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by JJMcJ 4y ago
In the same way, N. N. Taleb talks of the wisdom of grandmothers. All the old sayings represent hard earned knowledge. Some traditions are based on superstition, but certainly not all of them.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
I did a visit before posting and have to agree with you. Though even in the early days there would be links to leftish news sources.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
That's much less common than fixed number of shares, at least in my experience.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
RSUs are usually granted as number of shares, rather than value of shares at the time of purchase. Share price 50, you get 100 shares as RSU grant, worth 5,000. Share price 50, you get $5,000 in shares, that's 100 shares. Share price
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Exactly. It's true even in the White ethnic neighborhoods that still sort of exist mostly SW side. Get some money, move to the burbs.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Safe as any big city in the USA. Crimes like this take place everywhere.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Those are areas that have not only deindustrialized, but have been losing population steadily for the last 60 years or so. Deindustrialized - the South Side has never really recovered from the Stockyards and the US Steel South Works closing
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
CL isn't as useful as it once was, but the interface is still very straightforward. Compare e.g. https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sof#search=1~list~0~100 for Bay Area software jobs, compared to something like D
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Another site that has changed little is the Drudge Report. I don't agree with the somewhat right-wing political bias of the site, but it's clear and easy to use.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
A fancy ad in a magazine (not a book, of course) won't send you 2,000 pieces of advertising mail if you look at. An ad in a magazine won't empty your checking account if you write your phone number in another ad on the page. Unli
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
When the Sorcerer's Apprentice works on Customer Support.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Ha, I expected it to be about SOAP the protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP but this seems to be more interesting. I suppose if you have a Galactic Empire sized business, maybe something like SOAP (or EDI) to re
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Years ago, when PBS fundraising was less pushy than today, they had a segment where a KQED station manager said they understood many could not afford to donate and they were pleased to be able to bring their programming to everyone for free
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
I've had five mile commutes push toward 1/2 hour each way. Let's not forget the five minutes at each end walking from/to the parking lot. In the evening maybe even an extra 5 minutes or more to get out of the lot, depe
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Unless you can literally walk across the street to your job from your front door, you are going to blow at least 1/2 hour a day commuting, and maybe more. Also, and nobody seems willing to say this out loud, you (and your boss and your
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Make, tex, dvipdf, makeinfo? Still in active use.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Those are hardly obscure. Tex, makeinfo, dvipdf? If that's too much, wait for a finished version to appear on the literature download page.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
It might be a bit over the top in the heat of a 30 minute interview, but for say an at-home two hour challenge it's not too unreasonable.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
One manager I know says he gets "senior" candidates who can't do FizzBuzz. Not just have trouble with the modulo operator, but can't even get started. Lying? Just not able to interview well?
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
By no means an expert but my understanding is that if you can't make the logistics work for a military operation then the chances of failure are very high, maybe even literally 100%.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Similarly in California, especially for the wealthier districts. Maybe even more than in Chicago.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
At this point 5.25 reading is a data recovery task. Re USB: What's the life expectancy of a USB stick? I've had friends get unpleasant surprises when USB sticks were unreadable after a few years. Are some brands better than other
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
I would assume that outboard CD/DVD drives (USB, maybe others) will be available for a long time to come. 3.5 inch USB floppy drives are still routine. 5.25 inch, try the used market. Who knows what happens in 10 years? That's f
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Not "too expensive", just not prepared to pay that expense. Obviously the USA had the wealth to continue the Apollo program and follow ons if the will had been there.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
A lot of manufacturing operations are having trouble getting the skilled workers they need, like precision machinists, because the older generation is retiring and there aren't enough people learning those occupations. When you read di
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Not a software change but one reason you get asked a dozen times "Are you having your the nails on your left big toe clipped" (joke procedure in a hospital of course) is to help avoid exactly these errors. Is the patient who you t
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Saw a chart a while ago, comparing wealth in India/Europe/China. The three were pretty much in lockstep, Europe slightly ahead, except for the period 600 to 1200 CE, when Europe lagged behind. Then came the Industrial Revolution,
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Also their shipbuilding was impressive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_treasure_voyages - whole fleets reaching as far as the Red Sea and East Africa. But then they turned inward. Some have argued that the reason E
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
Similar to 1973/1982 when the price of crude oil went up 5X. I don't like the idea that monetary policy is the only determiner of prices.
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by JJMcJ 4y ago
When I do fast food these days I almost always get off the bargain menu (inflation means it's not the dollar menu any more). I assume they made money from it but I doubt anyplace could survive if all the orders were that cheap. It&#x2

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