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by dockd 4y ago
How about money? In 1960, you either had to have cash or find a place that took a check to make purchases. Maybe some places took a credit card. Ever have to wait in line behind someone that is writing a check? "Productive" won
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by dockd 5y ago
I can't speak for the OP and everyone has their own reasons but - Do you have a roommate? Children? Now your house/apartment is looking like a mini-office with shared space. - Your house has one office. Where will your spouse&#
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by dockd 5y ago
Did the 1914 house have electricity? With "acetylene lighting plant" being extra, I think not. Did the 1914 house have more than one toilet? Cost per square foot doesn't cover what goes into the square foot, and fixtures co
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by dockd 5y ago
* Someone who left before the project finished, or immediately after. In my experience, people leave just after the big project ships. They've been focused on a task, working hard and are usually left with "now what?". It&#
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by dockd 5y ago
> coming to and/or operating at periscope depth is dangerous Silly question: how do you identify a target? Sound only? It seems like you would want something visual.
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by dockd 5y ago
How did you find your ranking?
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by dockd 5y ago
I think it's a due to a combination of things. First MTBs went from flat bars to riser bars as front and then rear suspension appeared. Then the bars got wider. I have memories of the bike magazines (Mountain Bike Action) declaring t
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by dockd 5y ago
In all fairness, the mountain bike was invented to go downhill on Mount Tamalpais in California. Also, in my opinion, the tailgate pad has made it practical to run [downhill] shuttles using pickups. Prior to that, you had to get a roof rac
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by dockd 5y ago
Which is ironic since source control is supposed to prevent the need for manually making backup copies.
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by dockd 6y ago
If we make the software vendor responsible, who pays for open source vulnerabilities?
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by dockd 6y ago
Start typing "calculator" after pressing WIN.
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by dockd 6y ago
This is just pushing testing to the customer. Why would the customer report a bug instead of switching to a less buggy product? Why do you think the customers are going to report bugs? I can't say that I've ever attempted to rep
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by dockd 6y ago
There's also a huge variation in what roads cyclists consider acceptable. For example, one of our local highways has a speed limit of 55mph and a shoulder that is maybe 10 feet wide with a rumble strip near the cars. Is that a good ro
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by dockd 7y ago
Maybe they meant Microsoft didn't really stick to the C standard library. _strdup vs strdup. malloc vs HeapAlloc. assert, fopen, etc. The functions mostly exist but really aren't the way to program Windows.
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by dockd 7y ago
And let's not forget the pneumatic tire; Wikipedia suggests they were invented 1847-1888. (It says they were invented to help make bicycles/tricycles comfortable.) If anyone thinks these tires aren't important, then why are
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by dockd 7y ago
The last time I went to Rite Aid to pick up a prescription, their point of sale system asked me to acknowledge whether I spoke with/declined to speak with the pharmacist, before I got to speak with the pharmacist.
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by dockd 7y ago
From my experience, I was much more defined by having a job than I realized. I quit a contracting job. It lead to awkward conversations with people ("What do you do for a living?") and some odd soul searching (what is my place i
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by dockd 7y ago
> But, you know, it's one of those things where after a newspaper writes about something in your field, you start wondering if they are that ridiculously uninformed about the things that aren't in your field. Or maybe you keep
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by dockd 7y ago
Aren't most index funds, almost by definition, required to buy their shares? If Vanguard owns a piece of every listed company, they're going to buy Uber at pretty much any price, right?
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by dockd 8y ago
In "The 4-Hour Body" Tim Ferriss recommends eating the same meal [from Chipolte!] every day as part of his "slow carb" diet. I have no idea how long he sticks to his own advice though.
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by dockd 9y ago
The Windows signature tool, signtool.exe, makes the timestamp an optional parameter. There are no warnings if you don't supply it. I'd suggest this is a poor design--do most signatures not want the timestamp by default?
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by dockd 9y ago
As bicycles prices start moving toward motorcycles and cars, I don't understand why the shops still feel like the margins can't/won't change. They say 20-30% profit is small, but compare that to buying a new car: 2-3% p
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by dockd 9y ago
What exactly are "modern design standards" required by bridges? When did the modern era start? Is there really a major moment in bridge design where the standards changed? Is there even broad agreement on what these standards a
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by dockd 10y ago
I'm not totally sure why that's any better than throwing them into the trash. Are people really digging through garbage just hoping to find opiates? However, presuming you're not on a septic system, they end up in the river,
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by dockd 10y ago
The book "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" by Michael Feathers.
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by dockd 10y ago
> Why do we do these things? This sounds terrible, but quite often, it's to say you did. A joke posted in my gym: Q: How do you know someone has run a marathon? A: They'll tell you.
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by dockd 10y ago
I suspect it has something to do with a) The programmer not actually using the software they create. They end up spending time trying to understand the domain. b) The programmer uses the software they create and wants it to do everything (
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by dockd 10y ago
In my experience in the USA, OpenStreetMap data that comes from TIGER (?) imports, like heliports, are close but wrong. Playgrounds and watertowers are usually accurate because someone added them by hand. Churches are mixed. Other items
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by dockd 11y ago
My observation of kids with good jobs in high school was they would give up school for the money. (See also: college.) Why would your child want to be in boring old school when they can make $60/hour?
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by dockd 11y ago
Absolutely on the first point. I believe the #1 thing the Navy wants from SEALs is people who just won't quit. The Nave doesn't train them not to quit, it just creates tests that search for this quality. I'm unconvinced tha

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