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by odysseus 4y ago
The best managers I've had were none of these things. My favorite manager was one who genuinely listened to me and was also interested in helping me learn in ways that helped the company. He was an outstanding resource and help whene
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by odysseus 4y ago
It just worked for me. But I don’t have any gear older than 2015. Here are the device requirements: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212757 Looks like you need a Mac from 2015 or newer and an iPad from the same year.
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by odysseus 4y ago
I use an old iPad via Universal Control for exactly this purpose: calendar/to-do list. It sits under my monitor and frees up a lot of screen real estate.
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by odysseus 4y ago
I have the opposite problem - if I'm thinking too hard near bedtime about financial math or boolean algebra for example, I won't be able to sleep. My brain is too active going through all the calculations in my head. If I want to
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by odysseus 4y ago
Yep. Yankee Stadium (at least when I went) allowed this too. We brought homemade deli sandwiches for the family and bought beers at the stadium.
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by odysseus 4y ago
AWS does have a couple of annoying un-configurable limitations: * There is a Global Accelerator idle timeout of 340 seconds for TCP connections * And a Global Accelerator idle timeout of 30 seconds for UDP flows. These timeouts are not cust
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by odysseus 4y ago
I feel like this article lays the groundwork for a high quality artisanal eyeglass cleaning video. Reminds me just a touch of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBb9O-aW4zI
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by odysseus 4y ago
I have a non-Ring doorbell camera and while I can't prove it has deterred theft, it's pretty useful in at least: * Getting a partial face/partial vehicle ID of someone who stole our package * Seeing the sneaky method in which
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by odysseus 4y ago
This reminds me of Kelly Norton’a Pleasant Places to Live, where you can search by ZIP code: https://kellegous.com/j/2014/02/03/pleasant-places/ I wrote to him to try and get the places listed in ta
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by odysseus 4y ago
IKEA's food has always tasted like hospital cafeteria food/plane food to me. Really bland, low quality stuff. I'd rather get an Italian meatball sub somewhere. Or Swedish meatballs from a Swedish relative. IKEA's dess
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by odysseus 4y ago
I would think some hospitals have rooms dedicated for the on-call nurse(s) to sleep in. Especially with something as common and false alarm prone as overnight labor & delivery. Pretty sure the midwifery I went to had this.
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by odysseus 5y ago
Reminds me of this article also about NJ: https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/29/nyregion/living-with-a-ra... “Half a mile away, in Orange, is the abandoned factory where the U.S. Radium Corporation made lum
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by odysseus 5y ago
Finally, for fans of Weird Al Yankovic's White & Nerdy, an excuse to reference Norm Sherman's Pimp My Satellite, which is all about the Hubble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMXk5Y7Gv6Y
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by odysseus 5y ago
The painstaking process to put back together shredded Stasi documents is mentioned at the end of The Lives of Others: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405094/ Great movie, by the way.
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by odysseus 6y ago
Are there any of these for other states?
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by odysseus 6y ago
My Thinkpad fingerprint reader works in Linux. Well, it works perhaps 80-85% of the time. See https://askubuntu.com/questions/1231185/fingerprint-login-in...
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by odysseus 6y ago
How is it totally broken? iTunes Match is working for me.
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by odysseus 6y ago
Had the same thing happen with my wife’s Apple Music 3 month trial. She accepted the trial, then went into settings to cancel the subscription so she wouldn’t be automatically charged at the end of 3 months. With no warning, the subscriptio
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by odysseus 6y ago
Try Trader Joe’s - they have similar corn & flour tortillas under their house brand.
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by odysseus 6y ago
What is more comfortable about the Model S steering wheel?
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by odysseus 6y ago
3 weeks prior to the automatic payment, the power company sends me a notice of the exact amount that's going to be taken out. I review it every month.
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by odysseus 6y ago
Or better, have all your bills paid automatically.
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by odysseus 6y ago
Oh no. I really hope the bride and groom are OK!
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by odysseus 6y ago
Some options: * If the ivy is near pavement, you could scald it with a tea kettle. * Add a bird bath and/or salt lick to the yard to encourage white-tailed deer to snack on it. * Get a goat.
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by odysseus 6y ago
Bumblebees like the clover too.
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by odysseus 6y ago
As I wrote at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23025501 : There is an app I've been using to track my Vitamin D for a few years now: http://dminder.ontometrics.com (Not affiliated with the app, just hap
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by odysseus 6y ago
You can fit it in a sliding window. Go to the hardware store and buy a sheet of 1-inch thick foil backed insulating styrofoam. Cut it to fit perfectly above the AC unit.
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by odysseus 6y ago
UPS already has a nav system that avoids right turns when possible - maybe they could license their routing.
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by odysseus 6y ago
Why not have older teachers that are more at risk teach from home via video? Then have a younger proctor coordinate with kids in the classroom.
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by odysseus 6y ago
Great comment, and insight on what most people spend. Thanks! Segway should have quickly introduced a low-priced variant under $1000. Kind of like OneWheel has, although there is no shortage of OneWheel crash videos.

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