rconti

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by rconti 3y ago
This makes me feel at least slightly better. I attended a top-100-but-definitely-not-top-10-or-even-top-20 private university in the early 2000s and I'm quite sure my family paid very close to full sticker. I don't recall qualifyi
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by rconti 3y ago
No, I also have no clue, but it's no more annoying than keeping track of which Ubuntu version is called something inane like Jaunty Jackalope.
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by rconti 3y ago
We were sharing lots of 3-7MB files peer-to-peer at the time :D Napster, Limewire, Audiogalaxy, etc. Plenty of public FTP sites all over the place as well. Even in the late 90s, 128kbps ISDN connections were not unheard of, and 256kbps DSL
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by rconti 3y ago
Is this true, or just an invented number based on your intuition?
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by rconti 3y ago
"Kicking Them When You Have Them Down" wow.
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by rconti 3y ago
It seems like it would be trivial to build a "controller case" that goes around the phone. It could plug into the USB-C port, of course, and have joysticks on both sides, or whatever was required.
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by rconti 3y ago
Per the article: > For some commentators, the recent downfall of the chemical imbalance theory has cast doubt on the use of existing antidepressant drugs, which were meant to restore the lost serotonin. Yet the data certainly suggests th
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by rconti 3y ago
What was it?? I'm curious how many people will recognize it.
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by rconti 3y ago
yeah, I have no idea what's going on with the time. There is a 2 hour delta between the time in the box where I hit "go" and the "current time" on the menu bar. I'm on the west coast so it would make sense if i
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by rconti 3y ago
if you plug those numbers into an affordability calculator, you'll see that 18k/130k is very very very sane. I mean, I've paid that much in rent on less income.
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by rconti 3y ago
Took a motorcycle roadtrip up to Prudhoe Bay a decade ago. Roads closed in Oregon and California due to snow, hottest day of the trip was 90+F going into Delta Junction, AK.
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by rconti 3y ago
10Mbps is barely enough to send the ACKs on a 250Mbps download. Maybe it's fine as a dedicated connection, but you might not want to be hosting anything on your home connection.
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by rconti 3y ago
I think the pendulum DID swing, as The Cloud became more popular and connections became radically asymmetric with very slow upload.
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by rconti 3y ago
https://www.wabe.org/georgias-warming-climate-leads-farmers-...
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by rconti 3y ago
No. Businesses can deduct mileage by personal vehicle usage (now $0.655 per mile)[1] , and so if I'm on a "work trip' and use my personal car, typically I will get reimbursed by my employer at that same rate. And if I was sel
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by rconti 3y ago
Too hot, too cold, AND too humid, all in one!
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by rconti 3y ago
I love these puritanical notions. Gotta be good, hard-working, cold-hardened folk! >Employed by the transcontinental railroads, influential writers like Charles Nordhoff contested eastern notions of Southern California as barren desert w
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by rconti 3y ago
I'm sure this article is a data-driven approach as full of journalistic integrity as the ones 2 years ago about everyone fleeing California, and definitely not just a cheap clickbaity attempt at schadenfreudeporn.
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by rconti 3y ago
It's so annoying that they only used one example (Murray Hill) which is actually MU and not MH, which required me to re-skim it a few times to grok what was going on. It would have been nice for the article to provide several examples
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by rconti 3y ago
Right, but if the average recruiter already knows most this stuff, and the average candidate doesn't, it still brings the candidate closer to parity, even if both parties learn something.
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by rconti 3y ago
> Not true. As demostrated by 2021-2 outrageous offers where the market is now correcting itself. Are many people taking salary cuts? Layoffs? Enough so to bring them back to where they started?
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by rconti 3y ago
> Western society is very much ask culture. I want to push back on this, but since I was raised in the US, I don't feel like I have a leg to stand on. Perhaps it's more ask culture than the Japanese, but I still feel like it&
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by rconti 3y ago
Well, as a lifelong unix sysadmin, it matters, but I'm not sure how much it matters for a typical developer.
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by rconti 3y ago
The original hockey puck mouse had a ball (I had to Google it to confirm my memory, since otherwise it's just your memory against mine!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_puck_mouse I remember the later G3 educ
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by rconti 3y ago
Seems like new hires during the pandemic would have a clearer-cut case, at least.
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by rconti 3y ago
I'd say Utah and Colorado probably have better climate due to their elevation. If they were at sea-level they would probably be insanely hot.
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by rconti 3y ago
My last 3 managers (since 2020) have all been in a different office than my "home" office.
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by rconti 3y ago
I generally like the 3d view, but I had a hilarious experience up in Marin where I was cresting a hill and planning to take an exit, with a turn I didn't know coming right after the exit. The entirety of the next 3 steps, precisely wha
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by rconti 3y ago
I've felt that Apple Maps has been better than Google Maps in many ways for years now (although I still switch back and forth between them, seemingly at random, for no real reason, using each for about 50% of my map browsing). Finding
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by rconti 3y ago
Maybe it depends on the area, but it's no problem to get service w/out voice here.

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