chrisdhal

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by chrisdhal 1y ago
> Since I'm too stupid and/or lazy to figure out how to clean my coffee machine It's literally: pour vinegar where you would put water (don't use any filter or anything). Turn on. Let it go through. Run a few pots of
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by chrisdhal 1y ago
That's why you run 4 or so pots of plain water through it afterwards.
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by chrisdhal 1y ago
If it's self hosted, you shouldn't care if it costs money. Let the person/org decide if they want to use it, just provide an interface for it. There are tons of free, self hosted apps that have tons of notification methods av
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by chrisdhal 1y ago
I think this may be generational. I'm GenX and growing up it was no big deal for my parent's generation (yes, the boomers) to have a drink a night. Even among people of my generation now it wouldn't be uncommon. Probably less
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by chrisdhal 1y ago
I went through school in the 70s and 80s and always had school lunch. I hardly saw anybody bring lunch to school. Maybe it was because of the schools I went to, but they were public schools. They were "good" schools though (some o
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by chrisdhal 2y ago
The state of Minnesota, under Tim Walz, had all sorts of heavy handed, government mandated rules about things. According to the decree, people couldn't visit relatives, couldn't go to funerals, in reality, could not go out at all.
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by chrisdhal 2y ago
Because it's decent and open late. I have routinely gone to one where at 11pm and there's a line 15 deep. This isn't entirely made up of crappy cars either, ie. not the stereotypical "looking for cheap food" crowd,
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by chrisdhal 2y ago
> I have yet to find one that supports tap to pay Interesting. I haven't seen one in years that doesn't support it in the US. Most of the time even when I hand my card to a cashier because the terminal is by them, they tend to
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by chrisdhal 2y ago
> Notice how some airports (IAD, IAH) specifically have "International Airport" in their codes. Since this is HN, we'll get ultra-pedantic... IAH is technically "Intercontinental Airport of Houston", not "in
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by chrisdhal 2y ago
Look for a fiduciary or a for fee planner (not a commission based one). They don't have a stake in selling you specific things, they just charge a flat rate. Whether they're any good or not is a different story, but they aren&#x27
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by chrisdhal 2y ago
I was when I lived in MN. I had a subscription for unlimited car washes (I did the "medium" level). When I commuted in winter I would wash my car at least once a week, sometimes twice. Summer, maybe once every other week. It just
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by chrisdhal 2y ago
They have quite a few in Houston, only the 4th largest metro area in the US.
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by chrisdhal 3y ago
Part of eating a bar (or similar) is to have a sporting event on TV so you can watch it while being out. I would be upset if someone was turning those off in that type of place. If you don't like it, don't go there.
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by chrisdhal 3y ago
At BJs (smaller version of Costco), they have self checkout almost exclusively. They also have a constant deal of "mix and match" 2 types of potato chips. The problem is that their system is not setup to ring those up correctly, s
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by chrisdhal 3y ago
As were Ted Lasso, See, and Servant (all done now).
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by chrisdhal 3y ago
Go to any watch forum and post something about wearing your watch that's rated for 100m to wash your hands and watch the flames come in. They'll argue (maybe rightfully so) that a water resistance rating is not the same as the pre
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by chrisdhal 3y ago
Facebook Marketplace is great for this type of thing. I know many HN'ers hate FB, but it's really easy to move stuff there. You definitely still get tire kickers, but like CL it's local, so you're not shipping. I just mo
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by chrisdhal 3y ago
There is no monopoly, see MegaBus, FlixBus, OurBus, many others, not to mention specific city to city routes. For example, I used to live in the Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN area and there are specific shuttle busses to go to Rochester, MN
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by chrisdhal 3y ago
> I'm pretty sure all the big 3rd party apps at least have ads. I use(d) Relay for Redit, paid a small ($5?, maybe) one time fee for the "Premium" version a few years ago and have never see an ad. You are correct in the se
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by chrisdhal 3y ago
I don't care that as a man in my 50s that I look like a teenage girl with my phone, but I immediately put a Popsocket on any phone that I own. They are wonderful.
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by chrisdhal 3y ago
That sucks, but just seems weird in general, not to you specifically. You never hear about these things happening on random cheap Android phones or PC laptops. Well, at least I don't, but you hear about them semi-frequently regarding A
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by chrisdhal 3y ago
MN has neither. They did away with emissions tests...20 years ago? I don't think they've ever had a safety inspection, at least I don't remember it (I'm in my mid-50s), but maybe it was part of the emissions test at the
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by chrisdhal 3y ago
If you're using a database, use something like Postgres that has this functionality built in[0]. You can store IPs, networks, etc. in a native format that has all sorts of functionality available out of the box. [0] https://
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by chrisdhal 3y ago
Hmm...maybe it's generational? When I was a teenager (mid-80's) I knew what my friend's parents did for a living. It's not like we sat around and discussed it, but I could have told you what the majority of my friend&#x2
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by chrisdhal 3y ago
Haha, yep. She refers to it as the literal "just driven to the grocery store by a little old lady" car (because it's basically that and Home Depot). She even got the lowest trim level (on purpose) so it doesn't have anyt
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by chrisdhal 3y ago
My wife drives about once a week, probably less on average. She has a 2013 Honda CR-V, only 15,000 miles on it. We live in Minnesota, so have cold temps, but the car in a garage. The car always starts. We've replaced the battery once j
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by chrisdhal 4y ago
When I took typing in high school (mid-80s in the US), on an IBM Selectric, we were taught that way. If the key you wanted to capitalize (or needed the shift for) was on the left hand, you would use the right shift key and vice versa. I did
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by chrisdhal 4y ago
Agreed, ban those paper straws, they are terrible. I just want my good old plastic straws back.
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by chrisdhal 4y ago
I've had the same Herman Miller Aeron for 22 years. It's survived 4 office moves (by office moving companies) and finally a move to my house when I went WFH full time. I've replaced the casters (due to different flooring) and
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by chrisdhal 4y ago
unRaid is basically this. Happy user of unRaid for years, just chugs away, easy updates, lots of apps available.

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