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by ghaff 9mo ago
I've gotten rid of a bunch of books. Don't care a lot so long as they now fit my bookshelves. But will probably dump another bag or two to my library's next book sale next fall.
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by ghaff 9mo ago
For sous vide, I will differentiate by 1 or 2 Fahrenheit degrees but I take your basic point.
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by ghaff 9mo ago
Force and mass is what always drove me crazy in engineering school. I assume that courses in the US have largely given up trying to pay some lip service to common older units but sorting out pounds-mass, pounds-force, and slugs? Pretty sure
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by ghaff 9mo ago
A big part of it is certainly what you're used to. The other part, which I'm sympathetic to, is that for human scale everyday things, Fahrenheit 0 degrees lines up with really darned cold, 100 degrees with really hot outside of an
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by ghaff 9mo ago
They basically deliver food--not necessarily complete meals. But, yes, a lot of restaurants use them for food delivery. Probably not at the highest end but they can be pretty decent given good food prep.
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by ghaff 9mo ago
That is my understanding as well. And, honestly, even if it wasn't a matter of criminals necessarily (often tattoos were associated with ex-military), until relatively recently, tattoos were a pretty clear class differentiator in the U
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by ghaff 9mo ago
Remember, that you may not know who the hiring manager is and there may not even be a relevant posted position. I've gotten lucky with just reaching out to very senior people at a couple of different companies (of very different sizes)
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by ghaff 9mo ago
Absolutely. There's still luck involved. But I've gotten lucky a couple of times when the market has been mediocre overall to very bad by reaching out to people I had worked with in some capacity. It also helps, per another commen
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by ghaff 9mo ago
Haven't been up Mera, but back in the day, did do Island Peak which I understand is more difficult these days because of some glacial fissures. That altitude was about my limit even at the time. I had done a couple of previous Nepal tr
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by ghaff 9mo ago
A bathroom remodel cost me almost $20K 6 or 7 years back. And that was a small bathroom and keeping a couple of cabinets. More recently I had a kitchen fire that mostly involved redoing the kitchen completely but also involved move-out&#x2F
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by ghaff 9mo ago
There have been times, with various crises, where I only half considered if indoor plumbing was such a great thing. But that's probably a very old-fashioned New England thing.
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by ghaff 9mo ago
>It's even more stupid for americans because they already all have complex ventilation system Maybe for newer houses. I have an older house and I don't have a ventilation system. Forced radiator hot water heat and no AC in New
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by ghaff 9mo ago
Well, and pre-cubicles, it was just a bunch of tables in a big room surrounded by managers in offices.
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by ghaff 9mo ago
I've had a bunch of windows replaced over time. It is expensive but some had gotten really ugly looking--in addition to being, I'm sure very inefficient. I have oil heat and have just never seen the justification for solar especia
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by ghaff 9mo ago
"Something" would have fitted but it would have been a big volume downgrade. In any case, fire happened and all the cabinetry and appliances came out anyway. So things worked out. Had a bit of margin but not enough to accommodate
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by ghaff 10mo ago
No idea. There was apparently a control panel short circuit of some sort.
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by ghaff 10mo ago
Pre-fire, I got cabinet above fridge taken out because fridges have basically gotten taller. And the over-the-range microwave is what caused the fire in the middle of the night in the first place while I was sleeping. Dishwashers are pretty
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by ghaff 10mo ago
Some things are less standardized than others. That said my kitchen was totally redone after a fire. Dishwasher was basically a 1 for 1 replacement pre-fire but everything else had to be redone.
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by ghaff 10mo ago
How many renters would even want to replace appliances, get new insulation installed, get all their lights replaced, etc.? I had a bunch of work done after a kitchen fire in my house and it did genuinely cut my electrical bill. It also cost
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by ghaff 10mo ago
I imagine a lot of people on this thread see 5% Mac usage as the norm but it's really not the norm overall.
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by ghaff 10mo ago
As a product manager in the computer industry from the mid 80s into the 90s, Dilbert really resonated with me as satire--except, as you say, when it was barely satire. Not so much except for occasional later strips that really nailed some s
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by ghaff 10mo ago
Someone I knew taped a cloud-related strip to my half-cube wall. It was perfect. (I had been hired in early cloud-related days for that purpose.) But there were increasingly fewer things in that vein latterly.
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by ghaff 10mo ago
Probably fair. I think there is a lot of in terms of initially starting school, skipping grades, etc. that it is practically difficult (probably more than it used to be)-and probably a lot of competitive schools that will just go NEXT on th
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by ghaff 10mo ago
Pre-iPhone and pre-Intel Mac, Apple was experimenting with a lot of things. The iPod wasn't a clear initial win--and the iPhone wasn't either. A lot of the success happened in retrospect.
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by ghaff 10mo ago
The VP who "raises issues" reminded me perfectly of someone at a prior workplace.
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by ghaff 10mo ago
The story I read long ago was that he had a long-standing agreement with his manager that if his cartooning ever became an issue for his day job, he would leave. Then a new manager came in who basically said "OK." No idea how true
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by ghaff 10mo ago
I have a Catbert doll in my kitchen. I think an HR person I knew gave it to me at a going away party at a long-ago job.
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by ghaff 10mo ago
Dilbert definitely captured a 90s era corporate zeitgeist. But, after he departed PacBell, although there was the occasional strip that really nailed it, Dilbert never really moved on to modern SV/startup/open floor plan tech and
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by ghaff 10mo ago
Making a lot of money for the company.
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by ghaff 10mo ago
Companies were still figuring out Linux with servers at the time. Xserve seemed like it might be something of interest to at least academia but Apple never really had their heart in it as I wrote at the time.

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