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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
My last employer had a policy of rotating managers every few years. Each had a different set of priorities. Then there's politics. I accomplished a project to the great pleasure of my manager and VP. A year or so later along with rotat
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
Alberta is heavily populated with pickups, many decades old (no rust or emissions checks). Their headlights are high up and poorly aimed. The SUVs are newer and better aimed. Another factor is that plastic headlight housings cloud up and ov
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
Either the algorithm or the code can be wrong. We see frequent updates (aka error corrections) to our phone operating system and apps on a near daily basis. To be admissible evidence, a computed result must show the entire decision tree and
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
I did a lot of canoeing on the Lk Superior north east coast. Where rivers discharge, and there's sand the lake pushes up the sand against the river discharge and it's common for the outlet to be considerably displaced along the sh
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
The gangs are making up phony shipping and customs manifests and hiding behind the rail and port authorities, who are enabling the gangs. It's going to take some manpower, but every container going overseas will have to be inspected du
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
A Lancastrian (bomber design conversion to airliner) disappeared in the Andes. Decades later bits were found on a glacier. A Trans Canada North Star (same Merlin engines as the Lancastrian) flew into Mt Slesse in 1956. Fragmented debris was
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
A Mooney was lost in the Rogers Pass along the Trans Canada Highway. A couple years later EMS in a helicopter spotted it some 50 yards off the highway. The local conifer trees are huge.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
That's a good program for joyriders. In Canada, there's a major problem with high end cars and trucks being stolen by professional rings that ship them out in containers. In the UK, Land Rovers have become uninsurable and the manu
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
In Canada a box can be accessed by the estate. My official will is in an SDB, and there's a copy at home saying where the will is located. The principal items are my citizenship documentation and copies of keys.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
Two burner propane camp stoves work just about as well as a home range. The one pound propane cylinders are stupid expensive; so go to a propane supplier to get an adapter made up and buy a small cylinder. You can cook for a month or more o
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
Yep, even with a manual transmission in neutral you can feel the lubricant viscosity bringing up the clutch at -30C. My car's outside temperature display doesn't show temperature below -30 and it takes time for the radio to start
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
I got dumped and retired by Xerox some months after Y2K. There were a number of cuts before the axe swung my way. Yep, there's a heavy MBA focus on financials as opposed to doing what's best for customers. Funnily enough you'
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
The standard is 90 seconds, not 18 minutes = 1080 seconds. They were very lucky the fire took its time. Yes, it's necessary to shut down the engines where possible (not this case). Cabin crew waiting to confer with flight crew can wast
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
À previous employer decided to switch from single to two person cubes with announced objective of enhanced collaboration. This intense developer got mated with a non technical social butterfly. Interruptions verging on harassment. I called
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
The ”I am not a robot” quiz is impenetrable, especially with poor quality photos.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
Better than hurriedly pushing the letter down the memory hole would be arguments against his statements. Unfortunately, Israel and the US (principal waepons supplier to Israel) are right now making a massive demonstration of their oppressio
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
Let's just think of ObL as the Islamic version of Trump. They are both expert at finding people who got the short end of the stick, and inflaming their fundamentalist fanatics (mind you the Palestinians have had a much rougher time tha
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
There's a RICO prosecutor in GA who'd love to sit down with the SBF prosecutors to take notes.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
If you are involved in causes frowned upon by the government of the country you are about to enter, you may want to wipe your phone on the plane. It's more difficult for three letter agencies if you fill the memory with random stuff an
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
If you're a US citizen, they have to let you in – eventually. In the meantime you may be sitting in a room without access to your phone. With customs everywhere, you're usually better off answering their questions without asking w
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
Ashrae is there to give management cover for poorly=cheaply ventilated buildings. Some decades ago I worked in a Bell Canada data center which had Ashrae minimum air quality. I found another job. Employer owned buildings are vulnerable to v
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
Toronto's Rosedale is a wealthy older inner city neighborhood with mansions and narrow streets populated with SUVs. The trophy wives who typically drive them generally lack the skill to safely maneuver them in tight spaces. SUVs and o
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
I have read of the practice of mutilating children so they can make money begging. Having unintentionally lost a fingertip, the misery can be lifelong as any touch to the end can be extremely painful (allodynia). Prosthetics help enormously
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
The Toronto region has a number of low head dams that have in my memory claimed at least seven people and one dog. A number of drownings were of people who jumped in to save their dog. Usually the dog got out on its own. Paddlers are genera
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
Nope. It's straight out of PL/I, which is a highly underrated compiler language.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
The Navpad is a simple device that secures gadgets to your thigh. https://www.diblasi.com/aviation.htm Stuff gets dropped. Suction cup mounts have the habit of coming loose at inopportune times.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
Housing is an is an inelastic commodity. Small shifts in supply/demand have a large effect on prices. Also WFH has decoupled housing prices from local incomes. Small town workers in desirable locations now have extra competition from A
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
There's a guy whose truck was found in the bushes off a gravel road in the mountains. Subsequent searching turned up camping equipment and a laptop. He had terminal cancer. Some years later I spotted a thigh bone that turned out to be
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
Hydrophones will pick up a crush event. When the Scorpion went missing, they eventually found spikes in the recordings and were able to triangulate.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
As far as indigenous people are concerned,the jungle is a grocery store and a 13 year old would know what's in season an where to look for it. I don't think the kids had anything to hunt with; so, no meat.

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