DavidPeiffer

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by DavidPeiffer 2y ago
I have heard about areas in rural Wisconsin where front porches have been converted into very small bars. Low overhead, serving primarily to your neighbors, and no doubt creating community.
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by DavidPeiffer 2y ago
Pete the Cat is also great, however the 7 minute Bluey episodes (and ~3 minute "minisodes") is very nice. Pete the Cat runs 23 minutes. All that said, I have been known to adjust the playback speed on YouTube to get the total play
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by DavidPeiffer 2y ago
In grad school, a friend from China explained that he stayed home on his own starting at like age 3. He was going down to the market outside his high rise apartment, buying basic groceries, and entertaining himself all day. It blew my mind,
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by DavidPeiffer 2y ago
At scale, the corner cases don't really matter. In aggregate, if it's decently well correlated and readily available, it's probably going to be used. I can't find it now, but I believe LexisNexis or another large similar
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by DavidPeiffer 2y ago
>Is this just a weekly Roundup of financial events? Matt publishes his newsletter Monday-Thursday, and a podcast on Fridays. It is a roundup of stories with high quality commentary on 2-4 stories, and a list of additional interesting art
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by DavidPeiffer 2y ago
What lead to his termination? Was the on-call team not thrilled with having to (even minimally) deal with issues from the systems of another company?
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by DavidPeiffer 2y ago
Blender started ad in-house 3d modeling back in 1994, was open sourced in 2002, and continues with very active and sustainable development today. I used it most 2010-2012, and it has been incredible to see how much has happened since then.
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by DavidPeiffer 2y ago
Since people are posting their respective recipe formats, I'll throw in one created by a friend from college. I haven't tried any recipes in this format, but the color coding of processing/ingredient blocks to the vertical ti
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by DavidPeiffer 2y ago
I'm not able to research this in depth right now, but obesity was a pretty strong predictor of outcome. In general, the US population has is very unhealthy and obese. I'd be curious to see rates by country by BMI and infection dat
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by DavidPeiffer 2y ago
Strike pay is often a part of union dues. It's typically paid out to workers who are on the picket line a given number of hours per week. Strike pay is not particularly lucrative. It looks like it's $500/week for the UAW. Loc
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by DavidPeiffer 2y ago
This happens very commonly. I haven't heard of any court cases challenging it with any traction. John Deere did the same a couple years ago. Unfortunately we have a healthcare system that can easily bankrupt you if you don't have
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by DavidPeiffer 2y ago
I'm sorry you went through that. My analysis was short largely because I was still in high school when it passed. I knew it was a nightmare prior, but didn't have any direct experiences. The beat of the drum has long been "re
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by DavidPeiffer 2y ago
> the real danger is the disc breaking up at 10K RPM and shrapnel flying in your face. you might easily lose an eye. For anyone wondering, OSHA would tell you to use safety glasses and a face shield. Neither is sufficient protection al
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by DavidPeiffer 2y ago
Your monetary compensation is in an offer letter you sign to accept the role. Salary exempt status is a fixed value per time period, or separately a hourly rate. If paid hourly, you're typically entitled to 1.5x pay after 40 hours of w
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by DavidPeiffer 2y ago
Obamacare is a mixed bag, but I don't think I'd go back to a pre-obamacare era if I had a choice. So many people stayed at jobs for longer than ideal because they had pre-existing conditions that wouldn't be covered under a n
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by DavidPeiffer 2y ago
There are a ton of benefits to having continuity of care, but also access to care. Do any out-of-network providers have appointments available? If so, and you can't find one in-network, you may be able to get an out-of-network provider
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by DavidPeiffer 2y ago
> optionally groups/pages. My goodness I wish I could go down to just friends and family on Facebook. Maybe 6 months ago they started aggressively showing other groups I don't care about. Right now, it showed: 3 posts from page
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by DavidPeiffer 2y ago
> School lunches are often disgusting, if offered at all. Are there any instances where school lunches are not offered at all? I believe it's a requirement for public schools across the US, but I'm not sure if that requirement
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by DavidPeiffer 2y ago
I'm sure it varies by locality, but if I look at my electric bill, I see charges for energy, transmission, and maintaining a connection to the grid. Transmission and generation are variable, connection is fixed. I doubt the $8.50/
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by DavidPeiffer 2y ago
With every news story like this, I think back to my time as a federal grant funded grad student, sitting through numerous seminars and training sessions about bribery, ethics, and history of ethical failures in research. The standard wasn&#
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by DavidPeiffer 2y ago
I love diagrams to represent how systems are setup and run. At one employer, they had hundreds of spreadsheets around the network drive which often linked together via formula or VBA code, along with queries out to databases. I built a file
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by DavidPeiffer 2y ago
I used to work for Alcoa, a very large aluminum manufacturer. Their policies were right in line with everything you described, and it was a really good working environment. Every single first aid event was investigated so we could figure ou
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by DavidPeiffer 2y ago
Austin Frerick has had a number of really great interviews since launching his book. Among others: Odd Lots had him on, which is where I first heard about his work. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mega-co
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by DavidPeiffer 2y ago
> These private companies have a much much higher detail on the ground than the government by being able to partner with companies that make common internet-connected personal radar stations and reselling that data to each other. I haven
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by DavidPeiffer 2y ago
For anyone who has been there more than a couple years back, it's worth checking it out again. They added Gateway: The Deep Space Launch Complex, and have also been expanding the Astronaut Training Experience. The exhibits are all very
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by DavidPeiffer 2y ago
Many cars use vision systems to identify the current speed limit, eliminating the need for a database.
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by DavidPeiffer 2y ago
I noticed one outside of my local Lowes a couple weeks ago. My city has deployed a number of them, including one less than a mile from my house. It's one thing for a business to install security cameras to locally monitor their premise
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by DavidPeiffer 2y ago
This is an ever expanding privacy concern. It's tough to locate all of the cameras, but I would be interested in a routing system built in OpenStreetMap which would avoid road segments containing the cameras.
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by DavidPeiffer 2y ago
Awhile back someone mentioned they had all the important people in their lives together for the wedding, and most likely the next time it'd happen was their funeral. It made me think about community and priorities. Obviously not everyo
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by DavidPeiffer 2y ago
Prior to Windows 10, you could do "Win+R", calc, enter and immediately start typing numbers because the calculator app launched instantly. They have also managed to add lag to the most basic calculator as well.

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