chrisdhal's comments

> Since I'm too stupid and/or lazy to figure out how to clean my coffee machine

It's literally: pour vinegar where you would put water (don't use any filter or anything). Turn on. Let it go through. Run a few pots of plain water through after to clear out the vinegar from the lines.

That's why you run 4 or so pots of plain water through it afterwards.

If it's self hosted, you shouldn't care if it costs money. Let the person/org decide if they want to use it, just provide an interface for it. There are tons of free, self hosted apps that have tons of notification methods available. Radarr alone has 26 methods for notifications, none enabled by default. They include generic webhook, "custom script", and then there a number of specific ones where you put in the URL, API key, etc. and as the person hosting it things would go against my API count/bill. There's no need for you to be specific about Twilio, just have a notification framework with Twilio being one of the providers.

I think this may be generational. I'm GenX and growing up it was no big deal for my parent's generation (yes, the boomers) to have a drink a night. Even among people of my generation now it wouldn't be uncommon. Probably less than before, but I don't think anybody would think twice about a beer or a drink per day would be any big deal.

I went through school in the 70s and 80s and always had school lunch. I hardly saw anybody bring lunch to school. Maybe it was because of the schools I went to, but they were public schools. They were "good" schools though (some of the best in the major metro area), so maybe that changes things. In high school I honestly don't remember seeing anybody bring lunch, obviously people did, but it would have definitely been the super minority and definitely not common by any means.

The state of Minnesota, under Tim Walz, had all sorts of heavy handed, government mandated rules about things. According to the decree, people couldn't visit relatives, couldn't go to funerals, in reality, could not go out at all. It was ridiculous and over zealous.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/03/25/minnesotas-covid19-...

Because it's decent and open late.

I have routinely gone to one where at 11pm and there's a line 15 deep. This isn't entirely made up of crappy cars either, ie. not the stereotypical "looking for cheap food" crowd, there's BMWs, Mercedes, and everything in between. This particular one is open late (5:30 AM) and I've gone there at 3:30AM on my way to the airport and there's lines then too.

Thanks to COVID shutdowns, there's not many 24 hour restaurants open anymore, so Taco Bell fills that void.

> I have yet to find one that supports tap to pay

Interesting. I haven't seen one in years that doesn't support it in the US. Most of the time even when I hand my card to a cashier because the terminal is by them, they tend to tap it.

I was at a Walgreens once where they had it disabled and the cashier sighed and said the manager disabled it because tap incurred a slightly higher processing fee than inserting the card. This was a couple of years ago and not sure if it's true, but that's what the cashier said the manager said.

> Notice how some airports (IAD, IAH) specifically have "International Airport" in their codes.

Since this is HN, we'll get ultra-pedantic...

IAH is technically "Intercontinental Airport of Houston", not "international" for some reason (full name is "George Bush Intercontinental Airport").

Look for a fiduciary or a for fee planner (not a commission based one). They don't have a stake in selling you specific things, they just charge a flat rate. Whether they're any good or not is a different story, but they aren't in the business to sell you anything other than their services.

I was when I lived in MN. I had a subscription for unlimited car washes (I did the "medium" level). When I commuted in winter I would wash my car at least once a week, sometimes twice. Summer, maybe once every other week. It just took two washes to break even, 3 was coming out ahead. There were times when it was really dirty that I would go through twice back to back.

There was hardly a time there wasn't a short line to go through and many had the subscriptions, you can tell because the attendant just guides you into the track and there was an RFID tag on your windshield and if the attendant didn't have to take payment you knew they had the subscription.

They have quite a few in Houston, only the 4th largest metro area in the US.

Part of eating a bar (or similar) is to have a sporting event on TV so you can watch it while being out. I would be upset if someone was turning those off in that type of place. If you don't like it, don't go there.

At BJs (smaller version of Costco), they have self checkout almost exclusively. They also have a constant deal of "mix and match" 2 types of potato chips. The problem is that their system is not setup to ring those up correctly, so when you scan one bag it immediately stops and lights up the "need help" light. Then you need to wait until the attendant comes by and clears it up. After about the 3rd time you realize that they just scan a code that's taped to the register so you quickly start doing that yourself. This product also prevents you from using the app to do the "scan and pay in the app and skip the checkout".

This is obviously something that should be fixed in the system, but it's nothing that the consumer can do anything about.

As were Ted Lasso, See, and Servant (all done now).

Go to any watch forum and post something about wearing your watch that's rated for 100m to wash your hands and watch the flames come in.

They'll argue (maybe rightfully so) that a water resistance rating is not the same as the pressures of swimming. Just dunking something does not do anything such as swimming strokes that could force water into the watch. I find it a little absurd that people won't wash dishes with a 100m resistant watch, but then again, I'm not sporting a 5 figure watch either.

Facebook Marketplace is great for this type of thing. I know many HN'ers hate FB, but it's really easy to move stuff there. You definitely still get tire kickers, but like CL it's local, so you're not shipping.

I just moved cross country and was downsizing, so we put a bunch of stuff up on Marketplace, some free, some for money. The hardest part was communicating dimensions despite listing them specifically. People would show up with a compact SUV (CR-V/RAV4/etc.) to pick up a couch. I just shook my head. I would take about 3 pictures, no editing, write a 2 sentence description, put in the dimensions (if appropriate for the item) and generally within a day have it gone.

Note that I wasn't trying to make money, I just wanted to get rid of things, but that's probably not much different than CL, but could be different than listing things on ebay.

It's still probably not worth it time wise, but the stuff I was getting rid of was still in good shape and could be useful to somebody, so I'd prefer to have somebody get some use out of it instead of just throwing it away.

There is no monopoly, see MegaBus, FlixBus, OurBus, many others, not to mention specific city to city routes. For example, I used to live in the Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN area and there are specific shuttle busses to go to Rochester, MN to go to the Mayo Clinic.

Also, remember the US is huge. The bus usage in a country like Costa Rica (the closest non-US country I have experience with) is very high, but you can go the length of the country in a day. That wouldn't even get you part way across the US, so depending on where you're going it's not even comparable.

> I'm pretty sure all the big 3rd party apps at least have ads.

I use(d) Relay for Redit, paid a small ($5?, maybe) one time fee for the "Premium" version a few years ago and have never see an ad. You are correct in the sense that if you use the free version of Relay (and possibly others), you would have ads from the app, not Reddit, but if you're willing to pay a small amount, you can get rid of them.

I don't care that as a man in my 50s that I look like a teenage girl with my phone, but I immediately put a Popsocket on any phone that I own. They are wonderful.