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by twodave 7y ago
If I’m honest, as a young professional from Florida I always envied those able to uproot and move to the west coast. My whole family (both mine and my wife’s) is here on the east coast, and I spent a lot of years somewhat resentful of the m
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by twodave 7y ago
I probably wouldn’t have attempted it when the oldest was that young, but my girls were 7 and 5 when we started.
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by twodave 7y ago
We have four special needs kids and, while we might have just gotten lucky, I firmly believe that our determination to read aloud to them from birth and expose them to classic literature from an early age has directly contributed to their a
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by twodave 7y ago
There were definitely times I had to remind them of past events and help them understand the more mature passages, but we started when they were 7 and 5 and finished when they were 10 and 8.
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by twodave 7y ago
Last year, I finished reading The Lord of the Rings to my girls. Before that I read them The Hobbit. It took about three years to finish it all, but it was a great for them as an opportunity to learn about a variety of topics (language arts
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by twodave 7y ago
There's a mining-friendly city in Ontario literally named Cobalt where there are believed to be large deposits of the mineral. Let's not pretend these companies don't have any other option than to go through DRC for their sup
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by twodave 7y ago
Could these be used as a general purpose bluetooth beacon in terms of just ranging/detecting? I work on an app that uses beacon detection to indicate when users passed through an area, but most bluetooth beacons are a bit unreliable.
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by twodave 7y ago
"The enemy's gate is down" is a subtle Ender's Game reference, and it's beautiful in this post. This person's life expectancy is not oriented in the usual way, so the phrase becomes a call to re-establish norms
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by twodave 7y ago
This, or literally any other action that isn't crazy in the sense of attempting to suppress personal privacy or the idea of protecting oneself. People want to feel safe and capable, not guilty and dependent.
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by twodave 7y ago
I think a lot of those concerns disappear once you leave Earth. What makes our planet precious is how uncommon it is. The universe is incredibly vast, yet we have not observed life on any planet but our own. So to me whatever the cost is to
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by twodave 7y ago
I'll pitch mine in--if you're actually completely un-attached, move! Find a city known for being a more inviting place. Move there. Attend church. Get a remote job, spend your time out in public. Become a regular at some places (c
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by twodave 7y ago
Monopoly or not, I would have not been able to be nearly as lazy in high school math (circa 2000-2003) if not for the ability to program all the formulae into my TI-82. At the time the chance to trade study hours for video games, soccer and
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by twodave 7y ago
Got it, thanks for the info!
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by twodave 7y ago
Those don't actually execute simultaneously in Javascript, though. In Javascript, C# and I suspect Java, each usage of await generates a state machine that can _defer execution_. So while one function is blocked, another can continue t
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by twodave 7y ago
Anyone else getting stuck creating an environment? "NewResourceGroupAlreadyExists" when I try to create a billing plan. Tried editing the things under "Advanced" to be unique, to no avail. Edit: was on my org account. us
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by twodave 7y ago
It's like they're trying to turn the address bar into a terminal. I really don't get it.
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by twodave 7y ago
What’s scary to me is how wildly wrong this was at describing me. If anyone is ever going to be making decisions for me based on this tech, it has a ways to go.
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by twodave 7y ago
My anecdote: I got glasses this year specifically to counteract astigmatism related to the past 20 years of looking at screens for 8+ hours/day. I was beginning to get headaches every day from working. I didn't even know my eyesig
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by twodave 7y ago
You're not wrong, really. But what Microsoft has always done differently is control the distribution and installation of their own updates. With Android it's always been up to a combination of Google releasing the update, the manu
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by twodave 7y ago
It’s more because the manufacturers and service providers (some would say intentionally) make Android updates much more difficult than necessary. It’s one of the (many) trade-offs between a walled garden like Apple and an “open” ecosystem l
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by twodave 7y ago
No, it’s not pedantic in my opinion. Using the least privileged account you can get away with is the best practice I was referring to in OP. I’d hate to have to login into my domain admin account for something my daily job required, for ins
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by twodave 7y ago
I work on both, have friends and family and coworkers and acquaintances who use both. If they really didn’t want grandma running as admin they would make it harder to find.
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by twodave 7y ago
Yeah, this is a big reason why I read hacker news. Laptop started bugging me about Catalina and after reading this article I changed my thought process from, “I guess I’ll do that this weekend” to, “I guess I am going to disable automatic u
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by twodave 7y ago
Mind sharing what thing you are fleeing _to_ Wordpress from and why? Genuinely curious.
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by twodave 7y ago
The only knock on this strategy is that the more people adopt it the less effective it becomes (crackers will just start trying combinations of common words). The up-side is there are more 4-word combinations in English using only the 10,00
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by twodave 7y ago
My position is nobody ought to probably be running as admin for the vast majority of tasks, and having to elevate to an admin account in order to "download anything" would be a nightmare for any substantial IT department to suppor
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by twodave 7y ago
Do pension funds rely on a growing population in order to sustain themselves? I wonder whether they'll see a resurgence as the baby boomers die off and the age distribution in the U.S. becomes more uniform, or if these sorts of plans a
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by twodave 7y ago
Oh, I agree there are plenty of scenarios where you want to restrict a user's ability to do something. But to draw that line at the admin level seems a bit overkill to me (and de-values the idea of having varying levels of privilege, w
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by twodave 7y ago
Huh?! Explain your position here, please.
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by twodave 7y ago
I was hoping for the same. Still an interesting enough read to keep me until the end, though.

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