bjornsteffanson

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by bjornsteffanson 4y ago
I'm 36, and I've had 32 cavities filled in my lifetime. I can't stand the procedure every time, and it's been heartbreaking for me not to be able to pinpoint why I've had so many cavities. I'm vegetarian, and I
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by bjornsteffanson 5y ago
> Does Apple have any way to verify it’s actually a full delete, and do they do so? The guidelines do state that it should be a full delete. In my experience, Apple has never checked or asked to verify if a user account was fully deleted
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by bjornsteffanson 5y ago
Internationally, between currencies? The best offer I've found for transferring $200,000 USD to AUD is 0.4% ($800). At scale, that's not exactly cheap. I'm referencing the original parent comment which suggests it's poss
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by bjornsteffanson 5y ago
What services are the best for transferring large sums of money cheaply, safely, and quickly? In my experience, you can only choose one. I would prefer to chose two: cheaply and safely. I am not as worried about time. Recommendations?
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by bjornsteffanson 5y ago
Exactly this. Every OSS project is going to have a slightly different arrangement, but many contributions to OSS projects are subject to conflict of interest agreements. I work full-time on a large OSS project that has thousands of communit
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by bjornsteffanson 5y ago
Same. You might find Inconsolata interesting, too: https://github.com/googlefonts/Inconsolata
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by bjornsteffanson 5y ago
Pretty rad. What's the etiquette on the drop-in/surf time? And who built it/paid for it? Is it free? Asking because I used to live near Bend, Oregon, which had a similar lowhead dam problem that they turned into a whitewater
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by bjornsteffanson 7y ago
Shortcut to the Electron app: https://github.com/1j01/jspaint#desktop-app-electron
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by bjornsteffanson 7y ago
I have not seen this at all, thank you for sharing!
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by bjornsteffanson 7y ago
The Second Reality source code is on Github -- it is fun to poke around through the code and code comments with what seems like little in-jokes between themselves. Also interesting to note the contrast of when English and Finnish is used...
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by bjornsteffanson 7y ago
What are some of the languages/frameworks/tools you use at your current role?
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by bjornsteffanson 7y ago
I learn bluegrass guitar licks. Lots of free resources on Youtube.
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by bjornsteffanson 7y ago
"Water Rabbit" is a reference to the Chinese Zodiac, as in "Year of the Water Rabbit". I have no idea what this could mean in the context of the article other than offering a poetic-sounding title. Just as improbably, it
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by bjornsteffanson 7y ago
For my past six or seven contracts I've been carrying around the same set of fetch util functions I wrote in ES6 a few years ago - it's less than 200 lines of code. If the API endpoints are ready to go, CRUD is the easy part. Whic
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by bjornsteffanson 7y ago
Which cultures would be considered high-context? (Genuinely curious)
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by bjornsteffanson 7y ago
For starters, you have a leaderboard. Any sort of number metric or gamification is enough to keep me off a platform. Edit: I just realized the irony of the above as I type this on Hacker News.
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by bjornsteffanson 7y ago
Far less serious (and not polysyllabic), but still linguistically interesting: the Chinese character for _biáng_, one of the most complex in modern usage. There are 15 variants of the character consisting of between 56 and 70 strokes, which
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by bjornsteffanson 7y ago
Same - I cannot tell if this is meant to be satire. I am an hourly contractor, and I prefer it to 'full time' employment. As with everything, there are pros and cons, but overall it is a net-positive for me and the way I wish to s
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by bjornsteffanson 7y ago
I'm in Australia and Reddit/Twitter ground to a standstill - request timeout after request timeout. I presumed it was an outage somewhere but was surprised to learn it was with AWS us-east-1? I would have thought surely that my co
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by bjornsteffanson 7y ago
You buy a SIM card from a wireless provider, register your service, and you're connected to that provider's network. Depending on which country you live in, you may be asked to provide evidence of your identity to varying degrees.
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by bjornsteffanson 7y ago
I got a pi 3b+ as I romanticized the idea of it, but it struggles a bit with SM64. I just use OpenEmu on my higher-powered laptop and HDMI out instead. Pi format is still fun to tinker with and I encourage you to get one if you're at a
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by bjornsteffanson 7y ago
Thanks for that info. I'm a permanent resident of Australia now, with access to the public (and private) medical care down here. My injury and procedure happened in the US though, and I've moved around quite a bit since then, and
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by bjornsteffanson 7y ago
Also broke my ankle, and also had a plate installed via ORIF surgery. My insurance company was billed nearly $80,000 USD, and I was asked to pay $6k of that. And that was just the single procedure, not any of the follow-up visits or physica
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by bjornsteffanson 7y ago
According to this article, the plane itself was found while researching Lt. Col. John Donalson, who was credited with piloting the lead aircraft during the invasion. It also provides a reason why this plane was selected: "Donalson&#x27
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by bjornsteffanson 8y ago
Of other Murakami works, I really enjoyed "After Dark" and his collection of short stories, "The Elephant Vanishes".
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by bjornsteffanson 9y ago
I would definitely describe "putting two coins into a vending machine to receive a ticket to hand to someone in exchange for a tasty bowl of ramen" as more technically advanced than "table for two?...[waiting, waiting]...one
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by bjornsteffanson 9y ago
> My life is governed by a set of rules inspired from daoism and taijiquan. First and foremost is "Make good change"(The secret trick is to smile, from you heart) Can you elaborate?
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by bjornsteffanson 10y ago
GNU actually refers to 'grand national unity' in this context, one of the three fundamentals for Korean unification outlined in the 1972 North-South Joint Declaration (the other two being peace and independence). Based on the scre
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by bjornsteffanson 10y ago
That sucks, man. It really hurts my heart that we're still doing shit like this in 2016...
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by bjornsteffanson 11y ago
The principal subject of this film recanted much of his story in 2015.

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