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by Ographer 3y ago
You're exactly right. I used to be a production engineer for an O&G company and new wells were usually ready to begin producing oil before the gas pipeline company had finished construction of the pipeline or the compressor station
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by Ographer 3y ago
I also quite liked the linked article about why decongestant medicines don't seem to do anything! https://archive.ph/0eT0e
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by Ographer 3y ago
Your solution seems like the best so far! I had not thought of doing a mix of native and DisplayLink outputs, that's definitely the best of both worlds. Since I also don't get notified of replies I've been checking back on th
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by Ographer 3y ago
Thanks, I'll probably end up trying this!
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by Ographer 3y ago
My understand is that yes, the external displays are both rendered by the CPU and so there are lower frame rates and frames dropped which is a concern of mine since I am pushing this computer to its limits with some applications I run. I&#x
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by Ographer 3y ago
Can you name or link any specific hardware or software you're using? Last time I looked into how to run 2 monitors on my M1 Air I gave up after seeing $400 docks that seemed to have performance issues for some people.
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by Ographer 3y ago
Exactly. Right now on the subreddit there is a post about how a guy plans to invest 2% of his net worth into bitcoin and most of the comments are mocking him for not investing 90-100%. There is no such thing as skepticism or critical analys
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by Ographer 3y ago
A reddit post called out SBF as a fraud 2 years ago and no one on the Bitcoin subreddit believed them! https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/p1oqqu/the_ceo_of_...
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by Ographer 3y ago
Thanks, I think this is the most accurate take and it does feel better.
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by Ographer 3y ago
In hindsight I should have lied but I was constantly 'masking' in this job, pretending to be someone I wasn't, I just wanted to get beers and try to get to know each other. Just because I'm different doesn't mean th
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by Ographer 3y ago
I think you're right. I left out some context which is that this was a conservative oil company and I was a liberal city slicker environmentalist who hates oil but was willing to put up with it for a few years for the paycheck. My boss
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by Ographer 3y ago
I have second guessed myself for years over this. When we went to get drinks the first week, he told a co-worker that his wife is into horseback barrel racing. I saw some common ground and said how I used to do barrel racing when I was a ki
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by Ographer 3y ago
I'm not required to be friends with my boss, only to do my job and be respectful and friendly to all co-workers. He was not managing me, he was just wielding the power that came with the title. Whenever we talked, it was because I came
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by Ographer 3y ago
The article is saying that autistic people DO know how they should respect authority, however they won't necessarily do all of those things just for the sake of boot licking (feeding the authority figure's ego). For example, when
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by Ographer 3y ago
When my respected boss retired and was replaced by an outside hire, I had a lot of issues accepting the authority of the new guy at face value which may have contributed to me being fired later. The other engineers would go by his office to
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by Ographer 3y ago
That's exactly how people end up the victim of a ransomware attack. It's not worth it unless you really don't care about your computer and attached storage. I'm not a government agent but I'm still not risking it on
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by Ographer 3y ago
I find it so sad that 84% of the remaining African savannah elephants live in protected areas and yet their population is declining 8% per year, showing that our conversation efforts are not enough and less effective every year. This is the
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by Ographer 3y ago
That doesn't necessarily mean that there is not a zero day available for Windows 7 or that hackers don't have access to those systems in some way. The good zero days are found by or sold to governments or elite independent hacking
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by Ographer 3y ago
So now the government gets to gatekeep every website deemed controversial? That's quite the slippery slope.
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by Ographer 3y ago
Do Republicans start a lot of tech companies? There is no shortage of Republican billionaires having their way with American politics for personal gain and anyone who is paying attention is repulsed by it. Look at Harold Hamm of Continental
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by Ographer 3y ago
I had that thought too! I double checked the URL. I remember my friends trying desperately to convince me to go to the .com and I refused because they were so obviously suspicious.
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by Ographer 3y ago
A chart on the article said that Slack spends an estimated 41% of revenue on cloud costs, calculated using their financials by this author who claims they were being conservative but I don't know how to estimate such a thing myself.
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by Ographer 3y ago
One of my favorite podcast episodes from radiolab is called Galapagos and it talks about Judas goats. I highly recommend it. https://radiolab.org/podcast/galapagos
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by Ographer 3y ago
All of the forces working against democracy are driven by capitalism. We need to at least remove capitalist influence from government and social programs because our goal should be to maximize living conditions for all, not to maximize prof
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by Ographer 3y ago
As the other person said, more widespread wealth taxation sounds more effective than just going after billionaires but it's a start. I don't think lowering taxes on the poor is going to raise them out of poverty though, the issue
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by Ographer 3y ago
Do you ever have issues with your knees or shins hurting? I'm looking into these and that seems like a common complaint.
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by Ographer 3y ago
Part of YouTube premium dues go directly to the creators whose videos you watch. My understanding is that creators earn more from a premium subscriber view than from a free user with ads. Patreon is much more helpful and we don't know
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by Ographer 3y ago
Agreed, I see the billionaire tax as a bandaid to the wealth inequality that unchecked capitalism inevitably creates. Our system is built to funnel money away from the average worker and towards the top of management. Over time the boss wag
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by Ographer 3y ago
It seems that the battery only drains when it is within range of a cell tower. Another commenter speculated that when you're out of service, the software correctly identifies that there is no tower to connect to and stops trying. But w
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by Ographer 3y ago
The TurboTax CEO called this direct file test, "a solution and search of a problem." That is pretty ironic because TurboTax is working to prolong the problem in order to profit from their own solution.

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