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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
They talk about Concrete City as if it's satire, but when I read the title, I assumed it would have something to do with Concrete, Washington. A real place, named after the substance, and immortalized in This Boy's Life, by Tobia
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
They're delicious, but you have to like game. Kind of like a really strong tasting duck, but hard to describe. Maybe a cross between duck breast and liver? That said, they should probably slow down on the hunting until they've w
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
There was a video a few years ago that explained how this works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_1T2_l43Xo
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
I can't listen to anything with words I understand. Podcasts would be ridiculous.
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
I had trouble with flying, especially taking off, and my strategy for dealing with it was to buy a thriller of some sort at the airport, and start reading it prior to getting on the plane. Books by people like Tom Clancy, John Grisham, or
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
They sure did. I used to have three numbers of black car services on my phone, and if I couldn't get a cab, which was common in my neighborhood, and I needed a ride badly enough to pay 2-3x what a yellow would cost, I'd call thos
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
The medallions are auctioned. The city is one of many sellers in the auctions, as I understand it.
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
Because the city sold them on the basis that they offered an exclusive right to pick up street hails in manhattan. Uber, et al, have essentially eliminated that exclusivity.
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
Haha, that's a good one. I had a guy take his seatbelt off, and try to tell me that the dinging I was hearing was an alarm about oil pressure. The only sympathy I have for the yellow cabs is that the city screwed them with those pric
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
It won't harm the insurance companies, as it'll be a level playing field, and they'll all have to simply quote new rates that work out for them given the new data they're allowed to consider. The parties harmed will be,
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
I wonder if they'll be allowed to order a pizza.
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
If you haven't read Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari, you'd probably dig it. He makes a very good case that storytelling is a cornerstone of the evolution of society as we know it.
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
That's actually exactly how insurance works. You place a bet against yourself, and you hope not to lose, but if you do lose, at least you win the bet.
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
This is such a common issue in NYC that we have a business (the couch doctor) that does nothing but take apart furniture and reassemble it in place. Friend of mine used them and they were apparently really impressive (he told them what sof
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
It's a pain to reach. And now that I have an escape key, no need.
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
nope.
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
I wouldn't say I'm so fixated on the escape key that nothing else matters. The base OS matters a great deal! I pursued three lines at this particular fork in the road, I considered buying a 2016 MBP, a refurb or whatever, I cons
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
I hear you. The little annoyances are far outweighed by the positives. Even the display seems crisper which I didn't expect over a retina display. WSL is not amazing performance, but it's probably about the same (the machine it
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
Just tried it in cmd, powershell, and cmder, and it worked in all three. Don't have putty.
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
Heh... the current plan is to hold onto it as a backup (in case windows decides to rise up and ruin me in a couple months) and just use it with an external kb.
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
Sadly I already remap caps-lock to ctrl. Don't worry though, this SB2 is so nice I'm no longer feeling any pain. Literally my only complaint about it so far is that the headphone jack is in the wrong place (it's on the edge
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
Escape key is non negotiable. Sorry, you won't change my mind on that point.
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
I was considering the XPS series myself. Heard great things about it. Are you running windows or unix?
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
Yeah, I looked at the pros too. I don't think they were powerful enough for me, and I went with the SB2 instead.
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
I was a windows guy for many years before switching to OSX in 2006 (I actually worked for microsoft in the early 90's, but we all hated windows as much as the rest of the world, maybe moreso, because we had to develop on weekly builds)
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
For awhile the 'e' key was only working about 90% of the time. Then it began working about 120% of the time, so I had to remap it to nothing, move the 'e' to the backslash, and plug in an external keyboard. The trackpa
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
So my main concern was being able to easily run elixir/erlang, with some flavor of unix as a production target. Therefore running natively on windows was, at best, a nice to have. On OSX I could just work in the native environment, s
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
I had to replace my 2015 MBP last week, because the kb started failing (it wasn't one of the ones eligible for a free repair, sadly, and I can't live without a machine for however long it takes them to fix it anyway). I was reall
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
Heh... see, it was the distant past, fading from my memory. You're absolutely right. The machine in question was an early pentium box as I recall, and the fastest machine I'd ever used at the time.
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
Oops! 32 Meg, not K. 4.7 is correct I think though. That machine was probably worth about 3-4 grand at the time (1992)

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