eric_the_read

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by eric_the_read 1y ago
Absolutely! But they're not, IME, 6x as great as a $50 Lodge dutch oven. They don't solve a categorically different problem or solve the same problem in an innovative new way. They're just really nicely made, is all.
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by eric_the_read 2y ago
A worthy predecessor to the Hydraulic Press channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcMDMoNu66_1Hwi5-MeiQgw
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by eric_the_read 3y ago
I had a doctor once recommend a temporary treatment that would be provided by a third party. I called the third party and asked how much it would cost; they had no idea. I called my insurance company and asked how much it would cost; they h
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by eric_the_read 3y ago
I'm sure this gets recommended all the time, but "Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time" is a fascinating (to me anyway) story about the creation of time zones; how and why they came about.
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by eric_the_read 3y ago
Be right back, I'm starting a new search engine, AAAAA A Best Searches
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by eric_the_read 3y ago
I spent a summer working in a hardware store up in Fairbanks, and my host/landlord decided to take me up to the Arctic Circle in his CJsomething Jeep. We were only a few miles up from the Circle when we kicked up a rock that punctured
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by eric_the_read 3y ago
Just imagine if they had gone with "sombrero", how much more fun networking would be. Or smörgåsbord!
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by eric_the_read 4y ago
The only train I could find that goes anywhere near my mother's house would take approximately 12 hours, with a 5 hour layover in a small town with ~nothing to do. I can drive it in maybe 1.5 hours. That's why.
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by eric_the_read 5y ago
I tried it out on https://www.denverpost.com/2021/10/07/medina-alert-hit-run-c... , which I would think in general a group like Vision Zero would approve of, and it got a C (-1 points), because of the phrase,
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by eric_the_read 7y ago
I've done that occasionally, over a weekend when I left my phone at home or something. Doesn't happen often, obviously, but it does have some small number of days of local logging.
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by eric_the_read 7y ago
I just visited my boss in a WeWork space in San Jose, and it is the closest thing I've found so far to my idea of hell. The offices there have a unique combination of feeling exposed (from all the glass everywhere) and claustrophobic (
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by eric_the_read 7y ago
Chap-hop star Mr B, The Gentleman Rhymer, wrote "Hip-Hop Was To Blame, After All", specifically addressing this attitude: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkES4anCYOw
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by eric_the_read 7y ago
In some (relatively limited, I believe) areas in the US, you can text 911: https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/what-you-need-know-abou...
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by eric_the_read 7y ago
It's stressful enough trying to keep up with all the expectations society puts on new parents without the additional hassle of strangers on the Internet criticizing your parenting style because it doesn't agree with their preconce
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Mu Server: Java's Modern Web Server(muserver.io)
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by eric_the_read 8y ago
I'll have to see if I can adapt this to my somewhat idiosyncratic syntax: SELECT field, other_field FROM table WHERE some_thing IN ( SELECT id FROM other_table ) AND other_field IS NOT NULL
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by eric_the_read 8y ago
Same. I bought a Tacoma a couple of years ago, and while there was technically a manual option available, nobody actually had one, or could tell me when I could get one.
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by eric_the_read 8y ago
I actually had no idea I could by from the brands directly. Nike's store seems fairly decent.
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by eric_the_read 8y ago
I'd hope they turn them on an hour or so before they return home; otherwise, it's likely to be uncomfortable.
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by eric_the_read 8y ago
I was having trouble sleeping for a while; at one point my doctor recommending I go on oxygen for a while until she could figure it out. I called the company that provided the oxygen, and asked how much it would cost. Nobody knew. I called
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by eric_the_read 8y ago
Only in the 3rd Circuit; other jurisdictions aren't obliged to follow its precedent.
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by eric_the_read 8y ago
Not to mention, if you buy from a company that makes a quality, reliable fridge, you'll recommend it to friends who need a new one; if they intentionally sell you a barely-qualified lemon, you'll steer everyone away from them wher
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by eric_the_read 8y ago
Look at the hair in the scene where they're in the ocean in Incredibles 1, and... pretty much any comparable scene in 2. The hair in 1 looks almost like plastic; in the sequel (or, even better, Moana), the wet hair looks much more life
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by eric_the_read 8y ago
Reading early '60s Marvel comics, I'm struck (and irritated) by their house style of using 'thru' everywhere, instead of 'through'.
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by eric_the_read 8y ago
Have you looked at public librarian salaries lately? A senior-- senior, mind you-- librarian at the Colorado Springs Library District is being offered $25/hr. I don't recall for certain by now, but I'm pretty sure I made more
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by eric_the_read 8y ago
My understanding is that if you ever have considered playing music in a business, you pretty much have to get licenses for all of them. AFAIK, ASCAP/BMI/Whoever don't operate their own services, so you're always at risk,
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by eric_the_read 8y ago
“Youth is the most beautiful thing in this world—and what a pity that it has to be wasted on children!” - G. B. Shaw[0] [0] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/09/07/young/
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by eric_the_read 8y ago
There's a significant difference, and that is that water and electricity can be meaningfully metered by volume, but Internet can't; that is to say, there is little to no meaningful marginal cost to your ISP for delivering 1GB of d
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by eric_the_read 8y ago
Spinach isn't much better[1]. [1] https://www.medicaldaily.com/e-coli-contamination-found-7-sp...
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by eric_the_read 8y ago
RSS doesn't need analytics. If you want analytics, put them on the links in the feed. If you want to know that people are reading the link at all, either put in an invisible pixel, or just include a paragraph with a [more...] link.

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