eric_the_read

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by eric_the_read 10y ago
I could care less about this request, but I can't be bothered to make the effort.
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by eric_the_read 10y ago
Also, you can focus your enemies' attacks in their weak spots-- for instance, I try to spend my enemy magic attacks when I'm fighting a rat, or something with little-to-no mana.
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by eric_the_read 10y ago
My favorite restaurant in college is a high-end hotel in Johannesburg (actually it's not, and I've never even been to Africa unless you count a week I spent on Tenerife as a child).
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by eric_the_read 10y ago
I have a friend who's still using Google Talk via her corporate IT solution, whose name I forget; she and my wife are the only two I know of still using it. I could probably convince my wife to switch to Allo, but my friend can't
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by eric_the_read 10y ago
Given the above numbers, a little less than 33 ($1MM / (30k/student)). Not that you shouldn't care about such things, but that particular instance doesn't appear to materially affect the undergraduate population.
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by eric_the_read 10y ago
My (least) favorite variant of this is the telemarketers who wait for you to say "hello", then, after they quickly conference in the actual operator, they say, "Oh! Sorry, I was having a problem with my headset. Anyway, I&#x2
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by eric_the_read 10y ago
But cash can move around quite a bit in a day. Spend $14 at merchant A, get $6 in change, spend $3 at merchant B, who hands that out to customer C as part of their change, who gives it to a bum, who in turn uses it to buy lunch... seeing a
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by eric_the_read 10y ago
The difference is that I generally feel safe carrying a debit card around where I wouldn't with even $100 in cash. In the US, we are just getting chip cards for debit, so even if my wallet is stolen, I can just call the bank and cancel
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by eric_the_read 10y ago
True enough, but I hate those things. They tend to incur nasty fees when used on top of the overdraft itself, and then there's interest to be paid on the overdraft amount if not paid in full, etc., etc. If allowed, I will always disabl
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by eric_the_read 10y ago
For me, it was realizing that I wasn't any better or worse than the other people on the team, and that my opinion was just as valuable when discounted by my experience level. Before that, I was always reluctant to speak up, or express
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by eric_the_read 10y ago
The appeal is largely that credit cards let you spend money you don't have, and debit cards, by definition, don't. For people who have a hard time operating within their budget with credit cards, this is a huge difference.
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by eric_the_read 10y ago
Using powerpoint (or related tech) enables sucking at public speaking and presentation skills, in a way that lecturing in front of a {black,white}board does not. One of my favorite education-related blogs is University Diaries, by Margare
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by eric_the_read 10y ago
Based on the response to Super Mario Run, Fire Emblem Heroes, and Pokemon Go, I'd say their customers clearly do want to play their games on a smartphone; they just haven't had the opportunity. Now, if you'd said, "the
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by eric_the_read 10y ago
My first job out of school was at a company that was (at the time) famous for electronic test equipment. We found that our competitor's probes, developed in a relatively humid area, would trigger when an engineer so much as flicked a l
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by eric_the_read 10y ago
I think you read that backwards (not at all surprisingly): It's not the case that Walmart can't give Amazon hard times. Therefore, it is the case that Walmart can give Amazon hard times. I think.
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by eric_the_read 10y ago
From the "Dolphin Progress Report" article ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13544514 ): there were two Disney games that wrote garbage data to a region of memory where important data was stored, but not enough
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by eric_the_read 10y ago
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by eric_the_read 10y ago
Seconded! They recently changed their backend bank, and it was surprisingly simple to get things moved over, even given that I had a direct deposit in place, which necessitated a more complicated process.
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by eric_the_read 10y ago
Perhaps more charitably, because she has no known history of having done so, and her talents in the acting profession are not generally considered directly transferable.
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by eric_the_read 10y ago
Mostly it's about how the templating process itself works. I once had a strange bug involving how a variable was (not) bound in the view, and I believe I lost count between 20 or 30 steps from when the controller tried to render the vi
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by eric_the_read 10y ago
One of my standard programming interview questions is, "what's the worst part about your favorite {language, framework, ORM, ...}?" I find that if you've used something to its fullest, you usually have a measured and rea
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by eric_the_read 10y ago
Another point to consider: my out of pocket maximum might be lower (it's not, but let's assume it is), but so much less is covered now than before. I used to have a copay for doctor's visits, ranging from $20 to $30 depending
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by eric_the_read 10y ago
I have a deductible of $3,000. If I spent it all on doctor's visits (that is the vast majority of my medical expenses), I'd have to visit the doctor 120+ times to make it cheaper to have a $3,000 deductible than a $25 copay for do
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by eric_the_read 10y ago
If you'd said "most" I wouldn't have responded, but since you said, 'all': My out of pocket expenses are drastically up; the smallest deductible I can get now is $3,000 (after that, it's covered at 80%). I
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by eric_the_read 10y ago
Thanks for the correction!
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by eric_the_read 10y ago
It was actually named after Pope Gregory XIII, who commissioned it and introduced it 1582[0]. You may be thinking of Gregorian chant, which did arise from the Gregorian Monks. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian
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by eric_the_read 10y ago
I can't listen to this at work unfortunately, but if it's not referenced in the podcast, let me recommend the book "Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time" by Clark Blaise. It's an interes
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by eric_the_read 10y ago
For one example, I discovered Joule (new immersion circulator from ChefSteps) when they appeared on Cooking Issues. While they've since taken advertising from ChefSteps, I'm pretty sure the initial appearance was Dave Arnold chatt
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by eric_the_read 10y ago
It's pure exhaustion in my case. I can (and did, for a while last year) switch to Signal, but even getting my wife to care enough to bother was more work than I was willing to put in at the time, and she's the one person in the wo
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by eric_the_read 10y ago
Sure, now , but back in the dark ages of 1992, basically nobody at my university had heard of vim, so we just got vi, which didn't have such a helpful prompt. After entering vi, I spent about 15 minutes alternately trying to do anythi

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