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4·15 days agoGimPhotoshop.
What game do you play that needs 10 dice?
Trust me, there’s someone just starting out, and you got them 90% of the way there, and they will humbly submit a fix for your code with zero judgement.
That someone is me, because I have no idea what I’m doing.
New job doesn’t offer health insurance, so that’s the premium. However, I did manage to negotiate that they bump my offer to cover half of it, and the other half I can pay tax-free. So that’s something.
Plus I pay on credit card, so I get points.
Got laid off that job and now paying out of pocket for a much better plan and I’ve never been happier.
Just a cool $1800/mo.
How about when the website explicitly says your subscription covers Stranger Things, but you watch Stranger Things, and they then bill you $80.
Then you follow the steps to dispute it on their website. And they say they didn’t make any mistakes. Then you do the follow-up appeal via snail-mail and they say that there’s still nothing wrong.
(My experience with UHC and a cholesterol test)
24·1 month agoI think the creators of Bioshock were correct to base the plot on seaslugs.
To shreds you say
Came in here for this.
Being able to do this at all is challenging, but building something the size of a bread machine that can be operated by anyone and maintains sterility on its own is something else.
weren’t allowed to interject or add to the conversation in any way
I think the best they can do is press a button that says they’ve “become biased” and will connect you to another operator. My friend got them to do that once.
We had a deaf school in our high school, so one of the payphones had a keyboard and an operator would read your messages to the other party. My friend used to use it to call his friend and see how many dirty words he could get the operator to say.
3·2 months agostill have
There are studies that show that people care for things more if they had a hand in creating/fixing them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA_effect
Though I personally have more of a love hate relationship with my IKEA furniture.
So like…they did this on Wednesday on purpose, right my dudes?
Ch00ftech.com though it’s been a hot decade since I’ve published anything.
Over the past week, I’ve repaired an air filter that had a corroded trace inside its fan motor controller, a pair of Bluetooth headphones that had sweat ingress bust the power button, and I’m working on rebuilding an LCD driver for an old piece of Mattel electronics.
I’m very interested in this article.
Edit: and I forgot to mention the time a few months ago where a friend ordered a walking treadmill from Amazon that was DOA, so they just sent her a new one and told her to scrap the original. Turns out the power connector was unplugged from the mainboard receptacle.
Yeah. That used to be the case in the US, but it’s illegal now.