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by zinckiwi 4y ago
Still waiting (to my knowledge) for even a single manufacturer to offer a unit with independently adjustable sides. Until then, people with strabismus are out of luck. (Which is ironic, since technological assists are the only way we could
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by zinckiwi 4y ago
_(sings)_ My sweet lard (...hallelujah)
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by zinckiwi 4y ago
I largely agree with the perspective of that video. Specifically thinking of the difference between EQ and WoW, I do think there's one objective difference though: downtime. It wasn't uncommon to spend minutes recovering from a fi
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by zinckiwi 4y ago
For an option with the fewest moving parts, Firebase + React (web and/or native). All JS, and minimal devops to worry about.
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by zinckiwi 4y ago
$20B in just shy of 10 years. I can't see how anyone could pass that up.
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by zinckiwi 4y ago
Commonwealth citizen and feel much the same. She had my respect, but takes all of it with her...
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by zinckiwi 4y ago
I think he undersells the virtue of being the “least likely to be regretted.” That is criterion number one for me if I’m trying to pick something that will be used for years into an uncertain future.
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by zinckiwi 4y ago
While this does seem a bit high, it’s worth bearing in mind two things. One, most other places price sales tax into the advertised total, which doesn’t happen in the US. For UK prices, that’s 20% right there. Two, to prevent constantly floa
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by zinckiwi 4y ago
I like that. " If you get an offer, it won't be lower than X."
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by zinckiwi 4y ago
I used Palm Pilots in college and got very proficient with Graffiti, to the extent that it became a pseudo-shorthand for me when taking pen-and-paper notes in class. Of course, I also had a Newton MP2000 (later upgraded to 2100) that I used
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by zinckiwi 5y ago
Pronounced “Wooster-sher”, though commonly you drop the “shire” for just “Wooster”. (That’s a short “woo” like in “wool”, not “woo” as in a romantic interest.) “Wooster sauce.”
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by zinckiwi 5y ago
This has long confused me about energy companies. You're big in coal, or gas, or whatever, and see green energy as a competitive threat. Why not take some of those massive profits and treat it as lengthy and luxurious runway to leapfro
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by zinckiwi 5y ago
But... but you could have used your powers for good! Nothing really against the OP, this is arguably more defensible than other similar initiatives. It's just a shame that so many inventive engineers are being put to work in the market
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by zinckiwi 5y ago
Very neat. I recall in the dusty recesses of my mind various settings that you could pass to a modem at call initialisation to force certain speeds, modes, and other parameters. Did it have to be an actual 2400 baud modem or could you jus
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by zinckiwi 5y ago
You’ll find that the vast majority of the country is on board. This approach won’t last forever. Once the population is deemed sufficiently vaccinated (which is still supply-constrained) we will transition to “living with it.” Until then, z
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by zinckiwi 5y ago
and so do I
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by zinckiwi 5y ago
Agreed, in the same way that "it's not paranoia if they really are out to get you," in this case "it's not a bubble if the skyrocketing prices have a real foundation" -- in this case, a severe shortage of suppl
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by zinckiwi 5y ago
The IT market is essentially non-existent outside the main centres (Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch), and of those only Christchurch approaches affordable (mostly as a consequence of its recent shakiness).
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by zinckiwi 5y ago
Half-agree. I'm a returned expat of a couple of years ago, and we came back primarily for the kids. It's expensive and the consumer choice is going to be a shock for most Americans, that's true. And I wouldn't have done
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by zinckiwi 5y ago
Almost exactly the same size as the island of Great Britain, and while distanced somewhat as the crow flies, precisely one (1) plane fight away from many places.
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by zinckiwi 5y ago
You clean your top half, then flip around and clean your bottom half.
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by zinckiwi 5y ago
The royal we serves an excellent purpose. A rule of thumb could be: imagine you hired an employee. What would stay "we" and what would stay "me"? In the former case, the fact that you are solo is an implementation detail
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by zinckiwi 5y ago
I made the same decision for the same reason and have the same objection!
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by zinckiwi 5y ago
If there was a fire on the internet, and I could only save one website, it would be Hamster Dance. But if I could save two the other one would be Wikipedia.
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by zinckiwi 5y ago
Agreed, I came in ready to argue that US residential construction was positively cheap compared to much of the OECD!
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by zinckiwi 6y ago
As screens have grown they’ve mostly grown vertically. If anything it should be easier to display a full-width album cover and still have plenty of room for controls and other UI chrome.
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by zinckiwi 6y ago
It was the best and worst of times.
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by zinckiwi 6y ago
PEOs make this... well, not easy, but certainly less onerous. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_employer_organiza...
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by zinckiwi 6y ago
> I used to fill it with kitty litter, dog food, cans of stuff and other heavy products. And if your experience was anything like mine the few times I used it before I felt too guilty, the delivery folks looooved you for it. (To be fair,
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by zinckiwi 6y ago
We need to talk about your side projects. - Really? I... I did forty hours of my actual job this week. I, also... Well, okay. Forty is the minimum, okay? - Okay. Now, you know it's up to you whether or not you want to just do the bare

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