throwawayboise

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by throwawayboise 4y ago
Your European parents paid that $30K and more in additional taxes though. The money came from somewhere; land and buildings and qualified professors do not come for free in Europe.
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by throwawayboise 4y ago
> Where is all this tuition even going to? Administrative staff, which has ballooned over the past several decades. Many of these people have mediocre ability, don't really do much, but once a position is created it is hardly ever e
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by throwawayboise 4y ago
Athletics is normally (always?) a separate self-funding enterprise attached to th e university. Tutition dollars don't pay the coaches; alumni donations/gifts, sponsors, and ticket sales do.
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by throwawayboise 4y ago
Used oil is very much burned for heat. Common for shops in areas that need heat in the winter to have a "waste oil heater" instead of using utility gas or electricity for heat. https://www.energylogic.com/waste-oil
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by throwawayboise 4y ago
I used to used dd to convert EBCDIC to ASCII reading tapes from a 1/2" reel-to-reel tape drive. The "convert" capability of dd is what differentiates it from utilities such as cat.
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by throwawayboise 4y ago
Warranties are for sales. They don't really say much one way or the other about the reliability of the car.
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by throwawayboise 4y ago
Sometime in the first half of the 1980s I had a TI99/4a, my first computer. I started programming in BASIC and it was interesting but I felt I was missing a lot in my understanding of what was really going on. At some point I found a p
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by throwawayboise 4y ago
This is actually not a new idea at all. I once worked in a place in the 1990s that took it to such an extreme that every table name, column name, and variable name had to be approved by a naming standards committee before it could go into p
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by throwawayboise 4y ago
That's fine, as long as you are still solving the original problem in the required time. The IRS won't excuse that you missed filing your withholding data on time because you were making the reporting tool easier to extend upon la
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by throwawayboise 4y ago
Came here to say this sounds like hoarding behavior. To OP: do you also have problems accumulating physical things, organizing them, being unable to discard anything? For your online stuff, I'd do a mass delete of anything over 90 days
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by throwawayboise 4y ago
Lots of products target particular races. It's only racism if it's motivated by hate, bias, a desire to cause harm, etc.
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by throwawayboise 4y ago
Yeah, none of that may matter for a "brochure" type of website, or a blog where you are the only person updating it. As soon as you start processing forms and doing anything transactional based on that, you'll be quickly rein
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by throwawayboise 4y ago
Maybe I would as well. Who is Uncle Roger though?
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by throwawayboise 4y ago
I don't see that it matters much which way the fan is blowing. What matters is the air exchange, which is about creating an airflow. If you have a multistory house you can open windows at the top and bottom, the warm air will tend to f
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by throwawayboise 4y ago
You don't have insect screens on your windows? That's just standard where I live. Every house has them on every window.
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by throwawayboise 4y ago
Andersen, to be correct.
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by throwawayboise 4y ago
I won't be here when I retire.
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by throwawayboise 4y ago
I disagree. Maybe because I've worked with computers for my entire career. The last thing I want to do when I'm old is interact with technology. I'd much rather have a dog.
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by throwawayboise 4y ago
I'm getting close to 60. I live alone since my wife moved out 20 years ago. The closest friend I have was a co-worker who retired at the end of 2021 and I have not seen him since. I enjoy it. I can do whatever I want, whenever I want.
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by throwawayboise 4y ago
Proof that dick humor is as old as humanity?
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by throwawayboise 4y ago
I have a soft spot for that CPU. My first computer was a TI99/4a when I was about 14 or 15. I started with BASIC, then learned assembly language on that machine. I give it a lot of credit for starting the trajectory my future took.
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by throwawayboise 4y ago
Why does there have to be a point? Just go with it.
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by throwawayboise 4y ago
But don't spend all your money! You have very few obligations when you are young. Basically feed yourself and pay rent. Save the rest. You will thank yourself when you are 50, because you can't catch up if you wait until then.
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by throwawayboise 4y ago
Yes. People and jobs are more sedentary. Kids sit in front of screens instead of riding bikes to the park and playing ball or just running around. Fat in prepared foods has been reduced, replaced with corn syrup. Portion sizes for food and
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by throwawayboise 4y ago
Wasn't a lot of this supposed to happen in the 2008 financial crisis relief funding? I remember a lot of talk about "shovel-ready jobs." Turns out they didn't really exist (there were plenty of infrastructure problems, j
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by throwawayboise 4y ago
If it's just the hot water, it could be your water heater. I would not expect soldered copper pipe, even with leaded solder, to be leaching that much lead. The vast majority of the solder is not exposed to the water, it's just sea
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by throwawayboise 4y ago
That's good. I didn't come to the BEAM ecosystem from Ruby, so I prefer Erlang's syntax to Elixir's.
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by throwawayboise 4y ago
> offices, public spaces, or public transport no longer feel safe They are statistically as safe or safer than they've ever been, but the drama-driven "news" reporting today would love to have you believe otherwise, so tha
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by throwawayboise 4y ago
Reason #329 that I don't buy Bluetooth stuff. The OP's description above sounds like a good day using Bluetooth, in my experience.
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by throwawayboise 4y ago
I've never heard of them. I'm 56.

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