odysseus

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by odysseus 4y ago
And even if it's iTunes Match and not Apple Music, it's still a pain. Half the time it tells me it's playing the song I wanted and in reality it's playing something completely different. The other half the time it can&
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by odysseus 4y ago
When I needed a plumber I reached out to a bunch of buddies to see who they use. I got quotes from three of their recommendations and ended up using the one a buddy found on the back of a church bulletin. Guy was amazing - a one man shop -
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by odysseus 4y ago
Flip side is identity thieves do your taxes early for you and get your refund.
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by odysseus 4y ago
Other large companies are similar. I worked for one multinational where they only allowed employee donation matching in narrow cases: - certain large universities - certain large hospitals And that's it. I wrote to HR multiple times
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by odysseus 4y ago
So there is no info or post-it notes on any of the record sleeves that indicate the original owner? No markings or perhaps labels indicating where the records were purchased? I'm guessing maybe the police didn't want to deal with
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by odysseus 4y ago
Another happy itsycal user - I love how tiny and customizable it is.
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by odysseus 4y ago
One thing you might try is reading aloud. Ref: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200917-the-surprising-p... I find this really helps me both focus and retain what I'm reading, even though it takes a bit l
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by odysseus 4y ago
Good idea, but I think it might work better if you had an Android device. Siri is not great at definitions and you often have to literally spell things out for her. (if she hears you at all and doesn't start randomly calling your aun
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by odysseus 4y ago
I've tried this, but I find the screen refresh of e-ink displays very distracting. I also prefer scrolling text when reading vs. flipping virtual pages - which limits me to non e-ink displays. I just created a Reading Focus mode on my
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by odysseus 4y ago
My first computer had an amber monitor. With a Wang keyboard. And a turbo button.
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by odysseus 4y ago
This podcast is a good way to get the gist of a book directly from the author in 50 minutes without having to actually read through the whole (padded) slog. I learned about a simple way to improve my balance on the last episode I listened t
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by odysseus 4y ago
"Potty Training in 3 Days" Worked for my children. Saved us a bunch of money on diapers as they were both ready and asking to use the potty at slightly over 2 years old.
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by odysseus 4y ago
Agree with your second paragraph, but for some books, I've gotten too used to being able to look up words/topics directly from the ebook. I find myself annoyed I can't long press a word with a physical book. I then end up gr
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by odysseus 4y ago
Can you use ChatGPT without a phone number yet? I thought about signing up a while ago but don't see a reason they need my phone number. Popular VOIP numbers don't work either.
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by odysseus 4y ago
Note that Brave Search also has "lenses" / filters, and it has them for free. https://search.brave.com/goggles There's a copycats removal goggle and a HackerNews-top1000-sites goggle. I use them from ti
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by odysseus 4y ago
Good overview. $1400+tax though, wow. That "speed walker" he was racing against really looked like he was running ...
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by odysseus 4y ago
If alcohol can damage your short term memory imagine the damage alcohol can do
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by odysseus 4y ago
Then it's time to vote those city council members out until they start listening their constituents.
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by odysseus 4y ago
Sometimes this is self evident: For the Young/New: souped up fart can cars / Econobox For the Elderly: Pale Blue Lincoln Town Cars But I would like to see these stickers in the U.S. too, along with Germany's much tougher driv
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by odysseus 4y ago
Thank you. I had no idea what this signage meant.
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by odysseus 4y ago
I've been wanting this for years. And just left feedback for Apple Maps for exactly this feature: https://www.apple.com/feedback/maps-ios-ipados.html
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by odysseus 4y ago
Maddening when you have to scroll through several paragraphs and repeated mentions of DFS just to find out what DFS stands for: Dynamic Frequency Selection To quote Elon: Acronyms Seriously Suck
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by odysseus 4y ago
I can’t find much in this article about why food deserts exist in the first place. One big reason is it costs more to deliver food into high crime areas. It costs more to secure the property and employees who work in those areas.
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by odysseus 4y ago
Scroll view is way better, it’s how you do most of your other reading on the phone. The old page flip animation was always distracting to me. I haven’t used the new one.
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by odysseus 4y ago
I agree it's difficult to care for an impoverished child. My mom was a single mother that was close to becoming homeless, and we both survived. There are many free resources for single mothers. (for example, WIC, a program that prov
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by odysseus 4y ago
That's 60 million children missing over almost 50 years, or ~830K/year. But not all of these were "unwanted". Many women are pressured into abortion by abusive, manipulative, cowardly, and responsibility-shirking men.
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by odysseus 4y ago
Unpopular opinion, but I'd argue the last ~50 years of legalized abortion, with over 60 million lives lost, also accounts for a large percentage of the missing workforce. (Even more so when you consider the loss of their children and
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by odysseus 4y ago
My wife has an iPhone and is able to use her Nest app at the same time I'm able to. But we generally don't use the Nest app much any more, except to use its horrible scheduling interface (horrible because Google's UI for chan
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by odysseus 4y ago
For more like this, check out Fadell's interview with Lex Fridman: https://lexfridman.com/tony-fadell/
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by odysseus 4y ago
I'd be interested in any research that backs up your point 1. Russia is not all that economically prosperous. Neither is Mongolia. Singapore and Taiwan are very much so. And Singapore is right on the equator.

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