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    What did you just read?

    I enjoy Expeditionary Force more than I should. It's the only series I've ever "read" that seems like it was made specifically for a narrator (RC Bray) and specifically for audio. I can't imagine they hold up if you are actually reading them.
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    New World

    I just feel like they should tell the playerbase one way or the other. I'm trying to rush to 200 across the board, and if I'm just going to get flipped to level 160 when they roll this shit out, it would be nice to know.
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    New World

    Have they said how they are actually going to roll out the XP changes to crafting with the PTR patch? It makes me extremely nervous that they are going to take the total amount of XP that we've accumulated for our level 200 skills (1.8m) and make us start the grind all over again instead of...
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    New World

    Setting under visuals. Defaults to 60 fps.
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    Investing General Discussion

    I'm also extremely interested in the options how-to thread. I've always been a long buyer and occasionally buy call options as a gamble, but some of the other strategies have never really clicked for me.
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    Investing General Discussion

    This really was a great 2 week distraction from the rest of the world going to shit. It's too bad it had to end so soon.
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    Home Improvement

    Do you have any powerline adapters or other similar type networking gear plugged into that circuit. A friend of mine had a similar problem and found that certain adapters trip the arc protection on those breakers. https://hardforum.com/threads/powerline-adapters-afcis.1766215/
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    Home buying thread

    FWIW, I just closed a 2.75% jumbo refi with Chase a couple weeks ago (w/ points, 75% LTV). I can send over the dude I worked with if you want to compare rates. They aren't the most responsive, but they had the best rates for my jumbo.
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    Pokemans and how to catch them with your phone - friend codes in OP

    Need friends :( 074343406867
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    Harry Potter Wizards Unite (aka harry potter pokemon go)

    No idea what I am doing, but there are lots of things by me at work, so I'll see what happens. Friend Code: 6200 4544 3622
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    MTG: Arena

    There is a vault but no way to see progress as far as I know. I've spent $104.99, busted $50 worth of GOR packs (plus many more from drafts), and am close to infinite in competitive GOR draft. I've had the vault open twice.
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    Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

    Really enjoyed it. Probably more so than any Star Wars film that I can remember seeing in a theater. Weakest parts involved Harrelson. I'd totally watch more films with Crimson Dawn, New Han, or Lando.
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    Silicon Valley

    The mesh technology finds you a new route to that node. Assuming you are within 100m of a node and that node is within 100m of another node, your mesh rapidly expands to hit a shitload of people in a metro area.
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    Silicon Valley

    There are some "secure" chat clients that use mesh (bluetooth, wifi direct, bluetooth LE) to communicate without any actual internet or cell signal. This could be an extension of that concept with the "Internet" potentially distributed and compressed onto individual devices scattered around a...
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    What do you do?

    Some of these "coding schools" are getting a bit ridiculous (see Center Centre and 42: Tuition Free Coding University in the Silicon Valley at the 2 ends of the spectrum). Time to jump on the bandwagon and open one? Might as well just teach the trinity (product ownership, ux, engineering) and...
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    What do you do?

    May be worth having an employment lawyer look over it. Most of those are not enforceable...
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    Parent Thread

    That is pretty much what we're experiencing as well. We've been prescribed a daily dose of Flovent for the next year before we re-evaluate and see if he is still impacted. It seems seasonal to me.
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    Parent Thread

    5 year old started kindergarten this week which is going to be really interesting. She tends to get frustrated pretty quickly and give up and that shit isn't going to fly at her school. 2 year old got diagnosed with asthma yesterday after having a really bad cough (couldn't go more than 30...
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    Wine and How to Impress.

    +1 to JUSTIN I also really like Schug Pinot Noir. Both the Schug and JUSTIN can usually be had at Costco for ~$15.
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    What do you do?

    Where - smaller technology consulting firm - SE office What - director of software development practice Field - technology consulting Wages - $186k base Bonuses - ~$60k Benefits - Unlimited PTO, flexible hours as long as I am responsive at all times, 401k, ... , standard stuff How long - 5 years...
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    Home Improvement

    I was looking at something likeDRIcore 7/8 in. x 2 ft. x 2 ft. DRIcore Subfloor Panel-CDGNUS750024024 - The Home Depotwhich in theory helps prevent the moisture from doing too much damage to the actual flooring. Looks pretty straight forward to install it as well. Really I'm not worried about...
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    Home Improvement

    So we're buying a log cabin and it has an unfinished basement. How feasible would it be for me to finish it myself if I have very little DIY experience? Where is a good place to start learning? I am fine paying for the "hard" stuff, but I'd like to do as much of it as I can myself. For...
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    Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

    Novelization is out on Kindle. It's a very quick read and has some additional back-story. Amazon.com: The Force Awakens (Star Wars) eBook: Alan Dean Foster: Kindle Store It also clears up some of the "issues" that people have mentioned recently in this thread.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Fuck you, mandolin.
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    What do you do?

    While hiring liberally and firing the bottom x% every year sounds like a great idea on paper, the reality is that it really sucks to fire people. I don't mean the actual firing part, but all the other stuff (documentation) that you have to take care of before you are legally allowed to let...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Didn't she just have a baby? That probably helped out...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    48 hour boneless Costco short-ribs @ 140 degrees then blasted with a Map torch. They were absolutely amazing and the texture was perfect (phone pictures do not do it justice as the inside was nice and pink). Short Ribs Time and Temp | Recipe | ChefStepsis where I got the "recipe".
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Thread has too many recent comments without mention of sous vide. I bring you rib-eye @ 133?F for 90 minutes followed by blow torch action:
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Made somePull-Apart Stuffing Rolls | Serious Eats : Recipesalong with a few sous vide turkey breasts. Crazy good.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Way ahead of you - picked upBernzomatic TS8000KC Premium Torch Kit-331044 at The Home Depotlast weekend. I spent Saturday afternoon setting shit on fire with it. My wife was not pleased.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Mine was shipped out of Houston via FedEx Ground.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    SV a whole cow? This might be the best idea I have ever heard...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    And so it begins...
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    What do you do?

    Take the money and pay someone else to clean the house?
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    Pregnancy Thread

    With our first, we bought a cheap baby doppler off ebay (similar toLCD Prenatal Pocket Fetal Doppler FDA CE Approved Baby Heart Beat Monitor Gel | eBay) for like $50. It's great for your wife's piece of mind and you can pick up the heartbeat pretty quickly starting around week 10 or 11.
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    What do you do?

    In addition to trying to find an internship, make a site/app/something that you can put out there and talk about. If it takes off and gets a decent user base, even better.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Balsamic roasted brussel sprouts make the ladies swoon.
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    That's probably just her cover story to give dudes the Herp.
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    As another data point, we pay our nanny $13/hr + OT when we need her over 40 hours a week + 20 holidays/pto.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    I use the shredding attachment on my food processor for grating large quantities of cheese or for grating up the 2lb block of parmigiano-reggiano that we go through every month and a half. Otherwise I wouldn't miss not having one. Also +1 for a good enameled dutch oven. That shit stays out...