nilloc

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Was it a file system workaround, or character limit in some older programming language?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

You can get a deal on taxes and healthcare if you live in the US, it’s literally why my wife and I married.

We’re still happy like before and It’s been 19 years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I miss my free cable and Wi-Fi in my first Boston apartment. I didn’t discover it worked until 2 months into living there (just after 9/11 actually). It went month to month when the owners sold the place and we wouldn’t have ever left if it weren’t for the shitty icebox and terrible parking in that neighborhood.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

This is why is assumed they mark them to overwrite. Google knows a lot about what makes drives last longer, and OS and drive firmware makers have known for decades too.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I figured they were trying to ban them so we wouldn’t learn what they actually do with lost luggage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

It’s a contribution thing. He contributed enough to society to deserve to not worry about money for the rest of his life. It’s rare though since we have a bunch of billionaires who skim the rewards from huge swaths of the population who also have contributed their part.

The financialization of retirement is a huge part of the problem for the middle class (or what’s left of it, upper-lower-class is probably more accurate). We have to invest in these assholes in order to save for retirement. The harder workers in services, laborers, and fields don’t even get that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

If it was slightly flexible, it’d be a good driving sim screen wrapped half way around the rig.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I’ve been saying this pretty much since I started working in tech in 2005.

They paid too well for a while and gave nice lunches and free lattes while sucking 60-70 hours per week out if us.

I quit and fix cars now with hardly any retirement funds and shit health and dental care.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Massachusetts has had decent right to repair for a decade too. And had universal healthcare way back too. They just got legal weed recently, but like the others, cost of living is rough there. Boston, Somerville and Cambridge housing, but you’re stuck in Boston.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Stack overflow has been one of the consistently reliable googleable sites for decades.

It’s a shame Quora has strayed so far from their initial cloning of SO’s site. It seems to be turning into AskYahoo 2 fast from the results I’ve seen lately.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Sounds like a job for the torque test channel.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Lead acid batteries seem to be less and less reliable lately. The warranties are shorter and shorter as well, which is the best supporting evidence I have beyond needing batteries more often for the 4-5 vehicles I maintain.

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