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by Merad 4y ago
> If you're employed "at will" (and almost everyone in the US is) you can't refuse "promotions." From the company's perspective they are deciding to no longer employ you for position a, but they are sim
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by Merad 4y ago
> Im not sure where this incredible fear of CCs comes from. It literally doesn’t matter what the APR is unless you’re irresponsible. That's exactly where the fear comes from. Credit cards are really a test of financial self control
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by Merad 4y ago
At what point do you think punishment is warranted when companies or individuals break regulations resulting in people being placed at risk? This isn't software where the impacts are some user inconvenience and maybe a bit of lost rev
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by Merad 4y ago
I believe SQL Server does this, but Postgres does not.
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by Merad 4y ago
DB Cooper would beg to differ: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper
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by Merad 4y ago
They should, but there have certainly been aircraft disasters where the pilots didn't exactly do what they were supposed to do.
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by Merad 4y ago
Yeah, I really feel like we should be pushing plug in hybrids more. If you have a 30-50 mile EV range you cover the daily commute for the vast majority of people so you can drastically reduce emissions. Meanwhile the gas engine covers the
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by Merad 4y ago
> Allowing customer service to bypass customer auth requirements is just weakening your system. There will always be a CS agent who is bribed, makes a mistake, etc. And besides, the agent following a flow chart has no better info to make
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by Merad 4y ago
Interesting. About 10 years ago I got a job offer from a three letter federal agency that would've required a clearance. I ultimately declined so I never started the process, but I was told that past drug use (weed, at least) wasn&#x
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by Merad 4y ago
Not a pilot so I don't know if they'd use that language today, but there have been more than a few lessons written in blood over the years regarding ambiguous/unclear ATC communications. For example the worst air disaster eve
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by Merad 4y ago
AutoMapper is almost universally misused/abused. It's intended for use cases where 98% of the model's properties can be mapped automatically, typically where the result model isn't doing anything except excluding a few
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by Merad 4y ago
Is this a misleading/attention grabbing headline, or does TFA just do a poor job of describing the data? Based on some quick googling about 29% of the NY population is age 21 or younger, and 13% is 65 or older. That's 42% of the
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by Merad 4y ago
As far as I can find Apple does not advertise an official Noise Reduction Rating (NRR) for them though there are some review sites claiming they have a NRR of about 22-23, comparable to basic foam earplugs. I personally wouldn't rely
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by Merad 4y ago
> Its real utility isn’t that it uses less oil, but that it cooks incredibly fast. > The chicken and the sauce are both done within 10-15 minutes. Normal sized boneless chicken breasts should cook in a pan in about 10 minutes or less,
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by Merad 4y ago
Your info is a little out of date. Two months ago I hired movers to go 150 miles, and I did the packing myself. I have a house rather than an apartment but I don't have that much stuff. Cost was $3500. A full service pack and move acro
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by Merad 4y ago
This is a very outdated take on windows. I’m not sure what “multitasking is bad” means, but I do a heck of a lot of multitasking on windows every day with resource intensive developer tools with no problem, and have been doing so for over a
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by Merad 4y ago
> I highly doubt your home-grown pattern matching functions could beat the decades of optimization that have gone into RegEx engines On the contrary, the All() method used here (which is part of the .Net standard library) is literally ju
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by Merad 4y ago
To be honest this sounds like the very definition of "you solved the problem with regex, and now you have two problems". In essentially every language in existence the question you're asking can be solved with a simple loop
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by Merad 4y ago
> [...] doing your own startup is one of the few relatively low risk gambles one can take. I was under the impression that around 90% of startups failed. Was I mistaken, have the numbers changed, or do we just have very different thresh
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by Merad 4y ago
> Is it likely that NG / USAF would be actively avoiding the potential for satellite imagery? Does it mean all the time it was being built, they avoided having it outside during the daytime? During the Cold War black projects like
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by Merad 4y ago
Some of Amazon's policies are real head scratchers. Last year I bought a high end ultrawide monitor from them. I believe I paid about $1500 for it originally. Two or three days after it arrived, it went on sale for about $300 less.
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by Merad 4y ago
I'm starting to think that Elon has really bought into the myth of his own genius (i.e. that he's something like a real life Tony Stark). That didn't really exist until maybe 8-10 years ago.
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by Merad 4y ago
If only. My grandad was a lifelong truck driver and a pretty good one AFAIK, he kept working well into his 70s with a safe driving record. But eventually as he got older he caused three minor accidents in less than a year before he agreed
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by Merad 4y ago
> I can't help but feel like I'm missing context here. I think the main context is simply that people suck sometimes. I'm not a huge fan of writing scripts or command line tools with node, but I've done it before, ev
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by Merad 4y ago
> Try to imagine what a setback it would be to try to discover smelting or electricity underwater. It’s not an impossibility, but I suspect it’s inherently a small fraction of underwater societies that discover it at all. It's inter
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by Merad 4y ago
No, definitely not. During the Cold War more than 600 nukes were exploded in above ground tests (thousands more in underground detonations).
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by Merad 4y ago
The topic of seniors and tech is something I despair over quite frequently. My own dad is 75. He’s by no means a genius, but he isn’t a stupid man (though he has seen significant cognitive decline in recent years). He worked in finance m
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by Merad 4y ago
Yes, obviously that's an option, but it's one that gives up revenue. At that company most clients were billed monthly, and it was a small-ish company, so the loss wouldn't be huge (I'd guess mid to high 5 figures). Howev
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by Merad 4y ago
> For example, most monetary transactions are settled to the nearest penny. Settled, yes, but all kinds of financial operations require higher precision. IME with payment processing the backend calculations and account balances were don
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by Merad 4y ago
Yes, more than a few will be lost that way. From what I've read though boomers as a whole want to stay out of assisted care facilities, probably because many of them saw their own parents rot in such places. My own parents are near the

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