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I'm 36, and I've had 32 cavities filled in my lifetime. I can't stand the procedure every time, and it's been heartbreaking for me not to be able to pinpoint why I've had so many c…

> Does Apple have any way to verify it’s actually a full delete, and do they do so? The guidelines do state that it should be a full delete. In my experience, Apple has never check…

Internationally, between currencies? The best offer I've found for transferring $200,000 USD to AUD is 0.4% ($800). At scale, that's not exactly cheap. I'm referencing the original…

What services are the best for transferring large sums of money cheaply, safely, and quickly? In my experience, you can only choose one. I would prefer to chose two: cheaply and sa…

Exactly this. Every OSS project is going to have a slightly different arrangement, but many contributions to OSS projects are subject to conflict of interest agreements. I work ful…

Same. You might find Inconsolata interesting, too: https://github.com/googlefonts/Inconsolata

Pretty rad. What's the etiquette on the drop-in/surf time? And who built it/paid for it? Is it free? Asking because I used to live near Bend, Oregon, which had a similar lowhead da…

Shortcut to the Electron app: https://github.com/1j01/jspaint#desktop-app-electron

I have not seen this at all, thank you for sharing!

The Second Reality source code is on Github -- it is fun to poke around through the code and code comments with what seems like little in-jokes between themselves. Also interesting…

What are some of the languages/frameworks/tools you use at your current role?

I learn bluegrass guitar licks. Lots of free resources on Youtube.

"Water Rabbit" is a reference to the Chinese Zodiac, as in "Year of the Water Rabbit". I have no idea what this could mean in the context of the article other than offering a poeti…

For my past six or seven contracts I've been carrying around the same set of fetch util functions I wrote in ES6 a few years ago - it's less than 200 lines of code. If the API endp…

Which cultures would be considered high-context? (Genuinely curious)

For starters, you have a leaderboard. Any sort of number metric or gamification is enough to keep me off a platform. Edit: I just realized the irony of the above as I type this on …

Far less serious (and not polysyllabic), but still linguistically interesting: the Chinese character for _biáng_, one of the most complex in modern usage. There are 15 variants of …

Same - I cannot tell if this is meant to be satire. I am an hourly contractor, and I prefer it to 'full time' employment. As with everything, there are pros and cons, but overall i…

I'm in Australia and Reddit/Twitter ground to a standstill - request timeout after request timeout. I presumed it was an outage somewhere but was surprised to learn it was with AWS…

You buy a SIM card from a wireless provider, register your service, and you're connected to that provider's network. Depending on which country you live in, you may be asked to pro…

I got a pi 3b+ as I romanticized the idea of it, but it struggles a bit with SM64. I just use OpenEmu on my higher-powered laptop and HDMI out instead. Pi format is still fun to ti…

Thanks for that info. I'm a permanent resident of Australia now, with access to the public (and private) medical care down here. My injury and procedure happened in the US though, …

Also broke my ankle, and also had a plate installed via ORIF surgery. My insurance company was billed nearly $80,000 USD, and I was asked to pay $6k of that. And that was just the …

According to this article, the plane itself was found while researching Lt. Col. John Donalson, who was credited with piloting the lead aircraft during the invasion. It also provid…

Of other Murakami works, I really enjoyed "After Dark" and his collection of short stories, "The Elephant Vanishes".