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by acheron 7y ago
I did something like that for awhile when my first child was born. Went to 30 hours a week, done in three 10-hour days, spending Monday and Friday home with my kid. 75% salary/vacation time, same medical/everything else. I did tha
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by acheron 7y ago
The Guardian isn’t above clickbait in the same way that the sea is not above the clouds.
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by acheron 7y ago
I got married to a woman I met in college, we're still married ~20 years later, and given what I hear about how terrible dating is now I'm fairly convinced it was the best decision I ever made. I made a lot of bad decisions in col
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by acheron 7y ago
Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television https://www.theonion.com/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-d...
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by acheron 7y ago
"Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process." -- EB White Nonetheless: > Is it suppose to profoundly compare pure happiness versus struggle for progress? The idea
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by acheron 7y ago
One of my favorite quotes ever: For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much -- the wheel, New York, wars, and so on -- while all the dolphins had ever
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by acheron 7y ago
"Consulting: If you can't be part of the solution, there's a lot of money to be made prolonging the problem."
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by acheron 7y ago
Counterpoint: Don't Talk to Anyone, Ever https://freebeacon.com/blog/dont-talk-anyone-ever/ Don't talk to strangers at work. I don't care if you're coworkers: Unless you have to do a task with
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by acheron 7y ago
I distinctly remember thinking in 2001 that being able to play Nibbles on a cell phone was the apex of technology and it would be tough to get better than that.
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by acheron 7y ago
Wow, unexpected reference to Popcorn. I had no idea it was connected to anything else, let alone Alone in the Dark. I remember trying to puzzle out a lot of Popcorn’s menus and documentation since it was all in French. It was like Arkanoid,
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by acheron 7y ago
In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
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by acheron 7y ago
"I wanted to build the world's longest suspension bridge, but I found out someone else had already done it." - Jack Handey
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by acheron 7y ago
Nobody born in 1982 has anything in common with someone born in the 90s. If you want to make “millennial” that expansive, then it loses all meaning.
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by acheron 7y ago
Indeed. I looked through the Debian packages and didn't see left-pad anywhere.
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by acheron 7y ago
But that's because you're not paying them directly. No ads or tracking are disabled for subscribers. Paying them directly makes no difference.
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by acheron 7y ago
I still use a 2012 MB Air as my home laptop. I've used Firefox on it forever and have never had a problem.
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by acheron 7y ago
An ASCII character walks into a bar. The bartender says, "What's the problem?" The ASCII character says, "I have a parity error." The bartender nods and says, "Yeah, I thought you looked a bit off."
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by acheron 7y ago
I loved Venice when I first visited, almost two decades ago. I lived there for a few months. Went back again just for a week a little while later, around 2005. Sounds like tourism has gotten way bigger even just since then. I don't thi
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by acheron 7y ago
If you're interested in the leadup to WWI, I recommend this book: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780061146657/the-sleepwalkers...
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by acheron 7y ago
My opinion on that is about the same as Kirk and Spock's: https://www.wired.com/2016/09/punk-star-trek-iv-vulcan-nerve... edit: while searching for that, I discovered that Kirk Thatcher is reprising the role
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by acheron 7y ago
I got to go in the big moon rock vault at JSC once and see all[1] the moon rocks. I don't remember any particular smell. Of course unlike in a museum, the ones in there we couldn't touch with bare hands or anything -- we were in b
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by acheron 7y ago
Yes, this. Also from what I've read just applying it to your shoes is hugely effective on its own vs ticks, with socks adding another large percentage, as the majority of ticks will jump onto your feet and climb up your legs. The rest
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by acheron 7y ago
At the time it was specifically "dyndns.org", because there was a separate "dyndns.com" company that they eventually bought out, IIRC. > All things considered, I managed to get a pretty good deal out of it. Was a go
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by acheron 7y ago
Living in a high cost of living area is voluntary consumption just as much as leasing a new BMW or going on European vacations twice a year. If he wants to stop "just treading water", then he can move somewhere else, such as a pla
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by acheron 7y ago
"I don't use Facebook, I use [thing that is also Facebook]" is not a hugely compelling argument. While "buy out your competitors" is not exactly a supergenius-level strategy, it is amazing how well it's worked
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by acheron 7y ago
I still think of Tim Sweeney as “the man behind ZZT”.
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by acheron 7y ago
this was back when you could fry a motherboard by connecting the PSU to it incorrectly. In 2001? From what I remember, everything was using ATX power by the late 90s, which could only be connected in one direction. I thought the possibili
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by acheron 7y ago
This is a pretty good column, with kind of a dumb headline, as is too common nowadays. The column is not really suggesting that Neal invented bitcoin. I am about halfway through Fall now, and where the column says "It may not be his
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by acheron 7y ago
Totally opposite here. Running is much better than biking, and also I much prefer excising at home to a gym. Point is: it's a personal preference. Glad you enjoy biking and going to the gym, but both of those sound terrible to me.
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by acheron 7y ago
Washington DC's metro is famous for broken escalators, and yes they usually block them off.

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