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by warner25 5y ago
Horrific, but I'm not surprised this happens. I have four biological kids. I know that parenting is hard. That's actually an understatement. I've often wondered how much harder it is when you don't have the biological co
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by warner25 5y ago
Only half-joking: Wait until this becomes part of the initial setup sequence, and you can't skip this step unless you turn off your network connection and wait for it to throw an error. That's what happened with using a Microsoft
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by warner25 5y ago
Unfortunately, besides Office, my employer still has a much longer list of desktop and web applications that only work with Windows and Windows-only software (e.g. Internet Explorer). The most prominent obstacle is Acrobat, as we use fillab
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by warner25 5y ago
Also, in my experience with four kids, the pacifier is most useful as a "sleep prop" for naps and nighttime. It really never let me give my kids less attention while they were up and awake, but it helped us both get some much need
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by warner25 5y ago
Do you say this because the people producing the content are using smartphones to post videos and live updates? Because I can access the entire wealth of human knowledge just fine by sitting down with my laptop, avoiding some of the iss
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by warner25 5y ago
The modular aspect of Ikea pieces is a big deal for me because I relocate often for work and have a growing family. We have a sectional sofa that we can turn around depending on what best fits a new space, and we have a sofa with a chaise l
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by warner25 5y ago
It was pre-COVID, 2018, but the worst consumer experience I ever had was an online order for delivery of some Ikea bookcases. The estimate was 4-6 weeks, and I started inquiring after 8 weeks. The official third-party shipper blamed it on I
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by warner25 5y ago
I tend to be cheap, not even just frugal, but it's worth it to me. During my first winter in my own place, I set the thermostat to the low 60s F to save money. After about two weeks I concluded that feeling perpetually uncomfortable in
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by warner25 5y ago
I didn't know what it was at the time, but I saw one matching this photo on another college campus back in 2017-2018.
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by warner25 5y ago
I run Firefox with uBlock Origin, and spend most of my time on pages like HN and other old-school forums that are mostly just text. My wife runs Chrome with all defaults and spends a lot more time in the mainstream web. Whenever she wants t
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by warner25 5y ago
Haha, yes, my day-to-day work for the past two years has been fighting exactly this same fight on the Army side.
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by warner25 5y ago
"...fairly bleeding edge best practices..." By the time we implement any of these things, if ever, they certainly won't be. I work on military networks and applications, and it's hard for me to believe that I'll see
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by warner25 5y ago
You make a good point about context and information. Part of the work in making a book is writing all the captions to tell the story. I think we've all looked through a box of old photos from our childhoods and wondered, "who is t
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by warner25 5y ago
For posterity and "the test of time," I really think you need to create physical photo books. My wife and I have used Blurb for that. It's not cheap, and it's a lot of work, but I'm skeptical that our digital photos
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by warner25 5y ago
This is essentially right. I'll add the caveat that the Navy's water system apparently reaches many houses and businesses that you wouldn't call "on the navy base." Watching that unfold was painful, like when a netw
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by warner25 5y ago
My family is one of those 3,000+ immersed in this event. It was surreal seeing it on the front page of HN earlier today. We haven't touched the water in our house for about six weeks now, spending lots of time going back and forth betw
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by warner25 5y ago
Good points. There's more to work-life balance than just being able to work remotely and save time with no commute, getting chores done in parallel at home, etc. There are definitely organizations that will burn you out while you work
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by warner25 5y ago
I think that "pay a lot" and "full remote" are basically the dream for anyone who's currently responsible for supporting a family. Your company sounds like it offers some great things, but those things would be much
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by warner25 5y ago
Yes. I love his personal web page, and love that as recently as 2017 it still had the absurd neon green background. https://web.archive.org/web/20170606174105/https://www.cs.bu...
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by warner25 5y ago
Honestly, the lazy river sounds a lot more opulent than it really is. I remember all the hype and jokes about it when the university announced its construction, and then the letdown upon seeing it in person. It was much smaller than I imagi
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by warner25 5y ago
It sounds like our undergraduate years in the BU CS department overlapped. I, too, have been stunned by the growth of the CS department since those days; going from the basement of 111 Cummington, as you described, to what will be one of th
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by warner25 5y ago
Question for the experts, as I haven't yet seen a good explanation of this: Why are both SPF and DKIM required to prevent fraudulent emails? My semi-naive intuition is that maybe SPF alone is not sufficient, because of IP address spoof
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by warner25 5y ago
I mean it's also a lot of client-side JavaScript, but yeah, I thought this line was the most prescient. As I've moved back and forth between Windows and Linux over the past 15 years, I've found it increasingly easy to do ever
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by warner25 5y ago
Most people are focusing on security in the comments, but I think that's missing a more important point. First, all developed-nation military forces have internal, "secure" tactical and strategic communication networks for cl
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by warner25 5y ago
This is an interesting point. Besides making a few $1 purchases of songs or podcasts with iTunes (which I haven't done since 2018), I've never been an Apple customer. It hasn't taken any special effort to avoid them, either.
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by warner25 5y ago
Very good point. Facebook has gone from something that I used for enjoyment (2004 through maybe 2016) to something that I resentfully use only to conduct business in my local community. It's still "social" but it's the d
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by warner25 5y ago
My first thought is that "writing code" is not the same as CS, of course. Second, your comment about "a reputable school" is interesting and indeed, probably, part of the disagreement with some people. On one hand, I&#x2
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by warner25 5y ago
Good point. I was thinking about white-collar knowledge workers but you're right that this exists for many private sector employees who get paid by the hour or have a union.
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by warner25 5y ago
I'm in the US military, and although there isn't a public spreadsheet with a line for "warner25: $xxx,xxx" you could work out my income if you knew my rank, years of service, location, etc. along with how our pay is stru
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by warner25 5y ago
Interesting that you mention only domestic military facilities... When I was deployed to Afghanistan ten years ago, with rockets and mortar rounds landing daily inside the perimeter of our Forward Operating Base, I was irritated to see rece

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