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by com2kid 11mo ago
My local QFC (Kroger), for all the complaints I have about it, has a pretty darn good cheese selection. So does my local co-op that I can walk to. Or the other bougie store less than a mile away from me. Within a 1 mile radius I probably ha
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by com2kid 11mo ago
I think it is Rosenfeld but that is just random Google search, I haven't been to Newton in probably a decade. My fiancée (now wife) used to live there and I'd fly out every other month to visit her. I also remember Johnny's h
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by com2kid 11mo ago
That's how I felt about eggs after visiting Japan. American eggs are bland and tasteless in comparison. Backyard eggs are a general exception to that rule.
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by com2kid 11mo ago
A minor correction to your base premise - There is a bagel shop in Newton MA that is open for a few hours in the morning that has bagels just as good as NYC. People line to before they open and the bagels are quickly sold out in a mad rush.
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by com2kid 11mo ago
> My local, nothing special, supermarket stocks over 100 species of cheese. I remember going to the US and being confronted either 3 (American, whatever that is, Swiss and Cheddar. Um, which is unlike any cheddar I've ever had. Fran
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by com2kid 11mo ago
Some summers I plan on BBQing every weekend and I throw invites out on Thursday. People typically bring something and we all have a good time. For the parties as described in the article, I maybe go to one or two a year tops. Before I had a
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by com2kid 11mo ago
> What you're describing verbatim is a potluck. Potlucks in the US are popular among immigrant groups, family friend groups, or parties for clubs or associations. But ultimately they're considered a bit uncool/laidback and
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by com2kid 1y ago
> One of the things I hate about my 30s is that I'm focused on money now and it feels like I'm not living the life that I want. It just feels like I'm preparing for death. FAANG job at 22. Save up 25k a year for 4 years, t
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by com2kid 1y ago
Singletons are so useful in single threaded node land. Configuration objects, DB connection objects that have connection pooling behind them, even my LLM connection is accessed via a Singleton.
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by com2kid 1y ago
> Manufacturing has disappeared as a share of GDP, but that's not because we make less stuff. We assemble. The actual parts are largely made overseas. Because location matters, assemblers in China are able to do better work at a muc
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by com2kid 1y ago
Got my HM chair during the first wave of COVID lockdowns! I'm guessing excess GPUs maybe? Everyone gets their own AI home lab!
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by com2kid 1y ago
As soon as women try to participate in fandom or attend conventions, they are derided as not being "real fans". This has been documented as a problem with geek culture for well over 50+ years.
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by com2kid 1y ago
I am subscribed through Google play store, so there is a chance the form letter was different.
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by com2kid 1y ago
I can easily use all the power my largest induction burner gives me on a 240v outlet. I really want one of those battery boost units for my next big purchase. Honestly just browning 4 chicken thighs at once is too much for 240v. (My gas ran
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by com2kid 1y ago
Not true. Sony Android TVs can have all the ads disabled. Google disables voice input as a result, but otherwise I am ad free.
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by com2kid 1y ago
Inverter microwaves are a noticable improvement over regular microwaves. True variable power instead of time slicing means I can precisely heat up almost any food evenly all the way through.
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by com2kid 1y ago
> This community has pockets of people who like authoritarian control, Alternatively, we've spent our lives helping our parents out. Last year my mom just got completely owned, total taken over of all her financial accounts. The mos
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by com2kid 1y ago
FSA is just a 30%-ish discount on medical expenses. It is useful for eye glasses and such. A lot of QoL services qualify for FSA, including weight loss coaches and therapy. Heck my (prescription) meta ray bans were paid for in part with
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by com2kid 1y ago
My mom was a school bus driver and my dad was a laborer retired on disability. I got zero aid except for loans. I went to a 2nd tier in-state school 20 years ago and even that cost 10k a year by the time housing, food, and books, were paid
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by com2kid 1y ago
> Companies are overwhelmingly autocratic (cooperatives being exceedingly rare to the point most people don't know about their existence) - often rules by hereditary dictators called owners. But you can't legally overthrow them
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by com2kid 1y ago
> Microsoft did not advertise that there was any way to remain with the "Classic" plan Months before the pricing change went into effect Microsoft sent me a detailed email about how to stay on the old pricing plan. I don't
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by com2kid 1y ago
Imagine the teacher lines up all the kids, gives them cookies, notices all the kids are boys, so the teacher puts up a sign outside the girls restroom advertising free cookies for anyone who attends math class. Now the boys have cookies and
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by com2kid 1y ago
Git brings different things to different people. For me the largest advantage of Git was being able to easily switch branches. Previously I'd have to have multiple copies of an entire source repo on my machine if I wanted to work on mu
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by com2kid 1y ago
> computer software generated around $373b in revenue while mobile apps generated around $522b. What percentage is consumer vs corporate spend in each category? How much of that 373b is SaaS revenue vs local installed apps? > And here
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by com2kid 1y ago
Shout out to examine.com, they also do a great job summarizing studies on supplements.
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by com2kid 1y ago
> Gold trade = good. Look up the atrocities committed on the name of countries gaining more gold sometime then get back to us on that one. > Blockchain = good. Single network = bad. The CC networks have much lower fraud rates than the
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by com2kid 1y ago
Counter point - the on screen translation stuff is way better than before, it can now translate text in pictures which is a huge benefit on many East Asian websites.
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by com2kid 1y ago
The PC app ecosystem is a tiny fraction of the App Store's, outside of, notably, Steam's locked down closed ecosystem. Having a single way to pay, subscribe, cancel, browse apps, beta test versions, and update apps, proved to be a
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by com2kid 1y ago
I can legit say that lemmings helped me get through a rough patch in my childhood. Playing the Atari ST version on a machine a teacher brought in from her house is a core memory. Sadly the other kid I played with didn't have such a hap
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by com2kid 1y ago
Thanks for the reference! Reading is def not 100% linear, as I find myself skipping ahead to see who is talking or what type of sentence I am reading (question, exclamation, statement). There is an interesting discussion down thread about A

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