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by balls187 5y ago
I get a simple "the service is unavailable"
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by balls187 5y ago
United was in the wrong, and they ultimately settled. > What about putting unruly airport staff on a similar list? Just don't fly United.
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by balls187 5y ago
Hah! Learning to craft a custom autoexec.bat to run Doom with 4MB of ram is how I got "into" computers as well. I turned pale as snow the first time I hit (F5?) during boot to bypass it. I had no idea if what I was doing was perma
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by balls187 5y ago
Thanks for the suggestions. I like to idea of using a DTP app (look at the old guy). Have your girls tried the lessons at code.org? My ~6 year old really enjoys doing them. They're touch optimized which is nice as well.
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by balls187 5y ago
Do you think what your dad did, helped you become a grey-beard?
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by balls187 5y ago
I'm not following your comment. My kids don't have to pay rent. Kids need clothes replaced every year, (more if they hit a growth spurt), and where we live we have "short sleeve" weather, and "long sleeve" weat
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by balls187 5y ago
Teaching them the value of a dollar.
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by balls187 5y ago
I’ll say this—it’s not always easy bringing home the bacon/keeping the lights on. I live in King County WA, and housing prices here have made owning a home impossible for anyone who isn't a doctor, lawyer, or median software engin
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by balls187 5y ago
Chris Rock said it best--Nobody ever says, 'Hey daddy, thanks for knockin' out this rent.' 'Hey daddy, I sure love this hot water.' 'Hey daddy, it's easy to read with all this light.'
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by balls187 5y ago
> it is much better to build stupid simple systems ... over complex systems which are almost certain to contain exploitable corner cases. This popped into my mind when reading your comment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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by balls187 5y ago
Overall the market will win, but volatility around retirement is the issue. EDIT TO ADD: Sincerely, thank you for your comment (and the replies providing additional context). It's given me some much needed information to go research (a
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by balls187 5y ago
> collective action motivated by hatred of elite rigging the system... is dangerous to those elite. It's not. The elite are largely shielded from the volatility of the masses. It's the "middle class" whose retirement,
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by balls187 5y ago
I've tried WebStorm in the past, but it was prior to the explosion of application development with javascript. At the time, I was using sublime, and now I use AWS Cloud9 exclusively.
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by balls187 5y ago
> Does anyone who knows enough JavaScript point me in the right direction about it. I find all this very confusing. There isn't a straight forward solution, but the closest for me is the combination of using a transpiler (Babel), an
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by balls187 5y ago
Put me in the column of being an ardent standards supporter. I really don't like buying a[n] (HDMI|USB|Lightning) cable and then finding out it's not standards compliant, so my (PS5|PC|Phone) doesn't work. I'm old enough
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by balls187 5y ago
I wasn't able to read most of the article; is there a shortage of farmland that necessitates needing to consider our diets?
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by balls187 5y ago
just missing the blink tag.
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by balls187 5y ago
I vary up my starting words to keep things interesting. Common ones for me are: MEATY, BISON, CHUMP, GROUP From yesterday's post on the state of the art, I tried SALET, but still took me 4 tries to get today's wordle.
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by balls187 5y ago
This was from 1999. Language Warning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRN3d5S_MTk
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by balls187 5y ago
Typically requires a bachelors degree, ideally with a background in math. In order to progress in the career, one has to take and pass actuarial exams.
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by balls187 5y ago
Actuary pays well
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37 points by balls187 5y ago|11 comments
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by balls187 5y ago
> Google ads has customers though. Their support probably isn't great either, but does it need to be? Where else are you gonna go? I've not dealt with Google Ad support, but I can say from experience Facebook Ad's customer
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by balls187 5y ago
> Obviously this is well established in the insurance and finance industries, but make no mistake, it happens everywhere. Speaking from someone in the US--in both insurance and finance I can get a person on the phone to resolve my issue.
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by balls187 5y ago
> I’d say I’ve soundly defeated you 99.9% of the time. Except it wouldn't be 99.9% of the time. Just the games were you guessed fewer than GP. GP's solver would expect to guess the correct word 100% of the time in fewer than 6
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by balls187 5y ago
> I wouldn't put it past the court system to make web browsers I agree. My faith would be upon appeal or enforcement, such a ruling would get overturned, or dismissed.
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by balls187 5y ago
I can't see how American Airlines will prevail in preventing screen scraping. At best, they can prevent their point data from being transmitted and stored to TPG's servers. Screen Scraping is essentially interacting with the DOM e
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by balls187 5y ago
DynamoDB is one of my favorite AWS products.
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by balls187 5y ago
Interdisciplinary experience is something I most engineering educations provide. I can only speak from my undergrad experience, but almost every engineering discipline took the same background courses, as well as mechanical, thermal, fluid,
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by balls187 5y ago
> We do not. Civil engineer is a specific thing, with training, education, and licensing. Yes. That is the joke (among non-civil engineers with civil engineer friends). > Do you see how saying an engineer is someone who does engineeri

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