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by JJMcJ 5y ago
https://hirund.in/blog/magenta-doesnt-exist Paradoxical title - for the notion that magenta is something we perceive, not a wavelength. An example of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_color#Ex
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
Once talked with someone who lived in the country. Satellite or drive to nearest town to use the public library during their hours.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
I switched to fiber in 2019, and 2020 would have been a mess without it.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
And "they" uses singular verbs, for the most part. "If the user wants" but "If they want"
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
> Apparently my CV was worse than I thought. I have seen some awful resumes, including for people with PhDs and long records of accomplishments. Even people who have been through resume writing seminars at job search organizations.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
I have had some private pay medical treatment and can concur. Come in, write the check/present the card, and walk out. Fortunately it wasn't very expensive.
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by JJMcJ 5y ago
> a "Europe" Closest was probably the concept of Christendom, the part of the world unified by the Christian religion. Remember both the Catholic/Orthodox and Catholic/Protestant splits were well in the future.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Example: at least a few years ago Uber forbade drivers to make trips that returned to the original location. Not sure why, but there are certainly legitimate scenarios. For instance, drive to grandma's senior residence, pick her up,
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
That switch (cabbies leasing cabs rather than working for cab companies) happened in 80s. Before that they were employees, and in big cities often unionized.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
> how much the train shakes Roadbeds are maintained to freight train standards, e.g., the difference in height of the two rails. Amtrak depends on the "host railroads" who are not very hospitable to passenger traffic.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
> yield to freight lines Which is exactly the reverse of the old days when freight waited. Also many host railroads only maintain some sections of roadbeds to freight standards, so passenger trains must slow to freight speeds.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
> climate change Also peak oil, a largely forgotten issue. As fuels get more expensive, more efficient modes of travel will become cheaper relative to air.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
When Moffet Field was an operational Naval Air Station we would get P-3s, both going out to/returning from patrols, and circling around for touch an go landings for training, also C-5s and C-17s, and some fighters. The fighters were o
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
I know people like that. And their lives are quite stressful as a result.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
This was in print and almost 20 years ago, so unfortunately not.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
I think 1,200 investigators for the entirety of the USPS's operations isn't out of line.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Read a story of a ship's captain, stuck on the ship at anchor in New Jersey. There is a mariner's charity in Greater New York that would help out. They would post a bond with ICE and drive the sailor to an airport or another ship
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Talking to old-timers, IBM back in the old days used to be very much like this. Anything more public than reading a lesson in church services or maybe being a scoutmaster was viewed as very suspect and subject to highly manipulative pushbac
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
And go with your gut if you think they are stretching the truth to seem good.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
The compensation expert Graef Crystal was for a long time a consultant to executives who were negotiating their contingent bonus packages. Sometimes there wouldn't be any bonus at all in bad quarters/years and his clients would c
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
The problem with objectivity is that "good high schools" tend to be cram schools for admission to prestige colleges. Not to mention the admissions consultants who will tell a student what to do to maximize their chances for a tar
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
> don't care Until you spend 1/2 hour talking to a certain family member, the one who calls from Burger King and sits right next to the soft drink machine so you can hear the ice being dispensed, you haven't fully lived.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
I got a decent headset w/mic, use it for Zoom, use it for cell phone as well when I am at home. Great improvement in what I hear, and what others hear as well. On Zoom I look a little goofy with the phones on but better that than miss
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
First time I read "term of art" I knew exactly what was meant. It doesn't seem that obscure. However, I was already familiar with "start of the art" so it wasn't that great a leap.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
More times than I care to admit, I've been totally confused, and then decide to actually watch that 14 minute video on YouTube, and read the entire doc page, and the mystery disappears. RTFM: words to live by.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Sometimes the official docs are just right. Django is good, for example. I had to do small Ubuntu sysadmin task recently, the tutorials I found were incomprehensible. The official docs were crystal clear. But we've all seen the reve
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
So there wasn't a final screen that said something like You are about to send $83,932,198.83 to (various account information fields) Unlike, say, a site that sells hand knit mittens or maybe organic kibble.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Incremental: Take an R-1 neighborhood. Don't necessarily allow 10 floor buildings, though that wouldn't be the end of the world. Maybe allow 25% of houses to be turned into duplexes, even less of a change than row houses. That
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Colleges too, in the USA. Parents don't pay $60K/year for their kids to get Cs.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Similar things are happening in the USA. Charter schools get to cherry pick docile students who would probably do well no matter what school they went to. Rich people of course send their kids to high end private schools, residential or da

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