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by patja 9mo ago
My 85 year-old father could probably resolve 90% of his personal technology problems using an LLM. But for the same reason every phone call on these subjects ends with me saying "can it wait until I come over for lunch next week to ta
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by patja 9mo ago
I am a sailor in the present and this same rule is why I have 3 digital multimeters on my boat.
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by patja 9mo ago
On a related note, I'm eternally grateful for the conversion to open source of the Squeezebox platform (now known as Lyrion Music Server) and SageTV. I use both of these every day.
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by patja 9mo ago
Habits vary (vegans exist!) And I agree 4 oz is a pretty small portion. But I don't think I personally know very many people who eat beef daily. For me and my family it is once or twice a week.
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by patja 9mo ago
I'd be interested in a filtering feature where you could pick a book and disregard all data from anyone who has it listed as one of their favorites.
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by patja 10mo ago
Things that are largely caused by lifestyle choices.
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by patja 10mo ago
Medicare is for those over age 65. They aren't having a lot of babies.
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by patja 10mo ago
I would like to get a catastrophic plan that doesn't cover things I would categorize as consequences of bad choices. I get that covering these things is less costly for society than just letting things run their course, but it does dr
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by patja 10mo ago
HDHP is good advice but doesn't save anything from the prices cited above. My HDHP Bronze plan is over 2k/month for 3 people.
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by patja 10mo ago
Yes it is a NAS and it is cheap and convenient to repurpose hardware. But for anything where your data is important isn't ECC memory still critical for a NAS in this day and age?
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by patja 11mo ago
I agree that satire and parody have a valuable place in discourse. But I believe there are some subject matters including sexual assault and more specifically pedophilia that are pretty much never in good taste or useful to parody. Apparen
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by patja 11mo ago
Why isn't it a privacy and security problem if it is just done for a single phone number? What is this was not WhatsApp, but it was a website or service dedicated to something unethical or illegal or just extremely embarrassing? Somet
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by patja 11mo ago
Why is it OK to allow enumeration of accounts with a given phone number, when it is generally considered to be a privacy and security violation to allow someone to enter email addresses and confirm if they have an account with a service or
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by patja 11mo ago
Part of the purpose of sarcasm is to inject humor. Personally, I don't find anything humorous about sexual assault.
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by patja 11mo ago
I have experience where my child with a working android phone was socially excluded by the girls with hand-me-down Apple products because she couldn't "text" with them. Most of them didn't even have working cell service
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by patja 11mo ago
Thanks that rings a bell. I remember reading complaints about how the change reduced the overall shower capacity and led to longer shower waits during peak hours.
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by patja 11mo ago
Anyone know which Seattle gym the author visited with an all-gender locker room?
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by patja 11mo ago
Funny how they don't mention Al-Qaeda's use of the the F-91W as an IED timer. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/25/guantanamo-fil...
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by patja 11mo ago
Washington State (where this company is based) has the same law about including salary ranges in job postings
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by patja 11mo ago
They are legally required to include the salary range in the job posting in Washington State.
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by patja 1y ago
We are self-employed in the US and buy our own high deductible plan on our state's marketplace. One of my family members needed a fairly routine planned surgery, so I went through the effort to try to determine in advance how much I w
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by patja 1y ago
Post title is missing the first of the four words: Why Which made me think this was going to be an article about delegating or otherwise assigning work to others. Until I noticed that's only three words.
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by patja 1y ago
I switched to a Kobo device and have zero regrets other than that I didn't switch earlier
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by patja 1y ago
I found the Kindle ads particularly infuriating when they advertised books I had already purchased from Amazon. They were insultingly brain dead in their targeting especially given how much Amazon knows about me
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by patja 1y ago
FAANG is a whole other world from $ENTERPRISE.
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by patja 1y ago
Wasn't much of the historically significant architecture in Munich destroyed? How historically significant are restored buildings on sites that were razed or heavily damaged? Feels like going to a natural history museum and just seein
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The Mysterious World of Credit Cards (With Patrick McKenzie)(econtalk.org)
2 points by patja 1y ago|0 comments
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by patja 1y ago
I'm so sick of retail clerks who insist on scanning the barcode of my driver's license. To verify I am 21 you don't need my height, weight, eye color, and home address. You can ascertain that my visually inspecting just the
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by patja 1y ago
SQL Server has geospatial capabilities without any extensions or add-ons. I've been happily using geospatial datatypes on the free Express version for years, probably well over a decade.
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by patja 1y ago
Many HOA rules are purely esthetic. Which can vary from person to person.

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