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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Or not - old aircraft spotter joke "It approached me at great speed till it disappeared over the horizon". Really hard to tell when direction a plane is really headed in sometimes. So it can look like it made a 90 degree turn whe
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
I've worked at a couple of companies that used Linux and Libre for their standard setup. It's just fine for internal usage. Of course 90% of the employees were technical people, which may have had something to do with it. Nobody
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
> I also suspect banks will happily decline/block charges as well Yes, I had to do this on my debit card for an autoship that I signed up for.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
I've got my fans.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Perhaps "forcing" is too strong. But if the candidate does go along, then that promotes obedience to the recruiter, under the heading of "candidate control".
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
It helps establish their psychological ascendancy by forcing you to give up private information. Also to be sure you won't do something really stupid, like getting a job without their help.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Some companies, ones large enough to have serious SRE staffs, have 24 hour staffing of an operations center, and a War Room where people can huddle until a problem is fixed. If they are smart, they have ways to roll back offending code. But
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Or long running sitcoms.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Disappearance of RSS. So a rotation of a small number of sites. Because who wants to click through hundreds of bookmarks when 99% of the time there is no new content. Not a complaint, just that most sites don't update every day.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Cartoon kids talk in hysterical falsettos, even third graders don't talk that high pitched in real life. Adults mostly don't exist. Often the kids have superpowers that solve all the problems. The only PBS Kids shows that seems t
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Most current children's programming now, either PBS or commercial, seems hysterical and intended to create anxiety by comparison. Mister Rogers, Sesame Street, Electric Company, were really excellent.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
I think we are in agreement. Author was just trying to be clever at the expense of retail employees. Generally trying to be clever is ordinary life is not a good idea.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Possibly willing to buy collision is a proxy for a generally prudent driver. Also, skipping collision happens most often when driving a really cheap car, which can be a marker for a bad driver. Actuaries actually have numbers for this thing
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
I know nothing about the products involved, but I assume it was along the lines of "I want a Mac Foo 342, which happens to come in the smallest box, so you can't miss it".
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
They are not taking on more liability. The insurance company now has no responsibility to repair the insured vehicle so they have less responsibility. I suspect Collision insurance is very profitable compared to liability.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Here in the US, and I assume in Canada as well, there are two main kinds of car insurance: Liability - that pays for damages/injuries to others Collision/Comprehensive - that pays for damage to your car It sounds like the author w
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Also a significant difference between music with singing, and purely instrumental music. The human voice is highly distracting for most people.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Let's not forget the wage fixing cartel that he started and really kept going. Ended when Facebook wouldn't play along. One reason developer salaries have popped so strongly in the last five years or so.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
In the USA, millions of people live in apartments or rented houses, maybe park on the street, and would have no means to charge their cars where they customarily park. Yes, we've got ourselves up a tree without a ladder on this issue.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
I'm reminded of the mocking of papers with odd sounding titles. E.g., yes, the nerve bundle of this particular snail actually is a way to easily study some reaction mechanisms. Sometimes careers were damaged or research derailed becaus
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
For example, the career of the great German mathematician C. F. Gauss. His early works, written around 1800, were in Latin. By the end of his career in the 1840s, he wrote in German.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
You beat me to the joke by 29 minutes and have an even more clever name! Of course, until the coming of the railroads, it hardly mattered that Peoria's noon was 6 minutes after Chicago's, to pick an example. Now that disparity ju
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
And then, of course, you want nearby areas to have the same time, so you could define regions that have the same "noon". You could call them, let me think for a second, you could call them "time zones". There. Problem s
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
And what happens to people in apartment complexes, and even more so, those who park on the street. Oh, that's just "the poors", they can drive to a gas station 10 miles a way, I suppose.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Had the Tunguska event occurred over a densely populated area, and the damage and loss of life would have been catastrophic.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Except for open and writing to files, it's about the heaviest action on a backend server.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Your pattern is quite powerful: get data from several sources and do the rearranging on the client (which might be a web server), instead of multiple interactions for each data item. For SQL you can also do a stored procedure. Sometimes tha
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
> trigger mass exodus Or YouTube. Without blockers or YouTube Premium, it's getting to be like watching old shows in syndication on one of these TV stations you can never remember the channel number for. Five minutes of The Dick V
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
The comparisons in the article are for trucks from 1990s. Look at a picture of a pickup from the 1960s: https://cdn1.mecum.com/auctions/fl0116/fl0116-243533/images/... The old one seems positively dainty
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
> awk Or Perl. That's what Perl was originally created for. Or sed. If awk is too mainstream for you. Or Python. Or just write the ugly pipeline in your script, and promptly forget how it actually works. I've done that a lot

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