billnad

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by billnad 3mo ago
As a native English Speaker I can tell you that I would have some trouble talking out an email. I like the back and forth in my head of editing as I go. Text messaging may be fine but email is more difficult for me to just talk through. I a
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by billnad 3mo ago
I like the new tab as well. Otherwise I will forget what I went to. My process is to go through an interesting site, like HN, and then be able to see these interesting sites after that. I guess it depends on a persons web workflow though
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by billnad 5mo ago
Yes, I guess also trust the situation when it looks completely wrong. your gut is not lying when it sees that as well
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by billnad 7mo ago
Also in BC and I agree completel;y. The one hour offset seems strange. The trouble with any time change is that I still wake up a couple hours before the sun in the morning in the Winter in Vernon and in the Summer I couldn't get up ea
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by billnad 7mo ago
Back when I was first learning about Tech (early 2000's), I installed a mail server at home and configured it all wrong so I gave up on it. A few days later I noticed that my drive was getting full and didn't know why. This is how
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by billnad 7mo ago
Gemini 3 Flash gave me a fun answer! Since your goal is to wash the car, you should definitely drive it there. As an IT guy, you can think of it like this: walking to the car wash is like remoting into a server to run a script, but forgetti
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by billnad 8mo ago
The part of the article that caught me was that European Companies used to just drain nuclear waste (not sure what type), into the rivers in China and they would eventually flow into the sea
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by billnad 10mo ago
I also use https://spaceweathernews.com/ Lots of data in there for us to see the sources and effects
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by billnad 11mo ago
Reminds me of Africam. Back in the day my kids were very young and we would check it out every morning to see if we could see animals live at the watering holes, probably back around 2005-2008 or so?
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by billnad 1y ago
So disappointed that this isn't an article about the Grateful Dead
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by billnad 3y ago
This makes me think of people that change two lanes very quickly to be able to turn at that next corner. We all see them, they piss us off through their bad planning but in the end I don't think an autonomous vehicle would ever try thi
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by billnad 3y ago
I do remember having a Blackberry and my IT Manager at the time thought it was crazy to have to reply to emails after work. So I guess there is quite a bit of freedom lost