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by souprock 7y ago
I'm one "in the know", so I'll answer that part. Heck yeah it is valuable. My area has numerous employers that are eager to hire people with that skill set. It pays more than the typical software development jobs. Most o
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by souprock 7y ago
There is no "2200 square foot beast". That is just a median home. It's a bit cramped, but adequate. Right now you could get 4400 square feet on a 1 acre lot for $400,000 in Melbourne or Palm Bay. You CoL difference is only 2x
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by souprock 7y ago
I think you underestimate the COL difference because you are settling for inferior housing. Do you at least have a low-end house, such as 2000 square feet on a 0.25 acre lot that is all your own? Around here in the Space Coast area, that go
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by souprock 7y ago
You may come out way ahead if non-local expenses are a large portion of your budget. Everybody else loses. I'm out of the bay area, at a government contractor, with an interesting job. I can afford a huge family, currently with 14 peop
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by souprock 7y ago
I think you may be right about normalizing roommates, which is a horrifying thought. Roommates aren't even OK in college. Past college, I can't see how it would be willingly endured. It's barely above being homeless. Being in
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by souprock 7y ago
Um, my kid caught a disease from a live-virus vaccine and then spread it to younger family members, so if we're being totally honest here...
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by souprock 7y ago
Single family detached homes go for $2,000,000 in San Francisco. The condos are less, generally, so I think that says that the most expensive and desirable locations in the U.S. are mostly single family detached homes.
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by souprock 7y ago
There is no place to park. The city works if you are able-bodied without kids. In that case, you walk as far as 11 miles but usually just a few miles. It also sort of works for the people with $2,000,000 single-family homes, because driving
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by souprock 7y ago
Look at the www.monolithic.com floor plans. Because the domes are large, typical rooms will have 2 or 3 straight walls. It's only the exterior wall that is curved.
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by souprock 7y ago
Circular homes minimize the required material and the surface through which heat is lost or gained. In normal places, there is no need to think about maximizing the land usage. People typically put a 2000 square foot house on a 10000 square
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by souprock 7y ago
Well here (HN "Who is Hiring?" post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21422735 from last week) but entry-level doesn't mean clueless. We've had interns show up with personal hobby experience doing CPU
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by souprock 7y ago
ClearCase is wonderful if you fit the use case, which is a sizable team on a fast LAN. It's great being able to change a ClearCase config file to choose a different branch of code for just a few files or directories, then instantly get
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by souprock 7y ago
There is a lot between "urban" and "rural". You could be car-free in my non-urban area. I don't do that, but you certainly could. It's the Florida cities/towns of Melbourne, Indialantic, and Palm Bay. From
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by souprock 7y ago
It helps to be in an affordable area with a software development job. It is then possible to have one parent stay at home. I'm near Melbourne, FL.
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by souprock 7y ago
It's about $4000 for food. It's been a while since I looked at the rest. The house and cars are paid off. I don't expect to pay for college for all 12. They start dual-enrollment as early as 12, with the school district payin
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by souprock 7y ago
The few privacy laws we do get are usually way off target. It used to be easy to deal with medical things. You could ask about your spouse or parent or sibling, and you would get an answer. Now a family gets treated like random strangers wh
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by souprock 7y ago
This is the correct answer. That feeling of empty pointlessness is because the drive to have kids is not being satisfied. User "volument" here is suffering an existential crisis. I have 12 kids. They depend on me. There is always
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by souprock 7y ago
Southeast USA including: Virginia (Arlington and Dulles), Maryland (Annapolis Junction), South Carolina (Greenville), Alabama (Huntsville), Florida (Melbourne), Texas (Austin and San Antonio), Pennsylvania (State College) and possibly other
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by souprock 7y ago
It gets worse with x86_64 though. Normally, an instruction that isn't 64-bit will clear the upper 32 bits of a 64-bit register. The NOP is special, because it shouldn't do anything. All the other 32-bit XCHG instructions still cle
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by souprock 7y ago
Nice! I'm the same, with a dozen kids so far. I don't think one can determine if the trait is or isn't cultural by guessing. How could you possibly know the origin of your own mental preferences? Even political affiliation, w
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by souprock 7y ago
There is no public body of work if the person kept busy working under an NDA. You certainly couldn't see the code (not that you could know who did what as part of a team) and you might not even get to know what the project was.
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by souprock 7y ago
It would be quite deadly if they opened early. There was no need for automation. Some time after the second wreak, NASA added the ability to run a cable for that. The idea was that a rescue mission would be launched, and the cable would be
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by souprock 7y ago
At best they could have skidded it down the runway, because opening the landing gear doors was purposely impossible without human intervention.
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by souprock 7y ago
There aren't even any scrollbars on Hacker News. There are no scrollbars anywhere. Firefox may be to blame, but Ubuntu gets final responsibility. Firefox in Ubuntu 18 simply doesn't do scroll bars. In case it is an unexpected culp
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by souprock 7y ago
I have 12 kids. FYI, they mostly neglect running the farm. I got a nice little watermelon, some tomatoes, and some herbs. Fortunately I'm not a disinterested farm investor. The kids bring meaning to life.
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by souprock 7y ago
For the other suffering Ubuntu Firefox users with no scroll bars: I got it working with the Page Down key. Annoying++ right there. I guess scroll bars were ugly or too complicated, so they had to go.
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by souprock 7y ago
"as a father I was clearly not welcome" I've experienced this. I tried to volunteer with the summer band camp my daughter was in. The volunteers were all mothers. I got lots of vaguely accusatory questions, and then got turne
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by souprock 7y ago
Maybe the problem is job hopping. I got 5 weeks after being with the employer for a decade. I might be close to getting 6 weeks.
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by souprock 7y ago
You can make gcc generate it, and versions of Linux without no-execute support will actually run it. Like so: int main = 0xc8c70ff0;
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by souprock 7y ago
This one is: "12. Purchase a gun" On the other hand, unless you are one of the 538 electors, you don't have a constitutional right to vote for the president. So if "constitutional rights" is the determining factor,

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