corporate, risk averse and liability aware. I would guess airline pilots are trained and reminded to declare emergencies in general and specific circumstances, or lose their job if not their airc
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by a3n 6y ago
Will they also stop trading when stop losses get swept by hedges and other large traders? So the retail traders can, you know, recalibrate.
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by a3n 6y ago
J.F.C.
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by a3n 6y ago
We do work for them. Watch them choose their voters every ten years.
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by a3n 6y ago
I spend most of my time in /new. It's the best part of HN, in the same sense that questions on stack overflow that have been flagged as inappropriate are the most interesting ones.
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by a3n 6y ago
Two things I used to say, back in the day: I'm not smart enough to be safe and effective with C++. And: Life is too long to program in C++.
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by a3n 6y ago
> Not only do they tend to select larger cities, but also warmer cities. As a trucker, my view is mostly from the interstate. The most homeless I see in my travels all over the country is I-5 in California, Oregon and Washington, and CA
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by a3n 6y ago
The Stevens Unix and networking books. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Richard_Stevens
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by a3n 6y ago
IMO, if people are asking this question again, then, no.
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by a3n 6y ago
I used to be in software, which is how I found HN. Then I rage-quit my last in-career job. I was a B-player, and past my fresh date. I stumbled around a bit, and wound up here. I like it. I haven't been in a meeting in three years, and
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by a3n 6y ago
Truck driver. I just picked up a trailer of toilet paper in Portland, bound for Ontario CA. The guard handling the paperwork asked me "Are you able to sign online?" I desperately tried to come up with a snappy "yep," it
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by a3n 6y ago
Transferring items between ships at sea is not done while "stationary," it's done by both ships underway in parallel. It's relatively dangerous, both ships have to be designed for it, and both crews have to be trained fo
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by a3n 6y ago
I sometimes wonder if we're getting too much plastic on our diet. Or if we're encountering a new form of mass alzheimer's. Maybe from plastic. Or maybe that's my personal paranoia.
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by a3n 6y ago
My ex wife and I are in our early sixties. I've gradually watched her slip in this direction. She recently told me I should stock up on canned food. At the time I thought it was just random her. Reading this article was a shock of reco
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by a3n 6y ago
I wonder what things would be like today if the term "message oriented programming" had caught on instead.
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by a3n 6y ago
Here's another way to look at it. Is there a principal engineer in your chain of technical supervision? Does the work you do, at your current and former jobs, include a path to becoming a principal engineer? Or another perspective. Can
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by a3n 6y ago
As I understand it, servers in the US are protected by American law. American security services are not allowed to aggressively surveil or break in to them, without a FISA or other warrant. IANAL. But, foreign servers are wide open to anyth

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