rkomorn

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by rkomorn 7mo ago
You're literally replying to "the mods" .
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by rkomorn 7mo ago
Individual Contributor, usually as opposed to any kind of management role.
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by rkomorn 7mo ago
Christopher Nolan, is that you?
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by rkomorn 7mo ago
But what if your goats become unstoppable?
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by rkomorn 7mo ago
I ask myself the same question. I'm not seeing the apps, SaaS, and other tools I use getting better, with either more features or fewer bugs. Whatever is being shipped, as an end user, I'm just not seeing it.
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by rkomorn 7mo ago
I'm the other way around. I sound like a native US English speaker, but when I'm speaking English around French people who aren't as fluent, I "Frenchify" my accent so it's easier for them. My spouse finds it a
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by rkomorn 7mo ago
This is a great response. Thank you. :) I'll check out oath.vote (maybe).
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by rkomorn 7mo ago
To be fair, spelling bees usually have more complicated words (though the complicated ones are often borrowed from French anyway so, win-win for some of us).
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by rkomorn 7mo ago
With the exception of some annoying ones like "fils" (son or sons) and "fils" (threads).
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by rkomorn 7mo ago
I think you're right that working in certain areas (geographical or professional) gives you an ability to grasp all kinds of English. I've worked in universities and in tech, in New Jersey, LA, and Silicon Valley, and I feel like
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by rkomorn 7mo ago
You mean kinda like how (as I recently was informed) "ye olde" is actually pronounced "the old" but written "ye" because of printing issues, and consequently mispronounced by almost everyone? https:/&#x2F
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by rkomorn 7mo ago
Same with political donations in the US. I gave to one campaign 10 years ago and I've been getting consistent requests for donations since. So now they all get marked as spam. The first one came right after my donation. I guess it work
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by rkomorn 7mo ago
Off topic but I can't help but snicker every time someone gets autocorrected into writing Rafael instead of Rafale (which I literally just had to correct, myself).
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by rkomorn 7mo ago
This is a bit of a no true Scotsman take but I agree with it anyway.
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by rkomorn 7mo ago
I think you might be right and I think I'll like some of the consequences and hate some of the others. More in-person stuff feels like a win to me (and I say this as someone who probably counts as introverted). Not being able to trust
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by rkomorn 7mo ago
> What would be the real challenge would be going from 50 to 60Hz. Other way around, no? The US is already 60Hz. Edit: I mostly remember this because the SNES games I used to buy in the US and brought back to Europe ran noticeably slower
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by rkomorn 7mo ago
2-3 drinks on a Friday night isn't. 2-3 drinks on a Friday night when you're supposed to drive home is different. I'd also say "I can drink because the law is wrong" is also not exactly a neutral take.
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by rkomorn 7mo ago
I don't envy anyone having to work in that airspace in any capacity.
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by rkomorn 7mo ago
I really want to like NixOS (and I mostly do) but the weirdness of the split between NixOS and HomeManager (and the fact that without HomeManager, you need another solution to manage your user-level configs) made it come up a bit short for
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by rkomorn 7mo ago
Busiest airspace and busiest airport are two different things, technically. The airspace that combines JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark, is the busiest airspace in the US.
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by rkomorn 7mo ago
Depends. Do they use vim or emacs?
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by rkomorn 7mo ago
Scams are getting good enough that I'm now skeptical/paranoid every time I get a legit email. "Click link" ? I think not. Gonna log in myself in a new window and try to navigate to the same thing on my own.
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by rkomorn 7mo ago
Touché, I guess.
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by rkomorn 7mo ago
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F20... Why didn't you search for it so you didn't submit yet another dupe?
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by rkomorn 7mo ago
Technically, I think the blade did most of the brain damage to Louis XVI.
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by rkomorn 7mo ago
Did you just type in your password on HN?
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by rkomorn 7mo ago
I think/hope they were being sarcastic.
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by rkomorn 7mo ago
I suggest asking your (ortho)dentist if you'll need braces anyway to correct your bite.
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by rkomorn 7mo ago
As a European who moved to the US for 20+ years then moved back to Europe, any idea that Europe is a shithole or has fallen is ludicrous. If anything, the US degraded far more over the time I spent there than Europe did while I was away.
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by rkomorn 7mo ago
When it comes to manners, I'd say seeing enough people fail to meet a standard means it's not a standard, at least.

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