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by sgerenser 1mo ago
Yep, check out lillydirect. Relative of mine barely missed the cutoff for insurance coverage (in terms of starting BMI) but lillydirect will sell you actual zepbound for something like $399/month. The cost is also reimbursable with an
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by sgerenser 2mo ago
It’s not really intended to be a recurring $9.99/mo. It’s $9.99, and that gives you a month of usage. But the expectation is you use it once or twice, then you’re done for a long time. But apparently they also offer an auto-renew subsc
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by sgerenser 2mo ago
Yeah sunrise, when the lawn is soaking wet with dew.
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by sgerenser 2mo ago
There’s a whole book on Microsoft’s hiring brainteasers, appropriately from 2004 right around when the practice was waning and brainteasers started to get a bad reputation: How Would You Move Mount Fuji?: Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle
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by sgerenser 2mo ago
The Big Mac thing is kinda sad, just a few years ago I used to tell people who complained about the increasing cost of fast food “You just gotta use the App!” Which was true, with the McD’s app, a Big Mac might be something like $3 or maybe
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by sgerenser 2mo ago
Yeah, they should have stopped at hogsheads, which is a well understood quantity worldwide.
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by sgerenser 2mo ago
RIP. I remember he had a column in MacUser magazine in the early 90s. Probably at the same time he was writing for PC Magazine. It was the original "ragebait" since he always seemed to be pretty negative on Apple and suggested tha
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by sgerenser 2mo ago
Pre-1990s Macs (Mac Plus, SE, etc.) in good condition are actually worth a decent amount nowadays as collectors items. Not $5000, but quite a bit more than $25.
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by sgerenser 2mo ago
For many tech jobs, that still wouldn’t help much. Salary alone is often half or less of total compensation. They’d also need to include stock grants and bonuses for the comparison to be meaningful.
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by sgerenser 2mo ago
Yeah I've definitely heard belt-and-suspenders since way before LLMs were a thing. Probably even used it once or twice myself.
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by sgerenser 2mo ago
Upvote because AFAIK this is true. Not sure why your comment was downvoted to dead just a few minutes ago.
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by sgerenser 3mo ago
No, certainly just cutting physician salaries wouldn’t make a big difference. But cutting salaries for everyone involved, including physicians, nurses, and administration would. I’m not saying we should do that, but just that people seem
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by sgerenser 3mo ago
How much of these new grad researchers have undergrad degrees in music vs. science or math? I’d suspect there’s very few of the former, and even then they got the position despite their music degree not because of it.
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by sgerenser 3mo ago
I have only a bachelors degree from a school ranked #57 in U.S. news undergraduate engineering programs (not terrible, but hardly prestigious). Google still interviewed me a few times (including back in the old days when that meant flying o
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by sgerenser 3mo ago
You might find those salaries reasonable, but they’re probably double what those same occupations pay in many other (first world) countries with lower healthcare costs. Maybe the trade off is worth it, but it’s not something that can be ign
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by sgerenser 3mo ago
Is anyone who was in grade school in the 1990s reminded of Apple’s “simplified” MacOS shell called At Ease? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Ease
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by sgerenser 3mo ago
If this kind of stuff interests you, you might want to check into the upcoming “Designed in California” podcast about Apple’s history (still on kickstarter but I think the campaign is over): http://designed.fm . I’ve listened to
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by sgerenser 3mo ago
I don't think anyone is really blaming MUMPS for the limitations it had to work with 1970s tech. The story was more about how terrible it is to work with in the 2000s and the surprising fact that it's still in use today in certain
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by sgerenser 3mo ago
Yeah, that seems to be the dominant theory, especially since the AppleTV hasn't been updated in a few years and is widely expected to be "due" for a new model within the next few months.
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by sgerenser 3mo ago
Even better is “defenestration,” a fancy term for throwing someone out of a window.
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by sgerenser 3mo ago
Mississippi, despite its much lower per capita income than California, has a much higher percentage of housing units with air conditioning (93% vs 72%). AC is now so inexpensive that whether or not a house has AC is mostly about average sum
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by sgerenser 3mo ago
The Economist is not an American publication though.
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by sgerenser 3mo ago
Interesting, I knew most of Europe wasn’t very big on AC, but I didn’t know permanent residential installations were practically banned in (at least some parts of) Switzerland: https://lenews.ch/2026/05/29/the
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by sgerenser 3mo ago
Joel Spolsky coined the term “Shlemiel the Painter’s Algorithm” for this type of thing back in 2001: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/12/11/back-to-basics/
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by sgerenser 3mo ago
SoftBank owns 90% of Arm which is up about 1000% since the IPO in 2023.
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by sgerenser 3mo ago
Their much hyped 10 year 100K mile power train warranty is only for the original purchaser. Once sold the warranty reverts to a more standard 5/60K term.
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by sgerenser 3mo ago
Agreed. I currently have a “Roku TV” that is hooked up to another Roku device, because the one built into it is so slow and outdated as to be almost unusable. The $29 (on sale) Roku stick I hooked up to it works fine. Getting a built-in Rok
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by sgerenser 3mo ago
I’ve never worked at any large company where janitors/cleaning staff were employees. Usually that kind of work is contracted out.
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by sgerenser 4mo ago
I’ve always heard of hackathons as being a competition with judges and a winner.
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by sgerenser 4mo ago
I’ve heard of these “toner scammers” since at least the 1990s and probably earlier. Apparently they’re still at it: https://www.eojohnson.com/blog/toner-scams

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