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by hondo77 3y ago
I was hired at a US govt job I found listed on HN a couple of years ago. Didn't work out but that's not HN's fault. ;-)
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by hondo77 3y ago
So it was impossible for students 30 years ago to complete their assignments because they only had access to physical books? How did any of them graduate?
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by hondo77 3y ago
The iTunes Store turns 20 in two days.
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by hondo77 3y ago
What are you blowing on a two-acre wooded lot that takes so long? I'm asking because a) I'm just curious and b) because I'm on an acre and all I use my electric blower for is to clean the concrete walkways and driveways. One
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by hondo77 4y ago
People are different. Phonics helped my sister. I had no use for them. We both know how to read.
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by hondo77 4y ago
Yeah, once AOL came aboard and the green card lawyers showed the future of spam, things took a turn.
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by hondo77 4y ago
They don't have the strength to do it, anymore. Tapping on a keyboard/phone all day.
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Tyrannosaurus rex had lips covering teeth, study finds(dw.com)
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3M-Year-Old Discovery May Rewrite History of Intelligent Life on Earth(vice.com)
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by hondo77 4y ago
> they chose companies that were struggling or undervalued, brought them into the fold and multiplied their value. Even if Berkshire did that, and they don't, isn't that also good investing?
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by hondo77 4y ago
I recently worked for a government organization. DEIA (accessibility) was omnipresent. That's not a bad thing, for the reasons others have pointed out. Lots of recruiting in non-traditional places, for instance. However, there was no n
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by hondo77 4y ago
I have over 3TB backed up to Backblaze (in addition to a local backup) for $70/yr. That's for Mac or PC. If you're on linux, I believe they offer something for that, too.
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by hondo77 4y ago
People at the last place I worked (US) wanted to. When I brought up that people in Latin America aren't really on-board with the whole latinx thing, the pushback I got boiled down to "they shouldn't be using gendered language
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Disney Made a Movie Quality AI Tool That Makes Actors Look Younger (Or Older)(gizmodo.com)
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by hondo77 4y ago
Yes! I was there and it was definitely not boring.
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by hondo77 4y ago
They're not walkable because the are designed for cycling long distances in a day. Some find the eggbeater platform doesn't work for long distances because the platform isn't as big as SPD or SPD-SL pedals. Not everyone is pl
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by hondo77 4y ago
> I wonder how easily a Marvel or Starwars movie could be re-rendered like this. Fortunately we don't have to worry about 4:3 anymore.
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by hondo77 4y ago
Back in the 80s I would type up a resume and make corrections with correction paper (big upgrade from liquid paper!). Then I would go to a print shop and have them make copies of it but on nice paper. The copies would not show any signs of
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by hondo77 4y ago
> But even a hospital I used to support has gotten into the business of pronouns and stuff, and regardless of the merit of that sort of thing, it's not anywhere near the top of causes people expect their hospital donations to go to.
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by hondo77 4y ago
Great./s Now the people who told me that drinking baking soda in water would cure my cancer "because cancer is a fungus" are going to go wild over this.
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by hondo77 4y ago
> They're actually importing Russian oil for domestic use to bail out Russia . FTFY.
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by hondo77 4y ago
> The problem with your doctor's recommendation is that doctors recommend colonoscopy based on age, not whether you have any factors that might indicate colon cancer. I have no cancer of any kind anywhere in my family tree and they
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by hondo77 4y ago
In case anyone is wondering: "There were in total 25 human volunteers in 2 sequential experiments..." Broken down, that's 10 in one experiment, 15 in the other. No reason to get too excited with such a small sample si
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by hondo77 4y ago
Agreed. We did get a few days of the real thing this past winter, which was a nice surprise, but it used to happen a lot . Ah, the days of driving home from a date in that fog. Had to drive with your head out the window because of the fog
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by hondo77 4y ago
> Yeah I'm 34...and feeling like I'm literally in my prime. You are. Most people don't realize that until they're in their 40s.
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by hondo77 4y ago
Lemme give it a shot: Cookie Monster (includes Black Metal) Hardcore (see Pantera) Metal (see Metallica) Crap (see Poison)
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by hondo77 4y ago
> ...in Southern California (near Yosemite, etc)... In what universe is Yosemite in Southern California?
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by hondo77 4y ago
> ...Saving Private Ryan (which is way, way too much of a Hollywood action movie)... The hand-to-hand combat sequence with Adam Goldberg is one of the most amazing I have ever seen. Not a typical action scene.
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by hondo77 4y ago
And yet two commissioners voted "no". Wanna guess who appointed them?
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by hondo77 4y ago
Back in the nineties, I worked for a big company where lots of people wanted to work. We had what I called "resume reading parties". A half-dozen of us, managers and ICs, would sit around a pile of resumes in the middle and star

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