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by mdip 3y ago
As I read your statement sitting in my "bedroom office", I notice: My Vizio TV which has a piece of white electrical tape[0] with aluminum foil underneath. Incredible failure of engineering that has a setting to disable the power
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by mdip 3y ago
That's the winner!
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by mdip 3y ago
Oh man, we have a place nearby that has easily 40 machines, and some serious classics (they had the Elton John machine with the recalled artwork). They've been around for a few years -- simple setup: $20 gets you a wrist band and you
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by mdip 3y ago
This is the stand I bought, though: https://www.amazon.com/gp/B07WRWFK33 Worth every penny -- it's very sturdy (pain to mount, must be perfectly level, but anything this big is challenging), and extremely adjustab
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by mdip 3y ago
LOL, I've been working a crunch time for two weeks that's just finishing up. I would never post my room in the condition it is in, however, I will post one after I have a weekend to clean :)
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by mdip 3y ago
... and I mean, I used to subscribe to nearly all of the "separate work from life" advice. I've been working remotely since 2004 except for a brief 4-years in the office. It's the reason my desk is "sit-stand&quot
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by mdip 3y ago
3. I used to do this. Now I have a medical grade 6-foot monitor arm carrying my 32" display over my bed which tucks neatly into the wall. I have a set of pillows designed to make a seating position like an "anti-gravity lounge c
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by mdip 3y ago
Reading the article, I believe the number was nearly 2% of Houses of Worship have solar systems and at first glance that seemed kind of low. Thinking about it more, the number kind of says nothing. Or at least you can't draw any concl
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by mdip 3y ago
That's been my experience at every company I've been at. I don't know how they did it ... they not only got panels, they were all paid for by the customer. We had credentialed in house staff but routinely outsourced the w
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by mdip 3y ago
This is a clever approach and it got me wondering a few things. An hour or so from where I live there have been complaints about an infrequent low rumbling sound for years [0]. I'd wondered -- at the time -- why you couldn't jus
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by mdip 3y ago
I laughed at least a little when I read this because if I really think about the quality of comments on this subject the last few months, that is a relatively fair -- if sarcastic -- summary. But you bring up an interesting point about WFH:
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by mdip 3y ago
Just a curiosity: Is that limited to only when you're working remotely or do you prefer that kind of communication style in the office, too?
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by mdip 3y ago
Face-to-face, I wouldn't expect that[0]. But in e-mail to direct subordinates, oh, they're so much worse. The last decade of my Telecom days I reported variously to our department director, our department VP and ultimately our
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by mdip 3y ago
I worked at one company who, I feel, handled the UI/UX/Design/Development process about as correctly as I could imagine. It was unlike any other place I ever worked (and very successful at what they did). They were a typic
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by mdip 3y ago
> Every team I’ve worked on that maintains a backlog, got most of their backlog from customers. I'm not completely disagreeing with you as this has been my experience, in the past, too. Here's how it's usually wo
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by mdip 3y ago
I can feel the disagreements stirring amongst the HN crowd[0]. You know, this is an observation I've made sub-consciously a thousand times and I really appreciate you putting that into words. In my experience, frequent check-backs w
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by mdip 3y ago
Very cool -- it's always interesting meeting other (what I like to call) "normie" home-school parents. I would say the story of "2 hours of lessons, max" is probably the most consistent thing I hear from other home
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by mdip 3y ago
Both of my children were taught by an educator without a degree until 6th and 9th grade. Both entered the private school system/public school system and have scored two years of perfect grades so far. We were a pretty laid-back home s
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by mdip 3y ago
You nailed it with "4 ugly colors"[0] I remember the palette choices in CGA were downright bizarre; they'd be 4 colors that you couldn't possibly use to make anything look right. At the price of the card and the display
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by mdip 3y ago
I believe you'll find a lot of people here in the US that believe prison, at least for the worst crimes, isn't about punishment or rehabilitation, but "containment".
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by mdip 3y ago
My 1990s multi-node BBS ran via DESQView/x That company produced a number of excellent DOS survival tools. QEMM memory manager was an absolute must to get games working.
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by mdip 3y ago
If memory serves, I had a neighbor who bought that 4MB Emulex card. It was for an 80286 clone that had a 10MB HDD. His rational for buying this card was "I can make a big RAM drive out of it and run everything from memory" I can&
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by mdip 3y ago
Sales organizations have always been mystifying to me. When I worked at a large, multi-national telecom, I started in desktop support (waaaaay back in the day!). I remember being surprised about the layout of the 10,000 person organization
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by mdip 3y ago
I think about it this way -- when I was a kid, being able to navigate a command prompt (DOS!) put you in a category way ahead of most adults using computers every day. Of course, normal users use the terminal as much now as they do, then, b
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by mdip 3y ago
I absolutely love Aldi -- they do several big and subtle (with big results) things that other retailers fail on: (1) Their store brands are consistently on-par or better than the name brands. It's no "Kirkland Signature" b
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by mdip 3y ago
Speaking from my own experience (anec-data being a home-owner for about 20 years and a member of a family who owned a home my entire life). (1) How "high-end" something is does not equate to how long it will last or how reliable i
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by mdip 3y ago
That's funny -- when my familiy was planning to move to a home that was being built, my Dad got out there before they put the drywall up and ran telephone and cable television to every bedroom. I followed in behind him with my punch d
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by mdip 3y ago
It comes down to the kind of car person you are, I think. You're either someone who prioritizes the car they buy based on how others will perceive you (and how you will perceive yourself when driving it) or you're someone who sees
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by mdip 3y ago
Mostly exploration and a little mischief -- cloning his garage door opener, turning the smart board off (and on) on the teacher in class (similar to those keychain devices that roll through the off codes on TV IR remotes), trying to break i
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by mdip 3y ago
I was this kid in my day. I had an extremely high-end PC that I built myself (to date myself, it cost well over $6,000[0] and was a home-built 486DX50 ( right when they came out) maxed out motherboard RAM (that might have been 16MB but

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