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by verst 5y ago
You can get a second US passport with limited validity. Great when you need to apply for visas but also have other international travel going on. And sometimes it's convenient for hiding visa stamps of one country from another country.
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by verst 5y ago
Bumble, Tinder and OkCupid certainly still have web clients. Never tried any of these on mobile web though.
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by verst 5y ago
At my local farmers market every vendor uses Square to accept payments, but also seems to have iPhones themselves. With this announcement I can very much see Square being removed from the equation in this small business without fixed store
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by verst 5y ago
You can configure your iPhone not to use FaceID for Apple Pay only. That's what I did for the same reason as you. I just quickly enter my PIN to use Apple Pay.
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by verst 5y ago
I've run thousands of miles with Aftershokz Trekz Air. Battery Life is still great after years. Just yesterday I ran 21 miles and listened to 3 podcasts while doing so. Afterward the headphones still reported a battery level of "h
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by verst 5y ago
Most DLCs are not part of Game Pass, so if you really enjoy a particular game you can still purchase the DLC (at a discount), even without owning the base game. Of course this only makes sense for as long you are a Game Pass Subscriber. You
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by verst 5y ago
I don't mind. When I look at the vast majority of software engineering jobs out there even Microsoft compensation is good, and perfectly fine for Seattle. I used to work at Google too (in Mountain View). Believe it or not I liked worki
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by verst 5y ago
Definitely not. Total comp of senior engineers at Microsoft in Seattle is nowhere near this. (I am one of those at this point in time)
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by verst 5y ago
I chose "Batman" and used as test "this is a test". On the word "test" it sounds completely metallic distorted and glitchy. Which characters seem to work well?
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by verst 5y ago
One of my weekly group runs is 4 miles followed by beers with the runners on an early week day evening. Monday nights another group offers options of 3 and 5 miles and we always wait for everyone at the half way point and finish point. Anot
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by verst 5y ago
I'll add that virtually all running groups you find on Facebook or Meetup are very welcoming of new runners of all experience and ability levels. Having the regular schedule of a running group helps a lot with keeping up the regular ex
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by verst 5y ago
I reached out to Jeff Wilcox who runs the Open Source Programs Office now earlier (see Tweet https://twitter.com/berndverst/status/1474789173882089472?s=... ). He since commented on this post with a lot more detail
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by verst 5y ago
I'll consider it an unusual bug report. Hopefully the bot can be fixed soon and the affected licenses changed back. Realistically I'm not sure folks are working over the holidays, so give it a bit of time :)
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by verst 5y ago
I didn't say anything about the outrage of others. I said a deliberate license change would be unacceptable to employees. I'm no official representative of Microsoft...
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by verst 5y ago
This is a bot that is supposed to configure the right license when employees start a new repo in the Microsoft GitHub org. It seems the automation is also triggered when Repos are forked into the Microsoft GitHub org which isn't corr
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by verst 5y ago
Hi Christina :)
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by verst 5y ago
By the way, just installed your new tab page extension and love it. Seriously! Even left you a review on the Chrome Webstore :)
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by verst 5y ago
That reminded me that I have a lifetime Premium Subscription to your wallpapers I bought in 2009 (which already is many many years after first discovering your wallpapers). I still love your artwork. Now to figure out which wallpaper to use
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by verst 5y ago
Are you feeding data to FlightAware for the free Enterprise Subscription? By the way I'm in Ballard (near Discovery Park) and do notice those helicopters too. Whatever they are - they seem to usually originate at KBFI which is where I&
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by verst 5y ago
Definitely closer to $15k for VFR alone in the Seattle area. Doing this right now at Boeing Field. Cessna 172 with G1000 avionics rental rate is 185/hour wet (with fuel) if you pay for a membership program at the flight school. Otherwi
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by verst 5y ago
It got posted to a community forum website also heavily frequented by Microsoft users and partner companies. That forum may have posts about customers or partner companies, so it makes sense to refer to Microsoft proper in this way. Note th
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by verst 5y ago
I wonder whether this effect would occur for languages in which you reached native level proficiency.
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by verst 5y ago
And a similar question for the Microsoft build. This isn't Azure or Windows specific at all.
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by verst 5y ago
What about the pilots? I always get this fuel on my hands during preflight when sumping the fuel tanks.
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by verst 5y ago
And most pilot will have touched this fuel quite a bit - for example when checking a single engine propeller plane during preflight we sump the fuel tanks. There is always some fuel that sprays onto my hands then. I wonder how much lead thi
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by verst 5y ago
I used to be a GS-15, Step 5 for a short stint in government while living in SF. I was within $5k of the pay cap due to the location adjustment. Cap was somewhere around $165k at the time. Still, this was significantly worse than my job bef
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by verst 5y ago
Most Developer Relations folks I know directly contribute to docs and write samples. They either work with product teams to anticipate the needs of the developer community when doing so, or focus improvements based on the feedback they gath
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by verst 5y ago
Plenty of discussions and comments from the people who originally coined the term FANG / FAANG why they would want to update the term today. Never heard of FAAMNG though. FAGMA or FAAM have been suggested as updated terms in light of t
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by verst 5y ago
I went to a liberal arts college - I don't think most people on HN are familiar with US liberal arts colleges. I have a B.A. degree because no B.Sc. was offered. Lots of requirements for courses outside one discipline or major field of
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by verst 5y ago
Being mathematically inclined and having worked in software for a decade+ I'm also very good at understanding the complex laws and nuances for international travel in the age of COVID. I'm about to visit 3 countries and from my ow

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