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by rcurry 5y ago
Out of curiosity, what do you use for job scheduling?
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by rcurry 5y ago
Not sure if this helps, but we have a saying in Jiu Jitsu that a black belt is a white belt who never quit. Hang in there, and don’t be afraid to punch outside your weight class in tech - there are a million people out there who have proble
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by rcurry 5y ago
I agree with you 100%, I love HN and have been here for years but the downvoting feature disgusts me. Either allow a post or don’t, but this weird “fading” of someone’s post just because some people don’t agree with what someone has to say
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by rcurry 5y ago
Guns, ammo, and gold aren’t bad choices to hoard for an end of the world situation, but if you want to make out like a bandit when the shit hits the fan just stockpile spices - when people start having to eat squirrels they’re going to want
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by rcurry 6y ago
Keith Richards might disagree with you...
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by rcurry 6y ago
I wanted to be a professional magician when I was younger, and there’s a single-handed cut that I learned from Daryl Easton (at a seminar he gave at some Holiday Inn). It took me a month or two of solid practice to get it down, but over thi
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by rcurry 6y ago
If you return the property you stole, can you deduct that as a loss? And if you steal the same property after declaring a loss are you then subject to “wash sales” rules? Asking for a friend...
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by rcurry 6y ago
"I guess mummy and daddy paying $20 mil for a new library to get me a seat at an ‘elite’ school is still meritocracy eh?" As someone who never even finished college, I think this is a pretty cheap shot. My former boss on Wall Stre
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by rcurry 6y ago
Agreed - in fact the term hobo just meant a traveling worker back in the Great Depression and most hobos would take offense at being characterized as deadbeats - they were in fact out to make an honest living for themselves in the face of c
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by rcurry 6y ago
Good for you. I grew up in the eighties, and if I couldn’t remember your phone number you probably weren’t my friend. I’m okay with the same rules now. Twitter and Facebook are the Internet equivalent of Skid Row - a bunch of hobos fighting
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by rcurry 6y ago
If you think Tailwind means less space for “skilled css people” then doesn’t that mean Tailwind lowers a barrier for entry? Kind of like saying Java or C# reduces the need for skilled assembly programmers? If it does lower a barrier for ent
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by rcurry 6y ago
> How was selling more stock in that situation legal? “We are selling to willing buyers at the current fair market price.” - Margin Call, 2011
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by rcurry 6y ago
It’s Bootay, damn it. And your overthruster is shit!
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by rcurry 6y ago
Or just drive a manual, that seems to be working well these days as most younger folks don’t know how to drive one.
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by rcurry 6y ago
My guess is that the window for that kind of arbitrage closed faster than people would have been able to get set up to transact against it; I think you need a special account and meter if you want to sell power back to the grid.
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by rcurry 6y ago
The cost of electricity may be a bit higher than in other states, but your overall cost of living in TX is so low that it doesn't really matter. For instance, in terms of my daily commute I'd be paying about $500 more a year just
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by rcurry 6y ago
The bomb was the best - This is really interesting, I wish we had more time.
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by rcurry 6y ago
I love how the the origin of the terrifying duct scene in Alien was the guy chasing the beachball through the ducts in Dark Star. All those guys were waiting for was a proper FX budget.
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by rcurry 6y ago
Sorry, I meant a few million years, not a few hundred.
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by rcurry 6y ago
Full power was restored to NYC on the 16th. Yes, that seems about right - I stayed at my office for two days until a coworker commandeered a car that was in our parking garage (owned by a guy who was out of town on business) and gave me a r
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by rcurry 6y ago
I agree. The only time I’ve seen a grid collapse was NYC in 2003. Fortunately I was able to sleep in my office and a co-worker had the good sense to raid the deli downstairs the moment the power went out. We dined by flashlight on salami an
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by rcurry 6y ago
In the Midwest we call it a “cold winter”, they’ve been happening with regularity for a few hundred years. On the upside, the coyote hunting gets great once the temps get around -15 or so, just don’t forget your pack boots and down long joh
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by rcurry 6y ago
Good point - I’m right off Lake Ray Hubbard, and we have a big natural gas power plant on the other side of the lake.
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by rcurry 6y ago
Not trying to be a jerk, but I’ve lived in MN and WI and can’t count the number of times we lost power in the winter - usually for somewhere between 4 and 8 hours, so no big deal, but it does happen. I never minded it, power outages are a g
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by rcurry 6y ago
Texas didn’t have a statewide outage. I live in Rockwall and our power hasn’t so much as flickered all this week. There were a lot of outages in outlying areas for sure, I think it impacted about 1/3 of the population here in some way
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by rcurry 6y ago
The grid didn’t seem so great back in 2003 when NYC took a dive for two days. It was amazing seeing the whole city just dead in the water. Shit happens, but fortunately our infrastructure is fairly resilient and we can recover pretty quickl
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FAA Releases Remote ID – Major Regulatory Change for Drone Flyers(nextgov.com)
2 points by rcurry 6y ago|1 comments
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by rcurry 6y ago
That’s why we have an easy way - just pull up IntelliJ, select Express App, and be done with it.
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by rcurry 6y ago
From what I’ve read of Taibbi’s work he’s the last guy interested in stoking any kind of culture war - but he does a very good job of both analyzing how it’s been developing and predicting how the end game will work out.
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by rcurry 6y ago
It’s not so much the farmers as it is truckers. CA has a lot of agriculture but some places like NYC have a very limited food supply. For some reason a lot of people have no idea how dependent they are on rural areas. I never forgot this tw

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