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by derekp7 5y ago
Problem is, how do you get the non-TI calculator approved for taking tests?
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by derekp7 5y ago
Regarding Making vs Consuming, I realized why I never got consumed by gaming. I can only sit down and play a game for a short while, before my brain starts wandering and thinking how I could build something myself.
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by derekp7 5y ago
For me, I started computers at around age 13. Didn't know at the time that most computer jobs were highly specialized, so I absorbed knowledge and developed skills in a wide variety of areas. Ended up as a SysAdmin simply because tha
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by derekp7 5y ago
The part about contacting their new employer may be illegal, so tread with caution.
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by derekp7 5y ago
This reminds me of when I took a class on Sun Cluster. The instructor went to the Sun developers for his training, took everything they "invented" and drew parallels to items he had back in his mainframe and mini days. Turns out
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by derekp7 5y ago
I can confirm 100% that I am being monitored, without having any remote monitoring tools installed. I periodically send my boss status reports on items that are still outstanding. If there is something blocking me I will mention that too.
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by derekp7 5y ago
The problem people have with unions is that many of them elevate the lower performers by pushing down the higher performers. The higher performers have leverage already without a union. Of course this only works when there are more positi
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by derekp7 5y ago
The way I explained it to my boss, is to give him a list of numbers to add up in his head and come up with a total. He looked at the list for a couple minutes, then gave me the answer (I framed the whole thing as a riddle). I then looked
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by derekp7 5y ago
You are close. You first rub the berry on your skin (or leaf, or whatever). Wait 24 hours to see if a rash develops. Then you taste it, wait another 24 hours. Then you eat one, and see if you get sick after another 24 hours. Now you ca
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by derekp7 5y ago
My Ford Fusion has one of those rotary dials. Didn't like it at first, but it is nice having that air space free (not able to accidentally knock it out of gear, more room for an extra cup holder). Also the cars with a physical gear s
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by derekp7 5y ago
I don't know -- when I was a kid, in the arcade, the machines constantly prompted me to insert another quarter to continue playing.
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by derekp7 5y ago
They've been paying that (inflation adjusted) for quite some time, although the water also had a bunch of sugar and a bit of flavoring and color in it. The bottled water thing started off mostly as a counter to sugary colas. Colas ar
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by derekp7 5y ago
For mobile use, nothing really beats i.reddit.com. Clean simple interface, only a couple minor annoyances such as search not supporting all the options.
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by derekp7 5y ago
The post said that it is also being addressed in a platform update on Jan 4th..
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by derekp7 5y ago
In my household back around Y2K era (95 - 05), I eliminated a large number of virus infections by having the computer that the kids used set up so them clicking on the AIM icon actually did an X connection over ssh to my Linux server to run
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by derekp7 5y ago
To add on to this, point a real estate app (Zillow, etc) to Racine Wisconsin. The east side is fairly nice. Also, look at north-eastern Illinois, starting in a radius about 40 miles or so outside of Chicago. The grate thing about that ar
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by derekp7 5y ago
Ideally I'd like to be able to register my physical token with the manufacturer and have them send me a replacement based on sufficient identification. Things like ordering the replacement with a credit card in my name, sent to my mai
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by derekp7 5y ago
Yes, but that return on investment was simply a mechanism, not a goal in itself.
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by derekp7 5y ago
I finally broke down and got progressive lenses recently (one of my better decisions). However that means only a small portion of the monitor is in clear focus. So I also bought dedicated computer glasses (basically my regular distant pre
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by derekp7 5y ago
For me, if I'm working from home I tend to start my work day about the time I'd leave to commute. And there is no hard stop for the day. For my commute, I have a pleasant to drive car (nothing fancy, just a hybrid Fusion), with
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by derekp7 5y ago
I used to feel that way, but then I've got a drawer full of old gear with replaceable batteries that I can't get the batteries for anymore. Would be much more useful if rechargeable lithium batteries were standardized. Also I pr
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by derekp7 5y ago
You might like Snebu then, it has always had compression and deduplication, now does public key encryption. No direct cloud support, although you can keep your repository sync'd to a bucket if you want. (Disclosure -- I'm the au
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by derekp7 5y ago
I would like to know if current advanced safety tech such as lane centering and collision avoidance significantly cuts down on highway deaths due to driving impairment? Since these technologies are already starting to become standard, once
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by derekp7 5y ago
It is more than that though. Let's take a kid who has a good feel for math, but make them do several pages of addition and subtraction problems every night for homework instead of teaching them that there is such a thing as "math
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by derekp7 5y ago
The trick I do is to use one of the returned images in a reverse Google photo search, and include a "-pinterest.com" tag. But that takes extra steps.
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The problem is that the way the medium works is that the only way to post something for someone else to see utilizing the wildly adopted protocols (http(s)/html/etc) is to have the item downloaded and copied. The attitude is very
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by derekp7 5y ago
From my understanding, this is not correct. 401K contributions reduce your marginal tax rate. So if you make 100k and contribute 15k, you save about 24% in taxes. Then when you withdraw 100k a year during retirement, you pay only 18% in
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by derekp7 5y ago
I can't see them using optical based on their price structure (compared to bluray media costs per GB). And I doubt they own a manufacturing facility to crank out super-secret multi-terabyte-sized optical disks. However it fits right
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by derekp7 5y ago
I stumbled across Aegis for Android (they don't have an iOS version though). The export format is json, you can export in cleartext or aes encrypted.
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That is why I use a TOTP app that lets me export an encrypted copy of the TOTP secrets. I also have a printed-out copy of the secrets stored in a secure location, which I update monthly for new accounts I add in. Prior to that when I was

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