jdeibele

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by jdeibele 1y ago
Hard agree. A drunk driver hit our parked 2015 Mazda CX-5. We paid about $27,000 for it in 2016. The car was totaled and we received about $17,000. That figured out to just about $1100 in depreciation per year for 9 years.
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by jdeibele 1y ago
Does that cool through the radiators as well as heat? It seems like it could but I've never heard of heat pumps being used like that.
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by jdeibele 1y ago
We downsized from a house built in 1914 with phone jacks everywhere to a house built in 2007 with coax and ethernet ports in every room, some rooms with two. At the 1914 house, I used ethernet-over-powerline adapters so I could have a secon
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by jdeibele 1y ago
Airplane! was just on The Rewatchables, one of The Ringer podcasts, and the co-pilot role was originally written for Pete Rose but he couldn't do it because they filmed during baseball season. https://www.theringer.com/
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by jdeibele 1y ago
Bus drivers in the US are often behind a plexiglass shield, have a panic button, etc. and with reason. If buses ran more often, they hopefully would become attractive to a lot more people. Anecdotally, I think most issues happen later at n
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by jdeibele 1y ago
I use adaptive cruise control a lot, where I rely on the car for keeping a safe distance. I have a limited version of SuperCruise which means it operates hands-free on freeways but nowhere else. My wife's Equinox EV has the regular ve
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by jdeibele 1y ago
I drive a 2023 Bolt EUV and it has wireless CarPlay. My wife's 2024 Equinox EV has Android Automotive and no CarPlay. We don't have Android phones so I don't know how well an Android phone would work with Android Automoti
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by jdeibele 1y ago
From the first paragraph: "It was designed, built, and flown successfully by a team of just 50 people—compared to the hundreds or even thousands that would have been employed by a traditional big aerospace company. And we did this with
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by jdeibele 1y ago
If you want to give away your plasma, you can do that through the Red Cross and maybe get a $10 Amazon gift card and/or a T-shirt. It takes about 3 hours on a gurney. I donate blood every 2 months. It takes about 30 minutes. I was do
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by jdeibele 1y ago
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/summary
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by jdeibele 1y ago
I own a Chevy Bolt EUV, made in the US. After 18 months driving it, I was happy enough with it that we leased a Chevy Equinox EV to replace my wife's gas car. The Equinox is made in Mexico, not the US but we've also been happy w
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by jdeibele 1y ago
In Portland, it's against the city code to staple signs to telephone poles. This is, of course, completely ignored. There are also signs stuck on wire next to freeway exits or other prime traffic areas. Typically they're on publ
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by jdeibele 1y ago
You could but there are multiple reasons why Uber dethroned taxis and probably the most important ones are that you get a route to your destination and a fixed price to get there. My first trip to Paris many years ago, I felt that I was get
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by jdeibele 1y ago
I didn't know what a GDS was. Apparently it's a Global Distribution System and there's 4 major ones, including Sabre which I've heard of and 3 that I haven't. I don't know how a normal person would have acces
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by jdeibele 1y ago
I was born in the 20th century. I was filling out a medical form and put my birth year in with 2 digits. The web app took that to mean just the 2 digits. No, I wasn't born in AD 70. That's the kind of programming that makes you
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by jdeibele 1y ago
Had an eye exam this morning and I needed to do a $30 co-pay. Pulled out a card to pay and I was asked if it was a credit card. I said yes and she said there'd be a 3% fee for using a credit card. I switched to my Discover debit c
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by jdeibele 1y ago
I only have a Discover debit card. Discover pays 1% back on its debit cards, which is unusual. I have idly wondered why they did that. The fact that they're not subject to the restrictions on debit fees makes it clear why. I shop f
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by jdeibele 1y ago
If I were a bank, I would want to send statements containing financial data only to secure places. So that means something like Google, where they have a serious security team protecting accounts and not something like Ed's ISP and B
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by jdeibele 1y ago
A lot of stores in the US used to take payments for utility companies. The idea was that as long as you were there paying that, you'd be tempted to buy things from the store. Paying by check in the mail put a huge dent in this and th
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by jdeibele 1y ago
What I wanted (and still want) is a secure place to hold statements from banks for savings accounts, credit cards, etc. and brokerages. I bank with two credit unions. Years ago, they implemented a fee of $2/month for paper statements.
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by jdeibele 1y ago
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/minimum-wage/tipped I live in Oregon and employees here make a minimum of $14.70/hour and $15.95 in the Portland Metro area before tips. California and Washi
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by jdeibele 1y ago
"this weekend" Presumably it's a rental. I rented a Toyota Camry for a week. I didn't like the implementation of radar cruise control - we were driving in the hills around San Luis Obispo and the car ahead would go arou
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by jdeibele 1y ago
Presumably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency
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by jdeibele 1y ago
I literally got a Firewire to USB converter yesterday to try and pull video off a DV Camcorder. A video capture card in the same price range had worked great for letting me stream VHS tapes through OBS Studio. There are various YouTube vi
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by jdeibele 2y ago
Looked it up and it was a unanimous Supreme Court decision to overturn their convictions because 'they had not obtained "money or property"' That's just great. That's the way the law was written but doing somet
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by jdeibele 2y ago
Obligatory plug for "The Soul of a New Machine", written by Tracy Kidder about Data General and the drive to introduce a new computer a couple of years after this terminal was introduced. https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by jdeibele 2y ago
I did tech support for a startup a long time ago. I mostly won't do any phone support for friends and family because they have the nasty habit of doing something like this: Me: What do you see? Them: <click> <click> <cl
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by jdeibele 2y ago
I've noticed at several Thai restaurants in the Portland area that we are the only or almost only customers in the restaurant. There's a steady stream of Door Dash, Uber Eats, etc. drivers picking up orders. I haven't notic
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by jdeibele 2y ago
I read SMBC via RSS. I use NetNewsWire on my Mac and iPad synced to Feedly but there's lots of other ways to do it.
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by jdeibele 2y ago
Walmart is selling the 8GB M1 for $629. It presumably won’t ever get Apple Intelligence but it’s a great starter if money is tight. I’d be tempted to buy a used machine with more RAM because I’ve had really good experiences with used elec

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