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by hed 2y ago
Is it just paired with his phone that he has access to on the weekends? Asking because I've thought about this before (younger kids) but I don't think the AW operates standalone and I didn't want to pair it with my phone.
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by hed 2y ago
Did you get BAH? In high CoL areas like DC metro the housing allowance is like an extra 33k, tax free.
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by hed 2y ago
I agree 100% as a fellow engineer.
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by hed 2y ago
Precisely
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by hed 2y ago
> Unsurprisingly, however, the court found that in 2018, police could have relied on such a warrant in “good faith,” because geofence technology was novel, and police reached out to other agencies with more experience for guidance. This
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by hed 2y ago
It’s essentially a long-form article of the Good Eats episode on punch
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by hed 2y ago
R-12 is banned for manufacture by international treaty (which carries the force of law): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichlorodifluoromethane
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by hed 2y ago
It started in October 2022 (a month before midterms), if anything a skeptic would say that's more confirmation timing is suspect.
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by hed 3y ago
Yes I remember watching video interviews of folks in Missouri who said it should have reverted to them instead of being made available for a linear park.
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by hed 3y ago
_Flash Boys: Not So Fast_ is such a complete take down of _Flash Boys_ it's embarrassing and calls into question each of his works.
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by hed 3y ago
Yep this was like a cheat code when I had to take notes from the computer and could write and scroll simultaneously.
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by hed 3y ago
This is exactly what turned domestic US sales tax collection. Once there was market share, figuring out jurisdictional taxing became a moat to keep small players out.
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by hed 3y ago
I really enjoyed this post. As a kid I used the MultiConfig (based on a guide in PC Magazine!) to have different menus. When all you were trying to run was games, maxing your conventional memory was key. I had different combos for sound, no
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by hed 3y ago
This is only true for driving on public roads.
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by hed 3y ago
I don't believe this is true. Women who are polled about "how many children they want" arrive at a number far above a 2.1 (replacement) societal average. Then they just don't have that many. That suggests that they did w
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by hed 3y ago
Thank you. That article was begging for a TLDR. The cooking blog effect but for science.
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by hed 3y ago
The SPR wasn't full; I wish we would have filled it up.
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by hed 4y ago
The remote Jupyter support is very cool. Is there a managed service out there? I think my organization could benefit greatly from common Jupyter infrastructure, but the calculus changes drastically if my tiny team is on the hook for keeping
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by hed 4y ago
This is unorthodox but will it have something like func_vehicle in the original Counter-Strike? Discovering “fun maps” servers gave me a second wind with that game long after I was no longer a twitchy teenager doing 5v5
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by hed 4y ago
I tried to set this up earlier this year, but what I realized I really wanted was RSS + change detection for some discussion forums and other sites that didn't offer RSS. That companies like feedly didn't seem to offer this functi
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by hed 4y ago
I _still_ can't find a calendar app for iOS that's as nice to use as my Palm's. Making events that will happen at a certain time irrespective of time zone is just too beautiful for this world now.
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by hed 4y ago
I've seen pictures of his desk of what in the '90s we would have called "goofy looking CRT", I'm pretty sure its native aspect ratio was not 4:3.
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by hed 4y ago
My best use of LapLink was as a teen helping migrate a library off an old system. I think it was using NetWare 2.x with some DOS emulation for a library card catalog. Couldn't get it to talk IPX to the existing NetWare stuff (5.x) we w
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by hed 5y ago
There was a great period in the mid-late ‘90s where TVs just worked when you connected to cable or antenna, no set top box, tuning was near instantaneous and there was enough enrichment that even station ID and program info could come in wi
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by hed 5y ago
There are claims that it was meant to keep black people out of the workforce. https://www.forbes.com/sites/carriesheffield/2014/04/29/on-t...
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by hed 5y ago
Once they came out after Heller and stated they still believed it was a collective right, I knew my relationship with them was over. ACLU (and others) cite it as a 5-4 decision but even the dissenters on the case believed it was an individu
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by hed 6y ago
This is a great book and one I constantly reference. The newest editions drop clock-based framing like ATM, but whenever I need to go back to looking at what's on the wire or considering what considerations were made in design or conve
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by hed 6y ago
No, it will not: https://www.npr.org/2020/08/03/895377375/california-has-lost...
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by hed 6y ago
It's certainly intriguing to me as I've got a lot of on-prem compute.
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by hed 6y ago
This was fun. A lot of those setups reminded me of computers in my youth :)

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