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by ja27 4y ago
Some percentage of our trash stream gets incinerated to generate electricity (then metals etc. are recovered and the remains go into a landfill). I can never find solid stats on what percentage but the claims sound like it's the majori
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by ja27 4y ago
I was on-site at a power company. One of their older COBOL programmers was retiring that week. The person taking over his COBOL job? His son.
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by ja27 4y ago
Redundancy? I have a .tar.gz of my university account that's 25 years old at this point and a .ZIP of my old DOS, Turbo Pascal, etc. stuff that's a few years older. They've been copied so many times over the years and I'
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by ja27 4y ago
We had one van-dweller (who was otherwise homeless) that tried to live at our space. We tried to let it work for a while and added rules to deal with issues he created but he'd find a new way to antagonize other members every couple of
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by ja27 4y ago
I did this. I had a folder with a few printed sheets of code hiding some slightly tricky C/C++ bugs from our codebase. I would ask the candidate to see if they could identify the issue. I don't think anyone ever actually got them
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by ja27 4y ago
App / coupons are a decent way to have a little elasticity on price and maximize revenue from people that will pay more and still appeal to a bargain-hunter. At least here there is always a 20% off the total order deal available in the
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by ja27 5y ago
> In the field, devices are far away from each other. So they will only be able to hear the devices that are next to it. And I'm out. Mesh networkers really should spend a bit of time re-learning all the lessons from decades of ham
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by ja27 5y ago
Bro
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by ja27 5y ago
At my longest company, maybe 2/3rds of my group had left and come back at some point, including me. One was even was on his third time. After an acquisition, I was laid off with half my team and 2/3rds of them were back there with
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by ja27 5y ago
I've usually volunteered somewhere or another most of my life: university clubs, Red Cross, ham radio club, makerspace, etc. Right now serving on the board of a makerspace I founded and that can fill any desire I have for meetings and
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by ja27 5y ago
By 2011 it was AMD(ATI) not Nvidia. I had one that failed but Apple did the replacement for free.
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by ja27 5y ago
I was permanently banned last year, for no reason I could find. I do somewhat rarely run a PIA VPN at times so maybe that flagged me. I appealed the suspension, which sounded hopeless, but about 10 days later my account was restored.
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by ja27 5y ago
It wasn't one of their annoying ass tv commercials?
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by ja27 5y ago
I never owned a TRS-80, but my high school had a Model 16 running Microsoft Xenix with maybe 10 serial terminals attached to it. (This replaced a small Burroughs machine and card punch.) The business department ran COBOL classes on it. The
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by ja27 5y ago
For most of my life, I've volunteered at one organization or another. It's been a great way to meet people and find some purpose. It doesn't even have to be some epic world-changing nonprofit. Even a one-shot like a fundraise
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by ja27 5y ago
I co-founded a makerspace. Maybe 70% of our membership are 30-50 y/o men that work in some form of IT (and other desk jobs). The opportunity to make something physical brings them life. It's a real bonus if it's something the
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by ja27 5y ago
For me, closing my exercise ring on my Apple Watch has been the best motivator. Maintaining a streak or collecting badges works well for me. I used to cycle a good bit but some injuries have held me back. I got a cheap stationary trainer fo
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by ja27 5y ago
freeCodeCamp has a new course: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/free-react-course-2022/ (All the books I learned from are out of date)
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by ja27 5y ago
Weird, here Aldi and Walmart have seemed pretty unaffected but Publix has had a lot of empty shelves.
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by ja27 5y ago
Yeah I had an IBM 5150 PC with DESQview and it was kind of amazing to be able to keep a vt-100 emulator dialed into school or a BBS while being able to run a local editor and even compiler. Sounds trivial today but it was a big deal on that
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by ja27 5y ago
Nekteck sells a car charger with 45W USB-C PD. I've seen others claiming 65W. https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-usb-car-char...
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by ja27 5y ago
Wow, that's a funnel-killer. I clicked away as soon as I found a US price.
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by ja27 5y ago
There are a couple aisles of rotating seasonal stuff. Mine's obviously full of Halloween decor and candy but there's still leftover summer stuff even back to 4th of July supplies and excess back-to-school stuff. They do bring in n
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by ja27 5y ago
Maybe the most impact day-to-day is splurging ($10/mo) on the 2TB iCloud storage plan for the family. It's pretty much replaced Dropbox, One Drive, scp-ing files around, etc. I even use it on Windows. Cheap Panasonic Ergofit earbu
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by ja27 5y ago
I carry a Nite Ize Doohickey but it's 90% box tape cutter and 10% bottle opener. Not sharp at all but I haven't tried flying with it. https://www.niteize.com/product/DoohicKey-Multi-Tool.asp
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by ja27 5y ago
Same, but Anker cables with lifetime warranty. One dies and without much more than an email and I get a replacement.
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by ja27 5y ago
I have some with Apple 30-pin, micro-USB, and mini-USB.
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by ja27 5y ago
SpaceX only "beat" them to a landing if you're disregarding suborbital flights. Blue Origin landed their booster 23 Nov 2015. SpaceX landed their first booster 21 Dec 2015. It really is apples and oranges until BO or VG gets
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by ja27 5y ago
In the mid-1980s my dad (PhD EE) talked me out of majoring in Computer Science initially because "you'd be a glorified typist". Glad I eventually switched to CS. In the early 1990s, it sure felt like there was a limited marke
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by ja27 5y ago
One solution I've seen is to carry a Raspberry Pi, especially a Zero, and connect to that from the iPad via WiFi or USB-C. Can even VNC to it for a full desktop experience. Pretty portable and low-power.

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