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by cagey 4y ago
Did the same (from SF Bay Area) 16 months ago. Don't miss CA aside from friends and family.
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by cagey 4y ago
> One of the biggest reasons for going "unlimited PTO" is that there's no accrual, therefore they owe you nothing. IMO that's the only reason for employers to offer "unlimited PTO" schemes. > Does expli
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by cagey 4y ago
1 month ago I bought a new Chromebook[1] with N4500 Celeron CPU that turns out to apparently be fanless (fanlessness is literally an unadvertised feature of this device). I'm typing this reply using it, with many dozens of browser tab
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by cagey 4y ago
> The Pi1/2/3 are more or less an (undocumented) GPU with an ARM core bolted on the side. Is the Pi4 any different/better?
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by cagey 4y ago
Paid (bottom tier) Inoreader subscriber since its inception (since Google Reader was terminated). I don't use any of its fancy features, but use it across multiple devices, so it's pretty much my "internet brain" (as Go
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by cagey 5y ago
downloaded, thanks!
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by cagey 5y ago
If you're already using the Chocolatey package manager for Windows (I do, and am mostly happy with it), it offers GNU make: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/make
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by cagey 5y ago
Yes, totally! I retired a few months ago because I'm sick of the 9-5, 48+ weeks/year endless grind and (almost) "always on" mentality (and well able to provide for my household w/o W2 income). Casual Google jobs s
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by cagey 5y ago
> Hungers of 1930s were a global event, not something conjured by one particularly nasty Georgian. Aside from Ukraine and Kazakhstan (both under the control of "one particularly nasty Georgian") which other regions of the globe
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by cagey 5y ago
Having (from a US civilian POV) sought to comprehend Soviet (and now Russian) military capability from afar since the early 1980's, it has long been my perception that (due to the political system in place there and the resultant poor
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by cagey 5y ago
I've been watching https://www.youtube.com/c/PoliceActivity/videos (publisher of police body-cam deadly-force-used incident videos) for a long time, and from that sampling it seems that the number of police s
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by cagey 5y ago
I suspect availability of 5G or LTE "home internet" service is gated by not only signal strength but also by the vendor's assessment of their (tower, backhaul?) capacity in the locale.
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by cagey 5y ago
I did exactly this. Started using T-Mobile Home Internet (5G "trashcan" modem) back in 21.02 (same month I ordered Starlink); TMHI service has gotten progressively better since that time. 21.12 I received my Starlink ultimatum (
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by cagey 5y ago
Perhaps you're thinking of PL/M [0]? I had a brief encounter with it (as sold by Intel) targeting (of all amazing things) the 8051 microcontroller ISA. And yes: So. Many. Floppy. Swaps. The codegen was not horrendous, but IIRC i
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by cagey 5y ago
This is a timely mention since Google Earth lost its railroad layer recently (though per [0] (a) Google is offering a workaround and (b) https://www.openrailwaymap.org/ is mentioned in the comments). [0] https://
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by cagey 5y ago
Just after being laid off, I was thinking I would love to find part-time work in my profession, but as far as I can tell no such thing exists (for an unknown such as myself). Non-W2 contracting might be as close as I could get, but in th
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by cagey 5y ago
Thanks. What do you think you'll do now? Given that you're wholly self-taught, I would assume you would dive in to your interests. I have one personal Open Source project that I will likely continue to slowly enhance (I was it
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by cagey 5y ago
(This probably belongs on one of the many Leetcode interview threads ongoing, but ...) Yes, and while going thru the past few months' "let me see if I can find something that engages me and my interests (w/o too much concern
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by cagey 5y ago
There was an article which I ran into thanks to HN a few months ago[1] that served to explain something I experienced at my employer 8(?) years ago: my role was abolished (legislated out of existence by HR and/or Finance); the role was
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by cagey 5y ago
Rather than quit or retire, I lingered in hopes of being laid off (letting my high pay level, ageism and existing "we don't need Senior Engineers; we have really smart management to do the thinking ahead etc. for the junior engine
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by cagey 5y ago
Exactly! I moved out of CA at the end of 2020. I've recently retired, and have structured most of my spendable income in retirement to be tax sheltered, so if this passes (and depending on the taxation specifics of this plan, if it p
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by cagey 5y ago
Data point: I just switched from FTE to unemployed (likely transitioning to retirement) and am leveraging COBRA to pay in full to retain my former employer's High Deductible Anthem PPO plan (plus dental plan and VSP) for a family of 4.
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by cagey 5y ago
This month, a family member was scheduled to receive a (fairly involved) CT scan (at an in-state state university hospital) on a date that just happened to fall into a "COBRA dead interval" (the first month of COBRA-funded health
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by cagey 5y ago
Enabled directly by circumstances created by the pandemic, one year ago I (a heretofore lifelong Californian) moved my household from VHCOL San Jose CA to an M/LCOL semi-rural area in AZ. Had my move not crossed a state line (impactin
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by cagey 5y ago
I convert all incoming paper (worth saving) to pdf. From 2005-2020 I used a Fujitsu Scansnap; almost 1 year ago it failed (rollers finally turned from resilient silicone rubber(?) into goo, and replacement of these low-cost parts proved im
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by cagey 5y ago
Similarly AT&T shutting down their 3G in 2022 network is forcing a significant number of acquaintances (who are ATT MVNO customers) to replace perfectly good (4G LTE capable Android) phones because AT&T is using this event to requir
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by cagey 5y ago
> Borland Pascal compilers that I mentioned had exactly the same memory models than their C++ counterparts, specially the Windows 3.1 versions, there was no difference between TPW 1.5 and TC++ 3.1. The Turbo C 1.0 User's Guide [1] p
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by cagey 5y ago
> Apparently you missed the whole TP 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, 7.0 and TPW 1.5 offerings. I didn't miss them, but because IIRC all the versions you mentioned (and also Delphi 1.0) were x86 16-bit (only) Borland/Turbo Pascal evolutions hav
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by cagey 5y ago
USA long-time motorcycle owner here: agree. I believe there have been laws on the books for many years regarding noise limits, but they are (effectively) NEVER enforced. No-muffler-at-all ("straight-pipe") exhausts on V-twin (EX
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by cagey 5y ago
Along those lines... on MS-DOS/x86, memory model support in (Turbo) Pascal was less flexible than in Turbo C (1.0) during the first years when those toolchains were competing and gaining critical mass: TP 3.0 generated COM files (near

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