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by mdip 4mo ago
This is all an interesting read from where I sit -- I worked for a global multi-national telecom that spun off from the 1996 deregulated local carrier, was bought up by a dot-com bust company, promptly went bankrupt and was sold off various
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by mdip 4mo ago
You make a good point. I'm "neurodivergent" but when it comes to empathy/sympathy, I tend toward the over-sensitive side rather than oblivious (as does my son, who is diagnosed with ASD Type 1). I don't take any iss
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by mdip 5mo ago
It's kind of always been a wild time to be alive in this industry. You covered people washing out of CS degrees and people getting degrees and then not, ultimately, doing something in the CS field. But what you see in our field that
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by mdip 9mo ago
Wow, yeah, I picked up one of these a few months before the new generation came out for $350. Everything shot up after that. My son is using that card, today, and I'm amazed at everything that card can still power. I had a 5080 and j
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by mdip 10mo ago
I feel deep gratitude to you for this, and the timing of your post. Thank you! Seriously. I also feel like you're owed an apology for having had to write this in the first place. I'm coming at "figuring out the Kitchen&quot
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by mdip 10mo ago
> As a parent/carer you probably are much more motivated No question. No teacher cares more about my child's education than I do. Really, though, the biggest factor is just being their parent. When they're young
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by mdip 10mo ago
> It says something about a system dedicated to teaching children wen parents think they can do as well or better. I home schooled my children up to High School (and they are very, very successful students). That statement, rig
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by mdip 10mo ago
I appreciate you sharing -- specifically because my kids were Home Schooled until High School and attend Public High School, now. I feel the same way about the value of early-years Home School and mainstream High School. Mom and I had agre
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by mdip 10mo ago
I Homeschooled both of my children from birth to 7th and 9th grade, respectively. The state I live in had, at the time (might still), zero regulation around Home Schooling. I have met hundreds of home schooling families and children (as
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by mdip 11mo ago
I believe this has a lot to do with the problem in my area. We have a bunch of disconnected sidewalks almost everywhere. They've started connecting them. There's more pedestrian traffic at some lights at some times of the d
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by mdip 1y ago
Oh man, you're bringing back memories. I know I went with SCSI, originally, because I had actually purchased two drives -- the huge one, and another one that was a bit faster but smaller and something had led me to believe that SCSI le
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by mdip 1y ago
I didn't make that point clearly enough in my comment ... my point, somewhat lost due to lack of brevity was "looks like some of the least reputable HDD salvage outfits discovered some a way to ditch the last problem of selling re
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by mdip 1y ago
This is interesting, it really sounds like they were running a pretty normal salvage operation with the evil twist of "they were selling the salvaged drives as new" -- kinda feels like dialing back the odometer on a car. Barring t
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by mdip 1y ago
Right there with you. I just dropped an amount of money I'm unwilling to admit on replacement bulbs throughout -- only this time I was replacing WiFi RGBW LED bulbs in rooms that had lower-end bulbs (almost everything on the market).
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by mdip 1y ago
They list the PWM frequency in the bulb specifications? That's news to me. A few months ago I went through most of the bulbs in my house and replaced nearly all of them with LIFX bulbs. I had spent quite some time trying to figure ou
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by mdip 1y ago
So ... like ... WOW. I read your description and thought, "some toy 3D project; probably slow/lacking features." I mean, you did a fine job but perhaps reading it in such a simple view made it lose something? Not a critique
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by mdip 1y ago
So these are popping up everywhere, then? I have two within five miles of my house. They've both been there over a year, probably a bit longer. I'm in a mid-western US suburb, mostly blue-colllar/manufacturing employers aro
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by mdip 1y ago
Beat me to it -- completely relate, man. I wrote an entire Visual Studio extension just to let me set my monitor to extremely low brightness/contrast and still be able to read the text. I've since discovered medication that has e
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by mdip 1y ago
He did it more out of necessity, originally, but when I met him, yeah, it was "for fun". Among the other stories I found to be true was "I worked at KFC for $8/hr and owned a home[0]" [0] In a lower-middle-class ne
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by mdip 1y ago
Interesting ... it's presented in the context of drugs for curing infections. I wonder if this is being used for other drugs. My curiosity stems from personal experience: I had Migraine headaches from age 17 to about 35. I was put on
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by mdip 1y ago
Getting laid off is a unique experience -- I can't find a better word than that. I mean, on one hand we always knew this was a business transaction: I'm providing a service, you're paying me to provide a service. But work,
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by mdip 1y ago
A buddy of mine started me on a similar habit that I find obnoxious but impossible to kick. It started when we were in a meeting with an executive (who was a wonderful man) who -- due to nerves -- used the filler phrase "ya know"
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by mdip 1y ago
The only issue I've ever had with archive.* links had to do with compatibility with Cloudflare's DNS but those just fail to resolve. I'm not sure what three lines that fade out is all about -- extensions, maybe?
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by mdip 1y ago
I mostly agree with what the author is saying with regard to "the current state of things." I do not feel, however, that it is a particularly large concern, especially long-term, given the second step (summarizing) is probably al
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by mdip 1y ago
The company my employer uses, as far as I can tell, handles all of HR functions -- compliance, training, tax/payroll, benefits and the like.
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by mdip 1y ago
Thank you for the explanation. It's been something I've been meaning to research because I'd never encountered this before my current employer and it's become something I will actually ask about in the future. I prefe
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by mdip 2y ago
There were a handful lesser known brands at that size, as well. I remember we went 16" when 'it was incredibly rare to see anything other than 14" screen sizes.' Honestly, I can't remember what the brand was, but I
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by mdip 2y ago
Lovely read -- the 80s early 90s were such an interesting time in computing. That was a nice walk down memory lane for me and instantly brought back memories of dialing into (and eventually running) a Bulletin Board System. Few families ha
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by mdip 2y ago
I've been a user of openSUSE since "openSUSE", nearly. It's my daily driver, today. I want to say I was playing with Mandrake, Red Hat and a little Gentoo at the time. I started using it regularly around 2010ish - I wa
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by mdip 2y ago
Both of my children were Home Schooled until High School (technically 7th and 9th grade). They've been students at a private school and now one attends an excellent private High School and one attends the 4th best High School in my st

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