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by bbarn 3y ago
For context, I was brought in with the knowledge he hadn't done anything meaningful since being hired some time before my arrival, and we did reach out and offer help or ask if he needed anything, which he refused, somewhat angrily.
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by bbarn 3y ago
I had a developer that I inherited from a previous manager some years ago. Made tons of excuses about his machine, the complexity of the problem, etc. I offered to check his machine out and he refused because it had "private stuff&qu
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by bbarn 3y ago
Talking about him has nothing to do with governments. If the government was functioning and so provided value to his citizens it wouldn't rely on a generous rich man to go around the country to install handicap ramps. Go live there an
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by bbarn 3y ago
Price flights today. I'm going in two weeks and paid 1500$ months ago. The same ticket is even more today. Three years ago it was a 500$ flight.
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by bbarn 3y ago
I see you haven't used the Icelandic health care system - which receives over half of the high income tax rate. It's trauma care, not health care. Anything preventative is deprioritized and the country beats the United States in
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by bbarn 3y ago
This is a very rose colored glasses view of Iceland. Having lived there until very recently, it is not a tech utopia by any means. There are very few jobs in tech, and no matter what you do or for how long it's rare to break 1M isk a
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by bbarn 3y ago
44 here and not a speck of grey in my beard!
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by bbarn 3y ago
Because as a well-compensated engineer with good insurance, who pays his bills when possible at point of "sale"/leaving the office, some how in the last 20 years I've had several occasions where mystery charges came in t
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by bbarn 3y ago
"Under 500$" - so, trivial admin mistakes for bills people shouldn't get have been removed, but the bulk majority of actual medical debt is unchanged.
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by bbarn 3y ago
There is also a negative parenting component that smartphones and tablets enable, which is they can be used to occupy a child without effort. The causation here is probably a mix of a lot of things but generally that society has rapidly ch
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by bbarn 3y ago
Correlation is the mother of conspiracy. "they would stop doing it so that the cases would go back up again" is quite the statement. How about this instead: "Extreme measures to slow down cases had obvious down sides and wer
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by bbarn 3y ago
I'm more likely to give someone a hard time for using email at all. I find it increasingly less useful every year. Currently it's a massive storage of confirmation emails and receipts for me.
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by bbarn 3y ago
I'd love to see some facts backing this up. It might be true that wearing slightly off prescriptions could train eyes slightly worse over time, but for most people going without them is a far worse option. Also, the skillset required
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by bbarn 3y ago
The company I work for manages those demand response programs. Many of them now also support smart L2 chargers that can also be controlled similar to the thermostat you mention. We also still, at the end of the day have a greed problem. M
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by bbarn 3y ago
This was infuriating until I found the hack work-around. It's not just "complex" things - it's any context menu extension you may have used for a decade hidden behind that wall. In my example, it's "Edit with
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by bbarn 3y ago
It's already criminalized, so the only thing that could change is legalizing it or decriminalizing it. By legalizing it, you effectively add cost, or tax, and the illegal component continues to remain (unlesss you simply make it stop b
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by bbarn 3y ago
Similar to legalized prostitution, this is where I often find myself at odds with my otherwise libertarian and personal freedom leaning beliefs. Should one be allowed to do with their body as they wish? In theory, yes, if it doesn't
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by bbarn 3y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, because you're right in principle. (Probably because you insulted both parties at once). Where it does matter is as an excuse to push other agendas through with "emergency" bills t
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by bbarn 3y ago
Obviously. But it shuts it down when you remove it instead of just working again when reapplied. It turns off the cooking surface and you have to turn it back on again, instead of momentarily breaking the heat while you pick it up.
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by bbarn 3y ago
It really is silly, as wall mounted ovens are so much nicer to use in practice, and moreover occupy real estate nothing else is usually using at that level.
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by bbarn 3y ago
I've had three in different places I've lived, and while they are fantastic temperature-wise, the software and interface is always what infuriates me. They are almost all touch interfaces to keep the flat glass aesthetic, which i
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by bbarn 3y ago
That's just "shareholder value". Combine it with everyone who owns stock expecting it to go up all the time, and you get that mentality. Stocks were once a vote of confidence in a company and their long term vision, and now
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by bbarn 3y ago
After messing with it a little, that does almost exactly what I want. I do wish it would just allow faceID to exit guided mode and not a passcode, but I'll take it - thank you.
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by bbarn 3y ago
Costco in the US used to only take American Express, and then only Visa (when they partnered with Visa) and now you can just use anything. In Iceland they take everything because the idea that they wouldn't is just a cultural headscra
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by bbarn 3y ago
Sorry, every complaint about apple pay is someone not using a watch on a card they use for most things. I lived in Europe the last three years up until moving back to the US recently, and in Europe, there was simply nothing easier than dou
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by bbarn 3y ago
I'm with you. Touch ID is great for people in perfect climates who don't do anything difficult in their life. My entire motivation to upgrade from a touch ID phone to face ID is my main complaints with touch ID: 1 - it sucks with
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by bbarn 3y ago
memrise, duolingo, clozemaster, etc.. are all useful to get you reading words. If you're going to a place with foreign languages and not english written everywhere, it can be very useful to start understanding basic constructs and wor
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by bbarn 3y ago
The author opens up the article saying it was a null routed server issue and he didn't have time or resources to fix it. Maybe that's a new edit from after you read it.
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by bbarn 3y ago
If not corrected, the long reaching impact of this could snowball very badly in some places. Look at areas in California, which are largely economies based on software development. If taxes cause those businesses, and jobs to disappear, t
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by bbarn 3y ago
This is typical hacker movie nonsense. In real life, if they want something from said executive they just kidnap him, threaten violence, and he gives them what they want instantly. Or just knock him out cold from behind, take his shit, an

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