bkjelden

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by bkjelden 4mo ago
I'm otherwise a lefty but I use computer mice right handed, because when I first started using a computer in elementary school all of the computer labs were set up right handed.
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by bkjelden 5mo ago
It's based on the sleep tracking data my fitness watch gives me, but also just based on how I rested I feel the next day, since I know there's limitations to the data quality a watch can give you. I have noticed the early waking t
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by bkjelden 5mo ago
Interesting, over the last 18 months or so I've dabbled with both quitting/aggressively cutting back on drinking as well as aggressively cutting back on sweets (some periods where I've been super dedicated and others where I&
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by bkjelden 1y ago
One of the shipyards discussed in the article, Marinship, is on Patrick's list.
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by bkjelden 2y ago
You can absolutely design trusses to have an attic. They're called "room in attic trusses". I would guess the decline in livable attics in new construction is mostly attributable to changing consumer preference.
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by bkjelden 2y ago
I believe the post you're replying to is referring to roof trusses (and perhaps floor trusses) which are generally built off-site at a truss plant, but then attached onsite (usually with nails, but sometimes lag bolts or screws are nee
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by bkjelden 2y ago
Speed kills. A road where traffic moves at 30mph can be poorly designed and lead to lots of accidents, but so long as those accidents are not a vehicle hitting a pedestrian they're unlikely to be fatal. A road where traffic moves at 70
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by bkjelden 3y ago
I'm all for having the vans snitch on drivers. Delivery drivers are trying to get deliveries done so fast that they're by far the most wreckless drivers on residential streets in my suburban neighborhood.
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by bkjelden 3y ago
Yup. I popped into the Jeep/Ram dealer in Longmont, CO the other day and they had rows upon rows upon rows of 4xe Wranglers parked on their lot. Based on their websites, every other Jeep dealer in the area is in the same boat. Stellant
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by bkjelden 3y ago
The premium isn't really absurd the way it used to be. Across a number of segments, a 3 yr old used car with 30-50k miles will still bring close to 90% of its original MSRP on the used market. Gone are the days where a car lost a third
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by bkjelden 3y ago
I have used Garmin's more consumer focused watches for years (currently have a Venu), and get great battery life too. Not two weeks, but a week is not out of the question. Of course, I've found that after a couple of years the bat
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by bkjelden 3y ago
Lumber is not that big of an input to total construction cost.
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by bkjelden 3y ago
I didn't see any reference to Colorado in the article besides the title, did I miss something? (I _also_ only clicked because I'm from Colorado...)
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by bkjelden 3y ago
This has been Microsoft's MO for decades. Just barely good enough engineering/technology paired with a great sales team.
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by bkjelden 3y ago
This is true of all restaurants. In fact, I would expect McDonald's to be a beneficiary of this as consumers replace more expensive options with McDonald's.
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by bkjelden 3y ago
Emphasis on "high level". An org of a few hundred people at a big tech company many only have a couple of Individual Contributors making this much money.
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by bkjelden 3y ago
I knew they were in trouble when I was catching up on Planet Money recently and they were giving multiple ad slots to a company selling dog treats to help dogs that get anxious during thunderstorms.
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by bkjelden 4y ago
Hard to imagine that the US is not massively over-supplied with office space right now, given that some double digit percentage of workers will never go back to an office. Every office space construction project right now is either paused o
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by bkjelden 4y ago
Don't forget to bring your 20% off coupon when buying ec2 instances.
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by bkjelden 4y ago
A weight set. I browsed Facebook Marketplace for a bit and was able to piece together a set consisting of a power rack, bench, and a couple hundred pounds of free weights for probably $600. We're in a post-pandemic glut of home fitness
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by bkjelden 4y ago
1. The 10-2 and 10-3 yield curves will generate a false signal, and while growth will be slow, there will be no official recession in 2023. 2. Political prediction markets will give Donald Trump a less than 15% chance of being the 2024 Repu
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by bkjelden 4y ago
In the US journalists will often use the term 'unresponsive' in similar situations.
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by bkjelden 4y ago
This was required reading in my high school english class in South Dakota, 15 or so years ago.
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by bkjelden 4y ago
One major problem I see with comparing housing prices to income is that most homebuyers in the US are using leverage (a mortgage) to buy their home, and the last 15 years or so have seen comparatively low mortgage rates compared to the seve
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by bkjelden 4y ago
Not at all! I'm just sharing what I've seen - middle management treats MDs drastically different than NPs and PAs, even in states where the latter have almost the same scope of practice. This is not to say that MDs don't have
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by bkjelden 4y ago
I have no doubt that MDs are leaving as well - but, at least from my perspective, in any large healthcare system, there is a drastic difference between the way middle management treats MDs and the way they treat everyone else. The latter is
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by bkjelden 4y ago
In some states, RNs working in hospitals are unionized. And that does help with some of the things I mentioned. Outside of hospitals, and outside of RNs, unionization is much less common. E.g. in a clinic setting very few employees are unio
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by bkjelden 4y ago
My partner is an NP, not only is there an astounding amount of paperwork, usually it's done outside of working hours because management took the chunks of the work day that were previously blocked off for doing paperwork and turned the
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by bkjelden 4y ago
Not surprising. My partner is a DNP and has pretty strongly considered leaving the entire profession. From my perspective, the entire healthcare industry is set up to treat any frontline worker without an MD after their name as completely e
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by bkjelden 4y ago
Similarly, their parent company, Taunton Press, publishes a number of DIY-er focused home improvement books. I own a few of them, and I have found every single one to be a worthwhile purchase.

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