cbanek

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by cbanek 4y ago
Microsoft used this TLA as well.
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by cbanek 4y ago
Just in case someone from the '90s was working at drpepper.com, I remember fingering them and someone had some amazing scrolling ascii art of betty boop IIRC. So much good ascii art on there, actually. I 'member.
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by cbanek 4y ago
Yeah I agree. I honestly love central Oregon. Grants Pass in particular is wonderful. And then down in that Medford Ashland Rogue River Valley area too. US 199 from Grant's Pass to Crescent City CA is possibly the most gorgeous dri
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by cbanek 4y ago
I think if it's to live in, AND you can afford it AND it makes sense financially on a fixed rate mortgage, go for it. You are absolutely right on market timing, but that doesn't mean it'll go up forever, but over time, it do
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by cbanek 4y ago
Yeah, that's about the best. There's a lot of college towns that are within driving distance of a major city (like <2hrs), and that really opens it up. If you want the culture of a big city but small town living, college town
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by cbanek 4y ago
This is where it's at. College towns are the best. They are the gems. Smaller, but with a large group of people from all over, you get that diversity you probably want. With people from all over, you get great food from all over, l
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by cbanek 4y ago
Just wait a bit and see what happens in the housing market. I'm not saying it's ready for a crash, but sometimes renting for a year means everything will change. You can rent in a small town (cheap) or just stay where you are at
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by cbanek 4y ago
If you think you can win, yeah small claims court is where to go. You don't need a lawyer for it I don't think, and many places they won't allow the other side to have a lawyer either. I don't know how it would work wi
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by cbanek 4y ago
Yeah, it certainly exists, and always did. In greater numbers than people know due to classified defense programs and their budgets. The real problem is we spend TOO much money on defense compared to other needs. Do we really need so many
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by cbanek 4y ago
I mean, yeah sure there might be less competition but that's not the whole game. I think it's much more the moral question to be honest. The real way to figure it out is to look at the number of people applying to good and &quot
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by cbanek 4y ago
Is it money? I can't tell since I'm paywalled. But I feel like it's got to be money. You have to pay people MORE to work in bad industries, since there are a lot of people who won't want to work there. You can pay peop
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by cbanek 4y ago
Yep!
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by cbanek 4y ago
This kind of sounds like the same thing with cell phones making people not remember phone numbers? It's not that you can't do it, but I think we learn why bother with it when the little box does it. At some subconscious level?
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by cbanek 4y ago
LAX is literally the worst for this. There's a lot of people that learn to fly out over LA, and sometimes they will accidentally stay into the landing pattern east from LAX over the city. This is one of the most dangerous and congest
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by cbanek 4y ago
Ah yes good point. I didn't take into account the rotation of a star in my answer around its axis. But yes you're right. And that's why the earth is also kind of a spheroid (squished sphere). Einstein you crazy bastard, yo
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by cbanek 4y ago
I think they'd probably be spherical. They are super dense, so there's not much space between the atoms. That's what makes them dense and heavy. So imagine a bag of popcorn with all the little popcorn bits popping out at w
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by cbanek 4y ago
I was 17 and I built a portable mp3 player out of a computer and put it in a backpack. It ran linux and had a keyboard - no screen. It was way better than the available CD-ROM based mp3 players back then. Who wants to flip through 700 so
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by cbanek 4y ago
What's funny is that I love remote work, but I have all these problems. But I think they are actually related to the other overthinks and managers on teams that also struggle with the remote work. As someone who can walk away any time
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by cbanek 4y ago
Yes, 100%.
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by cbanek 4y ago
I agree completely. These things are ways for companies to waste your time in the interview, and make it harder. Job interviews used to be 1 hour and a handshake. Then a reference check. Let me tell you why that was better than the curre
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by cbanek 4y ago
TFW you read this as snackisms and was confused for like, a full minute. Then you realize it's snake-isms, and finally get the joke and laugh for a full minute. What a day. Love this.
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by cbanek 4y ago
So you're admitting you didn't read the whole thing but don't agree with me? I think that we do agree, I don't want to buy onstar either. But people like to say freedom like - right to work, which makes it sound like th
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by cbanek 4y ago
And in reality, the "safety" they give isn't really that safe. The real feature is the ability to call the cops if you are in the car by yourself and passed out. That's it. If you can hit the button yourself, you can
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by cbanek 4y ago
They absolutely do (source, I know there's a sim card in there, they never take it out, it phones home, etc). You get the onstar reports, and can activate it any time using the active sim card. You can I think get into the box if you
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by cbanek 4y ago
First off, I don't think that's true. I bought a new GM car with on star and I wasn't required to get it. But they did turn it on by default, and it was completely useless. Never used it. Not once. I also asked if it had
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by cbanek 4y ago
Well, they are still sandtrout, living in the water!
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by cbanek 4y ago
I know this sounds almost conspiracy theory-ish: just looking at the picture, my first guess is man-made. But I'm almost always wrong. It just looks really perfectly spaced and each one is the same, in a very mechanical way. With all
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by cbanek 4y ago
Yes you have so much more eloquently found the word: normalize. That's exactly what this is. It's like pushing the window. It's asking something like "have you read the climate science that says we're NOT respons
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by cbanek 4y ago
> What degree of responsibility do the innocent attendees of that twitchcon have for the misconduct that happened there? I'm not familiar with the whole story, but if it was a big thing I'm guess most weren't aware of it.
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by cbanek 4y ago
Sorry I missed this. You are absolutely right. I personally am a child of abuse, and I have a lot of mixed reflections on it too. Things like, would I really be who I was if I wasn't in that family, etc. And I think all of us learn

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