devoutsalsa

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   by devoutsalsa 3y ago

   When flights get cancelled, if you really need to get back, you can book your own flight and hope for reimbursement. Getting rebooked through an airline is usually a horrible process in my experience.
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   I was curious, so I googled… - “The government grounds aircraft or reroutes flights to keep students from getting distracted during the biggest test of their lives.” - “ On the streets Thursday morning, you could hear more sirens than usual
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   by devoutsalsa 3y ago

   Lobbying groups are important. Great work was done by the National Frozen Pizza Institute to educate us all on the health benefits of eating frozen pizza => https://web.archive.org/web/20120704101823/http:&#x2
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   by devoutsalsa 3y ago

   Hello from Amsterdam! I’ll take you up on that offer for a cork farm tour! Can you email me? I don’t see contact information in your profile.
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   by devoutsalsa 3y ago

   I'm grateful for 5mbps when traveling.
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   by devoutsalsa 3y ago

   Now I'm wondering if 1-800-GOT-JUNK has a secret list of services.
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   by devoutsalsa 3y ago

   My dad's mother was like this. She started exercising around is her late 60s and started competing in Senior Olympics type stuff all over the world. Towards the end of her life she'd win a lot of gold medals, although I think sh
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   by devoutsalsa 3y ago

   Iceland has had some VEI 6 eruptions in the past, meaning 10 km^3 of material (called tephra) was ejected. That's 100 times larger than the VEI 4 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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   by devoutsalsa 3y ago

   If you get it most of the way, it can just roll downhill the rest of the way.
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    by devoutsalsa 3y ago

    Or a very big trebuchet to fling 90 deadweight kilotons 300 kilometers.
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    by devoutsalsa 3y ago

    And keeping it one file means you're reducing risk of a breaking change in the external script.
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    by devoutsalsa 3y ago

    I spent 4 years traveling as a digital nomad where literally everything I owned fit into a carryon suitcase and a backpack. You'd be surprised what you can get rid of.
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    by devoutsalsa 3y ago

    And he's why I know I shouldn't roll my own time zone library. https://youtu.be/-5wpm-gesOY?si=eL38cruwJZDiuHVS
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    by devoutsalsa 3y ago

    If raise your prices, cut R&D, and all your disgruntled customers leave, customer satisfaction & profits will go up in the short term!
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    by devoutsalsa 3y ago

    Same! As a rather tall person (1m95, 6'5"), I had to duck a lot in some of those doorways and tunnels.
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    by devoutsalsa 3y ago

    I have both Google Voice and Google Fi. With Fi, it's not meant to be used perpetually outside of the USA. If you stay outside of the USA long enough, they'll disable your data connection until you return to the USA, although I
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    by devoutsalsa 3y ago

    I've been using Google Voice while living outside the USA for 4+ years. I've never been able to make calls to the USA when using a foreign SIM. On my phone, I've only been using it for SMS, and I make the occasional call fr
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    by devoutsalsa 3y ago

    3-D rendering? We had a super computing club in early 90s high school. I remember creating wireframe images, uploading then to a Cray XMP at Lawrence Livermore for the computation, and then downloading finished results.
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    by devoutsalsa 3y ago

    Reinstating the pipework caused the first major headache; most parts had been discarded and engineers had to scour scrap yards and museums to find them. One vital piece was discovered being used as an ashtray. https://www.yorkp
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    by devoutsalsa 3y ago

    I switched to Fastmail a few years ago and have been quite happy with it. Spam has not been a problem.
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    by devoutsalsa 3y ago

    I like my Ruby code. I usually hate other people’s Ruby cuz too much magic.
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    by devoutsalsa 3y ago

    So we don't have to pay a monthly fee of 2.95 euros just to have a bank account! Competition brings lower fees.
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    by devoutsalsa 3y ago

    ThePrimeagen (dev YouTuber: https://youtube.com/@ThePrimeagen ) talks about liking Turso quite a bit, which is built on SQLite. I haven’t tried it, but it sounds fun. https://turso.tech/
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    Ask HN: Best PDF Viewer in Browser?

    2 points by devoutsalsa 3y ago|2 comments
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    by devoutsalsa 3y ago

    Have you written an ORM in SQL to help make querying easier?
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    by devoutsalsa 3y ago

    A big reason the Romans stopped using concrete is because they no longer wanted to build projects that needed concrete. r/AskHistorians has a good post on this... Why Was "Roman Concrete" Not Used for Centuries After the F
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    by devoutsalsa 3y ago

    People go to work to make money. If they’re lucky, they also like they’re work. It’s ok to want more out of work. Work certainly wants more out of you.
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    by devoutsalsa 3y ago

    Value investing is buying a dollar for less than a dollar.
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    by devoutsalsa 3y ago

    For Google Photos, make sure to set the "BACKUP QUALITY FOR PHOTOS & VIDEOS" option to "Original quality". It's the very top radio button under the settings (for my using Google Chrome on my laptop). Can'
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    by devoutsalsa 3y ago

    There's probably some benefit to walking (or running) up stairs. I'd guess you could accomplish a similar benefit by just doing jumping squats or something. When I lived in San Francisco, I walked all over the place, including up