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by andersco 4y ago
The white noise feature on the iPhone has become my regular companion in allowing for “covering up” unwanted sounds: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/background-sounds-iph...
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by andersco 4y ago
I find as I get older my sensitivity to specific sounds seems to be increasing. In addition to some already mentioned: - the sharp beeping sound made by my elevator as it passes every floor. Ironically this apparently is an ADA requirement
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by andersco 4y ago
One very local anecdote that seems to contradict this: my local Trader Joe’s is nearly always out of Impossible burgers. On many occasions, I have stood in line at the shelf where they are kept, waiting for the person who is unboxing them a
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Flights grounded across US due to FAA outage(independent.co.uk)
2 points by andersco 4y ago|0 comments
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by andersco 4y ago
The pre-acquisition version of digg.com had many similar characteristics. The current version, sadly, does not.
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by andersco 4y ago
I guess this depends on your definition of “rich.” Not to say 106k isn’t a lot of money, but as far as engineering annual salaries goes I’d say it’s in the mid to low range.
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by andersco 4y ago
Yes, your brain is definitely the best password manager of all. My technique: Use a mnemonic of rhyming made-up words that are based on a childhood memory. Write it down several times, then shred/discard. Nothing sticks in your mind li
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by andersco 4y ago
I use it as a bookmarking tool, eg for a tool I’d like to test out but don’t have time atm, an article to read later etc.
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by andersco 4y ago
I only very infrequently experience the issues described in this article, and I definitely would not consider it torture. Re. the other comments about robocalls, I use the "Silence unknown callers" on my iPhone and it works quite
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by andersco 4y ago
For me, I was mainly using the free Heroku Postgres for side projects. I tried some of those listed here but they were not a fit for me. I ended up going with cockroach db and am liking it so far, esp that I can easily create an unlimited n
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by andersco 4y ago
I am not a cloud expert but so much of this rings true, esp the following quote: “Why is Bob in the ops team sending the engineers a bunch of shell commands they need to run to update their dev environment to support the latest Frobnicator
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by andersco 4y ago
I would suggest googling “Elon Musk Twitter legal speech” - this was one of the top results https://theconversation.com/amp/if-elon-musk-succeeds-in-his...
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by andersco 4y ago
The downvotes in response to my question seems to imply a lot of people think a Musk acquisition would be a good thing. Maybe list some of the reasons why?
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by andersco 4y ago
I can see the headline now: “The one lone user who deleted his Twitter account after Elon Musk’s acquisition”
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by andersco 4y ago
It really depends on if he follows through on what he is proposing, which seems to be to allow for disinformation and hate speech. If that turns out to not be the case, then I might reconsider.
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by andersco 4y ago
If Musk acquires Twitter, I will likely be deleting my account. Am I the only one? Would his acquisition spell the beginning of the end for Twitter?
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by andersco 4y ago
The article quotes an analyst describing Musk’s bid as the beginning of the end for Twitter as a public company. I would say it will spell the beginning of the end of Twitter period. Imo, if Musk in fact acquires Twitter, he himself and the
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by andersco 4y ago
My strategy is to use whatever word with three vowels that pops into my head. Seems to work pretty well and keeps it fun.
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by andersco 4y ago
Thanks for that tip. I am about to ship an implosion-type nuclear device and my first thought was if I could use a USPS flat rate box.
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by andersco 4y ago
Is it possible that the solution is to look at why there is such a high frequency of commits by different devs into the same main branch? Rather than look for a technical solution I would explore process and culture changes, such as havin
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by andersco 5y ago
Thanks for sharing that video. The white noise solution is a huge improvement over the sharp beeps. I looked into if there is any movement in the US re requiring the white noise option but all I found was this non-committal response from OS
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by andersco 5y ago
The sharp beeping sound made by trucks backing up, and now also basically any type of construction vehicle when it moves, is in my opinion one of the great examples of a ham-handed solution to addressing a safety issue with no regard for no
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by andersco 5y ago
So many great personal sites - I am actually in the process of building the next version of mine and I couldn’t ask for better inspiration. Here is my current site: https://www.anders.co/ Hasn’t been updated in a while :-&#
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by andersco 5y ago
Isn’t the concept of a single staging environment becoming a bit dated? Every recent project I’ve worked on uses preview branches or deploy previews, eg what Netlify offers https://docs.netlify.com/site-deploys/deploy-p
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by andersco 5y ago
My boss at my previous company created one of these with the intention of being “helpful”. It basically stated you should address me in this manner, use this form of communication etc. I asked him if he would be ok with me also creating a s
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Wordle helped save suburban grandmother being held by armed home invader(chicagotribune.com)
2 points by andersco 5y ago|0 comments
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by andersco 5y ago
Jeff Atwood: https://blog.codinghorror.com/
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by andersco 5y ago
There is no mention of traditionally car-centric sprawling cities such as LA or Phoenix and their biking infrastructure or lack thereof. Anyone living in such a city seeing progress on biking infrastructure?
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by andersco 5y ago
US: New York City
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by andersco 5y ago
God Jul!

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