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by bbarn 4y ago
What truth do they have to handle if you don't start with a lie? We give gifts to each other on other holidays, birthdays, and even for no reason at all. Isn't that a better thing to teach a child to comprehend than a made up sky
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by bbarn 4y ago
How long is it ok to lie to a child once they figure out the ruse though? Her mother tells the rest of the story much better and how she tried to dance around it without lying to her kid, but ultimately she caved, and despite telling her d
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by bbarn 4y ago
My wife's mother told her fairly young Santa didn't exist after much questioning the practicality of it with her. After confirming her suspicions, my wife told all of her classmates, which prompted an angry call to her mother. Th
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by bbarn 4y ago
I would have to imagine heat loss in transit, as it's not a problem anywhere else other than the far side. The plant itself has a lot of waste heat and not boiling too much water is a concern.
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by bbarn 4y ago
I live on a small island in Iceland, too far across the sea to pipe Geothermal water to, so the town heats water electrically and pipes it to homes instead. It's not very efficient, and it is rather expensive. It's kind of inter
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by bbarn 4y ago
What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
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by bbarn 4y ago
I have a set of these. They do work well, as the original post says, but I tend to use them more for holding flats or removing 8-sided plastic nuts and such. One downside is they gunk up pretty quick if you're working with messy stuff
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by bbarn 4y ago
This is so off base and irrationally elitist, you really just don't see how wrong it is. These tools do SO MUCH more than just give you a GUI for a coding system. Code analysis, preventative suggestions, and a common look and feel for
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by bbarn 4y ago
A former girlfriend of mine went to what she thought was a clinic, and was effectively scared out of having one, and had twins at 18. These scummy tactics work, or people wouldn't do them.
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by bbarn 4y ago
In my mind, good retirement is not doing nothing, it's doing what you want to and not caring about money.
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by bbarn 4y ago
My father and I in the early 90s were lucky enough to come across a Tempest arcade machine that "didn't work" in a yard sale and bought it for 50$. I was going to make something out of the cabinet. I opened it up, and notic
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by bbarn 4y ago
> How about the following? I offer you an unfair coin flip advantage of 51% versus 49% Isn't that just baccarat without ties?
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by bbarn 4y ago
Yeah, I've got an old school turn to start timer style microwave. One dial for wattage, and a mechanical dial for the timer. It's also tiny. Why are microwaves so big now? What are people cooking in a half cubic meter of micro
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by bbarn 4y ago
Ah, you're right. I forgot about those old square suckers.
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by bbarn 4y ago
Of course. Pay is always set as low as possible to retain the right level of employee. If the market for engineers in the US is higher than Europe (it is) it will pay higher.
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by bbarn 4y ago
I hate these kinds of statements. Your occupation does not define your personality or your ability to work with others closely. Without someone capable of bringing others together socially, team standards and practices either get dictated
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by bbarn 4y ago
The fact that it IS a dongle is the major disadvantage. Most laptops have only one or two USB-B slots and many are moving towards USB-C for everything. Most also have very functional bluetooth built in. It's just not worth a minor i
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by bbarn 4y ago
Modern E-bikes can definitely compete with mopeds, and I think will ultimately replace them, once cost starts to go down. The majority of the mopeds on the roads in most places and 20+ years old and likely in use because they are so easy t
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by bbarn 4y ago
At the time, it also wouldn't have been wise because none of us had any clue what was going to happen long term. If you'd taken that money, paid your short term shortages with it, and held on to your reserves you could have been
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by bbarn 4y ago
> My company right now is about 15 people, 5 of which are engineering (including myself) The problem with posting any comment on here, is I have to always preface everything with "Generally speaking" I assume it's implied
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by bbarn 4y ago
The same old argument is really all that's in play here. "I want to spend most of my time doing the technical task that I'm skilled at, and not dealing with other people". Developers add value in so many more ways that
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by bbarn 4y ago
I love the idea, but the non-flat top, and the display on the flat top kill it (and admittedly, most cheap kitchen scales) for me. If I can't put a big bowl on it and still see the readout it's useless to me.
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by bbarn 4y ago
Just remember the golden rule about advice (this advice included) is that it's all relative to one's own personal circumstance. What may work for me may not for you and that doesn't mean you're doing anything wrong or t
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by bbarn 4y ago
I'll pile on to the burnout suggestion with my own personal solution to how I fixed that problem. I'm early 40s, started coding around 13 or so, so it's been 30 years of software for me. About ten years ago after living in t
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by bbarn 4y ago
> and I question life experience formed in the cold war, It's not like russia is a nuclear armed threat actively leading a war that everyone is afraid to intervene in right now... The rest of your comment here is just nonsensical na
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by bbarn 4y ago
Free content is free content, but when it comes to cooking sites, some of them are just flat out scammy SEO farms. Even big names like food network, a link to the recipe I want almost always simply goes to an index page without my recipe o
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by bbarn 4y ago
seriouseats.com is also a fantastic site. Recipes there are lengthy but it's because they use the length to explain things in very excellent detail, and the science behind why. Minimal adverts and high quality content, but you might
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by bbarn 4y ago
Same experience here. When I used Swype a decade? ago I thought it was fantastic. Now it seems to cause me more time correcting it than it saves. And for some damn reason, the MS version at least (I know of no better multilingual swipe key
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by bbarn 5y ago
"A textbook violation of the freedom of speech" assumes there is a "textbook" to violate. There isn't one at all here, so why is there any debate at all on the freedom of speech being violated?
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by bbarn 5y ago
Mine's an aftermarket high top, with what I believe were salvaged Westfalia interiror components, because nothing really fits right :)

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