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by tfandango 3y ago
The same goes for hiring built in furniture. I got some quotes for about 8ft of cabinets with some bookshelves (painted, not even nice wood, probably decent ply) and it came in at 10k. I knew it would cost more than buying something from
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by tfandango 3y ago
Yes, in fact I have that as part of my roof, mostly for looks, I guess. It obviously doesn't ever leak, but it did get banged up pretty good and insurance ended up replacing it because of that. Personally, I could get used to just hav
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by tfandango 3y ago
I think I am paying 3500/year now, up from 2800. My house is on the larger side (4 bedrooms), so far, I've had 2 roofs (one on my prior smaller house) in 20+ years. For me it's been 1 roof every 10 years. But I know someon
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by tfandango 3y ago
ha one for you too then!
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by tfandango 3y ago
It would likely be required by mortgage companies because a new roof is 20-30k on the low end. Otherwise the risk of losing their investment is quite high.
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by tfandango 3y ago
I live in Oklahoma. Contrary to popular belief, getting your house destroyed by a tornado is unlikely. But hailstorms are on the rise and roof replacements are becoming more frequent because of them. Insurance has gone up A LOT for every
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by tfandango 3y ago
Standing next to a building doesn't sound as good, marketing. Stuff like this actually makes me really sad because people should not really be this gullible.
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by tfandango 3y ago
I often do dishes or laundry during longer calls. I find it easier to follow the topic when I do this over when I'm on a call AND a computer where I quickly end up working on code and ignoring the call.
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by tfandango 3y ago
Me too. I honestly didn't mind it as much as I thought I would. I much preferred it to the open office I ended up in for 15 years. I had some bookshelves, a whiteboard, some semblance of silence.
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by tfandango 3y ago
Thanks this is a nice way of saying what the other poster said :) I agree, ESG is just a bunch of numbers but if we can't agree on what the right output is then it's political in nature. I wonder if society has a bigger issue with
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by tfandango 3y ago
ESG is tricky to talk about thanks to the politization of it. I work on some projects that involve ESG data and I have some thoughts. First there's LOTS of factors. If you bunch them all up into one number, it becomes meaningless as
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by tfandango 3y ago
I recently took a roadtrip about 1500 miles to visit some family. On the way to/back we wanted to stop and check out some cities the kids wanted to visit and it's amazing the anxiety I had every time we drove into a large urban a
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by tfandango 3y ago
This is exactly what I have been thinking since 2016. If Aliens/UFOs are real, we will hear about it soon. However, if it's true that parts of the government are secret from the president, even the last one, then that is a real p
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by tfandango 3y ago
In finance-tech and that's the way it is for us. I once embarked on a hopeless journey to get some old laptops piled up in the IT space, for an elementary school programming club. They would not sell or donate them despite them being
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by tfandango 3y ago
yep. That's not a very good sale :) One of them was trying to sell a truck with 1000 with of nitrogen in tires apparently. But I bet the sale would knock 500 off that.
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by tfandango 3y ago
I have been truck shopping lately which means I'm constantly hounded all day long by every dealership in the 4 state region. Last weekend they ALL had "Memorial Day Sales"! So I asked them all about the sale details... Ever
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by tfandango 3y ago
I agree with you, not sure why they included that use case in the demo. It would have been better done if the dad recorded the 3d video with iPhone depth sensors (possible?) and replayed it later in VR. I really like my Quest 2. But these d
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by tfandango 3y ago
I feel this a bit. I had a Jeep Grand Cherokee which I loved but decided to have engine problems which apparently is not uncommon. After months of attempted repairs the only option left was a replacement engine that cost more than the val
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by tfandango 4y ago
I felt old the other day when I was telling my son that when I was a kid, if it was blue and underlined, you can click it! Now everything is polished and fancy and you never know what you can click on anymore. Something beautiful and util
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by tfandango 4y ago
I guess I'm lucky too. The only problem I ever have with teams, as the previous poster said, is that sometimes my status shows incorrectly. We are also M365 company so maybe it's about that level of support. I've not used S
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by tfandango 4y ago
I work in finance and a lot of my job is getting the right numbers to come out of the system in the desired timeframe. To my son that sounds boring, and he asked me if I'd switch to work on VR or something flashier. I told him that th
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by tfandango 4y ago
I agree. Interestingly enough, I find talking to real people much easier than talking to people in Horizon Worlds, where it just seems kind of strange to me, I usually keep my mute on and observe there whereas I am pretty talkative in real
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by tfandango 4y ago
oh yes, of course it does. I just wanted to mention the one instance where I had a good experience in "The Metaverse". Something like this could be nice if the experiences could be repeatable and you happen to live in a place whe
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by tfandango 4y ago
One day in the middle of the day I visited the "Soapstone comedy club" world in Horizon Worlds. People were actually taking turns going on stage and telling jokes. Then in the course of general conversation, one person said she w
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by tfandango 4y ago
I think one killer feature would be monitor replacement. For many of us who value screen real-estate and work by ourselves, this would be pretty great. I keep trying to make this work with the Quest 2 but the resolution and lag are just t
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by tfandango 4y ago
yes that is almost exactly what we used to do in the 80s/early 90s (and probably before that), minus the automated part.
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by tfandango 4y ago
My city has stopped taking glass in the recycling saying the cost to recycle it outweigh the benefits. It makes me wonder why we don't just clean/reuse them instead like we did in the old days when we returned glass bottles to the
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by tfandango 4y ago
I wonder how much corporate domain blocking comes into play on articles like this gaining traction on HN during the day on weekdays? I am reading the comments here on my lunch break before reading the article since "gaming" links
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by tfandango 4y ago
I agree, very much depends on the individual. Currently witnessing a 94-year-old who can no longer get out of bed who absolutely does not want to die. Otherwise, I'm convinced it would have happened by now. I'm not surprised thou
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by tfandango 4y ago
I use this service for now because my wife is a teacher and she has to print a lot of stuff, at home, in color (yea I know the schools should be paying for that but that's not how teaching in the US works apparently). The printer itse

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