jdeibele

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by jdeibele 8y ago
Thanks for the detailed answer. I've seen white, clear, and black "plastic" utensils. Most were plastic from petroleum, some from corn. Seems like it would be nice if C-PLA utensils were to be dyed green so it could be sep
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by jdeibele 8y ago
Found this was true for car rentals last weekend. Went to an aggregator, saw their price, went to the to the car rental company to compare. Aggregator price was 2/3rds of the rental company's lowest price. Have found the same fo
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by jdeibele 8y ago
I used to say that there were two kinds of people: people helpers and problem solvers. People helpers are good tech support: "I'm sure I can help you. I've done this a thousand times." Problem solvers are not: "I&
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by jdeibele 8y ago
I do miss the sense of community about voting at the local school and church. I also have some qualms about people marking ballots for other people - if you vote in person in a booth, your spouse can't see who you're actually vo
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by jdeibele 8y ago
Yes, but if that goes on you get fired. The restaurant probably isn't expecting to pay you anything more than the $3/hour. There's lots of jobs, like commissioned sales, where the employer has to pay minimum wage. They ge
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by jdeibele 8y ago
Often the message is "If there is an account with that email, we'll send you a link". The idea is that you don't want to confirm that there is an account because it might be someone testing to see if there is one. On t
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by jdeibele 8y ago
That's neat that 1Password does that. I tend to do something like "Clark Dark Bark Park" for "First school?" and record it in LastPass's notes. A lot of the questions are dumb, like "Favorite Food?"
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by jdeibele 8y ago
I tried this on my iPhone but the problem is, it seems to block all text notifications. I get way more texts from friends and family than I do phone calls. If it worked for texts the same way, that would be perfect. I'm probably goi
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by jdeibele 8y ago
I believe that Russia/Soviet Union considered that a feature, not a bug. I wonder if they would consider making it faster for TVs to get to Amsterdam at the cost of making it easier for tanks to get to Moscow. https://histo
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by jdeibele 8y ago
For a while, I was getting things shipped in days, though it was always order day 1, at least 24 hours elapse, then "your order has shipped" and I would get it the next day. Now it's more like prime shipping means at least 3
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by jdeibele 8y ago
I used to put my bottles and cans curbside. Most of the folks picking them up are, I'm sure, as honest as I am or even more so. They just need another source of income. On the other hand, we and the neighbors have had things disappe
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by jdeibele 8y ago
In Portland, not SF. Place I went to 2 months ago gave me a flag with a number on it. When my order was ready, they brought it out to me. I went there last night. Looked like there was one guy working by himself. He poured my drink
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by jdeibele 8y ago
On the west coast, bike theft is common. Junkies and/or homeless people steal them and sell them for parts. Or change parts around and paint them so they can't be identified. Also, there's supposed to be organized rings wh
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by jdeibele 8y ago
Option #1: low-paid job. Probably routine job where you're not expected (or allowed!) to contribute anything that the last person who had the job could do. Live with roommates, rent your whole life, insecurity due to lack of savings,
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by jdeibele 8y ago
https://www.tesla.com/videos/battery-swap-event They replaced the battery in 90 seconds and it was completely automated. I really like the idea of having gas stations replaced with battery stations. Drive in to the &
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by jdeibele 8y ago
Patient claims to be suicidal.
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by jdeibele 8y ago
I don't understand the problem. I went from 100% Google Authenticator to 100% Authy. It's a pain to turn off 2FA, then turn it back on using Authy instead of Google, but it's 100% under your control. So you can do 2 or 3
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by jdeibele 8y ago
Could be, although I think of that as a nautical term. For example when they were talking recently about the coal bunker fire on the Titantic, they said that two stokers per every shift were delegated to shovel the bunker that had the burn
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by jdeibele 8y ago
Traditionally they're called firemen. Steam locomotives aren't commonly used anymore, so I assume you're making a joke about somebody on a train being a "firefighter".
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by jdeibele 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaru_Ascent is being built and has 3 rows of seats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaru_Tribeca was the previous version, which they stopped selling in 2014 beca
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by jdeibele 8y ago
When my mom was taken to the emergency room last year, it was common for the doctors to be followed by somebody who would enter things into the computer for them. It seemed like a reasonable way to handle entering medical information withou
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by jdeibele 8y ago
2 is ask. That's what I have mine set on.
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by jdeibele 8y ago
I had ported my phone number to Google Voice back when I was using Android phones. My wife insists on Apple products and eventually I switched to an iPhone myself. I ported my number back out but set up another Google Voice number. Now,
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by jdeibele 8y ago
My wife and I are on Xfinity Mobile, which uses Verizon towers. We're on the $12/gig plan, while texts and minutes are free. Our 3 kids are on Tello, which resells Sprint. They're on the 100 minutes, unlimited texts, 1GB
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by jdeibele 8y ago
Wow, you and I couldn't see things more differently. Sports teams are doing this to cities constantly. Build us a new sports stadium at your expense that will be used 8-10 times a year. We'll take the concession revenue, the p
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by jdeibele 8y ago
The thing that would seem to be most distasteful about being a vet is putting down animals because the owner is tired of them. Other things would be pets weighing three times what they should, never given exercise, etc. Those are covered in
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by jdeibele 8y ago
The thing that Diaspora and Mastodon get wrong is their insistence on putting the instance in the username. If I'm jim1234@mastodon.org because somebody else gets my preferred username, that's fine. I don't have to worry ab
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by jdeibele 8y ago
One thing about eBay is that it will show you sold listings. It's a checkbox on the bottom of the left-hand column. There are people who apparently set a price for an item and just re-list it. The asking price may or may not have
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by jdeibele 8y ago
At the hospital where my wife gave birth, they gave wristbands with some sort of sensor in them to spouses, partners, etc. The only way (for civilians, I assume) in to the maternity ward would open for you if you had one. It wouldn&#x27
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by jdeibele 8y ago
https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Tips-from-Moderators/Pay... It uses Verisign's VIP app instead of Google Authenticator (or Authy or whatever).

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