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by floren 4y ago
Ok sure, but "AM is not currently used for music" is a far cry from "You can't put music down [AM]". I invoked the old radios because you certainly heard a lot of music through them and they all used AM, whether ove
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by floren 4y ago
Any boat you pick up for $2000 will need $2000 just for new bottom paint. Then you can start addressing the rusted rigging and the broken inboard and the rotten sails and the failing mast step supports... why yes, I have been boat-shoppin
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by floren 4y ago
> They are not _entitled_ to forever freeze a city just because they live there I agree, and I apply the same logic when somebody complains about gentrification.
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by floren 4y ago
Music went out over AM for decades just fine; what band do you think people were listening to back in the pre-TV days of the big console radio? I'll occasionally find a decent AM music station even these days, and when it's not be
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Why does it feel like Amazon is making itself worse?(nymag.com)
58 points by floren 4y ago|26 comments
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by floren 4y ago
I wouldn't mind stopping at a Sonic drive-in for lunch & a charge...
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by floren 4y ago
https://www.sfchronicle.com/restaurants/article/Explainer-Wh...
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by floren 4y ago
I assume some of this comes from small businesses getting a Square terminal and thinking "Tips? Yeah sure, I'll check that box, can't hurt!". It can hurt. If I'm prompted to tip [15/20/25]% just because so
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by floren 4y ago
Not just old marine maps -- modern marine charts have the same. They mark radio towers, grain silos, etc. because although GPS is widely-used, the old navigation techniques are still important.
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by floren 4y ago
Right, I've never heard somebody quote it and declare that we're currently in the hard times. Its only purpose is to let other people know that you consider them unwise and soon they'll be sorry .
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by floren 4y ago
I remember sitting in a bar in Dublin and getting absolutely put to shame by a few little old ladies. I think they sank at least two beers for every one of mine. The bartender would just look over when their glasses got low, they'd giv
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by floren 4y ago
I guess technically the state of Washington has declared western WA and pretty much every other state in the continental US to be "quarantined" because those other areas have apple maggots. It's a lot easier to talk about eas
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by floren 4y ago
The federal and state departments of agriculture go to great efforts to control agricultural diseases. Others have mentioned foot and mouth, but there are lots of other things. For instance, half of Washington State is declared an "App
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by floren 4y ago
Don't forget car dealerships specializing in the Ford Mustang, Jeep Wrangler, and Dodge Challenger, all at the highest interest rates in town!
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by floren 4y ago
I published papers and I published open-source software, but not everybody does. Depending on your work, you may have to relocate; if you are doing any classified work, you should count on it. I also think there's a much clearer path t
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by floren 4y ago
Sandia has a site on Kauai, but it's for very specific purposes: https://www.sandia.gov/locations/kauai-test-facility/
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by floren 4y ago
> I was offered to stay on as a full-time intern as part of the hiring pipeline This is a big deal and it's something people currently in school should consider: At least at Sandia, we loved the internship programs because it was a
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by floren 4y ago
Plus, we're not allowed to actually blow them up to test any more, so they do all that in simulation on the world's biggest supercomputers. This leads to work in HPC system software, kernels, compilers, programming languages, HPC
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by floren 4y ago
> The cafeteria is way less fancy than tech company cafeterias. :-) The cafeteria at Sandia in Albuquerque always had extremely good posole, though.
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by floren 4y ago
LANL is also in an absurdly beautiful place, and Los Alamos is a very pleasant little town.
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by floren 4y ago
When I worked at Sandia, most of us were hired without any clearance but with the expectation that we would get one soon. It is not difficult to get a Q clearance, just annoying. You have to fill out a massive document listing everywhere yo
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by floren 4y ago
I worked for Sandia. Pay is pretty good by almost any standards except FAANG. The glory days where every staff member got a real office with a real door are over (shared offices are the norm) but it's still a pretty decent work environ
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by floren 4y ago
> If you're required to come into the office, it's pretty easy for your employer to tell when you lie about the number of hours worked. No, it's easy to tell when you lie about the number of hours spent in the office . If
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by floren 4y ago
Electrical wiring practices differ from country to country. Anyone coming in on a visa would need some retraining if only to learn the local regulations. You can sling Javascript the same way in Chennai or in Cleveland, but I wouldn't
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by floren 4y ago
Or, in SF, you'll get an item near the bottom of your receipt labeled "SF Mandate". What's the mandate? Employers have to pay for employee health care. Why isn't it rolled in to the prices? Partly passive aggressive
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by floren 4y ago
How about the bald absurdity of tacking on a "convenience fee" for purchasing things online instead of in person? The theater near me will add a couple bucks if you buy tickets online, but that fee is not present if you buy in per
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by floren 4y ago
Oh of course that reminds me of the explosion of QR code menus we saw during the pandemic! A laminated code, the lamination bubbling up, covered in peeling tape, damn near impossible to scan depending on the lighting conditions. Much better
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by floren 4y ago
"Please listen closely, as our menu options have changed. Did you know you can check your account balance, order checks, apply for a loan, or get a new debit card online? Visit w w w dot your bank name dot com forward slash banking for
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by floren 4y ago
I've been using KeePassXC on desktop and KeePassDX on Android, synchronized via Syncthing, and it's good, but the thing that makes me squeamish about all password managers is that you're just one software update away from m
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by floren 4y ago
Look, I don't disagree with the premise, but this needs a hell of a lot of proofreading. What even is this sentence? > This other tweet, emerged in the thread of the aforementioned, illustrates it perfectly: if Bezos was able to g

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