iamatworknow

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by iamatworknow 7y ago
Going through this myself right now. I joined my company as just the third developer on the team almost a decade ago, working directly under the owner. A year ago when we were up to ~15 developers I decided to move to a different state and
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by iamatworknow 7y ago
One could argue that a problem would the type of people who would have access/interest in such a thing. Seems like it would largely be restricted to the (relatively) rich and tech savvy at first, and could precipitate a trend in these
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by iamatworknow 7y ago
That was (and I believe still is) the case in New York as well. My teachers would complain about it directly to us students, and the transition from the standardized test scheme to college was kinda bumpy as a result (since the closest thin
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by iamatworknow 7y ago
>humans oddly assume that anything that cannot speak their language is not smart unless tested and proven so I remember when I was a kid I would watch an old Jiminy Cricket cartoon every now and then that repeatedly claimed humans were t
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by iamatworknow 7y ago
That would be cool if that's how things worked, but it seems like nearly every post here (certainly most comments) aren't considering the shiny new tools in that context. Rather, most comments are in the vein of "this seems f
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by iamatworknow 7y ago
In my apartment building all of the external access doors are held closed by electromagnetic "locks" that require a key fob to open, unless we lose power, in which case there's no battery backup and they're all unlocked.
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by iamatworknow 7y ago
The company I work for provides software to a very specific enterprise market. One of the most insightful moves the owner/CEO made was starting a business that uses the software right alongside the software company itself (in the build
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by iamatworknow 7y ago
I've read that some of these cases of other drugs laced with fentanyl are due to unintentional cross-contamination, due to people preparing cocaine for sale on the same table or scales that they previously prepared fentanyl on and didn
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by iamatworknow 7y ago
This exact thing happened to my brother once. They took his laptop and did Windows Explorer searches for image extensions as well as the words "boy" and "girl", so your (and his) hunch that they were searching for child
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by iamatworknow 7y ago
I bought (but don't have anything hosted at) first + last.slice(0, last.length - 2) + "." + last.slice(-2) No clue if it's a good idea since I've never actually used it and the unusual TLD may throw people off (espe
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by iamatworknow 8y ago
If you don't care about notifications uninstall the app and use the web interface in a browser. It's not quite as slick and responsive as the app, but I've never seen an ad there.
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by iamatworknow 8y ago
You're right in the context of Baofeng HTs, but people get equally furious about some Chinese HF radios as well, like the Xiegu X5105 or Recent RS-918 (though the argument with that one is that it ripped off the open design of the mcHF
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by iamatworknow 8y ago
>Why are people still using file sharing and torrents? >Get...pay...setup...setup...and...setup...get...buy...and...connect...buy... That's why. Torrents are easier for people to figure out.
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by iamatworknow 8y ago
>There is nothing like Unreal Tournament or Quake anymore. Well, there's Quake Champions, but they're really struggling. They tried taking Quake and incorporating a lot of the features from more modern games (micro transactions
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by iamatworknow 8y ago
Yeah, I'm not buying the whole "crime dramas portray cops as infallible" argument. Every cop show I've ever watched shows the police regularly bending the rules or otherwise being shitty at their jobs. If there wasn&#x27
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by iamatworknow 8y ago
Radio waves travel at the speed of light...so 3 billion years.
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by iamatworknow 8y ago
>I do understand that we shouldn't have to pay for this expedited service and it should be available to everyone
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by iamatworknow 8y ago
Interesting. It does seem like there's a smattering of other national programs that work in part with Global Entry (many at an additional cost). https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-traveler-programs/global-...
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by iamatworknow 8y ago
Nexus for me was $50/5 years, while Precheck alone was $80/5 years, so it was a no-brainer. Prices may have changed since then, though, because I believe I signed up in 2016. The only difficult part was setting an afternoon aside
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by iamatworknow 8y ago
It'd be nice if there was an actual global version of the American Global Entry/Nexus/Sentri system. I know coordinating between many countries would be a pain, and a lot of people don't like the idea of being added to a
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by iamatworknow 8y ago
> People keep trying to deliver these experiences to your home, and having spent 5 years cooking in a restaurant and my entire childhood growing up on a farm I've reached the conclusion that it can't be done. I think you (and I
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by iamatworknow 8y ago
Fair, I somehow missed that word my first time reading the comment, but he's an example of someone who "did the right thing" and still got "punished".
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by iamatworknow 8y ago
Tim Duncan's another example: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nba-duncan-adviser/financ...
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by iamatworknow 8y ago
You said it better than I could have, thanks.
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by iamatworknow 8y ago
>The sex and race-driven identity politics currently animating and, to my mind, diminishing the literature and cultural products of the West are either muted or non-existent in Japan, where postmodern aesthetics are the outer skin of a m
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by iamatworknow 8y ago
>Glass bottles of Pellegrino sparkling water is my replacement. Get a SodaStream and throw out the flavor things that come with it (they taste bad anyway). I love sparkling water but the cost of things like Perrier, Pellegrino, or La Cro
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by iamatworknow 8y ago
You can get a model year 2017 (first year it came standard) Toyota Corolla with adaptive cruise control and lane assist from about $11k and up, according to a quick AutoTrader search.
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by iamatworknow 8y ago
Technically in the US any transaction over $10,000 is supposed to be reported to the IRS ( https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f8300.pdf ), but I'm not sure how strict enforcement is on that.
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by iamatworknow 8y ago
Immediately below that line on the pi-hole site: >Our code is completely open, but piping to bash can be dangerous. For a safer install, review the code and then run the installer locally.
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by iamatworknow 8y ago
Or else what? The author won't sell me another one? That's his only recourse, just like how the website owner's only recourse is to make the terms explicit by blocking the content if I block your ads, which some sites already

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