Y
HN Search
Hacker News Search
new
|
comments
|
top
|
jobs
woofyman
searching PlanetScale…
1.
▲
2.
▲
3.
▲
4.
▲
5.
▲
6.
▲
48 ms
·
481.
▲
by
woofyman
11y ago
Plus health insurance costs.
482.
▲
by
woofyman
11y ago
Right, thank you. I only have 2 more years to go.
483.
▲
by
woofyman
11y ago
no
484.
▲
by
woofyman
11y ago
They'll start sending you estimates when you get a little older but you can go to ss.gov for an estimate.
485.
▲
by
woofyman
11y ago
Social Security is based on your highest 20 years of salary and what age you start collecting benefits. My projected monthly payment, if I start collecting at 70 is $3,600.00 a month. I'm 56.
486.
▲
by
woofyman
11y ago
I live in Atlanta 1 block from a train station and the only time I use the train is to get to the airport or dinner in the nearby city of Decatur. I do live in a highly walkable neighborhood and work is a 10 minute drive. It's a 45 mi
487.
▲
by
woofyman
11y ago
Many cars have electronic parking breaks.
488.
▲
by
woofyman
11y ago
There are no break by wire production cars in the USA. Infinity sells the only steer by wire car. It uses clutches that engage a direct mechanical link if the electronics fail.
489.
▲
by
woofyman
11y ago
Only the first 72 columns were available for code. The last 8 were reserved for the collation sequence. Which was handy if you dropped your card deck.
490.
▲
by
woofyman
11y ago
The volt will run the gas engine to keep the gasoline from goin bad.
491.
▲
by
woofyman
11y ago
A 45 RPM single in 1962 was $1.00. That would be $5.60 adjusted for inflation today.
492.
▲
by
woofyman
11y ago
I'm the same. Any noise breaks my concentration.
493.
▲
by
woofyman
11y ago
Any airline that had the audacity to implement that seating arrangement would be bankrupt in short order.
494.
▲
by
woofyman
11y ago
You don't have to localize icons which is a feature.
495.
▲
by
woofyman
11y ago
No one needs a lawsuit. It's all about taking responsibility for your actions. Getting knocked unconscious is pretty serious.
496.
▲
by
woofyman
11y ago
Tell that to the widow who lost custody of their children since their state didn't recognize their marriage and didn't have 2 party adoptions.
497.
▲
by
woofyman
11y ago
Many of the statewide same sex marriage bans also prohibited civil unions. Virginia went so far to prohibit contracts that between same sex partners that established defacto civil unions.
498.
▲
by
woofyman
11y ago
The 3d stuff makes me nauseous.
499.
▲
by
woofyman
11y ago
I haven't done any APL since college in the late 70's. We used Decwriters http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/la36.html that had the special APL character set.
500.
▲
by
woofyman
11y ago
The first soap shaped american car was the 1983 Mercury cougar. The success of that led to the Ford Taurus.
501.
▲
by
woofyman
11y ago
You can't, you're dead. Whomever you willed your estate to will lay claim to those accounts. Even if they're secret. What ever institution holding those accounts will claim them for themselves. There's no legal preced
502.
▲
by
woofyman
11y ago
Except you're dead and all your assets now belong to your heirs or some charity you've set up. If you're revived you'll be broke.
503.
▲
by
woofyman
12y ago
It says 12 equal monthly payments. 4 years would be 48 monthly payments. The terms of the loan are clearly stared.
504.
▲
by
woofyman
12y ago
It's also money. The mortgage and taxes on a suburban house are cheaper than renting an urban apartment.
505.
▲
by
woofyman
12y ago
I prefer to put as few layers of abstraction between me and the hardware as feasible. Maybe because the first part of my career was in embedded software.
506.
▲
by
woofyman
12y ago
The sabbath mode on my oven: 1) oven light is disabled when you open the door 2) when you press the start button, the oven starts after a random period of time
507.
▲
by
woofyman
12y ago
It was an awesome feeling when my card deck compiled and produced the correct output the very first time !
508.
▲
by
woofyman
12y ago
Also, construction zones, traffic cops, parking garages
509.
▲
by
woofyman
12y ago
Coercion includes force or threats. The nature of the threat matters in this discussion.
510.
▲
by
woofyman
12y ago
That's not rape. Rape is sexual intercourse without consent. Edited to clarify. Oral sex without consent is also rape. Threatening to fire someone unless they give them a BJ is sexual harassment.
More ›