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by _cerv 5y ago
This made me think that I can’t be the only one who so desperately wants a sandbox game akin to Sim Earth where you manipulate plate tectonics among other Earthly things.
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by _cerv 5y ago
They do. The amount of magic involved to make it work is amazing from an engineering perspective.
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by _cerv 7y ago
Yup. I hopped back on Facebook in 2012, and it quickly became the nexus of my online life. I started to get wrapped into how I maintained my presence, the kinds of witty things that would make it as posts, the banners and profile pics, and
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by _cerv 7y ago
I might be alone in this sentiment, but is anyone else out there with a history working with Boeing or in the industry feel slightly irritated with the armchair hot takes seen in the comments sections?
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by _cerv 7y ago
I live in a building with a quite a few nurses that work at that hospital. It kind of scares me that one of them open mouth coughed in the elevator with me the other night. Probably nothing more than a tired nurse and a dry throat, but stil
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by _cerv 7y ago
I just left a company that used an in-house cloud object storage product for their cloud DVR service. It was an amazing piece of tech that was hamstrung by some of the most irritating "features" of Cassandra. We spent more time cl
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by _cerv 7y ago
This was one of those things that always ruined time travel movies for me. If I went back in time a few hours, would I be floating in the upper atmosphere? Go back few years, am I just floating in space? Does this mean that I can only reall
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by _cerv 7y ago
I used to be in the anti sticker camp, but then someone nearly walked off with my identical MacBook Pro at Newark. After that, I've gone through three laptops and each one ends up caked in stickers from various customers and conference
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by _cerv 7y ago
I fucking love whiteboards. So much so that I had my office desk partially covered in a whiteboard sheet[1] and used that with fine tip dry erase pens in lieu of of and paper. The collaboration that took place was off the charts. [1] amazon
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by _cerv 7y ago
So a blimp?
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by _cerv 7y ago
The Charleston build out just felt rushed. From the IT perspective, it felt that everything was half assed, where the thought they could just stamp Everett in South Carolina. I have memories of managers flying back to Renton to just get mun
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by _cerv 7y ago
From the tone of the article and what I would expect to see from some of the comments here eventually, you would think that Seattle united in fighting its corporate fascist oppressors by taxing it fairly to cover the problems the capitalist
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by _cerv 7y ago
This. The problem wasn’t too much austerity, it was that the pendulum seemed to always swing to extremes. Banking policy was always painted as a binary choice of excessive welfare financing or heartless spending cuts.
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by _cerv 7y ago
I always liked the idea of a two tier Euro, like 1:3, and I feel like that could have helped Southern Europe and nudged their fiscal policies closer inline with the ECB. They also could have just pulled the bandaid off of Greece in 08, boot
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by _cerv 7y ago
In an alternate world where the New Territories had their lease renewed, they probably would remained semi autonomous and any kind of full on independence would agitate China. I don't think they would have sought to isolate other natio
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by _cerv 7y ago
They still do, and a quite a bit of English
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by _cerv 7y ago
I guess I'll be honest here as I spent way too long trying to come up with a response as your comment rattled a part of me, the part that gets a touch emotional when walking across the square where the shadow of the Goddess of Democrac
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by _cerv 7y ago
Went from two 27” thunderbolt displays that were side by side, to two Dell 38” stacked on top of each other. With the bottom monitor closer to the desk and the chair a bit higher, my eyes are at the top center of the bottom monitor and I’ve
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by _cerv 7y ago
It might be a bit dark and somewhat controversial to think about in light of mental health and what not, but maybe there is a point where civilized entities advance past a need of a survival instinct and just decide to turn off the lights?
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by _cerv 7y ago
I had been hoping to some degree that this and Oumuamua were stronger pieces of hard to answer bits that said maybe, just maybe, these could not be easily explained away as "not from other intelligence". I guess I am just left wit
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by _cerv 7y ago
I let them know about this way back when, email went into a void.
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by _cerv 7y ago
Pretty sure this puts a strain on the relationship between Costco and Apple on some level. It’s also just a dick thing to do.
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by _cerv 7y ago
Yeah, more like “great”, but with a sarcastic tone to it.
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by _cerv 7y ago
I had an email about an iPod Nano. More than happy to talk to Apple about it, but when I emailed them in 2010 about the scheme my friend was running, I never heard anything back.
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by _cerv 7y ago
You have to be a business in the state of Washington and sign an agreement with Costco. It isn't a thing they open with anyone and when I inquired about doing this on my own, even with a license, I was turned away at the door by securi
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by _cerv 7y ago
Costco would sell a couple dozen to several hundred iPod Classics, Nanos, and Touches, all in varied condition, as a "lot". At best you could buy these based off of a grade, which just judged their physical condition, but most of
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by _cerv 7y ago
Apple warranty fraud is a great way to make money. I know of a guy who between 2008 and 2010 would purchase used iPod lots from Costco Electronic Hardware Services, refurbish the water damage indicator in the headphone jack and dock, and th
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by _cerv 7y ago
I was diagnosed as a teenager and prescribed Zoloft. I hated the medication because intrusive thoughts would spiral from “what if I jumped infront of this car” to “what if I locked the doors of this grocery store and set it ablaze”. So I st
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by _cerv 7y ago
Personal experience is that high intensity exercise mixed with a comforting ritual was what broke me out of a couple bouts of severe depression. When the streak was broken by an event or travel, and several days missing out on exercise foll
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by _cerv 7y ago
It was all for free.

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