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by yardie 1y ago
I drove over this bridge over a decade ago and stopped at the visitor center just below it. As an engineering and architect geek it was the highlight of the trip for me (and the family too!). As Bad Bunny said, "debi tirar mas photos!&
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by yardie 1y ago
> Still when I ask Claude.AI to double-check the math on our power consumption, it thinks we have an incredibly leaky apartment. Like ridiculously off the charts. This also lines up with my inability to run a humidifier in the winter. I
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by yardie 1y ago
Cloud user here. If you would read your contracts, and it doesn't matter which cloud service you use, they all have the same section on Share Responsibility. https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/shared-responsibility-
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by yardie 1y ago
When you hire a 10x developer who is literally 10x developers :-D
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by yardie 1y ago
I did a 1100m passage from Puerto Rico to Miami. Anchored in the Bahamas bank but didn't step on land. And when we arrived in the US we weren't required to clear in since our last port of departure was PR. Pretty sure they were tr
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by yardie 1y ago
Just go in with the realization that you're setting your career on fire. I was lucky, I moved to another country and was able to find work in my field after 10-12 month of searching. > I'm always torn between doing that or savi
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by yardie 1y ago
My experience graduating right into the dot-bomb was it absolutely sucked. I, a fresh-faced grad, was competing against experienced engineers who were laid off after Y2K, Cosmo, Yahoo, and other dotcoms for entry-level jobs. I wasn't v
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by yardie 1y ago
In the early 2000s when I was interning the office had black men of a certain age who still wore the jheri curl. Even though we made jheri curl jokes in middle/high school, after it had become unfashionable, you weren't going to m
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by yardie 1y ago
An ADA compliant bathroom is almost 200sqft. And they will need at least 2 of them. So now that 1000sqft is now 600sqft. And they still need a place to store and process books, reading rooms, etc.
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by yardie 1y ago
Reagan and Bush were constrained by much more liberal supreme court justices of the previous era. The current Supreme Court justices were clerks and lawyers during Reagan and Bush presidency. If Reagan and Bush had the current justices in t
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by yardie 1y ago
I'm reminded of an ex who was inquiring about paying for dental school on a ROTC scholarship. She tells the recruiter that she was worried about all the yelling she'd have to deal with at bootcamp since she has severe anxiety. And
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by yardie 1y ago
Of course this arrives right after I order all the electronic parts and just kicked off the 24+ hour 3D print job to complete my SO-Arm101. But I’m routing for you!
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by yardie 1y ago
> it was notified by Hitachi in November 1998 that Microsoft's licensing deal with Hitachi effectively prevented such an approach. For those too young to remember, this is what the anti-trust case against Microsoft was actually abou
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by yardie 1y ago
The Mac, Hypercard, MacPaint, and General Magic he's one of the few engineers who's such a substantial impact on my life. Rest in Peace.
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by yardie 1y ago
Graduate school assistant in the US pay such shit wages compared to Europe that you would be eligible for food stamps. Opportunity cost is better spent getting your bachelors degree, finding employment, and then using that salary to pay for
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by yardie 1y ago
Almost every Hollywood movie you see,that wasn’t filmed in LA, was basically a taxpayer backed project. Look at any film with international locations and in the film credits you’ll see a lots of state-backed, loans, grants, and tax credits.
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by yardie 1y ago
When I look at some of my favourite writers, philosophers, and scientists from past eras quite a few of them died in their 60s and 70s. Medicine and nutrition was poorly understood for that time. What they had in common was wealth and profe
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by yardie 1y ago
As a generalist "master of none" who also graduated from the same era, this is really reassuring. I use a lot of technologies but not enough to consider myself an expert in any of them. At the end of the day I can pipeline them in
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by yardie 1y ago
The last known address of the previous owner was the flat I was currently occupying, LOL. The flat was built and purchased in the 60s, abandoned in the 90s, and sold to us in 2010s. It was near a newly gentrifying, former industrial area. I
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by yardie 1y ago
If you let a car sit long enough, the rubber tires will develop a dimple. If you let it sit decades the tires will completely collapse. Now you are dragging a multi-ton steel sled with rubber nonskid pads instead of free rolling tires. Also
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by yardie 1y ago
It's very, very expensive to bring something back to operational after decades of neglect. Spend thousands of euros on a car worth at most 1000€ Also, we already have a car. Why would I want someone else's scraps?
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by yardie 1y ago
"There’s an underground parking garage for the residents, but half of it is empty and filled with 20-30-year-old cars whose owners are no longer known." Years ago I bought a flat and it came with an underground parking garage. Onc
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by yardie 1y ago
My high school had something similar. Also in the 90s. The trade program was eventually disbanded. And the shop classes were converted to computer labs. In a similar vein, the nursing program is still going and very popular. You graduate wi
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by yardie 1y ago
2 things happen repeatedly in the European tech scene: you get large enough to be noticed by Google, MS, Amazon, and they acquire you. Or, in order to continue to scale you move the entire company to SV, ie Spotify. If the EU stepped in to
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by yardie 1y ago
Single payer isn’t communism because there is no payment. In communist healthcare The government owns every aspect of the market, healthcare providers are employees. Single payer the provider is free to open a practice just and send the bil
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by yardie 1y ago
I look at apartheid and how long it managed to hang on. And I can only determine it was surprisingly lucrative and competitive as well. It took a long, series of activists and a long time to finally delegitimize and finally break it. And no
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by yardie 1y ago
You mean a single day fundraiser beat Trump’s single day fundraising by 2-3x, that would be correct. If you think her 90 day campaign fundraising managed to beat Trump’s 8 year fundraising campaign that would be wildly incorrect.
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by yardie 1y ago
I'm not a huge fan of Elmo but Telsa get's subsidies that all car manufacturers are eligible for. The fact that those manufacturers have to purchase credits from Tesla is their decision. If they can't delivery a quality ZEV t
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by yardie 2y ago
Unfortunately, in very large organizations the onboarding process can take a while. It can be months before you have credentials to the repository. By then, full benefits will kick in, worker protections, etc. And I’m a hiring manager. I’m
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by yardie 2y ago
Real Genius made college look like a lot of fun. And to a very young kid Mitch, Chris, and Jordan was my motivation. I was a first gen college bound student who had a vague notion of what university would be like. And it wasn’t that far off

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