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by dave78 2y ago
The author of this article as well as many comments here are talking about this as a "third place" issue, but "third place" is 3rd because there's 2 others before it: home and workplace. From what I can tell, the au
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by dave78 2y ago
> if you aren't doing anything wrong, child protection services won't do anything regardless of people calling them Sadly, this is not always the case in the US. There's plenty of stories out there of CPS taking kids away
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by dave78 2y ago
Agreed. My 9 year old has finally started getting comfortable riding their bike around the neighborhood and going to the park by themselves. I had to convince them to do this, because they didn't think it was OK. Luckily there's s
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by dave78 2y ago
Even less than that - I walked to elementary school by myself every day in the 1980s. For the busiest streets, 5th graders served as crossing guards for the younger kids, which something I also did. From what I can tell, the mentality of no
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by dave78 2y ago
SWPC is now showing this storm as a G5 with a K-index of 9: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
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by dave78 2y ago
Yeah, this matches my recollection of that time period as well. I definitely used the browser here and there when it was still Phoenix. My memory even says that Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox was something of a skunkworks project inside
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by dave78 2y ago
> At least ~15 years ago, the way Domino's timer works is that when the cook puts the order in the oven, they hit a button. The Domino's location near me very obviously hits that button as soon as they get the order when things
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by dave78 2y ago
I started my career with Clearcase (ick) and added CVS for personal projects shortly after. CVS always kind of sucked, even compared with Clearcase. Subversion was a massive improvement, and I was pretty happy with it for a long time. I res
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by dave78 2y ago
I don't know the answer, but there has definitely been a proliferation of YouTube channels that feature every single aviation anomaly. So, I suspect that it's at least somewhat the fact that a lot more attention is being called to
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by dave78 2y ago
> You have to use each chain’s app, now, to get what used to be menu prices. Yes, I used their app. I have kids so I know happy meals used to be crazy cheap. They've gone up substantially in price in the past 3 years. We used to get
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by dave78 2y ago
I used the McDonald's app, creating an order for drive-through pickup (they don't seem to put prices on their website that I could find). So, I believe that should be their regular menu prices. I didn't look at 3rd party webs
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by dave78 2y ago
> A Happy Meal is frequently sold for $3. Not anymore. I just checked, a hamburger happy meal at the McD's nearest to my house (i.e. not an abnormally expensive location such as an airport) is $4.49. Extra $0.20 to add cheese. This
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by dave78 2y ago
> For example, I get better local news coverage in my local city subreddit than I do in any professional publication. Agreed. And the "professional" local news is more and more just regurgitating photos, videos, and description
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by dave78 3y ago
I assume some of it is because these electric car companies need an edge - if they just made the car the same way Toyota and Honda does then it would appear to the consumer to just be an electrified Civic or Corolla. I think they're tr
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by dave78 3y ago
The cost really is the key for me. We had one replaced a few months ago and it was a few hundred dollars and was done the same day. I usually prefer to DIY, but it would have taken me a while just to measure everything, round up the right s
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by dave78 3y ago
Maybe I'm odd, but I much prefer the Thinkpad's body to the Macbook (I have both). I don't like the coldness of the metal chassis, either on my palms or on my legs if using it away from a desk. Thinkpad plastic does not feel
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by dave78 3y ago
This was a year or 2 ago - I didn't save specific links. However, if you're interested, you can poke around in https://codeberg.org/forgejo/meta . Below are two that I just found now that represent the kinds o
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by dave78 3y ago
I have no interest in being part of that process at all. I'm not sure what the point of your response even is. I was evaluating Forgejo as a potential replacement for my Gitlab instance. What I saw was a very young project that was alr
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by dave78 3y ago
I think that bickering over a code of conduct before anyone has even written any code is a potential sign of a project that's not going to be healthy. It's not a guarantee, but it's a big deal to switch to a new system so I w
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by dave78 3y ago
I checked out Forgejo shortly after they forked to potentially replace a Gitlab instance. At the time at least, what I found was they seemed to be spending most of their efforts bickering over a code of conduct and I think they already mana
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by dave78 3y ago
> Apple seems determined to serve this up as kid gloves experience vs a general purpose computing device with direct access to a real file system and ultimately a shell prompt I think the idea of a general purpose OS without a company in
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by dave78 3y ago
I had XM (before the Sirius merger) and cancelled it >10 years ago. The process was difficult enough that I would never even remotely consider signing up for them again. If it had been more painless, I may have resubscribed at some point
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by dave78 3y ago
It's clear that most of the people having issues in Chicago do not live somewhere where they can charge overnight. Not so easy to charge at night when you park on the street or in a public garage.
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by dave78 3y ago
The Chicago media is reporting these problems at many area charging stations. I don't know how many in total, but it's more than just one. Also, for the stations that are working, there are many reports of charging taking way long
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by dave78 3y ago
Yes, agreed. I was lumping them together in my head. I think my point still stands that people often get into trouble without cell coverage and without access to a locator or sat phone or whatever, but likely have their regular cell phone w
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by dave78 3y ago
There are huge portions of the USA that have no cell coverage. Often the kinds of places that people go to hike and explore - and also places that people sometimes get injured. I'm sure that's true in many other countries as well.
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by dave78 3y ago
10.0 is mentioned in the blog post - I don't follow CVE nomenclature closely but that's the score, right? And it's as bad as it can get? I assume the CVE website would normally have this info but it's only showing the nu
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by dave78 3y ago
Parking lots are a common place to store excess snow when it is plowed. Obviously from the parking lot itself, but also sometimes snow is hauled in dump trucks from other areas where there is no space to store the snow. In snowy areas the p
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by dave78 3y ago
Perhaps the problem isn't the fact that parking requirements exist but rather that they require way too many parking spots. Most shopping center lots in my area are never close to full, even on the busiest Christmas shopping days.
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by dave78 3y ago
If you like aviation-related content, check out Juan Browne: youtube.com/@blancolirio He breaks down interesting topics, unfortunately often related to general aviation accidents. He also did some interesting videos on the California d

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