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by tomcam 2y ago
When I was a young man the family dog developed some kind of huge cyst or tumor or something. My father, aunt, and cousin had died recently, which I suppose is why the dog didn’t get taken to the vet. Could simply have been bad finances. Th
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by tomcam 2y ago
Holy shit. Thank you for your service.
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by tomcam 2y ago
OK I bought some water resistant bone conduction earphones
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by tomcam 2y ago
I call that rich
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by tomcam 2y ago
They don’t, but California essentially dictates them because nobody wants to cut themselves out of the richest state’s car sales
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by tomcam 2y ago
You’re kind of correct. I have mentioned these things on HN often enough that I didn’t want to bore people. But I also like letting people know that a normal person can get pretty far using well-known techniques.
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by tomcam 2y ago
Really more of a hobby farm. Was a dream of mine for 50 years before we bought it. Incredibly beautiful. My best to you and yours. It can be done!
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by tomcam 2y ago
Very grateful I can afford it. Shitload of preexisting conditions in my family.
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by tomcam 2y ago
You’re killing me here
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by tomcam 2y ago
For me material and financial success represent dramatically increased safety. My goal was not to live in the same kind of gang infested place I grew up in. And it means I can afford the $50k a year I pay in health insurance for first-rate
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by tomcam 2y ago
Beaten, neglected, molested, unsafe, etc. Many family & friends died from drugs, disease, poor life choices. Read books on success & business. Moved out at 16. Taught myself programming and business. Married a hot smart fellow nerd.
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by tomcam 2y ago
You correct. But I’m clumsy and interrupt-driven. I would somehow forget about them, drop them on the floor, then trip on them and break a hip.
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by tomcam 2y ago
The Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville has these. Bad sound but the directionality works well. Want one of these in the bathroom so I can take a long shower and listen to podcasts without waking up my lovely wife.
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by tomcam 2y ago
PowerShell can be embedded into a process as a library... and used to build an entire GUI that just wraps the CLI commands. Sounds pretty interesting. Can you tell me what search terms I'd use to learn more about the GUI contr
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by tomcam 2y ago
Thanks. A way to frame history I never encountered.
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by tomcam 2y ago
You’re crushing it, fam
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by tomcam 2y ago
Not sure I agree. China did by the Qin Dynasty. They have spent centuries defining the notion of centralized government right down to civil service exams (imperial examination system) for a thousand years. Rome was a pretty well-defined sys
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by tomcam 2y ago
As if Hawaii were real
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by tomcam 2y ago
I have a slight quarrel with the first part of your statement. Nation states have been around for thousands of years in both the east and the west. I suspect I am missing either an in-joke or a revision to geopolitical terminology.
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by tomcam 2y ago
I think it’s a proactive way to achieve buy-in for all stakeholders. Admittedly, it’s low hanging fruit, so I’ll circle back when I understand more about how to leverage the learnings by utilizing more of our core competencies.
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by tomcam 2y ago
The New York street grid patterns were covered tersely but sufficiently about 60 years ago by legendary cartographer Saul Steinberg: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/kft9cz/a_view_of_t...
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by tomcam 2y ago
My parents made a big deal about how much of a responsibility children were. I never dreamed my kids would be so damn much fun.
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by tomcam 2y ago
Excellent username btw
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by tomcam 2y ago
She says much the same thing as you. I appear to be unable to learn something without going to first principles.
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by tomcam 2y ago
I’m beginning to suspect you are answering the wrong posts. If you are in fact replying to me, please note that I said: I subscribe to the Times and am not anti-union.
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by tomcam 2y ago
Couldn’t agree more
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by tomcam 2y ago
Two of ours were born with severe handicaps but they are all insanely fun and fabulously good company. Not sure why my sibling comment was flagged.
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by tomcam 2y ago
https://www.nasa.gov/podcasts/houston-we-have-a-podcast/wate...
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by tomcam 2y ago
https://www.nasa.gov/podcasts/houston-we-have-a-podcast/wate...
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by tomcam 2y ago
Yeah no. I am an atrociously slow learner.

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