stephenhuey

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by stephenhuey 5d ago
Here in Houston, my friend who works at UH has excellent insurance. A quick search online confirms that it is much better than average. Different structure for employees at Rice, my alma mater, but still excellent. Gemini describes these em
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by stephenhuey 5d ago
Around the turn of the century, my grandmother lamented how Wal-Mart had ruined the shopping experience in her small town. When the local hardware store and other stores closed, she ended up only with Wal-Mart where she said the employees d
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by stephenhuey 5d ago
California is the only state that regulates wait times for specialists. When you uttered the words "Bay Area" it signaled that you enjoy better service than most Americans. I know people in states very close to yours (as well as m
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by stephenhuey 5d ago
FAANG employee health insurance? Something like 1% of American workers get that, if even that many. Then throw in my oil company friends here in Houston and a few other industries which give premium benefits and you still have a tiny subset
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by stephenhuey 5d ago
Urgent care would not be urgent if you had to wait months. Hang out with a few elderly people who actually need to see specialists more than people like me. Over the years, I've heard plenty of stories from people I know waiting multip
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by stephenhuey 7d ago
When I was at Rice a quarter century ago, I took a 300-level linguistics class called Structure of English. Half a dozen of us sat around an oval table in a little room and I was the only one not majoring in linguistics. It was a delightful
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by stephenhuey 9d ago
Safari on MacBook Pro sees the time text wrapping in such a way that when the time is pushed to the next line, it literally overlaps partly with the "Total Time in space" label. The time is halfway up the letters of the label. And
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by stephenhuey 15d ago
I wonder how many trillions in GDP we missed out on due to them building a monopoly in the browser space and then abandoning it. You can't imagine how happy I was in 2005 when Microsoft announced they were resuming development on IE. I
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by stephenhuey 16d ago
Definitely makes sense for a large org with massive resources (such as Shopify) to do this. But for everyone here pondering what to use for their startup or a smaller project, there are still important trade-offs. In the past few years I&#x
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by stephenhuey 16d ago
Far out, dude! Have I got a story for you! This one time, I saw tons of high-speed metal on wheels recklessly do that, too!
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by stephenhuey 21d ago
I’m a native Texan, and I can deign to go to Austin for a couple days even though I live in a much bigger city in Texas which has delicious food from far more countries than Austin does. Plenty of Texans, and plenty of room for people from
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by stephenhuey 22d ago
He’s still very supportive of Rails. Come join us at RailsWorld in Austin later this month and see for yourself!
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by stephenhuey 1mo ago
Some good info, but some kind of simplistic. I lived in Nigeria for the second half of my childhood in the 80s and 90s and got malaria several times. People come down with it all the time, and typically treat it, and you can recover without
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by stephenhuey 1mo ago
I will be clear: I don't want to stand in line for 3 hours at Frankfurt with a MacBook Pro and a million other things in my backpack to be offered only a faraway hotel I don't want, no vouchers or cash, just take it or leave it, a
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by stephenhuey 1mo ago
Sorry man, your "just goes to show" ain't gonna cut it. Yes, I want better perks when the going gets rough, but it's not enough to blame only the c-suite and shareholders. This isn't software dev. Prior discussion o
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by stephenhuey 1mo ago
Wow! Simp?! What a word. A wrong word, though. So very, very wrong. Would you prefer I spend some time telling my personal horror stories? Or should I point out that while a meaningful minority of those profits have recently been going to b
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by stephenhuey 1mo ago
Airlines are quite a special case. Learned a lot from this a few months ago: https://davidoks.blog/p/why-airlines-are-always-going-bankru... I've had plenty of bad airline experiences and wished they gave me more
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by stephenhuey 2mo ago
As many have pointed out, a lot of daily community activities are conducted primarily through Meta-owned platforms. Quite annoying, but maybe there wasn't enough effort earlier to get all these schools and other community groups using
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by stephenhuey 2mo ago
Blue Bell is a real half gallon.
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by stephenhuey 2mo ago
Probably so, since the article text does not even mention Switzerland at all! And from what I can find, Poland is ahead of Sweden but not Switzerland (currently neck and neck with Switzerland).
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by stephenhuey 2mo ago
Non-paywall alternative: https://www.engadget.com/2231100/meta-apps-displayed-ads-tha...
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by stephenhuey 2mo ago
Are you Swiss? I'm no expert but from talking to Swiss people, their mortgage system is very different from the American one, and people are in no hurry to pay off their mortgages, and often they're never really paid off. American
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by stephenhuey 2mo ago
A few days ago I visited the little picturesque town of Hope, British Columbia. While driving down the Main Street, I saw a dozen chainsaw carvings of wildlife. I thought, why does that one look like Rambo? Found out the first movie was fil
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by stephenhuey 2mo ago
If we got down to only one language, that natural human tendency would be for new languages to grow out of that. They naturally change all the time, and suppressing that is a loss, not a gain.
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by stephenhuey 2mo ago
Did you get an offer????
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by stephenhuey 2mo ago
The most powerful observational tool in the universe would not show 35 anywhere near Houston.
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by stephenhuey 2mo ago
Many years ago, there was a trend to show a different website, sometimes on a different domain and often with more differences than just a mobile version of the stylesheet. Sometimes the mobile version was not updated enough, or there was a
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by stephenhuey 3mo ago
Per year, but still amazing. I'd like to think of myself who knows what he is doing, but I just launched a Rails-based platform for a client on web, iOS and Android, and had to spend an annoying amount of time in Google Play and App St
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by stephenhuey 3mo ago
Thought this was going to be about the new Ruby Native! https://rubynative.com “From bundle install to your phone in minutes. To the App Store and Google Play without a line of native code.“
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by stephenhuey 3mo ago
I'm hoping it's likely the powerful cannot monopolize agents. If open models are easy to obtain, and every homestead has solar and large batteries, everyone can routinely charge their robots like Seven of Nine plugging into her Bo

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