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Or you could take Amtrak or fly as close to your destination as they can you, then rent a car the rest of the way. To me taking a long trip in a car would be torture. No bathroom, can't get up to walk around, with the bonus of being rattled to death on our bumpy roads. Well, I don't think I...

It's not nice to drive anywhere in the NYC metro area unless traffic jams are your thing. And cars cost a hideous amount of money for what they are. If you're rich and have clear roads to drive them on I guess they're an OK toy. If you work for a living you can probably retire a decade earlier...

True but bikes are a lot less costly to keep running, especially if you learn to do all your own repairs. I've read the average trip length by car is something like 4 miles. That's easily done on a bike, even for someone in average shape. Don't know how long a commute snowhiker has. It might...

This might be telling you to ditch the car for a bike. Never had a car myself. The bike worked just fine in cases where public transit or walking weren't viable. Cars have been money pits for everyone I know who owns one.

For what it's worth I rarely use the big chainring. I have 53/42 in front and 11-25 10-speed cogs in back. That works out fine for most riding keeping it on the 42 tooth chainring. Only time I might want to go on the big chainring is when I'm sustaining over 30 mph. That doesn't happen too often...

I wonder if someone in his family passed. I was absent from the forums for quite a while after my father died in 2006.

Don't feel bad. I actually got fired from my first (and only) work-study job for not showing up during study break. I thought I had my shift covered, but the guy who said he would cover it was a no-show also. To make a long story short, it was a blessing in disguise. Next semester my grades...

I wasn't directly aware of it, but I was curious why SSD prices are still the same or slightly higher than they were about a year ago. If they had been following their historical trajectory, we should have seen at least a 25% drop.

Sanitation plows the streets but you're responsible for shoveling the sidewalk adjacent to your property. Thankfully we don't have a corner house which would be about 120 or 140 feet of sidewalk. Just 40 feet to shovel plus the steps and walkway. I'll let the snow in the driveway melt on its own.

Just shoveled. This snow is very heavy, which is typical of March snow. 8 inches of it weighs as much as 2 feet of mid-winter snow.

I'm just pointing out that you can use statistics to "prove" anything you want. Absolute numbers killed annually is yet another way to look at it since that takes into account both safety per passenger mile and use. By that metric cars kill about 100 times as many as planes in the US in a...

I'm not sure that deaths per passenger mile is a great metric. That skews the statistics in favor of modes which make longer trips. Point of fact, takeoffs and landings are the most dangerous part of flying. If the average plane trip was the same length as the average car trip the difference...

The problem with a plane is that you really can't get up and walk around whenever you want. I couldn't be mostly in a sitting position for 14 hours. Besides that, there's the fact that planes crash, and you almost always die when that happens. From NYC a trip to Asia without flying would...

No. Thus far I haven't had much desire or time to do long distance traveling, not to mention I've lacked the funds. It's something I may do after I'm able to retire.

It's been 26 years, 5 months since I've been on a plane. That was actually the only time I flew in my entire life. While the flight was uneventful, I decided then and there I'll never fly again. Not a very comfortable way to travel compared to a train. And it's one of these low risk but high...

I think their eventual APUs with the Zen architecture are more intriguing. For those who don't really need a separate graphics card, a Ryzen APU would be close to Intel's offerings in terms of content creation, and the graphics engine should be better than what Intel offers in terms of...

Probably. What I did looks very good on a resume. The only issue is I need to work primarily at home since I'm the caretaker for my mom. Unfortunately, my mom started getting dementia in the last few years and needs someone there. My brother and sister both work full-time. It's not an option for...

I wholeheartedly agree here. Depending upon either a bonus (or overtime if you're an hourly employee) to make a decent amount isn't a good way to live. On another note I might be joining the ranks of the unemployed later this year or next. The project I was hired for is moving to the next...

The more I read about it the more I think Trump is an alien.

Is there any proprietary manufacturer software loaded on the drives? I saw USB 3 Lexar drives which performed miserably (i.e. speeds of a few MB/sec) due to encryption software. Repartitioning and reformatting the drive fixed that. Also, I've found USB drives are much faster with either FAT32 or...

Snowpocalyse in NYC. First time this year I actually need to shovel.

They were from Saudi Arabia (which my late father always called "Southern Arabia" for some reason), a country whose ass we regularly kiss, just like we do to Israel. We should tell both of these places to go f themselves. Stop buying Saudi oil and stop giving financial help and military...

That will be highly dependent on the success or failure of Trump's economic policies. And if highly successful, I don't discount the possibility of more than 8 years, or even possibly the remainder of his natural life, as President, Fuhrer, Supreme Leader, or whatever title he picks. We're in...

Sure, it's good policy to vet people from countries which sponsor terrorism regardless of whether or not they've successfully attacked us. That's why I have no qualms about what Trump is doing here. My larger complaint, and this has existed for decades, is why does the US stick its two cents in...

It's really a half truth. The hard fact is intelligence tests have long been biased to favor the skill sets which might be more common among a white population of European ancestry. There are many ways of measuring intelligence. In general people's brains evolved so the skill sets most useful in...

People in charge spew false information all the time. While I'm generally not a fan of doing this, there are times when well-placed misinformation or even outright character assassination can help further your goals. It sort of falls into the "ends justify the means" category.

I've had to sign a number of NDAs over the course of my working life, including one for the people I'm consulting for now. The project falls into the category of "if I tell you I have to kill you".

I have the 40W equivalent of these and I'm very happy with them. That said, if you don't need dimming the ones you linked to are worth a try. They seem to have gotten good reviews. Yeah, there's less and less price difference between LEDs and CFLs these days, even in A19 sizes. When you...

Honestly, at this point there's so little difference in prices between 1080p and 2160p that it makes little sense not to go with 2160p even if you have little or no available 4K content. For example, this LG 43" 1080p TV goes for $347 while this 43" 2160p one goes for $497. Note that the 2160p...

If I miss the ones this year and in 2024, I still have a good shot at making the one in 2045 (I'll be 82). There's even a slim chance of making the one in 2079 right in my home town, depending upon my longevity and what medical science may bring. I wish I didn't have to take care of my mom. I'd...

Merry Christmas!

That was my reasoning here. While it's true Office 365 might add new features or upgrades to the software chances are nil I would need any of that. Point of fact, prior to getting Office 365 Office '97 still served most of my needs. With Office 2016 I should be good for a long, long time.

First snow of the year here. A few inches accumulated, then we had a little rain turning it into a slushy mess.

My guess might be that your gums receded slightly and exposed the more sensitive part of the tooth without enamel below the gum line. I think brushing with flouride solution might help develop at least a thin layer of enamel on the exposed tooth. Anyway, mention my thoughts to your dentist and...

It seems to work so far. I'll keep everyone posted if there are any issues. Note: I uninstalled Office 365 before installation.

It's not just the interface they screwed up. Virtually anytime I use Yahoo Mail or look at Yahoo news articles my CPU pegs at 100% and the machine becomes unresponsive for seconds to a minute or more. It looks like maybe they're trying to run scripts for ads or other nonsense. In fact, the...

That's worth knowing. I should download and give it a try. Why does this not surprise me? I sometimes think MS intentionally writes buggy software just so they can clandestinely put spyware in with their patches.

Actually, my job is the only reason I need it. LibreOffice doesn't render MS file formats 100% correctly. When I look at stuff my colleagues send I need to see exactly what they do. If it was just for my personal use, LibreOffice is fine. I went with this for now. Hopefully it'll work forever...

Last year I was given a one year subscription to Office 365. It expired yesterday. I'm told the software will remain function for another month at least. Given that I don't need Office on more than one machine I've concluded it's better in the long run for me to just buy Office 2016 outright...

Not really. This falls more into the category of a medium nuisance than a major problem, which is why I'm looking at DIY solutions. As I said, when I have working sump pumps little or no water gets in. Without them, I might get 1/2 to 1 inch of water in a few rooms. This isn't a case of getting...

It's actually located a few feet behind the hose reel. The pipe isn't clogged or broken as far as I know but I could double check next time it rains.

Correct, the driveway was poured so water goes into the center, and from there flows out into the street. The problem water appears to be coming in from underneath the driveway. It probably enters via the neighbor's grass on the left side of the picture, drains into the ground, then flows...

On another note it looks like the manufacturers are focusing mostly on the enterprise sector. Makes sense given that SSDs these days are cheap enough and large enough for most non-enterprise users.

Can't wait for Merc's reaction to this. :rofl:

The issue here is that the driveway is on the same side of the house as the window wells. There's little I can do here in the way of outside measures without breaking up the driveway and paying to have it reinstalled. A picture is worth a thousand words: The first window well is right near...

Did anyone check for blocked salivary glands? I've had one of those on and off for the last year. While at worst it's a slight pressure (as opposed to any kind of pain), I've heard it can sometimes be painful.

https://www.americanexpress.com/us/small-business/openforum/articles/executive-physicals-can-a-5000-exam-help-improve-your-health-and-business/ A quick $200 exam where they check your BP and listen to your heart isn't go to tell you much. I was looking for an exam to get to the root causes of...

Why don't I have insurance? I can't afford it. Forget that I made 6 figures the last 2 and half years. Eventually this gig will end and I may well not find anything paying even close to it. End result is I'll go back to earning less than $10K annually, as I did much of my adult life. Either way...

That's what they quoted me. You do know that doctors charge a lot more for patients with no insurance on the supposed theory that most out of pocket patients are wealthy? Also, don't forget this is NYC where a lot of things are more expensive to start with.

Generally in my family the ones who get sick abuse their body in some way (smoking, heavy drinking, grossly overweight, not exercising, unhealthy diet). Even then, they typically don't have major health issues until their 60s. My father's mother for example weighed in excess of 300 pounds her...