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by jimt1234 2y ago
> For someone who suffers from insomnia this seemed worth a shot. I can relate, having suffered the same for most of my life. One thing that really helped me was a simple white noise machine, typically used to help babies sleep. Good: I
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M88ZzxKyrTg
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Hmmm. Not exactly. I did give the admin passwords to others (rotated every 90 days), like my manager, but I guess they never wrote them down or otherwise stored them. I also maintained operational documents for the systems, but was told to
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I have to admire Texas politicians for opposing "green energy", going so far as to blame their 2021 power crisis on The Green New Deal, while also simultaneously investing heavily in and reaping the benefits from "green energ
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I once got let go from a company, and then, 2 weeks later, they offered to re-hire me. They acted like they were doing me a favor, boasting that they'd even pay me the same salary. I declined, as I was planning on quitting anyway. Then
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by jimt1234 2y ago
It's worth noting that 3 of the 4 examples above deal with guns. The 4th deals with knives. ... Thank God we spend so much time and energy arguing about weapons, guided by a document that was written over 200 years ago. It would be a n
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Don't date cops. Just don't. ... Years ago, a friend of mine went on a few dates with a cop. She ended up not being interested, so she broke it off. Then the harassment began. Her phone/landline rang non-stop. Cops in marked
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I think their strategy was adopted by their new PR director, Barbra Streisand.
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It's bad when shareholders are begging the company not to be so evil.
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Good point. However, it's almost impossible not to conflate the two (healthcare overall and health insurance) because, unfortunately, health insurance is pretty much required for healthcare. The credit card companies would be a goo
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And more than half of my 50s-year-old friends would be able to retire from jobs where they do the bare minimum just to maintain their health insurance.
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> ...equivalent of digital junk food Love it! Well, I hate that this situation exists, but the metaphor is great.
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And apparently Trump included dwarfism in his DEI blame-game. Where the hell did that come from? Are little people eating the cats and dogs now, too? https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5116332-trump-0f...
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This is the last thing I would want. Hypothetical, but not totally unlikely scenario: I live in Florida. I use a Google VPN service to access Pornhub. The Florida AG decides to subpoena Google to see who's been using a VPN to watch por
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> ...checks the Windows Registry for signs it is running on a virtualized environment and stops if the results are positive. That caught my eye ^^^ Is there any virtualization software that makes VM environments indistinguishable from a
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Hmmm. I've made it from Jamaica Station (coming from Long Island) to Yankee Stadium in under 40 minutes many times.
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I wouldn't even call it pandering. He straight-up said the pardon was because the libertarians supported him.
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by jimt1234 2y ago
I had an InReach for years, mostly just for the satellite messaging. I tried this feature recently out on the trail with my iPhone and it worked great. So, I got rid of my InReach, and now my iPhone and AllTrails subscription is all I need.
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And it nags the hell outta you if you opt out.
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Not sure about policing and drones in California, but I know it's extremely expensive to get home owners insurance in canyon-bordering areas. A buddy of mine couldn't get his property insured at all; he was forced to utilize some
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by jimt1234 2y ago
In my area of Southern California, fireproofing is mandatory for new construction, meaning new homes have to be built to very strict fire safety standards that get updated all the time. However, yeah, for existing homes, it's highly re
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by jimt1234 2y ago
> Nothing [insert company] is shipping seems to be for me, the user. I have a 90/10 rule when it comes to new products/features these days: they're 90% benefit to the company and 10% benefit to me.
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That's hilarious. I had a similar situation, also back in the 90s, when a developer shipped some code that kept pegging the CPU on a production server. He insisted it was the server, and the company should spend $$$ on a new one to fix
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by jimt1234 2y ago
I would think that most people view this as positive, but not without downsides. For example, I've been traveling to China (from the US) since the late-90's, when the economy in China had just started to open up. The effects from
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by jimt1234 2y ago
I'm sorry about your daughter. ... I, too, recently lost a close relative to cancer, and yes, understanding and knowing how to navigate everything involved would've helped greatly.
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This ^^^ I often thought of creating my own Twitter clone, but the biggest problem/obstacle I keep envisioning in content moderation. At the very least it's required for legal reasons - no CSAM! However, if you want to have a plat
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I got a vociemail from Kaiser Permanente just yesterday, telling me I owed for a recent medical visit. The voicemail went on, citing some (probably fictional) laws that allowed them to start garnishing my wages immediately for unpaid medica
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by jimt1234 2y ago
Do you need an account to register for classes? Can't you just register in-person like I did back when we roamed the earth with dinosaurs?
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rave != club IMHO, "raves" are, or were , underground, unsanctioned, and generally illegal, whereas "clubs" are typically licensed and legal - in other words, expensive and lame. I went to raves back in the early-90s, a
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If you don't have something to hide, your life is lame. LOL Seriously, though, what would the HIPAA violation be for location data? Knowledge of someone going to a doctor's office doesn't sound like a HIPAA violation. AFAIK,

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