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by ajford 5y ago
Any chance of a USB-C variant coming around? I'm currently migrating everything I can to USB-C to eliminate needing to keep various types of charging cables around.
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by ajford 5y ago
Also depends on your insurance provider (at least in the US). Previous insurance I had wouldn't cover urgent care clinics, but would cover ERs. Stupid beyond belief, but it was a small company so I guess there were compromises on the p
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by ajford 5y ago
Taking a child to the hospital, in particular a toddler/infant, is extremely stressful. If one is already tired from caring for that child all night, I'd completely understand asking the other parent to take the child. In fact, I
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by ajford 5y ago
Wow, this is a very entitled author... It reads to me like the author theirself is the one who's more afraid of germs, what with a good 1/3 - 1/2 of the article seeming to focus on germs. I've known a good number of peop
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by ajford 5y ago
This reminds me of something out of one of Neal Stephenson's latest fiction novels, Fall; or Dodge in Hell [0]. The concept of the "web" devolving into a deluge of information ranging from completely false to purely factual t
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by ajford 5y ago
Especially if your employer is hiring for a similar role or for someone who will be working closely with the team/department you're in. It makes sense to ensure a good interpersonal/intrateam fit. A "domain expert"
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by ajford 5y ago
You mean like every pay-at-the-pump gas stall has for something like a decade? I hate this app payment system for chargers. I spent something like 30 minutes once trying to get the ChargePoint app to play nice with my phone (didn't wan
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by ajford 5y ago
I think Chevy got feedback on that or something, as that's something they changed on the Gen 2 Volt. The hazard switch is now right by the driver's seat, "down-left" from the shifter.
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by ajford 5y ago
Only if the phone automatically returns to English on a reboot. Equipment like this from that era had very little non-volatile storage, so it basically boots clean and fresh every time.
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by ajford 5y ago
> Perhaps I'm too young, but I've literally never know any such a salesperson. This was about 30-40 years ago, so it's far more in the time frame where you'd have technically competent sales folk, as you'd be pit
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by ajford 5y ago
Man, the people in this thread have some tree-sized sticks in places where the sun don't shine. Also seems like many of these people haven't been to an engineering conference with demo gear out. And seem to be overlooking that thi
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by ajford 5y ago
I used to do that with emails to vendors or the occasional end-user. Also learned a key tip that you either remove the "to" line or write those emails in a text editor first. They you can't accidentally send the nasty first e
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by ajford 5y ago
Up front here, I'm in no way attempting to demean your loss. As a counter-counterpoint; Buddy of mine by way of a local community group lost his elderly mother in a care home because someone decided to come in to visit last year while
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by ajford 5y ago
My large city in Texas is now down to 35 ICU beds across the entire city. That's how. A friend's father-in-law had to drive 4hrs away to find a hospital with capacity for his cardiac surgery. That's how.
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by ajford 5y ago
In the middle of a global pandemic, is the chance that it could prevent a death or life-long complication for someone not a "net positive"? If wearing red shirts on Tuesdays gave me a 0.001% improvement in my kid not being infecte
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by ajford 5y ago
It's the incredible selfishness of some Americans (speaking as an American). Plenty of people who take their own personal comfort and opinions as higher priority over others. Even from day one we've had people refusing to mask&#x2
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by ajford 5y ago
Totally get that. A friend of mine from Finland said compliance with mandates and safety advisories was a lot better back home than those in the US. There's a lot of people in the US arguing that mask mandates and other medical precaut
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by ajford 5y ago
Kids are less at risk. That doesn't mean they aren't at risk . They can, and do, still catch Covid, even if they are less likely to suffer severe hospitalization. On top of that, if they end up with long-covid or some other lon
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by ajford 5y ago
Yeah, just because it was mandatory doesn't mean people followed through. I live in a very progressive city and we still had many people refusing to follow mask mandates at the height of pre-vaccine pandemic. People ripping down mask s
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by ajford 5y ago
To me, this ignores the fact that a death of a loved/cared for individual is the most "minimum quality of life" you can get. Sure, being able to go watch a family movie together used to be a big family thing, but we can'
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by ajford 5y ago
We used to joke at astronomy conferences that if we stopped by the nearest air force base and snagged a fighter jet we could fund all NSF Astronomy money for the next decade, and the math was probably within 10% tbh. Someone that was sittin
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by ajford 5y ago
Not good either. The city isn't putting enough effort into supporting these individuals, and their choice of shelter locations is mindbogglingly in a lot of cases, but perhaps that's more of a "which came first" thing. T
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by ajford 5y ago
As a resident, you're spot on. The existing rail infra was fucked over by NIMBYs before it even got started, and all future efforts related to public transit get screwed over as well. A ton of money was dumped into Mopac/Loop 1 an
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by ajford 5y ago
We have a 7-seater for extended family. My nephews come over a lot, so that allows us to transport all four children, two to three adults, and a small amount of shopping bags or picnic supplies. The fuel efficiency isn't great, but tha
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by ajford 5y ago
Yay for you, but the public transit in my area is useless for getting to the stores or destinations. It's better for commuting into the dense urban area for work hours, but not gonna fly for taking my kids shoe-shopping. That said, gla
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by ajford 5y ago
Yup. I mean I've worked with a couple good recruiters that were genuinely helpful, but many are exactly as you said, just in the way. One recruiter just couldn't understand that the commute for me was major. I had just left a job
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by ajford 5y ago
Same. I entirely avoid Downtown Austin for this reason. I used to go when I could park for free at the state parking garages after-hours (was a state employee at the time), but now it's just expensive and/or tedious to park there.
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by ajford 5y ago
Not the OP, but I had the same issue living in North Austin, TX. I was nearly outside ATX, and would have loved to take the rail downtown for a night of bar-hopping and then not have to drive back. But the last northbound train was at like
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by ajford 5y ago
I luckily got into anime right on the verge where it became more socially acceptable (late 90s early 2000s). Also, I grew up in an area where the dominant local culture was more accepting of anime since Dragon Ball Z, Gundam (of some flavor
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by ajford 5y ago
As a long-time fan of NGE, I'd say yes. It's got a fair bit of the classic "teens in mechs" tropes to it, but there's definitely more to it under the hood, and it's universe is rather well put together in my op

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