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by bensonn 6mo ago
It looked like Google Maps to me so I made a comparison. What is old is new again? https://imgur.com/a/b6HCx78
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by bensonn 10mo ago
I won't call clickbait on this as it is a personal site and the headline is accurate. I saw another article recently with the same issues. He is dead from a heart attack. If dispatch, EMS, hospitals, etc. didn't exist doesn't
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by bensonn 10mo ago
It isn't all about getting somebody TO the hospital but getting them INTO the hospital/ED/ER. EMS in an ambulance who are alerting a hospital of an MI enroute will get their attention, a walk-in will have to wait unless there
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by bensonn 10mo ago
I wonder how much of Meta the corporation is a scam waiting to crumble. Hundreds of billions of dollars can make people do questionable things. -their revenue is 99% ads with more than 80% coming from FB and IG -they can only sell ads if t
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by bensonn 1y ago
My two cents of info as mildly informed. I am a volunteer ff/emt. My department is very well funded compared to the rest of our county. Compared to cities, it is laughably underfunded. We are 90 percent volunteer. We have zero paramedi
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by bensonn 1y ago
Is Covered California a government entity, for profit, non profit, other...? Not that it matters. "Leak" is not the right term. By default a "website" is a 404. Throw some HTML on there and users can see something. Addin
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by bensonn 3y ago
Appreciate the response. Wow, not going to happen. I am a (self deprecating) script kiddy. This is overkill for me. Everything you said was over my head. On a positive note, I don't feel bad for failing to figure it out. Business Idea-
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by bensonn 3y ago
I tried NextCloud + Memories but multiple hosts said the facial recognition app wouldn't work. Face recognition is important. I tried Librehost for Nextcloud, seemed great until face recognition didn't work and support said it wou
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by bensonn 3y ago
I love the war stories people are sharing. I am surprised nobody is addressing the main point of the article- the frustration of being blamed. Mistakes and technical limitations are understandable, but why blame the customer? An automated e
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Ask HN: Do Tech Companies Segment by Gullibility?
2 points by bensonn 3y ago|4 comments
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by bensonn 3y ago
The main navigation on my site is: Thoughts/Ideas/Stuff. Thoughts- serve no purpose, brain dump so I can stop thinking about them. Ideas- I wish I could make but can't. Stuff- things I have made, mostly pointless and stupid M
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by bensonn 3y ago
I had a recent experience with Venmo, owned by Paypal. Not sure if it is related but it was very frustrating. I thought I already had Venmo so when I customer asked I said yes. Turns out I had a Zelle account. So I quickly set up Venmo. The
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by bensonn 3y ago
Somewhat related- I am often disappointed and surprised at how many new houses are being marketed as "green". 4200 square feet, 3 bed 4 bath, 3 car garage- but it has solar panels, low-flow faucets, and "natural" granite
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by bensonn 4y ago
Publii. It has a WP Importer tool. Your site layout looks similar to some of the free themes. The "old school" simplicity of using a desktop CMS is great in my opinion.
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by bensonn 4y ago
I have no issues with the wine before hand but here is an alternative. I wear a leopard print thong to interviews, they are my interview man-panties. (I do wear pants over them) I am a large, hairy, ugly man with no reason to wear this unde
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by bensonn 4y ago
What are you trying to achieve, or what do you mean by "give back"? Which is more important, helping people or sticking with your SE skills? There isn't a wrong answer- I sincerely can't tell your priorities, goals, etc.
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by bensonn 4y ago
Wikipedia being a starting point is one of my favorite things about it. I really like that all their sources are cited and linked to. It always amazes me that news organizations don't cite their sources or have links to the original so
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by bensonn 4y ago
Wikipedia/Wikimedia is worth hundreds of dollars per year to me. I occasionally throw $20 at them. It is a steal. I never asked myself if they have too much money or if they are using it "correctly". The main donation page do
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by bensonn 5y ago
Awesome! One thing I that would be nice is to add a dominant color to the Color Extractor section. In this example pic I used red is not chosen. https://www.coolaroo.com/uploads/coolaroo/images/15773_Coola...
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by bensonn 7y ago
This linked article actually names "the manufacturer" and the lawyers. Name and shame! https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200316/14584244111/softb...
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by bensonn 7y ago
This says he "commits" 10B to a new initiative named after himself. What do terms like "commits" and "pledges" mean? From the article it looks like all he did was post on Instagram. Is there more to this than a
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by bensonn 7y ago
Is 100 billion really that much? The church has 16 million members. That is about $6,000 per member. The church has had 200 years of tithing and compound interest to get to this point. If used as an endowment to support 16 million people in
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by bensonn 7y ago
My search stopped working months ago, typing anything blanked out whole the Start menu. I figured Windows was punishing me for turning Cortana off in the settings. At some point in the last few weeks a Windows update fixed my search. I agre
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by bensonn 7y ago
"All the books on Amazon are about other people, I want to read a book about me." That is not at all how you phrased it but in spirit of self-awareness and improvement I reworded it as crass as possible to make the following point
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by bensonn 7y ago
I hear the term predatory used with school loans but I don't get it, what is predatory about them? Almost all of these people are HS graduate adults. These adults have choices- no college, trade schools, community college, online colle
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by bensonn 7y ago
Wow, you used a lot math, I mostly made up my numbers and then made guesstimates based on those. :) $50 saving per bulb- holy shintos! I concede, in most climates and most use-cases LEDs are a better buy. Most of my overhead lights are LED
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by bensonn 7y ago
The incandescent light bulb ban is one of those things that can still get me fired up a decade later. The idea that LEDs are now cheap, or cheaper seems like a tough argument. 4 packs of Phillips 40 or 60 watts used to be sold at the dollar
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by bensonn 7y ago
I am a childless tin-foil hatter so I am asking out of ignorant curiosity- is there any way to avoid tracking on your child? Does refusing to agree to Google/Gaggles/MS/Etc's ToS, EULA or Privacy policy mean the public s
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by bensonn 7y ago
Amazon is a TRILLION dollar company with 230 billion in Revenue and over 10 billion in Profits. Bezos himself is worth over 100 billion dollars. Amazon is a technology leader. I normally am not a "wealth-hater" or whatever you wan
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by bensonn 7y ago
“Blue” territories have seen their productivity climb from $118,000 per worker in 2008 to $139,000 in 2018. Republican-district productivity, by contrast, remains stuck at about $110,000. How is productivity measured? I have wondered

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