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by zrail 5y ago
> they don't pay SS tax This isn't really a benefit. Public employees with access to a state pension generally don't pay into SS because their state pension is is lieu of social security. They pay into the pension instead
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by zrail 5y ago
You have zero fault in this. Survivors guilt is a super common thing and if you're feeling any you should seek out a grief counselor.
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by zrail 5y ago
An EV Maverick would be excellent, despite the short bed.
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by zrail 5y ago
I've never even seen a buy button for one. Yesterday I waited for one to appear and as soon as I refreshed at the appointed time, the deal was over.
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by zrail 5y ago
To this day there are probably thousands to tens of thousands of SCADA and other industrial control systems around the world running on XP. It's an incredibly stable system when configured properly.
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by zrail 5y ago
The purpose of NFTs is to extract as much money out of people willing to trade them as possible before the whole thing falls apart. The end.
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by zrail 5y ago
I used to have to burn cards every year or so until I started only getting gas at stations that accept Apple Pay. I haven't had to burn a card since then.
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by zrail 5y ago
No binding arbitration clause? Psh.
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by zrail 5y ago
> you should remember to keep treating your mother as the normal person she is, and not as a cancer patient. Yes, please always remember that there's a person on the other end of that chemo pump. It's dehumanizing to just be a
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by zrail 5y ago
I was diagnosed with cancer in late 2012 but was ineligible for US FMLA because I had only been at my job for 6 months. I muddled through the chemo fog and tried to work as I was able, but honestly it was pretty awful and I used a lot of PT
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by zrail 5y ago
I sort of suspect what will happen is small time manufacturers will come out with sealed battery packs designed for specific applications. I.e. I want to electrify my Supra, I'm gonna buy it from a shop that makes them specifically for
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by zrail 5y ago
That's actually (generally) the opposite of what happens. Usually someone will editorialize the title and the admins will change it to the contents of the title tag. If you see a good synopsis it's probably because the author of t
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by zrail 5y ago
Read a bit of your post, I'll go back to it in a bit. Number one tip is, even if you're not billing by value, you should bill on much larger increments than an hour. My recommendation is to bill in day increments and invoice weekl
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by zrail 5y ago
Is FB on an engineering resume actually bad?
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by zrail 5y ago
You could also stand up a receiving server and then relay outbound through something like Postmark. Deliverability is the hardest part, it's worth it to farm it out.
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by zrail 5y ago
Depends on your DNS hosting. FB found out a bit ago what happens when everything is hosted on the same infra.
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by zrail 5y ago
The SEC is not a law enforcement agency. They can and do partner with the FBI but there's a separation of powers problem with that.
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by zrail 5y ago
Small time LLCs are not going to get so much as a credit card without a personal guarantee. Sometimes you can get loans from the company doing your payment processing but only because they're directly involved and can see your cash flo
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by zrail 5y ago
Sure they are ...on.... Facebook oh I see the problem now.
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by zrail 5y ago
(disclaimer: Stripe employee, not on the Increment or Press teams but have contributed as a technical reviewer) I also love Increment dearly. In case you missed it, the recent Mobile issue was the penultimate issue. https://mobil
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by zrail 5y ago
hugops for the engineers having to deal with this. It's incredibly stressful and I personally feel like they deserve some empathy, even if I don't like Facebook. I wonder if maybe part of the lesson will be to run the root of yo
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by zrail 5y ago
Location: US Eastern TZ Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Python, Go, AWS, Terraform, Puppet Résumé/CV: https://www.petekeen.net/resume Email: recruiters@petekeen.net I&#x27
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by zrail 5y ago
And yet the average tenure in a software engineer role is just under 3 years. That's not exactly long term. The real reason why hiring freelancers and contractors is easier than employees is that the cost of firing an employee is non-z
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by zrail 5y ago
We also have a black walnut that drops lots of fruit. The previous owner generously left the nut gatherer they used to pick it all up and it made the job super easy. I share this with you now in the spirit of stinky walnut hands. https:&#x
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Mermaid: Create diagrams with Markdown-like text(mermaid-js.github.io)
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by zrail 5y ago
dpreview.com is still very much alive.
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by zrail 5y ago
Depends on what you mean by "money". My book Mastering Modern Payments made ~$80k in its useful lifetime and it was about 100 pages.
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by zrail 5y ago
Self hosted Cloudflare workers, sort of
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by zrail 5y ago
Tailscale uses WireGuard under the hood.
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by zrail 5y ago
This is actually more of a problem with heat than cooling. The system doesn't output really hot air like a gas-fired furnace, it's generally closer to the temperature that the thermostat is set to. If you set the temperature diffe

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