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by ghaff 3mo ago
I'd add that, in spite of a US and probably SV focus, it's very geographically distributed. Back in my BBS days, we actually had a core of local participants who got together IRL from time to time.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
I suspect there are a lot of reasons. You don't have men and their housewife for the most part. So the typically male Lions, Elks, etc. clubs don't fit as well with modern lifestyles for that reason in part. Bowling nights went ou
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by ghaff 3mo ago
They're getting from Point A to Point B for a pittance. What more should they expect?
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by ghaff 3mo ago
Was having a lot of house stuff redone after a kitchen fire. Not Ikea, but had a mail order bedframe. Just had the contractor's people put it together.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
I did assemble some Ikea cube-type storage after a lot of my house interior was redone. It was a bit of a pain but it's now very satisfactory storage in a couple of closets. And it wasn't that expensive even with delivery. (The ne
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by ghaff 3mo ago
I don't love my Ikea dresser and my recollection was that it was a PITA to assemble. But it works pretty well and it would have been thousands of dollars more to get the equivalent new hardwood dresser. As you say, something from an an
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by ghaff 3mo ago
New York is... New York. I've spent a lot of time there, and even lived there for a summer. I was at a board meeting down there recently and a new young ex officio member basically asked "How do people deal with the confusion?&quo
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by ghaff 3mo ago
And then they complain about seat sizes and baggage dimensions.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
Just had a friend give one to me. If I want an entire album and the CD is the same or less than the digital version, why not? Ripping takes a minute or two.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
My digital collection got really messed up at one point partially due, I'm pretty sure to Apple Match. At one point--early in the pandemic I think--I spent a day or two whacking my collection back into some semblance or order. For exam
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by ghaff 3mo ago
There's probably some truth in that although, if you didn't have to collect a large volume of music whether purchased or copied in some form, I'm not sure the incentives are there to get started in any serious way. It is al
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by ghaff 3mo ago
See Spain.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
Meanwhile, China has one timezone so I sort of doubt that DST registers given that.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
What's TV programming? :-) Stores already open across a spectrum of times.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
Essentially you're just redefining the standard UTC offset for US timezones.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
You are aware that at least much of Europe uses a similar system to what the US uses today?
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by ghaff 3mo ago
To the degree kids are standing around outside, they're already in the dark in northern US states (to say nothing about Canada and areas of Europe) for part of the year even with standard time. And, yes, dynamic school schedules don&#x
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by ghaff 3mo ago
I mostly just don't answer them unless it seems like something that may be legit.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
Especially if you signed up for something, rather than just unsubscribing marking it as spam is a dickish move given that it has the potential of that mail also being filtered for people wanting to receive it.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
My MacBook Air is plugged in via MagSafe at home but I'd consider traveling by air with just USB-C. Probably need to throw a hub in there at that point.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
He did science fiction. Among other things he was on of the British world destroyer authors. But he also had a lot of rather experimental and even weird stories--some of which intersected SF to some degree and some of which really didn&#x27
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by ghaff 3mo ago
It's not at all uncommon. I didn't have a usable work phone number for years given that, even when I technically had a desk, I was never there. I always used my personal phone and, for that matter, laptop for that matter.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
You presumably live in or near a city.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
When I was doing more presentations than I do today, I didn't reuse presentations (unless it was part of some sort company roadshow). But, yes, I'd reuse bits and pieces--often tweaked--rather than each presentation being created
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by ghaff 3mo ago
Xbox is a sideshow at Microsoft at this point--and arguably has been one for a very long time. Yes, it brings in non-trivial revenue but not a lot of profit. I don't really expect that you'll see new Xbox-related development in a
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by ghaff 3mo ago
I needed a new DVD player and I pretty much splurged on an Xbox. But I haven't really used it for gaming.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
Another prolific English author (of mostly children's books) was Enid Blyton who wrote somewhere between 700 and 800 books.
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by ghaff 3mo ago
Absolutely. When I was doing a more full-time analyst thing, I didn't reuse content wholesale but there was often very little point in rewriting an explanation of some basic concept with different words. (And, yes, as to volume, it rea
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by ghaff 3mo ago
The main reason I used Medium was that, for a period, I had personal stuff in a company newsletter and cross-posted stuff on Medium seemed more official than a personal blog. Haven't used it in years. I do have a Substack account but h
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by ghaff 3mo ago
Sortof. Top research universities are mostly not vocational schools. But they do mostly figure on you picking up, say, Python on your own alongside the algorithms classs (and a ton of basic mechanical stuff). I was a TA in grad school and d

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