lost_soul

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by lost_soul 4y ago
If anyone out there is feeling a bit down about the general state of the tech industry, I highly encourage you to look into jobs in the green energy field. There are so many things this world needs smart people doing. A slowdown in the te
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by lost_soul 4y ago
Southwest executives understood that they were running on borrowed time with their crew scheduling software. At the very least an alternate or secondary process should have been in place. The US air traffic control network is a good example
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by lost_soul 4y ago
Excellent question and thanks for asking. I've spent some time with a fair number of millennials and I'm impressed with their kindness and consideration for others.
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by lost_soul 4y ago
Lauren Bobert tweeted Nancy Pelosi's location when she was relocated for security reasons. The leaders of both the Oathkeepers and The Proud Boys are under arrest for their involvement that day. The FBI is still investigating who place
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by lost_soul 4y ago
Oh you!
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by lost_soul 4y ago
I've seen the term "pedantic" frequently used.
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by lost_soul 4y ago
I thought I wanted to live in the Sierra foothills. After the Paradise fire I've decided against it.
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by lost_soul 4y ago
As I understand it, the Russian aircraft carrier gets towed all the time. So that might not be so far fetched.
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by lost_soul 4y ago
Will this be reported on Russian media?
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by lost_soul 4y ago
If I had to apply an "aggravation factor", air travel is worse. The train just doesn't seem to bug me as much. One difference is that when the train arrives I'm in the city center. When the plane arrives I'm at the
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by lost_soul 4y ago
You're not wrong but there is a cachet with Macs that is undeniable. It's not unusual for the executives or creatives to use Macs in an otherwise fully Windows based organization.
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by lost_soul 4y ago
Take a look a the I15 corridor north of Escondido in San Diego county. There are neighborhoods there farther than 5 miles from services.
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by lost_soul 4y ago
In American suburbs it's typical for there to be nothing but houses within a 3 to 5 mile area. Any supplies or groceries must be transported a significant distance in a pedestrian hostile environment.
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by lost_soul 4y ago
There was Halted and that place in San Carlos that sold things like surplus metal subassemblies.
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by lost_soul 4y ago
Being a COBOL programmer is starting to look pretty good.
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by lost_soul 4y ago
Old people have cable. And they tend to be the most reliable voters.
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by lost_soul 4y ago
Contrast this with the fact that cable subscriptions are in steep decline: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/03/17/cable-and-s...
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by lost_soul 4y ago
Can someone smarter than me explain why GPU's are so good at Cryptomining?
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by lost_soul 4y ago
Just anecdotally, we went out to eat at a place we hadn't been to since before the pandemic. Their prices have doubled. We spent $50 on lunch.
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Ask HN: Company wants to isolate corporate network from the Internet
8 points by lost_soul 4y ago|7 comments
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by lost_soul 5y ago
3 things I don't hear much about: * Plenty of places in the Midwest (Arkansas and Kansas, for example) are depopulating. Affordable real estate exists there - https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2021/oct/
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by lost_soul 5y ago
Do the UK bus companies provide an effective alternative to rail? I can't imagine paying these prices on a regular basis.
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by lost_soul 5y ago
Reading the piece the other day about Kansas giving away free property got me to wondering what it takes to make "affordable housing" worth "unpopular location".
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by lost_soul 5y ago
I always wonder who benefits from the extremism.
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by lost_soul 5y ago
Lastpass has had too many issues to ignore. Time to move on for me.
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by lost_soul 5y ago
>> one charismatic leader away from being a fascist voting bloc. Umm...
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by lost_soul 5y ago
A good place to start is "who does polarization benefit?".
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by lost_soul 5y ago
There's a good reason it's free.
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by lost_soul 5y ago
Paul Giamatti goes into Virginia Madsen's apartment at the end of the movie and we don't know what happens next. How is it implied that he kills himself?
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by lost_soul 5y ago
You have to know that you can dispute the charge. Many people would not know that.

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