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by dripton 4y ago
UBlock Origin, right-click on the annoying thing, Block Element, done.
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by dripton 5y ago
Text artifacts in the Infocom text adventures Planetfall and Stationfall use this system. Play the games long enough and you get pretty good at reading them.
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by dripton 5y ago
Some fast-food places in the US went drive-through-only in 2020 and are still that way. I think if you're in the kind of rural or suburban place where almost everyone drives almost everywhere, then the drive-through does the majority
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by dripton 5y ago
I don't buy expensive shoes, so it seems obvious to me that it's cheaper to replace than repair, so I do that. But I do have one expensive ($150 on sale, $300 retail) pair of winter bike boots, and the soles gradually detached fro
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by dripton 5y ago
Life pro tip: most recruiters can't write emails that look like they came from humans rather than spambots. If you're actively looking for a job, check all your spam folders daily. I can't tell you how many actual job leads
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by dripton 5y ago
And I've used (checks file) 56 different superchargers in the last 4 years, some of them many times. It comes down to how many long road trips you make. Fast chargers are totally unnecessary for local-only driving if you have a slow
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by dripton 5y ago
I installed the contact tracing app as soon as it was available, and still have it running. I've never gotten a contact from it. Some of that is probably me being careful and not being around others much, and some of it is probably t
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by dripton 6y ago
I think it's mostly to get you to install the app, so they can advertise at you.
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by dripton 6y ago
1. Exercised my ISOs at small company A when I quit, because the options were buy-within-90-days-or-lose, and they were cheap, and I felt the company had decent odds of being acquired. They were acquired a couple of years later, and my $30
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by dripton 6y ago
Agreed. The only time I ever had to wait for a Supercharger was at the one at the Tesla store in Nashville. It had 6 chargers, but 3 were being used by the people who worked at the store, so only 3 were available for other use.
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by dripton 6y ago
"One thing made by us will be able to control one thing made by us, so you should buy everything from us." No. Put a general web browser in the car, make the devices controllable over the web by any general web browser, and you&#
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by dripton 6y ago
YOU PUT THE WHEELCHAIR IN WHEELCHAIR. Might want to exclude this kind of trivial case.
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by dripton 6y ago
I've seen large signs at several drug stores "Free flu shots!" Small print: "Flu shot is free only if your insurance covers all of it." So, yeah, pretending to be free has spread to that industry too.
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by dripton 6y ago
A former employer's telephony software had a 9-character intstring field for the Unix timestamp, so there was a bug when it rolled over to 1000000000 in 2001. Pretty rare, I think. Unix timestamps back then were usually 32-bit ints,
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by dripton 6y ago
My gmail doppleganger signs me up for mostly animal charities and religious stuff. I keep unsubscribing and marking as spam. Sometimes I wonder if she does this on purpose, giving a "fake email" to people she doesn't want t
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by dripton 6y ago
That's education, not babysitting. I totally agree that high school is important, but it should be geared more for teaching than for supervision. While elementary school does both.
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by dripton 6y ago
I hope most 17-year-olds don't need babysitters. We can probably split the difference some on this between elementary school (where the babysitting really is kind of economically important) and the older kids.
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by dripton 6y ago
Meh. Total non-event. Once upon a time I hated splits because they made record-keeping more complicated, but the online brokers do a good job of tracking basis across splits now. Once upon a time there was a real reason to do splits to e
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by dripton 6y ago
The right to bicycle in general is not licensed in the US. However, some roads allow bikes and some do not. This seems to mostly be done in a way to not overly restrict freedom of travel. For example, in densely populated places like t
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by dripton 6y ago
Amazon does not really have centralized hiring. Each team hires for itself, though there are bar raisers from outside the team designed to be a counterweight to desperate hiring managers.
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by dripton 6y ago
Counterexample: I got an interview at Google a few months ago, with no referral and one phone screen.
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by dripton 7y ago
How did you ask for your refund? I tried twice through Steam and was rejected both times.
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by dripton 7y ago
I use the Visa gift cards for charitable contributions. The nice thing about charities, as opposed to random purchases, is you get to pick the amount.
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by dripton 7y ago
I failed a polygraph. I was truthful and still failed. It cost me a job. Luckily I found a better job. So, thanks polygraph.
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by dripton 7y ago
Oops, missed the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dphw4km60m4
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by dripton 7y ago
Here's an 8:50 lap (amateur driver) with a P85D. From 2015. The 3 is better on the track than the S. Still heavy, of course.
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by dripton 7y ago
Slow security is not inherent to air travel; it's something that was tacked on by politicians. It could easily be added to trains. (Or removed from planes, though I'm not holding my breath.) Distance to the airport vs. train sta
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by dripton 8y ago
I agree with you, at least for a big ticket item like a car. But Turo exists, so you can test drive pretty much any non-exotic car in any major metro area, for a somewhat reasonable price. That's what we did before we bought a Model
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by dripton 9y ago
It's not essential; I know plenty of people at Amazon without college degrees. But you won't make it though the interviews for an Software Development Engineer role without basic computer science knowledge. So if you didn't
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by dripton 9y ago
https://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/ December: Tesla 9335, GM 5173

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