Trainguyrom @ Trainguyrom @reddthat.com

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This is a good levelheaded response. I'll also add I have 2 relatives who had similar age differences in dating. One ended in flames like most relationships do for 17 year olds (and honestly that whole relationship stunk of trouble from a mile away) but the other they're still together almost 20 years later as she's turning 35 and he's approaching 65 (they're at a similar emotional maturity level, and honestly could grow more as people in order to live more fulfilling lives but I digress)

Give your daughter the support she needs. Let her know you're there for her and will catch her when she falls and maybe it'll work out, maybe it won't.

I've put 80k miles on one Kia and just got a Hyundai with 100k miles on it. I've not once had something need replacement that wasn't an expected wear item at about the expected interval. I also witnessed a Kia get pinned against the median on the beltline by a speeding car that lost control and while it was definitely totaled, the occupants were uninjured.

So my annecdotal experience has been quite positive

I'll have to have my dad explain it again because he's the one who's really been deep diving into genealogy, but I remember he said the captain of the ship and the guy that fell overboard were two of the people we're related to

A couple of months ago I had a recruiter from the Department of State hit me up on Linkedin about onsite technical support roles at their embassies. The location selection process sounded more like military deployment and really sounded like a lot more uncertainty than I'd want to put my family through but if I didn't have kids I'd have absolutely pursued it just for the experience. They were hiring for a ton of open positions so those might still be open if you have an IT background

I recently lost my mostly-remote role to layoffs and struggled to even land an interview, and ended up accepting a fully in person role an hour's drive away. Job market's pretty tight right now.

From the analysis I heard on the economics podcast I listen to, people aren't changing jobs much and employers aren't listing new jobs much at this second. Employers are apparently trying to wait and see what the new administration has in store for them before trying to expand their teams

Step 1, figure out if any of your parents, grandparents...came from somewhere else.

I'm related to 7 different passengers of the Mayflower!

...yup I'm not moving countries the easy way

Ah crud yeah you're right. Good catch

Technically those are orders of magnitude. 2x or 3x efficiency compared to resistive heating is quite a bit. But in the scheme of getting actual heat into an actual home and real world energy costs it's not a huge difference

The efficiency of a heat pump in part comes from the temperature of the heat source. For an air source heat pump it will be more efficient at higher outside temperatures and less efficient and lower outside temperatures, and at extreme temperatures may be less efficient than resistive heating

TL:DR her mom called the police and a neighbor and the neighbor loudly arrived spooking the intruder

I mean, there was a period about 15 years ago when he seemed to be the only rich person actually talking about climate change, doing something that might make some difference (investing in an electric vehicle startup, and later a rooftop solar startup) and seemed to actually be concerned about it. I now question if that was just an act or not.

On the other hand there is the theory that he fell down the right wing social media pipeline during the pandemic and that's why he's seemed to have such a sudden shift on political party affiliation. I like that theory because I think it's kinda funny to imagine one of the richest men in the world being too cooped up and spending too long doomscrolling to the point that he became radicalized by social media algorithms

I always say "Trace RT" in my head so I remember how they truncated traceroute

As someone who doesn't drink much bourbon and whiskey both surprised me in how much I liked them the first time I tried them. It could just be that they were higher quality examples I tried but I can see how people can become connoisseurs. Also I can see how people can easily take either too far given the high alcohol content. A couple of sips had me quite buzzed, but then I've met 5 year olds with more alcohol tolerance than I have so that doesn't meet much

Eh I'd even take the gig for an entire evening

Beers are very much an aquired taste. There's your commodity beers and your piss beers from the big national brands like Pabst, Miller, Coors, etc. which largely are trying to sate a pallete that never liked the moonshine from the prohibition era (and all are crap in my personal opinion as someone who still hasn't acquired the taste for beer but can at least tell when something is good. The commodity stuff is good for getting you buzzed and that's about it), then there's your microbrews which will vary wildly in style and flavor (if it's on tap you can just tell the bartender you've not really had beer before and ask what they recommend and if you can try it before you commit to a full glass. They might even have the option for a flight of beers, with a bunch of shot glasses of beers for your to try a bit of each) and then there's the stuff people don't talk enough about: ciders (it tastes like apple juice but with a sharper, fuller flavor!) mixed drinks (again, ask the bartender for suggestions if you're unsure), and probably some other ones I'm not thinking of before you move onto the whiskeys and bourbons.

So basically it's a wide world of alcoholic beverages and honestly people don't encourage experimenting enough

Once pepper cooks into a meal it's a whole 'nother thing and miles above what it tastes like when added at the table

On that subject makes me wonder if insurance.aes has been cracked yet

Make it 60-72 hours and your death will still be fresh enough for it to be relevant, but plenty of time to figure out how to work around whatever calamity might prevent still-alive you from stopping it. It's even enough time that if your death makes the news it'll have been seen by most relevant journalists and newsrooms already so they'll have more context for the strange email they find

I recently ran Windows 2000 in a VM to pull some files from some install discs (grabbing Microsoft Train Simulator content from disc images off of archive.org to play in OpenRails in case anyone reading this is the same kind of crazy I am) and it was kinda striking how usable it was even in a modern context. Sure certain shortcuts and niceties hadn't been thought of yet but it's surprisingly modern for a 25 year old desktop operating system

I went to Disneyland for the first time as an adult a couple of years ago. The first day we did not purchase the Geniepass, and observed that unlike the old (free) Fastpass, they would not simply give each line equal priority but instead would let scores of (paid) Geniepass holders through before one regular ticket holder would be let on, regardless of line length. So basically they've raised the price of entry further except as more of a hidden fee so some people simply get a much less fun experience than others