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by devbent 2y ago
> And even assuming everything is good on that front, you're still looking at $300-400k in college tuition (in 2024 dollars) if you let your kids pick any school. When people ask if I want a second kid I reply that my current child
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by devbent 2y ago
> This is a ridiculous exaggeration. No it is not. Given the current tuition rates of state colleges, and factoring the average increases in tuition over the past 10-15 years, it is expected that public universities will have an average
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by devbent 2y ago
The exact same number of times I've been asked that during an interview: 0! I do ask tree traversal questions when interviewing because I've had to traverse a lot of trees so I think being able to do an in order traversal of an al
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by devbent 2y ago
My local library has an "ask the librarian" program. Tell them what you like to read and they'll email you a list of 10 books to try next.
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by devbent 2y ago
> Schools with the highest funding have the worst performance. It could also be because the schools with the most special / high needs children need the most funding. Schools in poor neighborhoods need more help just to achieve medi
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by devbent 2y ago
>I still don't get why such questions are even asked as most jobs I've ever had not even remotely touched those and I've touched quite a few industries, technologies and types of companies. I've had to work on tree tr
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by devbent 2y ago
> existential operator, JavaScript has had this for a bit now and it is really nice. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
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by devbent 2y ago
Patents also require disclosure of how something is done, and the history of innovation in the Western world has been one of iterative improvements on patented inventions so as to be granted a new patent. Software arguably is not suited for
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by devbent 2y ago
Books are too expensive to buy every week in any quantity greater than 1. I read 7-12 new books a week to my son, I'd go bankrupt if it wasn't for libraries. (We typically read 5-10 books a day, ur the 12 books we get from the li
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by devbent 2y ago
I was lucky enough to work with Randy for quite a few years at Microsoft. Incredible developer. He also made the Bleem! PlayStation emulator. Funny enough none of his coworkers ever bothered to look him up online until after we all stopped
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by devbent 2y ago
> I recently had an outing where I was the only "active" father. I had a dozen children begging for my attention. They were cutting in line to engage with me. Other fathers looked on. They all knew my tricks, jokes but I was th
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by devbent 2y ago
100% of people lose visual acuity. Flat out you will eventually need glasses and your ability to see differentiate two different colors with a low contrast difference will fall apart.
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by devbent 2y ago
Countries that feel the US has acted wrongly are free to impose sanctions against the US. That is how these things work.
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by devbent 2y ago
People had extended family around, now days they don't. Parenting is easier if you have 5 family members in walking distance and they also have similarly ages kids who can all play together.
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by devbent 2y ago
> Hence there is seemingly some other weakness allowing login to a corporate Microsoft e-mail account. Why the hence? Why not just root some MS employees not fully patched android phone while they cross a border? Or just bribe an intern
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by devbent 2y ago
When I was last there (almost a decade ago!) they sure did. Microsoft has been under attack by state actors for decades now, their security teams work hard to keep things together but even a company like Microsoft will fail when literally e
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by devbent 2y ago
Possibly. Health insurance companies may want to sue the home owner insurance company to try and recoup costs.
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by devbent 2y ago
Trampolines are obscenely high risk and injuries are very common. On top of that, if a neighborhood kid comes in to your yard and breaks their leg on your trampoline, your home owners insurance is going to be involved.
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by devbent 2y ago
I've only ever known cramming it inside and then crawling inside with it to try and get the duvet into place. I grew up in a family that had (home made!) blankets and quilts, duvets were not a thing until I moved out on my own.
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by devbent 2y ago
That website is so sus my browser (chrome android) and my ISP blocked it...
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by devbent 2y ago
The addition of lyrics a year or two back was nice. I'm confused as to why their TV app doesn't have a visualizer. Seems that would be an obvious add.
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by devbent 3y ago
> If I'm shopping at a retail store, even Walmart, there is a certain floor I expect to the quality of goods. I once got a badminton birdie from Walmart that, when hit with a racket, rather than bounce and fly off across the court,
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by devbent 3y ago
Plenty of studies have been done by purchasing a large # of bottles from supermarkets and they've all shown half or more of olive oils are either fake or rancid.
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by devbent 3y ago
> Who cooks everything north of 400F? Depends on the cuisine. If I'm wok frying something as hot as possible is a good starting point! Also if I'm going to throw 2lb of protein on a pan I need it as hot as I can get it so the t
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by devbent 3y ago
> essentially no commercially farmed eggs are pasture raised except those specifically advertised as such. This is a silly thing to say. Of course if a chicken is pasture raised it'll be advertised as such on the carton, those eggs
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by devbent 3y ago
As a land lord, every year the cost of my owning my rental property goes up by about $300 / month due to HOA increases and property tax increases. That is roughly a 10% increase, way above inflation. Any sort of rent control would have
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by devbent 3y ago
,> The point is that dealer financing is usually a rip-off (because it's fundamentally another axis along which dealers try to extract money from you), but it can still occasionally be a good deal. Last time I bought a car the deale
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by devbent 3y ago
In Washington state, drug stores dedicate as much or more space to booze, including high proof liquors, as they do to medical goods.
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by devbent 3y ago
My local aquarium has a star fish petting area that is very popular with the toddlers. I've been to jelly fish rooms in other aquariums that are dark with only glowing jelly fish swimming all around. Pretty sure at least a few toddlers
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by devbent 3y ago
> I honestly can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. Kind of. If the premise that government + a few rich people is a better way to spend $ (e.g. our current system !) then how about we also try government + spreading $ a

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