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by quicklyfrozen 6y ago
SUVs are a relatively recent phenomenon, with some exceptions such as the Wagoneer. And we did like large cars, but switched to minivans as cars downsized, then switched to SUVs as Minivans become stigmatized. And even if you're ambiv
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by quicklyfrozen 6y ago
If you can drive in Boston, you can drive almost anywhere -- e.g. I didn't find driving round the Arc de Triomphe in Paris particularly difficult. Who needs lines? :-) But I'd probably take the commuter train instead if they ran
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by quicklyfrozen 6y ago
I don't mind using Amtrak for business travel between Boston-NYC. Parts of the trip are pretty scenic. You can get delayed quite a bit by other rail traffic, but as you point out, you still have a table and can move around. Acela is
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by quicklyfrozen 6y ago
A home office sounds a lot cheaper then a place close enough to the office to reasonably commute every day to me. Spending an hour or two commuting 1 or 2 times a week is manageable, but 5 times is not.
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by quicklyfrozen 6y ago
Thanks for the feedback. TBH 4 pages has worked ok for me so far -- the most important info is on the first 2 pages, the remainder just stops any questions about what I was doing during that time. But I'm open to change :-). I'v
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by quicklyfrozen 6y ago
One question I always have regarding the 2 page suggested limit -- should I just drop old positions? At some point in a long enough career, just listing company, position, and dates will push it out past 2 pages.
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by quicklyfrozen 6y ago
I feel like I shouldn't have to move to a different state for my vote to matter.
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by quicklyfrozen 6y ago
They still feel a world apart, though I expect that to change over the next 20 years.
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by quicklyfrozen 6y ago
Some will want to stay in proximity to the young people they already know.
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by quicklyfrozen 6y ago
Any US project will face many years of interruptions by protestors, court cases, etc. Given the timespan, the project will also likely face administrations that don't support nuclear and attempt to stall the project. Unfortunately, pe
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by quicklyfrozen 6y ago
Let's say Monty doesn't open any door, but after you've chosen one, he offers the chance to switch to both of the other doors. Pretty clear then that switching gives you a 2/3 chance of getting the car, and that is esse
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by quicklyfrozen 6y ago
But that's the system we've put in place, and people have to live within it. They have to provide for their families, and that may end up placing them or those around them at risk. It may not be justified, but it's reality.
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by quicklyfrozen 6y ago
Living somewhere where you don't need a car is the privilege, at least in the US. I'd have to walk 2 miles to get to public transit, and that includes crossing a pedestrian unfriendly major road.
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by quicklyfrozen 6y ago
If you have done those things, then you've accepted some increased risk of falling asleep, just like most of us have at one time or another. We're human and can't say for certain that falling asleep is impossible (or some ot
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by quicklyfrozen 6y ago
Almost no one should have children then, as very few of us have sufficient resources to guarantee we can support a child for 18+ years. Just having a child in the car is distracting and puts others at risk, but we accept that. And once th
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by quicklyfrozen 6y ago
I agree -- it seems like many of the responders here are unaware of just how much privilege they have. (Or maybe they're just not in the US.) You can't just take a nap you need to pick a child up or the boss expects you at the ne
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by quicklyfrozen 6y ago
You've never had a bad night's sleep? Never had to make a longish unexpected trip because of a family emergency? Never had to work 2 jobs to make ends meet? In this case, if the person isn't able to get disability b/c
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by quicklyfrozen 6y ago
Even if there are easy tools available, I'd still need to learn them for each distro I want to support. Heck, just figuring out the different names each distro uses for a particular package is a fair bit of work.
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by quicklyfrozen 6y ago
The brain is still way more efficient and parallel then a GPU (e.g. 12W compared to 280W), so being able to duplicate it closer sounds like a pretty compelling advancement.
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by quicklyfrozen 6y ago
Unfortunately I think a lot of kids would shy away from doing this today as it can hurt your GPA -- because of weighting, an A in an AP class is worth more then an A in a shop class. So if a school is mostly focused on college-bound student
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by quicklyfrozen 6y ago
There is going to be some of that as part of what they do is demonstrating new technologies and techniques for old problems. The scale of the renovations has definitely grown exponentially over the years, so it might be worth revisiting som
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by quicklyfrozen 6y ago
It was eye-opening to go through a couple inspections as a seller and see what those inspectors missed versus the inspectors we had hired on purchase. For example, evidence of insect damage -- we had treated the issue of course, but the ev
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by quicklyfrozen 6y ago
Fortunately Netflix's recommendations are (almost) never compelling enough to keep me watching. :-) I'm also much more cognizant of the time lost by committing to another 30-60 minute episode vs. a few minutes for another YT vide
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by quicklyfrozen 6y ago
I was responding to my parent, which was about running Linux on Chromebooks, presumably to extend their life beyond the relatively short time that Google will provide updates. And that's not because schools want to, but because supply
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by quicklyfrozen 6y ago
Mine was something like 'Your Chromebook is in developer mode, press enter to start ChromeOS' along with some messaging about how dangerous developer mode is. Very easy to accidental press enter -- I know because I did it.
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by quicklyfrozen 6y ago
I'm not defending anything -- I'm just not expecting Google to fix that so we can run Linux on old Chromebooks.
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by quicklyfrozen 6y ago
Sure it's possible, but then you make a single mistake during booting and your Linux install is wiped out. And the prompt you see during booting is worded to encourage you to disable developer mode and revert to ChromeOS.
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by quicklyfrozen 6y ago
Yeah, but the 2AM stuff is less of an issue.
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by quicklyfrozen 6y ago
My father received good treatment from the VA, from bypass surgery to treatments for various complications from diabetes to a long recovery period from a stroke. So the whole system isn't broken. I'd be happy with that level of c
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by quicklyfrozen 6y ago
Given the generic names for a lot of things in tech, it's at least mildly useful that Google knows I'm probably not searching for info on snakes or fruit.

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