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by oldandboring 2y ago
I remember some ISPs allowing you to "shotgun" two 56k modems for double the speed! Like some other commentors I also fondly remember ISDN. Overall I found it to be finicky. Sometimes one channel would just drop, even if a phone
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by oldandboring 2y ago
I have noticed this as well, and if you're interviewing at a startup, it's almost guaranteed to be a highly technical position. Either a hybrid EM/Tech Lead role or a hybrid EM/architect role.
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by oldandboring 2y ago
Whether you're right or not is beside the argument he/she made, which I think is pretty strong: that many Americans think anything government does that doesn't directly benefit them is a waste. Personally I find this to be so
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by oldandboring 2y ago
That's not true. At all.
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by oldandboring 2y ago
Money talks. If I'm paying $150k for a US-based engineer and I'm getting poor output as a result of them working remotely, the downside is considerable and I have a strong incentive to improve their output, especially since I can
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by oldandboring 2y ago
Warning: snark incoming. The article also has a strong whiff of: the author has one young, neurotypical child and is now pretty sure he's got this whole parenting thing figured out, decides to blog about it. Then the overwhelmingly yo
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by oldandboring 2y ago
Personal anecdote. I have an elementary schooler and a middle schooler. Both of them score high on the standardized reading tests. Neither of them show much interest in actually reading books. The younger one will read graphic novels like &
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by oldandboring 2y ago
Came here to mention Zoho Mail. I use Zoho to provide IMAP and SMTP mail for a webapp that required a dedicated address. Would have been like $72/year to make a whole new user in Google Workspace.
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by oldandboring 2y ago
The 22nd amendment currently says the following (formatted for clarity): No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two
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by oldandboring 2y ago
If you don't mind me asking... do you have kids?
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by oldandboring 2y ago
I kinda figured. Sorry bro. No easy answers, unfortunately.
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by oldandboring 2y ago
Whoosh. You missed the point completely. Of course very few people earn $1.5M/year. That's my point -- the poster I was replying to was naively thinking they could just work hard for a tech company and save for 10 years and then l
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by oldandboring 2y ago
This is usually possible to some degree but the life circumstances creating the chaos may not be things they can realistically get rid of.
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by oldandboring 2y ago
> work hard and save hard at tech company for a decade, then use the invested surplus as passive income to work lightly thereafter I used an LLM to help me do the math but it appears you would have to make $1.5 million/year at &quot
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by oldandboring 2y ago
> Perhaps in part because they feel, deep down, that an Excel sheet is superior In my experience these folks are the exception rather than the rule. To recognize when, and when not, to use Excel vs. buying/building/subscribing
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by oldandboring 2y ago
> The colloquial term for USA however is "amerika", which is exactly what Americans call themselves colloquially. This reminds me of something I was thinking about recently. I started noticing a few years ago, when I began list
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by oldandboring 2y ago
This is what I was thinking as well. From the README examples it looks like every other modern PHP micro framework.
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by oldandboring 2y ago
Lots of consumer router/gateways out there are old and don't have IPv6 turned on. If you turn off IPv4 for your services, those folks just won't be able to connect and they won't know why, they'll just move on. Any
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by oldandboring 2y ago
I mean, it's not nonsense. Anyone who is familiar with either health or defense policy details knows that the US taxpayer is absorbing an absurd amount of cost which enables other countries to do things we cannot. When it comes to heal
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by oldandboring 2y ago
TL;DR European with a masters's degree, free healthcare and no children has the freedom to jump around in their career and even take extended breaks to indulge in hobby projects.
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by oldandboring 2y ago
> Hezbollah is a legal and popular party in Lebanon Hezbollah is an Iran-backed militia whose sole purpose is the destruction of Israel. > and is at war with another country No, they're not. They're a militia. Here is a time
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by oldandboring 2y ago
The first paragraph of the article struck a chord with me. I listen to a fair amount of sports talk radio and have for most of my life. Even back into the 80s and 90s I remember noticing that these guys on the air seemed to speak the langu
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by oldandboring 2y ago
I set this up a few months ago as an experiment. Worked pretty well until I discovered that for iMessage to work, the application phones home to Apple using your hardware IDs, and this project uses fake values. At that point I started spir
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by oldandboring 2y ago
I am so embarrassed that I came here to say this, and also quite pleased that you beat me to it :)
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by oldandboring 2y ago
https://skitownallstars.com/products/no-one-cares-you-tele-3...
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by oldandboring 2y ago
Free the heel, free your mind?
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by oldandboring 2y ago
Oh boy, yeah pretty old :) There is one person I know (but not very well) who you likely encountered (Canadian, in fact) but they didn't make it to the WC until 94 I believe.
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by oldandboring 2y ago
I feel like I'm looking in a mirror. Everything you wrote is me 100%.
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by oldandboring 2y ago
I addressed this when I wrote, > If the edge get damaged with rocks or rust, this is no longer true.
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by oldandboring 2y ago
That's why I said "closer to 50/50". Also, that's awesome that you competed WC moguls. I probably saw you compete depending on when you were active, and we almost definitely know some of the same people.

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