RNCTX

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by RNCTX 5y ago
I find the situation to be identical. To set up a table saw (generic multi-function tool) to do what a tenoner does requires quite a bit of ingenuity. It's going to be a trip to the machine shop anyway because you'll need a shape
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Incompetence on the part of a finance company is not the fault of the government. They pay the government to do what the finance company wants. Nice try, no sale.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Popup modal redirects to the home page. Wtf can these guys possible give advice about when they can't accomplish HTML and javascript?
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by RNCTX 5y ago
How much money until people decide that those Windows licenses aren't worth the trouble?
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by RNCTX 5y ago
> This misses a big point: highly skilled craftsmanship will never again be affordable on an architectural scale. So we'll have it again when it can all be done by machine. That's not really the case. As with the internet and
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by RNCTX 5y ago
> Most users are going to be transactional in their engagement with the software, open source or not. Yeah, that's the problem. Just last week I saw a GH issues post in which someone was reporting problems with the HTML output of an
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Because if it's open source or aimed at developers in some way, it wasn't built for you . It was built for everyone. It works by everyone helping everyone else use it. Maybe you should get out your credit card and call a commer
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by RNCTX 5y ago
This recurring complaint is very "nothing existed before me" millennial-speak. In fact, no one wanted Reddit outside of Digg users, the vast majority of its traffic are bots and it's a poor substitute for the forums we'r
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by RNCTX 5y ago
"The thing they don't want you to know..." (/clickbait_headline) Nary a King Air has counter-rotating props. As such, they all have a critical engine. Beechcraft as a company is sort of like the black-box storage prov
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Yeah, the main reason for hiring a contractor is because the contractor has very specific experience with all of the quirks and flaws of XYZ thing that I need to implement, and can do in a few days what would take me a few weeks of learning
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Also does a very good job of metadata management and format conversion. I don't know of a better solution. With Calibre you can buy wherever you like and maintain the format and metadata system you prefer.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
There have been lots of aviation HUD projects fail to gain any traction over the years. The reason is that a HUD is a very specialized military design, aimed at allowing the pilot to maintain a visual connection with something in the outsi
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Love that podcast, surprised it took as long as it did for someone to apply the concept of the Klaus forklift safety video to a podcast, lol.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Which is another way of saying "life isn't boolean" honestly.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
> they all answered a variation of "it takes a while to get stuff to prod once it's built. We need someone who can help get better at that". Yet not a single question for that. I guess the lesson learnt is that if you are
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by RNCTX 5y ago
It sounds like you mean to say "I would like my preconceived notions justified." The pessimism is not unwarranted. The ends don't justify the means. Or if you want to argue that they do, then you don't get to keep the di
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Considering the primary trait of right wing libertarians is hypocrisy-fused self interest, I'd say he's right on the mark.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
I'm curious what the defaults are in terms of ship instrumentation, I have an (aviation) pilot's license so am familiar with aviation's default UIs, but not a boat. Aviation's are in many cases what we would call "c
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by RNCTX 5y ago
> H1B's in Big tech are about as far from indentured servants as you can imagine False. > they're in high demand and switch jobs for better pay constantly. And each time they do so, their new employer has to go through the e
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by RNCTX 5y ago
> If that was the case then FAANG wouldn't be filled with Asians and engineers from ex-Soviet countries. The makeup of high paying tech companies does not represent in any way the makeup of the American population. I posit the reaso
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by RNCTX 5y ago
> You may take a compensation hit. Does not align with... > the market is hotter than I've ever seen it. We desperately need people Pick one. If the software / web businesses aren't going to compete with other engineeri
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by RNCTX 5y ago
> Third, intellectual ability and achievement are the principal requirements for admission as a student or faculty member to any university. We know from the lawsuit against Harvard brought by Asian applicants that the principle requirem
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Mine is a Fractal Design case, it's designed for 6 mechanical drives but you can double up if you're using 2.5" SSDs, of course. There's room in the back for one PCI-e card, so you get one extra controller in the box th
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by RNCTX 5y ago
> If you are selling advertising (influencing) access to a population through heightened metrics and more ability to target amenable customers, there are many useful things you can learn and correlate through things like delay before cli
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by RNCTX 5y ago
The answer is therefore "yes." In a sane world, there would be sane laws with stiff penalties (as in, jail). For instance, "any identifying data about individual users may only be used for authentication and shall be complet
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Can't say you're wrong. As with any giant corporation, their guilt is presumed, it's just a consideration of degrees.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
> I'd be careful to call that out as a negative; if the culture fit wasn't right, and the candidate would have been a net negative to the team, it shouldn't matter where they end up next I'd be careful to presume you
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Plus the cost of a pretty high end desktop to grade the footage. And the cost of a pretty high end NAS to store the footage, sending it around to cloud services isn't feasible due to the file sizes. Hint: ZFS is your friend here. If y
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by RNCTX 5y ago
For decades it was "common knowledge" that the War of the Worlds broadcast caused mass hysteria, when in fact if you look back on the newspaper articles at the time and compare them to criminal and hospital records you find no s
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by RNCTX 5y ago
> And actually my question to HN would be: Should I inform the hiring manager why I'm giving up on that? Ignore their calls and emails for 90 days, then after 6 months email them and CC everyone you got an email from during the firs

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