AceyMan

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by AceyMan 2y ago
Well, Peanutbutter M&Ms are sacred manna, so they are a bad example. At my Ralph's (=Kroger), all the large bags dissappear minutes after getting loaded into the shelf.
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by AceyMan 2y ago
At 10,000 meters , "at-pace" for the Pro is already faster than 100m sprint for the average (Western, sedentary) human. Do the BOTEC yourself, you'll see.
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by AceyMan 2y ago
/set Devil's Advocate mode: from the reporting so far, no one has died as a result of the Crowdstrike botch. For my money, that sounds like it's not being used in 'critical industry'. /unset There were severa
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by AceyMan 2y ago
I'm talking about 'in vogue' names like Kayley and Riley and Jaden. Do you see the CEO of Big Corp or Fields Medal winner being a _______? (btw, my son attended the same preschool as Paltrow's kids: just a coincidence wo
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by AceyMan 2y ago
This is the catch: you're not naming a baby: you're naming a person ; they just so happen to be a baby at the beginning when you're enjoying an early appreciation for the mel lif lu ous ness of the name ... but they'r
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by AceyMan 2y ago
OP here. Since, while the tournament is going on, it's a year later & they are still clinging to the old system, it seems right to bring this up again. [Amazingly, there are no new stories in 2024 on this topic that I could find.
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At Wimbledon, the Human Eye Keeps Dropping the Ball (2023)(nytimes.com)
2 points by AceyMan 2y ago|1 comments
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by AceyMan 2y ago
the 'trusted flag' (my term) == the thing that you touch when you Unblock-File (pwsh) or uncheck in the file properties UI => lives in an alternate data stream.
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by AceyMan 2y ago
Authy doesn't implement SMS 2FA (how could it). A phone number is part of your user profile for registered mobile devices hosting the app.
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by AceyMan 2y ago
Every time I'm in a queue at a store I compute the arrival rate while I wait in line. (Little's Law is one of my very favorite pages in all of Wikipedia!).
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by AceyMan 2y ago
References are going the way of the dodo bird, anyway. In my circles, job seekers don't bother offering them and employers are ending the practice of asking for them. (411: I'm in the LAX market & a best friend is an HR execut
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by AceyMan 2y ago
Or, the ultimate zero-software solution ... just rest your mouse on top of a running analog wristwatch; bonus points if said watch is mechanical ::grin::
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by AceyMan 2y ago
'Basic research' has a specific meaning in the natural sciences, which, I suspect, is how the OP was using the phrase.
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by AceyMan 2y ago
I'm beginning to think the new slogan ought to be, "There's a Kurzgesagt for that..." (vice, xkcd).
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by AceyMan 2y ago
they always say to "dress for the job you want." And I'd love to be an NTSB member. Any tips?
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The Long and Winding Journey to NTSB Appointments(aviationweek.com)
2 points by AceyMan 2y ago|1 comments
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by AceyMan 2y ago
as a native English speaker I transparently read that as,"there's no point in buying a GSM module [...]", but I can see how others might possibly be tripped up by that construction.
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by AceyMan 3y ago
True, right up until you need to use something that must check the SSH_AUTH_SOCK envar and then it's game over man (c.f., Chef Workstation).
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Bring buttons and dials back to new cars. Touch screens distract drivers(latimes.com)
5 points by AceyMan 3y ago|2 comments
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by AceyMan 3y ago
as an owner of my softbound copy of TF&S I was surprised there wasn't one here already. (I saw the WSJ article drop the minute it posted, as a subscriber.) RIP, Prof. K.
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by AceyMan 3y ago
Obligatory citation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_rock
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by AceyMan 3y ago
That's a great resource but I find it too theoretical as a primer; to me, I need to understand git some already before the paper makes sense. Whereas the following article is more "Lego Duplo" conceptually and helped me wra
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by AceyMan 3y ago
Well, since being a manager is basically 'telling other people what to do in a way such that they'll actually do it' — yes. /s
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by AceyMan 3y ago
The New York Times just posted a news flash ... citing Down Detector :-P
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by AceyMan 3y ago
This. I've determined that the societal benefit of ADHD is best demonstrated in the hunter role during humans' hunter-gatherer era. Long runs or hikes to get to the locale / day (or days) long stints of observant concentratio
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by AceyMan 3y ago
>> I know very few people who would pay for a search engine. A 'fact,' which, if true, makes little sense when you look at it from the PoV as a tool. With real physical tools, if you only use it occasionally, get a cheap one
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by AceyMan 3y ago
When I was just starting in IT (~1999) it was already a joke that you could identify where different MSFT teams wrote elements of software (say, Outlook) when a common action was implemented two different ways (explained by Conway's La
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by AceyMan 3y ago
I remember these sheets (or the same type artifact) in a newstand magazine fifteen years ago or so; I read it in Wired, Esquire or some similar publication, iirc.
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by AceyMan 3y ago
There is a thing called equipment change. We use it all the time. At airline scale a captain (and crew) is worth an airplane. (And, come to think about it, it's a 1:1 relationship, so that follows Noether's Lemma, I think). Don&#x
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by AceyMan 3y ago
That's what everyone says, but I don't think the numbers are there. And, to be frank, most of the accidents you infer, are with non-US pilots, who's culture & training just doesn't match up with what the States has (

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