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by bbarn 3y ago
I've seen this posted everywhere like it's some grand conspiracy. What is the impact of it being Super Tuesday? Are people worried they can't vote without social media?
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by bbarn 3y ago
It's been amazing to watch the 3D printing space grow as far as it has. In just the last 10-20 years it's gone from something only dedicated people were able to build and get reasonable results to high precision devices any hobby
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by bbarn 3y ago
Solar with Battery storage is a very useful source for heating energy, even in the coldest climates in CA. Even in the mountains where it drops below freezing at night, most places it's still sunny a lot more than the US average durin
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by bbarn 3y ago
There are a number of bag that pack down to self enclosed things smaller than a phone. When I lived in Chicago, and rarely drove anywhere, I had two of them in my coat pocket. Summer time I was always biking anyway, and used my backpack.
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by bbarn 3y ago
A macaroon is a mixed up ball of coconut and egg whites. A macaron is the delicious fancy sandwich cookie.
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by bbarn 3y ago
Chicago has half the population of the entire country of Norway, in a space 1/50th of the size. It also has extremes on both ends of the temperature spectrum. It's hardly a fair comparison. I spent 20 years in Chicago, the peop
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by bbarn 3y ago
Not in Vestmannaeyjar...
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by bbarn 3y ago
Yeah, that was a standby of one of my coworkers there. She'd often abbreviate it in slack as just "nenni ekki"
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by bbarn 3y ago
I lived in Iceland for several years recently. One thing you have to keep in mind, is this philosophy is pretty much born out of necessity. Until the US Military built a base in Keflavík (which later became an international airport), the
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by bbarn 3y ago
The only thing I found kind of interesting was comparing a single incandescent bulb to a 43" LED TV. Makes me wonder how much the old tube TVs used.
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by bbarn 3y ago
The 12V loss is something that really sunk in working on older cars. You wouldn't think a cable that read 0 on the ohmeter could still not sufficiently carry power, but it happens. Starter systems especially - My old van I remember w
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by bbarn 3y ago
It's not completely implausible what you're getting at is right, even if your numbers don't quite make sense. Consider also the fact - news of this merger was almost universally received poorly by Figma users. The internet w
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by bbarn 3y ago
As a developer, and a development manager, the best product managers I've worked with rarely got involved in the "how". Sure, they may generate epic-level tickets in your back log, but lower than that, they trust you and the
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by bbarn 3y ago
This is a great model, until those people so familiar with the business needs end up.. doing business things instead. It's really hard to keep people like that in a QA role once the business recognizes their value. Kind of the same
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by bbarn 3y ago
> high quality, 95+% meat food (dry and wet, the cat picks whenever she’s hungry) I think this right here is the smartest thing you can do. Cats are obligate carnivores, and some of the crap in the stores is just fillers they crap out a
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by bbarn 3y ago
Also Parking.
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by bbarn 3y ago
Great idea. Simple but effective, I'm up on a mountain with weird military traffic here and there, in addition to commercial stuff, so I'll play with this when I am driving around for sure.
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by bbarn 3y ago
Wow, that's wild. I feel like you could sue for damages now, but I can't be sure if that was possible then.
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by bbarn 3y ago
Man, this brings back memories - but I'm a little surprised 2001 is appended to the title. In the mid-90's I got my first 56K modem and expected a world of faster connections only to realize every BBS I was on didn't support
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by bbarn 3y ago
I have gotten a lot of value from the two I've used as a buyer, and also the one I used as a seller. On the buyer side, once we'd toured a few houses and they understood better what we wanted, the number of "No, not a chance&
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by bbarn 3y ago
One of my best friends literally runs a donut shop down the street, and he's trying to break into software development.
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by bbarn 3y ago
At some point you run out of jobs to replace, while just making your product less appealing. The entire world can't be employed by tech, and the answer isn't cut out workers - it's stop making things expensive. If technolog
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by bbarn 3y ago
The thing I miss the most about Iceland (and Europe) having returned to the US is how utterly easy it was to buy anything, at the price advertised, and use a phone/watch/card as the payment method without the checkout person being
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by bbarn 3y ago
Until a different human prepares it and missing the line on the order ticket... source: Despite my best efforts everything still seems to come with mayo on it half the time.
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by bbarn 3y ago
I suspect you might be in the minority, unless the staff is outright atrocious. I love interacting with other humans. Working remote so much face to face interactions are a positive for me. I don't want to spend my entire day pushin
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by bbarn 3y ago
While anything's possible, the trend of recent eruptions in the Reykjanes peninsula have been more of the slow trickling small kind. They have also been relatively off the beaten path, so it's hard to compare ground shifting in t
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by bbarn 3y ago
I can tell you for sure there are no such heated roads in Grindavík. The one in Reykjavík is on a street that cars can drive down, but in practice don't very often. Large plows would struggle there and the pushed off snow would clog
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by bbarn 3y ago
Iceland also has very bizarre "union" structures that more resemble professional associations than unions in other countries. When I worked at a software company in Kópavogur, on my team of 7 there were at least 4 different union
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by bbarn 3y ago
I think you may be confusing what you see with the cause. For example: You and I HAD to be willing to go through that, and we were fascinated by it. There are still plenty of great FE and BE young devs who see something and instantly ask
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by bbarn 3y ago
I don't have too much issue because when it's bad, it's usually because they've failed pretty hard on tech screens for questions that have absolute answers. I have on one occasion had to pull up my IDE and run code and

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