cydonian_monk

8 ms·

31.
by cydonian_monk 7y ago
I'll chime in as another iPhone SE supporter. I'm still rocking mine, which itself replaced a four year old iPhone 5. Best form factor of any such device I've ever owned. I replaced the battery in both after two years, as the
32.
by cydonian_monk 7y ago
West Virginia, specifically Charleston. The general lack of eye contact was more pronounced in remote groups and less prevalent in Charleston proper, and I really never noticed until I spent time up in Morgantown at the university. Seems fa
33.
by cydonian_monk 7y ago
This is something I've always struggled with. I grew up in a part of the world where you just don't make eye contact. Ever. Spent many years in and around colleges where folks were the opposite - very heavy on eye contact. And so
34.
by cydonian_monk 7y ago
Who knows. I'm not really sure and I never asked either (not that they'd tell me). It's not a particularly long beard. Maybe I just look suspicious to them.
35.
by cydonian_monk 7y ago
As a lily-white redheaded bearded guy of Irish descent, I stopped flying (and going to baseball games) because I was consistently being "randomly" selected for whatever new xray machine + rub down + run a pick through my beard + w
36.
by cydonian_monk 7y ago
This can backfire. I have a similar set up, area code and number from state I used to live in, half way across the US. One of the businesses local to where I now live uses some sort of "least cost" attempt at routing calls out of
37.
by cydonian_monk 7y ago
Without getting too much into specifics, it was 3% higher than my current highest card.
38.
by cydonian_monk 7y ago
And a much worse APR than every other card I have. I was mildly interested until the application process showed me how much extra I'd pay just to not have a late fee.
39.
by cydonian_monk 7y ago
Not so much the West Virginia woods (just Charleston), but we had a similar experience with a WV blizzard. At the time we still had a stone fire pit in the back yard to cook in. It was an experience digging that out from under two (or three
40.
by cydonian_monk 7y ago
I'm not sure how I feel about this yet. Maybe when there's a real game and more details, or some actual meat regarding what they mean when they say "deeper mod support", and an absolute answer on Mac/Linux support..
41.
by cydonian_monk 7y ago
This is a good question, because I'm not sure offhand if any of the ones which failed were the 3B+ with the new heat spreader on the CPU. I suspect they weren't, as that model only came out a bit of a year ago. I _have_ had overhe
42.
by cydonian_monk 7y ago
While I don't know about the Pi4, I've found that heatsinks are absolutely required for my uses of the Pi3s. In every situation where I've used a 3 I've had problems with them thermal-throttling down to a basically usele
43.
by cydonian_monk 7y ago
Especially when it comes to an engineering textbook. While my university's selected electrical engineering books were all sub-$500 (usually in the $300 range), most of the "core" civil engineering books were at or over $1,000
44.
by cydonian_monk 7y ago
Wow, I missed that one. The first several paragraphs make it read like something I need to sit down and give some undivided focus. Seems very well written. I can certainly offer some anecdata to it. My family died 20 years ago with my grand
45.
by cydonian_monk 7y ago
Renewables continuing to grow in output is great news. Yet that's only part of the story. Coal, at least domestic steam coal, is still being actively displaced by natural gas. That's also a significant factor in the downward trend
46.
by cydonian_monk 7y ago
Not a native French speaker, no. Apologies if that one-sentence broad generalization was tiring to you - I meant neither to explain nor be exhaustive. ;) Obviously they're not different languages - I was a bit exaggeratory in that rega
47.
by cydonian_monk 7y ago
It also doesn't help that French and Quebecois French are different dialects to the point of almost being different languages. We "offended" our entire office in Montreal when we rolled their telephony system into our headqua
48.
by cydonian_monk 8y ago
The US Army Corps of Engineers is generally and historically responsible for waterway dredging and flood control. It's one of their core (peace-time) responsibilities. These are typically large projects that benefit the public good yet
49.
by cydonian_monk 8y ago
They're super useful for filing road debris insurance claims. I was able to pull a frame from my dashcam video to show my insurance the airborne tire tread that destroyed the front end of my car.
50.
by cydonian_monk 8y ago
And the shutdown seems to be fuzzy, because I can still post to Google+, +1 things, and presumably do other usual G+ things despite it telling me it's shutdown. Now I'm only occasionally reloading to watch my follower count drop a
51.
by cydonian_monk 8y ago
I feel the same about my 2012 MacBookPro. While it was a _tiny_ bit down the path of "not user serviceable", replacing the battery and trackpad was extremely easy. And one of the first things I did to it was replace/upgrade A
52.
by cydonian_monk 8y ago
Many of my "no email" contacts are hobby-related and not tech workers. Some of them are retired, previously used work-provided email, and have no interest in setting up their own accounts (I honestly have no idea how they survive)
53.
by cydonian_monk 8y ago
I wish we still had email, but an increasing number of folks in my circles are refusing to use it too. And you can forget trying to call anybody - nobody answers because every phone call is a robocall or a scam. The balkanization of communi
54.
by cydonian_monk 8y ago
Houston. We already have a large international tech base, built-out infrastructure, and a (slowly) developing mass-transit plan. Added benefit is that we're just 163 miles away - short move for folks that burn out on the Austin eXperie
55.
by cydonian_monk 8y ago
We tended to always be labor-short for deliveries, so if we could send a job out with one person we would. A single person can safely deliver most household appliances with just a furniture dolly (up to a side-by-side fridge, which almost a
56.
by cydonian_monk 8y ago
The multiple smaller wheels give an extra leverage point, whereas a single, larger wheel can require quite a bit of force. If climbing multiple stairs that can wear both you and the dolly out. I'm not sure I would have preferred this b
57.
by cydonian_monk 8y ago
I had to use one after a sinus surgery (to remove a not-so-tiny bone spur and then put things back where they belong) to flush out dried blood and whatnot. I've used it a few times after when I have a severe head cold to open things up
58.
by cydonian_monk 8y ago
Depending on the condition of the patient and the specifics of the palliative care prescribed, that's exactly what happens. Just using morphine minus the extra additves used to make heroin. Add pure oxygen to the mix and I'm not s
59.
by cydonian_monk 8y ago
There are still a few Yahoo! Groups I'm a part of that are resistent to moving on to greener pastures (such as Groups.io). That and Flickr (which will be free of Yahoo! soon enough) are the only two reasons I still have an account.
60.
by cydonian_monk 9y ago
The “warning” is already as diluted as the coffee in question, and has been seen by many as a joke for years now.

More ›