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by prirun 5y ago
> One of the benefits of office jobs is that you get high pay, stable hours, relatively low stress and get to work in an air-conditioned room. So I would still prefer that over skilled trades even if the pay was the same. One of the down
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by prirun 5y ago
I hate the green background because it's hard to see grey text on a lime green background. Why do designers keep doing this stuff? I see light grey text on white backgrounds all the time, as if it's sophisticated or something.
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by prirun 5y ago
“I’m not interested in forcing medium- and small-sized companies into the reporting regime.” Yet.
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by prirun 5y ago
Kids (and adults!) need to be taught that just because you read it doesn't mean it's true. Individuals have done great harm to their own mental health, and it's their responsibility to look after their own mental health.
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by prirun 5y ago
I can think of several reasons why, over the last few generations, people are not as keen on marriage: - when America was more of a farming country, kids were needed as free labor. But now we are no longer a country of small family farms.
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by prirun 5y ago
> For example Lindows was a clear case of "not innovating" and MS protected their trademark. Personally I don't believe you can trademark a common word If you don't believe in trademarking a common word, the Windows t
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by prirun 5y ago
Google taught me to hate Android by forcing an update to my phone even though I had WiFi and cellular data disabled. And after the update, I could not zoom a picture: it would crash the message/view picture app every time. And, their
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by prirun 5y ago
Better there than while driving
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by prirun 5y ago
Last year I went to Mayo Clinic. I have ACA insurance, but it is HMO-only (all ACA insurance in Indiana is HMO, not PPO), and Mayo is not in network. I actually considered getting married just so I could get PPO insurance (life change eve
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by prirun 5y ago
Recent HN topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29825490
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by prirun 5y ago
No idea how they can type that fast with those long finger nails!
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by prirun 5y ago
Great: carmakers keep adding more technology to distract drivers - huge in-your-face screens and phone-related junk - and now will be adding more tech to see if you're driving poorly. At least people can sit on the side of the road and
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by prirun 5y ago
"he did win another typing competition using the CharaChorder to hit 267 WPM with 76% accuracy." 76% accuracy doesn't sound so great to me, no matter how fast I can type on it.
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by prirun 5y ago
Higher up someone calculated that they have 2TB of data, considering their $11/mo Backblaze bill. I calculate $11/$0.004/GB and get 2750 GB. If you have 2.75TB of files to serve and have a bunch of simultaneous requests for
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by prirun 5y ago
I've been to Mayo Clinic, and it was wonderful, especially compared to the regular health care system. They have a reputation to maintain, and whether there is a hard scientific basis for this or not, I can see it being in their best i
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by prirun 5y ago
OP here. I've been on Gmail for around 13 years and it has never reminded me of this. So I just now ran a test, sent a mail that said "attached is a copy of your letter.", and Gmail sent it without comment. But, when I enabl
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by prirun 5y ago
I don't understand why people keep saying this. Every state except Montana in the US is "at will": the employer can fire you at any time with no reason. I suppose you could try to prove discrimination because of age or some
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Fastmail reminded me when I forgot an attachment
37 points by prirun 5y ago|33 comments
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by prirun 5y ago
This is the reason I never gave Google my phone number, even when they were bugging me about it. A while ago someone replied to one of my posts and said "Your phone number is not a secret". I know that. My issue is that if I giv
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by prirun 5y ago
My neighbor still pays for AOL, and has an aol.com email address. I've tried to get her off of it, but she stays because I quit working on her Windows computer a few years ago (got rid of all mine, yay!), and for $5-10/mo, she ha
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by prirun 5y ago
People said the same thing about the government monitoring everyone's communications: "It could never be kept secret". Edward Snowden proved they were wrong, and this was kept a secret, for years.
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by prirun 5y ago
> Slowing climate change will require international action and huge social changes. Completely agree, and I don't think it will ever happen. I can't imagine Americans ditching their monster trucks and SUVs, turning off their A
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by prirun 5y ago
Disclaimer: I know nothing about the Linux kernel! It sounds to me like this work is re-organizing and moving around existing code in the header files to reduce the amount of code the C compiler has to wade through during a Linux build. So
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by prirun 5y ago
A lot of times an overdose occurs if a person got clean for a while then went back to using. They tend to start using at their previous levels even though their body is no longer used to that level, so it's a sudden jolt that kills th
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Fastmail search is better than Gmail
48 points by prirun 5y ago|16 comments
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by prirun 5y ago
> "Would you like to schedule a get-together again for a conversation date?" Sounds pretty good - try it! The person you were talking to may feel exactly the same way. And interesting hobbies? Definitely yes. Try getting int
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by prirun 5y ago
> The main thing is I only get energy from talking to interesting people about interesting things I can relate to this, but to me it's different than true extroversion. My mom was an extrovert. I took her to the grocery store once,
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by prirun 5y ago
I use Linode $5/mo and Vultr $2.50/mo VPS, and both have been great. I've had the HashBackup upgrade server on Linode for many, many years and only had 1 issue with a forced upgrade that they helped me sort out. Both Linode
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by prirun 5y ago
If you ever see this phrase: 'public-private' partnership, you can be assured that the losses/costs will be public while the gains/profit will be private.
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by prirun 5y ago
It doesn't make sense to me to optimize for equal load (runtime?) between zones. The point is to make both zones comfortable for humans. If you use both floors, IMO the temp should be set the same in each zone - whatever is most comf

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