bigjimmyk3

9 ms·

1.
by bigjimmyk3 1mo ago
Walmart has already done the thing that you are describing; they have had Walmart Pay for some time ( https://www.walmart.com/cp/walmart-pay/3205993 ). Starbucks also pushes their app and paying via app, which has t
2.
by bigjimmyk3 10mo ago
I think the citizens of Oklahoma would be surprised to hear that Sen. Cotton represents them (hint: he does not).
3.
by bigjimmyk3 11mo ago
Someone tried running that in one of the campus computer labs when I was a student, and the (probably misconfigured) IPX routers amplified it into... a campus-wide outage. Seems weird to me, but that's what the big sign on the door sai
4.
by bigjimmyk3 1y ago
I believe my situation was similar to GP's: family on the lower end of middle class, and enough younger siblings to make it a stretch. I was accepted to a reasonably prestigious university, but ran out of money after the first semester
5.
by bigjimmyk3 1y ago
The post title says "Asking about firearm safety" but the article says that they are _telling_ about safety, after asking about access: > In the study, researchers introduced standardized firearm safety questions into the elect
6.
by bigjimmyk3 1y ago
The only maxillomandibular advancement with which I'm familiar is a surgical procedure, rather than an exercise therapy. It involves repositioning both the mandible and your upper jaw (as the name implies) by cutting and repositioning
7.
by bigjimmyk3 1y ago
I grew up in a 1300sf wood heated house, so I have relevant experience here. It does take time to buck, split, load, unload, and stack the wood. It goes faster if you have a small child (me) to help! We cut wood for our own use and also sol
8.
by bigjimmyk3 1y ago
WT's process for living persons attempts to head this off. It's not perfect, but I think it's a pretty good method. When you enter data about a living person, you are required to include an email which "invites" tha
9.
by bigjimmyk3 1y ago
I agree that familysearch.org is a goldmine for primary sources, I'm very grateful for their digitization initiatives. I'm also glad that there are multiple non-dark-patterned options for people who want to preserve their family h
10.
by bigjimmyk3 1y ago
I recently started doing some genealogy work for my family, and I was not excited at the prospect of using most of the paid family tree sites -- dark patterns, etc. I recently ran across this site and it seems much more agreeable. I like th
11.
WikiTree: The Free Family Tree(wikitree.com)
19 points by bigjimmyk3 1y ago|8 comments
12.
by bigjimmyk3 2y ago
I have owned a Unicorn mill for nearly 20 years, and it is still going strong.
13.
by bigjimmyk3 2y ago
I have recent experience with this -- I picked up my son's processed deer yesterday morning. There was a chest freezer at the checkout area advertising Hunters Feeding The Hungry (a similar org that moves donated game meat to local foo
14.
by bigjimmyk3 2y ago
I don't know -- we rented a car for 5 adults + luggage in FR a few years ago, and we wound up with a Citroen C3 Aircross[1]. "This is the biggest one we have" was the only answer we got, so we made it work. [edit: corrected a
15.
by bigjimmyk3 2y ago
I did something similar last month; I took my FT-817 with me to scout camp. I wanted to work some FT8 but didn't bring the required doodads with me to hook the radio's audio interface to my Surface Pro X. No problem, I'll jus
16.
by bigjimmyk3 2y ago
Earlier this year my roku-enabled TV started showing some new Terms Of Service, and it wouldn't let me watch anything unless I agreed to them. ...or unplugged it from the network. Now, it sounds like they may have done me a favor.
17.
by bigjimmyk3 2y ago
POTA seems to be pretty active -- I managed to make a couple of voice contacts a few weeks ago on a 5W rig, so voice work isn't out of the question.
18.
by bigjimmyk3 2y ago
For the n-dimensional part there's xcubes: https://www.xcubes.net/
19.
by bigjimmyk3 2y ago
This seems like something that would fit well into a tablet-sized display with a voice interface -- sort of like a conversational adventure.
20.
by bigjimmyk3 2y ago
Honeywell is also an aerospace company: https://aerospace.honeywell.com/
21.
by bigjimmyk3 2y ago
> stepped up from working 100 hours a week to working 120 hours That's 17 hours a day, which seems unlikely (for an extended period of time) without some kind of performance enhancing substance. Also, I'm not sure I'd want
22.
by bigjimmyk3 3y ago
I am a lifelong Arkansan, and I hope he is able to pull off some kind of win. I visited that area often as a teen, and Pine Bluff was the main entertainment destination for the region. I haven't been in awhile, but it sounds like the y
23.
by bigjimmyk3 3y ago
While Pine Bluff is one of the fastest a shrinking cities in the country, the northwest corner of AR is one of the fastest-growing metro areas. A fascinating example of the somewhat fractal nature of growth in the US.
24.
by bigjimmyk3 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19953568 discussed the effects of Soviet whaling, and the article made it sound very effective.
25.
by bigjimmyk3 3y ago
I remember the event well, because the download became available the day before finals. Things did not end well.
26.
by bigjimmyk3 3y ago
I mass deleted all of my comments a few weeks ago, and some of them reappeared about a week later.
27.
by bigjimmyk3 3y ago
I have a friend who chases satellite contacts, and it's a fascinating hobby -- as noted the contact windows are pretty short, and you have to know how to adjust your freqs within the window to account for Doppler effect. The upside is
28.
by bigjimmyk3 3y ago
Boy, does this bring back some good memories of the Toshiba Libretto: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_Libretto I bought one on the gray market in 1996, and I think I managed to double my money in about 6 months b
29.
by bigjimmyk3 4y ago
I can think of a pretty obvious reason why the hard drive wasn't wiped: they didn't know it was there. A normal person processing a pile of donations would probably look at this and think "huh a strangely heavy keyboard,&quot
30.
by bigjimmyk3 4y ago
Interesting mention of webvan, since one of its founders used the failure as inspiration to start Kiva Systems.

More ›