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by larrymyers 1y ago
These places already exist, they're your local game stores! Show up, play games with other people. If you like competition most host official tournaments for various TCG's and table top war-games. These tournaments usually forbid
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by larrymyers 3y ago
Chicago is letting the ShotSpotter contract expire instead renewing this year after the data revealed that it did not have any positive effect on crime reduction. https://www.yahoo.com/news/chicago-not-renew-shotspotter
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by larrymyers 3y ago
I had almost forgotten about Tumbleleaf. Such a gem of a show. The submarine episodes really stand out.
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by larrymyers 3y ago
Rain one of my favorite episodes. The amount of story packed into 8 minutes with just music and animation is so good.
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by larrymyers 3y ago
It's a great show that demonstrates how to play with your kids. Though I do appreciate the episodes where the parents are exhausted, or must do chores, instead of playing with their kids.
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by larrymyers 3y ago
Driving around the midwest in the winter time I find I get about 200 miles to the full charge. The cold weather, increased wind speeds, and need to run the heater all eat into the range substantially. I hear you about wanting to drive up no
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by larrymyers 3y ago
I've owned a Model Y for about a year now, and range anxiety isn't a big deal on road trips as long as you're using the built in nav for your destination. The nav calculated estimations tend to be very accurate, within a few
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Own Your MX Record(larrymyers.com)
3 points by larrymyers 3y ago|1 comments
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by larrymyers 3y ago
I'm not even sure why college students would need dating apps. You are in a relatively dense environment surrounded by people your own age, in a similar phase of life. You have to actively work not to meet people you want to date.
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by larrymyers 3y ago
I've encountered this situation in multiple projects where style lint was enabled, with only the defaults, and passed the linter without issue. Tailwind is seeing steadily increasingly popularity (and the accompanying backlash) because
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by larrymyers 3y ago
What causes me to constantly shudder is when I have to use project wide search to find the class name on an element so I can see what was caused the computed styles in the browser to occur. 1. Find source file with class name. See the s
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by larrymyers 3y ago
Not in Chicago. The murals throughout the city are beautiful and are very welcome art installations. https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/mural_re...
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by larrymyers 3y ago
Oy. I read this exact same part of the post and my head tilted sideways as I tried to figure out if this was satire or not. Velocity is useful as a team measure, for the team to take on the appropriate amount of work for sprint. It is a mea
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by larrymyers 3y ago
It looks like Apollo is going to have to go paid only as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12ram0f/had_a_fe... I think the post about RedReader brings up the critical point: Reddit is dep
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by larrymyers 3y ago
This seems logical. The software engineers are likely going to be some of the highest paid employees, so laying off underperforming engineers is going to help reduce labor costs substantially. Many of these engineers have been hired for new
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by larrymyers 3y ago
Before a rewrite in Java around 2009, MapQuest ran on AOLserver. Tcl was a bit of a surprise to me, and struck me as a very powerful dynamic language. If AOL had open sourced it sooner it might have occupied the “A” in the LAMP stack.
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by larrymyers 3y ago
At the end of the day most of the moderately priced furniture from IKEA is actually pretty good. When looking for some new living room chairs we visited 2-3 local furniture stores first, and gave up and went to IKEA after suffering through
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by larrymyers 4y ago
Employees who were hired remote and have no office within a reasonable distance should absolutely force Amazon to terminate their employment so they can collect unemployment. Amazon is the one forcing the significant change in employment te
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by larrymyers 4y ago
You're not missing the point, though maybe it won't go as badly for a older company like GM. I got to witness this failed strategy first hand at AOL around 2010. The people who opted into the VSP were the ones who could easily fin
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by larrymyers 4y ago
When talk about Medicare they are usually talking about Part A (hospital care) and Part B (provider coverage), and sometimes Part D (prescription drug coverage). You are on your own for everything else, including dental and vision care. Add
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by larrymyers 4y ago
tl;dr Acquihire founder is shocked when the giant behemoth that did the acquisition is motivated to protect its billions of quarterly profit at the expense of empowering all the brainpower it employs to do innovative and inherently risky th
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by larrymyers 4y ago
I did not renew my Prime membership this year after Amazon raised the annual price again. We have too many streaming services in our house as it is, and we don't order enough from Amazon to take advantage of the free shipping. I'v
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by larrymyers 4y ago
When you cut out 90 minutes of commuting a day it's pretty great to be able to do school drop-off, pickup, and help your kids with homework after school. I think there's a lot of value in face to face interaction with coworkers, b
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by larrymyers 4y ago
That's kinda the whole point of being salaried though isn't it? (At least for those of us in the US.) You are an exempt employee as defined by US labor law. You aren't required to receive overtime pay, and you are evaluated o
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Wave of Job-Switching Has Employers on a Training Treadmill(nytimes.com)
1 points by larrymyers 4y ago|0 comments
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by larrymyers 4y ago
Cars stick to the rules? There were 42,915 automobile related deaths in the US in 2021. Annoyances over scooters is new, so we all notice it and complain. The sheer volume of damage inflicted by people using private cars for transit has jus
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by larrymyers 4y ago
So in Chicago we have the infuriating practice of "dibs". People leave out all manner of large objects in street parking spaces they've dug out when we get lots of snow. You know what the city does every few weeks? Streets &a
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by larrymyers 4y ago
Staying in academia is a decent idea (I'm not sure if this is different in Europe vs the US). Lots of parents I know at my kid's school work part time for universities due to the same requirements around schedule flexibility. Work
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by larrymyers 4y ago
The feels like exceptionally lazy reporting in the NYT. What was the expectation, that tech companies would be up and to the right perpetually? That public tech companies are immune to general market downturns? While a lot of tech companies
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by larrymyers 4y ago
There's been a lot of news coverage lately about how low inventory is going to continue to keep housing prices high, despite mortgages going up. Basically people with 2%-3% mortgages are going to sit tight, because they can no longer a

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