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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Was watching The Petrified Forest , a 1936 film starring Humphrey Bogart, and part of it takes place in a diner, and on the wall is a sign: Tipping is un-American Keep your change So the idea was alive in some sense even into
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Mathematics is high on the list of "you can't fall behind and cram". This is true not only within a single class but from class to class. Aren't fluent in manipulating equations? Calculus is going to be misery. Don&#x2
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Many districts had (and may still have) pet psychiatrists who are 100% sure to make the diagnosis and prescribe. In some districts it doesn't work that way and never did but there are others where it does. Teachers love docile student
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Possibly a six hour panel interview on Javascript trivia, instead.
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> tinderbox The summer fires in the Bay Area began with a rainless lightning storm, almost unprecedented especially in the summer, that began fires over a wide area simultaneously, followed by hot weather.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Do you mean anesthesia for the mother during a delivery?
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
There are mild sedation techniques. People think they are "put under" because there tends to be no memory of the procedure, but it is not like general anesthesia in the strong sense.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Saw a photo of a surgeon removing his own gall bladder. This from the 1920s. The reason he did this was to further his belief that general anesthesia was being over used.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
> better educated Then you can fill in the blanks faster and don't need quite as much spoon feeding
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Country song I heard some years ago, a weary older man is singing (obviously in the era of newspapers) I read Ann Landers and the comics And know as much as the people of the left and the right Some days it feels that way, even with thi
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
It's always seemed to me that a company that both audits and provides consulting services has a conflict of interest.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
> crap shield In Office Space , one thing that makes Lumbergh the manager so distasteful is you just know he would never do one thing to help anyone reporting to him. > configuration galley I like that. "Ramming speed."
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
I hope you are aware that 50 year olds started working 1990 to 1995 or even later, when there was a lot more than just COBOL going on. In fact, a 50 year old is more likely to have caught the rise of desktop GUIs and of Linux than have spen
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
> Tesla’s upcoming self-driving robotaxi network Heh.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
This has been understood since at least the 1950s, when the Interstate system was 90% subsidized by the Federal government, but maintenance was a local responsibility.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
TV repair shops use a special tool to discharge those caps, basically a high voltage rated resistor pack. Largely a disappeared skill. I believe if you are really lucky if you discharge with a screwdriver, the cap can explode, not just melt
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Go to laundromat. Bring book, this time I'm going to get some reading done. Oooh, moldy golf tournament (or soap opera) on TV. And there goes 90 minutes.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Also has the effect of having most engineers with a track record of "missed deadlines" and "failures". So they are continually in fear of their managers and review time.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Google a company that scoops up PhDs and has them figure out which ads to show based on the last thing you looked at is a mighty engine of innovation.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Or sleep deprived, to be less judgemental. Imagine your user was not able to sleep on a Trans-Pacific flight in bad weather, they have hay fever and a very sore neck. Better yet, get user studies.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Especially as emotions are really physical states. The "I feel sad/happy/disgusted" is a verbal layer on top of the physical response.
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No other company? Nissan Leaf? Close to 1/2 million sold.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Excel, world's most used programming tool. Excel, also the world's favorite computer game, where you play with numbers till you get the answer your boss wants to see.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Numeric limits like this are far more common than you might think. Besides the well known Y2K mitigation, there were some problems on day 10,000 when four characters to represent days since the epoch overflowed, mid 90s for Unix derived sys
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Community colleges are accredited too. People transfer to 4 year colleges with AA degrees all the time, even to high prestige colleges.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
A number of things have lead to this. * Student loans detaching cost from time of service, similar to insurance and medicine * Diminishing support for public colleges. In California UC and CSU schools were essentially free to Cal redidents
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
This is true of much English writing before the 19th Century, and poetry even to a later date. No knowledge of the Bible or mythology and a lot of the writing loses its punch, even if you understand it in the literal sense.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Similar to how Bash usually doesn't have current directory on the default PATH for executables, you must explicitly reference it ./local-executable for similar concerns.
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There classes of organizations for automation: * Tiny, you just do things the Quickbooks/Excel/MS Word way * Gigantic, you just do things the company's way, it can pay for customization * In between, here you have the major p
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Human neurology is optimized to see and recognize faces, so of course anything facelike will look like a face. Faces in clouds, faces in the uneven paint on drywall, the Man In The Moon.

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