war1025

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by war1025 6y ago
I can see how you would read it that way, but when I wrote it, I meant it more as a tie-in to the sentence before it: > In my opinion, the greatest disservice we do to the young is shielding them from the reality that life comes to an en
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by war1025 6y ago
> Me saying this as a 26-year-old doesn't quite feel right, but I still think I'm correct. I certainly don't feel ready for a child yet Our first kid was born a week after I turned 27. We got married at 23. If you had aske
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by war1025 6y ago
Only a minority of colds are caused by Cornaviruses though. Something like 20%
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by war1025 6y ago
> The reinfection is not the same As a parent of young kids who manages to catch the stomach flu at least once a year from them, this is something I've come to appreciate a ton. The first time we caught it after neither me nor my wi
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by war1025 6y ago
I would guess you could put in a special order and then you'd just have to wait for the next time they get a shipment.
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by war1025 6y ago
Sort of depends I think. We have a four year old and two year old twins. We've found we have a ton more time. Mostly because we were forced to actually slow down and be at home instead of always on the go.
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by war1025 6y ago
I rebuilt our deck. Would share a picture but not really sure the best way to do that. Thinking to redo our floors next. We pulled out our carpet on the main floor two years ago and painted the subfloor as a temporary solution. Current plan
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by war1025 6y ago
> 2. They claim that changes take minutes to recompile, but TypeScript can compile incrementally, so this shouldn't happen assuming they are organizing their code properly. Also, you can just translate without type checking, which i
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by war1025 6y ago
I've definitely noticed that compiling typescript is slow and extremely resource hungry. It's amusing to me that our "web" stack is the most resource intensive part of our entire codebase at work. A sign of the times I g
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by war1025 6y ago
> You need to define what unified means Yea I realized after posting that the wording is probably not quite correct. What I meant is there is a single school that serves the entire district. Technically, there are several buildings, but
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by war1025 6y ago
I wonder what would happen if well-off folks worked at improving public schools rather than fleeing to private institutions. Granted, I live in the midwest where public schools are, as a general rule, pretty good. One of the reasons we move
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by war1025 6y ago
> For example, Christopher McCandless dove head-first into the real thing (that is, surviving without help in the Alaskan wilderness), without proper preparation and training, and died. He didn't go straight from normal life to Alas
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by war1025 6y ago
The answer to that is they send you home. They tend to kick you out of the hospital unless you are actively dying. At least here in America.
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by war1025 6y ago
The trouble with any of these efforts is that pronunciation drifts over time. So eventually you end up in the same place again.
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by war1025 6y ago
> a social contract that wearing a mask is patriotic. I don't know when it happened exactly, but I feel like the general public has completely lost any sense of patriotism. I remember it being a big deal when I was a kid in the 90s.
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by war1025 6y ago
> My fruit and vegetables aren't getting any smaller. On the plus side, if they are, they usually sell by the pound.
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by war1025 6y ago
I always assumed that sftp was the hacky command and scp was the preferred one. Guess I maybe learned that wrong.
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by war1025 6y ago
I was in the "Talented and Gifted" program all throughout school. I never understood what the point of it was. Mainly it meant I spent a decade interacting periodically with the same teacher who I never really got along with. It w
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by war1025 6y ago
Doing some more detective work, the history for the actual article is here [1]. Looks like someone named Wugapodes decided it wasn't an article worth having back in August 2019. Here is a version from August 2018 that looks about like
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by war1025 6y ago
> Am I screwed if I want to be successful as a computer engineer? Being able to do the work is really all it takes to be "successful" in the sense that you can support yourself and pay the bills. Beyond that, it really depends
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by war1025 6y ago
> If I'm being fair, it seems like institutional rot goes much deeper than any political ideology. I've taken to voting the past few election cycles, starting in 2016. The fact that nothing ever changes and the media just screa
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by war1025 6y ago
The question is whether the writer has any clue what they are talking about either. Also known as the "Gell-Mann Amnesia" effect, where you realize how terribly inaccurate reporting is on topics you know well, but assume that sure
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by war1025 6y ago
Related, humans have a bunch of neotenous features. There is even a Wikipedia article on it [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoteny_in_humans
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by war1025 6y ago
> They're basically intentional time capsules. That's an interesting way of looking at it. When we buried my dad, we buried him in his favorite suit, with his cowboy boots, plus his slippers because the mortician said they woul
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by war1025 6y ago
Jesus that sounds tedious.
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by war1025 6y ago
> The "libertarian" states Which states are those exactly?
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by war1025 6y ago
The person saying transparency wasn't a good thing was saying that because transparency allows for more efficient lobbying, it has resulted in a more easily gamed system. The tradeoff they are pointing out isn't "transparen
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by war1025 6y ago
I thought the angle he was going at was that our fight against the Coronavirus was going to be a Pyrrihic victory because we cratered our economy in the process. Apparently he was going after some other indirect angle about people ragging o
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by war1025 6y ago
As a Lutheran, I feel this any time someone breaks out a guitar or a praise song. Church doesn't need to be "hip".
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by war1025 6y ago
I tried keeping kefir grains for several months and it never really turned out in a way that I thought was worth the bother. I absolutely love the kefir you can buy bottled in stores, but maybe that isn't really anything like tradition

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