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by halper 1y ago
I can relate to that, having not always been in such fortunate circumstances as I am now. I hope that your situation improves!
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by halper 1y ago
I wonder what it says about me or my life that my first thought was that it sounded absolutely wonderful. I had a good stretch of time between jobs (fortunately voluntarily) a while back and ever since I have had a completely different outl
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by halper 1y ago
We lived in Sydney until our oldest child was three, and never owned a car. Your statement is reasonable: for driving around small kids, car is essential. We instead took ferries, buses, trains and so on. From the hospital we took a taxi (o
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by halper 1y ago
I find myself using the phone on the desk, placed between my keyboard and monitor. I do this because I find having stuff in pockets less comfortable than not, so I put things on my desk. I sometimes want to communicate with my wife about do
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by halper 1y ago
I have made a learning and it is that one could have an ask.
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by halper 1y ago
Maybe I missed something, but those are spelt "ordnance".
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by halper 1y ago
Hyphenation is useful in phrasal adjectives, like "heavy-metal shield" (to distinguish it from a shield that is of metal and is heavy, but is not or a for example Pb) or in something like "four-day trips" (the trips last
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by halper 1y ago
In my (only 2 decades of) experience, almost all "processes" and "methodologies" exist to compensate for lack of skill, care and/or understanding. As you say, what/how you do may sound outdated to others but it
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by halper 1y ago
In short: in some, yes. In my country, one's private insurance company may pay damages for injuries caused by medical malpractice. This may be included in the home insurance or some health/injury/accident insurance. Otherwise
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by halper 1y ago
I hear it most often with "real": it is real bad, good or weird. The Offspring wants you bad.
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by halper 1y ago
Since ICQ shut down, I have stayed in the right mood by using the uh-oh sound as my phone message alert for high-priority people.
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by halper 1y ago
I do not quite understand why these "blue books" were feared by anyone? I took exams in school/university and sure, sometimes we were nervous and ill-prepared but I do not think anyone feared paper. "Worst nightmare&quot
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by halper 1y ago
Started working for a new client (which does not require me to use any particular reporting tool) just yesterday, so will give it a spin! Edited: I can give more useful feedback after I have actually tried it for a while. I found some quirk
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by halper 1y ago
Interesting. My adventurous child (soon 10) has been under thrice and generally remembers nothing unpleasant, despite it being a bit worrying for the parents. She has been a bit confused and weird upon waking up, but whatever they have give
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by halper 1y ago
I subscribe to a magazine that publishes tests and reviews of everything from lawn fertiliser to spices, via vacuums and mobile phones. It costs money and I trust that they are not bribed. It seems rather certain an end to advertising would
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by halper 2y ago
A picked nit, perchance, but you may have meant "trawling". Not sure how much trolling the NSA does :)
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by halper 2y ago
I was right-leaning when I was young and then I saw where the policies of the last three decades have taken us and I do not like it. I have earned a top-percentile salary in a rich western country and paid lots in income tax, and I would ha
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by halper 2y ago
But is the point not that the person who needs to pay this tax, if they accept the free gift of land etc, still gets to keep 55%? There are cases that can be imagined (a child inheriting an old house in a high-COL location) where it feels u
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by halper 2y ago
For me, there are a lot of applications that I want to be able to load regardless of whether I have a connection to the Internet or not: calendar, notes, mail etc. They can sync/send/whatever whenever I am next online.
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by halper 2y ago
I have noticed on some smaller ad delivery sites that they use fake seconds. The "seconds" are actually 1.5–2 seconds long. If anything can be made worse, let's do it!
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by halper 2y ago
While there is more talk about emails, programming is addressed toward the end: "[…] this will affect computer programming languages as well. Right now I can open a codebase, […]"
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by halper 2y ago
I absolutely hate complexity, and will work very hard to avoid it. So hard, in fact, that it can seem that my productivity is zero for long periods of time. I will think for days or rewrite the same thing several times if the code is import
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by halper 2y ago
That is definitely one measure, but it is also an economy where someone working at the restaurant in a hotel in Miami earns about one bottle of water per hour. If the bottled water is expensive or if the salary is low is a matter of perspec
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by halper 2y ago
A more important question: is there a printer that can be bought for money that is good, lasts long and is made to actually delight the user?
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by halper 2y ago
While I was not able to read the article, my circle of friends seems to agree that (anecdotally, without much science) aging happens in bursts. It is at least how it feels like when you get kidney stones just after a herniated disc, or when
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by halper 2y ago
With all due respect to your experience and with sincerity, I must ask: did you miss Trump's first presidency? Surely that was the time to become disillusioned with the USA, if not before?
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by halper 2y ago
1 small node is a 100 drives. So the small circles represent 100 drives each, I think. Not sure what they … do, though.
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by halper 2y ago
It drives me mad when various forms sternly requires me to enter my name "as it is spelled in the passport" only to tell me that my name is "invalid" or "incorrect" or "not allowed". Then we have the
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by halper 2y ago
I concur: was a very good read! Can wholeheartedly recommend.
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by halper 2y ago
Quite hot in summer, but it is also where I have had what was quite possibly the tastiest noodles in my life.

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