Cerium

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by Cerium 5y ago
Things are very different in a field with long product cycles. If it takes 5 years to get a product into the field then the company has a huge incentive to retain employees.
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by Cerium 5y ago
I love that it is a literal paperweight and not simply a relic. Thank you for the fun read.
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by Cerium 5y ago
Giving them one way bus tickets to a liberal city.
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by Cerium 5y ago
I write software for medical devices, and where I work we take the stance that we are software engineers, not developers or programmers. The idea being that we design things that without the right failure analysis and mitigations could inde
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by Cerium 5y ago
I think that the sentence is saying that in the period between 2000 and present day more plastic has been produced in the period from 2000 to -inf. A similar statement can be made about most human industrial products - cement production has
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by Cerium 5y ago
If you are going to leave the tea leaves in the water continuously, you could consider buying some loose leaf tea. Just throw a few grams in the glass and then add boiling water. This style is commonly referred to as "Grandpa style&quo
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by Cerium 5y ago
Situations like this happen often enough. The 2012 Nissan Leaf shipped with a regenerative braking configuration that stressed the battery too much leading to in-warranty replacement. Nissan issued a recall that patched the software to redu
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by Cerium 5y ago
This is a pencil sharpener that creates a splice joint between two pencils allowing short pencils to be joined to create one of usable length.
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by Cerium 5y ago
I spent a night in the woods (on purpose, not a real emergency) sleeping with an emergency blanket. It was not at all comfortable, but the blanket seriously worked. I would wake up whenever it moved to stop covering me because it would inst
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by Cerium 5y ago
Trader Joe's is the closest to Amazon in this regard. They introduce new products as the name brand, the best sellers are cloned and then replaced with the store brands.
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by Cerium 5y ago
Based on my personal experience I would recommend staying away from TaxCloud. When they make mistakes filing for you (and they have) the states will come to you directly with scary letters, TaxCloud won't answer your calls or messages.
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by Cerium 5y ago
The policy does not have to be binary - you can forbid non-permanent residents from buying more than one home instead.
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by Cerium 5y ago
That policies restricting who can buy homes will hurt immigrants.
614.
by Cerium 5y ago
Not necessarily - for example in China foreigners are limited to owning one house. That limits speculation but does not provide hindrance for someone honestly trying to live.
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by Cerium 5y ago
Right to repair tractors has become talking point because it is a use case that cannot be easily dismissed as "unimportant to real Americans" since many Americans value individualism, hard work, and their countries reputation for
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by Cerium 5y ago
Large permanent magnets are a fairly minor hazard to most electronics.
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by Cerium 5y ago
Both situations can be seen as preserving the rights of the current generation. In one case the right is deciding to not have a child, in the other case the right is deciding to have a child (and the required environment for them). Not prot
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by Cerium 5y ago
They just had very low jitter networks. Displays in that age didn't even have enough space to buffer a single frame. The ads loaded no faster than real-time.
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by Cerium 5y ago
Your friend may want to look into Plex. It has a good web client, as well as mobile and desktop so family can use it without a lot of work. It supports profiles and the server manager can assign collections to profiles to enable hiding some
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by Cerium 5y ago
Sometimes fly ash is added to concrete as a pozzolan. It is produced by burning coal and is slightly radioactive.
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by Cerium 5y ago
My grandparents house had those. They would loosen if turned the wrong way - and half the family is left handed! The right handers were always complaining that the doorknob was loose.
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by Cerium 5y ago
I have the opposite experience. I have never landed a job that I didn't already have a good contact and recommendation for, of course that is probably because I have never tried.
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by Cerium 5y ago
Japanese and Chinese uses counting words. Saying how many bottles of beer you have and how many sheets of paper you have use the same number but a different counting word. These are analogous to the following English sentences: "one bo
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by Cerium 5y ago
They do at San Jose State University. CS is part of the college of science, as is math. The college of engineering offers both computer engineering and software engineering majors.
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by Cerium 5y ago
I had some emacs pinky and for a while had a script setup to make the spacebar plus a key act as control (releasing spacebar without a key pressed would just be a space). Eventually I recovered and learned to be more gentle with my pinky.
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by Cerium 5y ago
Wow. You just made me realize that I don't (can't?) do that anymore. I used to have the exact same ability though high school. I would remember where on the page I read something or wrote a note, then during English exams I would
627.
by Cerium 5y ago
True, that happens to me every time I play the lottery.
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by Cerium 5y ago
I think you are referring to the clip on page 64?
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by Cerium 5y ago
For me numbers are stored in one language or the other, but are always recalled in the same language. For example, my SSN is in English but my garage door opener code is Chinese.
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by Cerium 5y ago
I have one, the speed is indeed the selling point. You can slowly insert the thermometer and find the coldest point. It is also so fast and easy you can use it where you would never bother before - such as checking to see if you microwaved

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