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jhwhite

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    Comment #46639174

    LifeKit did an episode on this recently. https://www.npr.org/2026/01/06/nx-s1-5667582/how-to-build-a-... Some things I do: I organize a monthly brunch for friends. I try and grow i…

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    Comment #45894937

    The ice cream lady that rolls down our neighborhood. My 4 yo hears the music and freaks out. We have to keep cash around now.

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    Comment #43391639

    On your pricing tab "Expiration" is spelled incorrectly on Pro and Elite levels.

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    Comment #42699359

    This is what I did with my son. Take the pedals off, teach him balance, then put them back on. There's a hospital here that does a clinic on teaching kids to ride a bike and this i…

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    Comment #42487982

    > It makes me wonder: how do people get so sold on a thing that they'll go online and fight about it, even when they lack facts or often even basic understanding? I feel like this …

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    Comment #42298285

    I'm probably wrong but since it was discovered in a sacrificial pit I assumed the bronze age people burned the silk as a way to "communicate with heaven".

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    Comment #42138341

    I reached out to a recruiter I know about a job posted on their company's site. They replied that wasn't a real posting it was just to get people in the pipeline. They did say if i…

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    Comment #42118346

    Yeah but a good technical PM / whatever will have that understanding. Not a role that just checks milestones and statuses.

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    Comment #42116029

    I see so much backlash against Project Managers and they're just Outlook Calendars with legs, but this post is basically a love letter to good Project Managers/Release Train Engine…

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    Comment #42110224

    I'm not sure it's Jira-fication. I think it's mapping effort back to something that has a direct result to the bottom line. Example: I used to work for a company that basically mad…

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    Comment #41711855

    > Add me to the long list of people who heard the bit about desert sand not being suitable for concrete and believed it. I'm happy to be corrected. Cristobol and Hank's whole busin…

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    Comment #41592587

    Right, but how much work is done when in the office. You might have the same amount of downtime in the office than at home, but now that down time can't be spent doing something el…

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    Comment #41592572

    Depends on the age of the child. A 10 year old is old enough to be at the house without direct supervision but not be left alone. They would need to go to a daycare if someone were…

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    Comment #41557100

    > I want you to look them in the eyes and tell them they are the bottleneck and take it a step further and explain why they are the bottleneck so you both are on the same page. I'v…

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    Comment #40132521

    I was in the local library yesterday for the first time in a while and they had a 3d printer AND THEY WERE HATCHING BABY CHICKS! How awesome is that!

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    Comment #39855056

    Notepad++ has a place in my heart. When I was learning HTML back in the late 90s early 00s I was using MS Frontpage or Adobe Dreamweaver GUI. I read that those would spit out sub-o…

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    Comment #39361841

    I feel this article was basically daring Elon to do it.

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    Comment #37756225

    I found mine networking through previous colleagues.

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    Comment #37529128

    clinicaltrials.gov let's you save a search term then download the results as a zip. But there's an xml file for each search result for the trial. One of the first things I played a…

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    Comment #37405627

    No one knows the amount of thought I put into this same problem when building train tracks for my son but I had no idea how to solve the problem.

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    Comment #36057507

    I used to work for a state gov entity, one of the counties I worked with named their servers after Looney Toon characters. I always thought that was cool and fun. Where I worked na…

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    Comment #35833765

    I usually don't have enough socks. I did just buy 3 more pair from Darn Tough though. It's funny, long time ago, back in my bachelor days I definitely didn't have enough socks, and…

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    Comment #35730653

    I used to have Google Home and moved to Homepod Minis. I should have ran them side by side, but that would have gotten very confusing for other people in the family. Siri is fine a…

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    Comment #27145645

    I was in Target a week ago and the sign in ours said they're limiting packs to 1 per customer. I had no idea it was over safety concerns.

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    Comment #26157693

    If I'm going to pay for a password manager I'm going to pay for 1Password.