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by VLM 5y ago
Do you need an EIN on the package label? https://help.cbp.gov/s/article/Article-1145?language=en_US Interestingly it seems to be the fault of the Census Bureau wanting to provide aggregate economic activity report
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by VLM 5y ago
V = pi r squared times height so figure about 3 times 18 squared times 36 thats about 35K cubic inches if solid, or 2 inch thick walls means subtract 3 times 14 squared times 35 thats about 21K cubic inches. So a good 14K cubic inches of s
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by VLM 5y ago
People use the same word "team" to describe both hypercompetitive groups of mutual enemies playing a zero sum game, and happy groups of cooperating people striving for a common goal. Usually the first group is seen as more sociall
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by VLM 5y ago
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ... $25 and no prepaid cards
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by VLM 5y ago
The irony is real erasers, sometimes even UL and OSHA approved, have cost less than ten eprom chips since the 80s, and have always cost a quarter to a tenth what an eprom programmer costs, so all the effort and danger is not saving very muc
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by VLM 5y ago
I was motivated enough to google the topic as I have WI relatives. It seems mail the south is sent to Milwaukee, then split the north down the middle and send to Minneapolis or Green Bay In the process of googling this up, I found some inte
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by VLM 5y ago
Large number of boards from https://smallcomputercentral.wordpress.com/
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by VLM 5y ago
In some social groups you'll get massive social status signaling about being an "entrepreneur". Admittedly it mostly comes from people who profit off the pipeline, mortgage refi officers, commercial landlords, accountants, b
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by VLM 5y ago
My sister worked there as a kid and labor on demand had certain chaotic results. To give an IT analogy if an IT department staffed based on corporate's seemingly random rolls of the dice it could be painful to make sure weekly backups
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by VLM 5y ago
> running out of private address space Classic merger "solution". Company A uses 10/8 Company B uses 10/8, company A buys company B and orders new subsidiary B to renumber into 11/8 "All you have to do is ch
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by VLM 5y ago
The cheapest "energy storage" is bandwidth and demand based billing. The required battery storage cost to guarantee my 3 KW electric clothes dryer could theoretically operate 24x7 when needed after three weeks of cloudy windless w
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by VLM 6y ago
zsdos is cpm software compatible and GPL licensed The closest analogy I can come up with is freedos is to msdos as zsdos is to cpm.
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by VLM 6y ago
If you're an expert in CICS, JCL, DB2 then you'll get a job, but if you just hello_world.cob you won't get a job. Kinda like its somewhat easier to get a react.js angular.js node.js job than a generic javascript job.
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by VLM 6y ago
"make it more fulfilling: languages, philosophy and knowledge are often their own reward" The required crushing level of debt closes more doors than it opens.
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by VLM 6y ago
"Railroad Tycoon" taught the gen-x generation to read and manipulate the various standard financial reports as kids. For some cultural reason we don't teach kids how, for example, in the long run, income statements interact w
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by VLM 6y ago
> that doesn't create material returns for their communities. More realistically, for the elite in charge of their communities. Its a practical problem for employment. No company complains about smart people not making their cowork
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by VLM 6y ago
The current economic system prevents virtually everyone in the system other than a few at the top of the pyramid from achieving their potential. How much extra money will the people at the top centrally controlling everything make if, for e
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by VLM 6y ago
They're saying something like "We're doing everything we can to eliminate the hackintosh, now please do not google the phrase or do badthink of even merely thinking about the concept of a hackintosh."
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by VLM 6y ago
WRT the code zealot listing, there is a problem with non-idiomatic code. For example most modern languages have list comprehension and some kind of built in map-reduce on a collection built in for free, nicely debugged, etc. Once in awhile
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by VLM 6y ago
> Only reject a "best practice" if you understand why it was there in the first place. I'd agree with and extend your remarks, if you can clearly document why you're creating your own best practice, then its OK. Or r
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by VLM 6y ago
To extend the factual data, benzene costs about twice as much as ethanol does (to one sig fig) so its obviously a contamination or production mistake as opposed to a money saving opportunity. Wet ethanol is going to be a little bit cheaper
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by VLM 6y ago
Common sense is usually wrong WRT statistics.
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by VLM 6y ago
If as a human C compiler you unrolled a loop, that would be performant, but because you're space limited you do not unroll the loop and that is (memory) efficient. Lets say you had a 6x8 character cell or a really small sprite for grap
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by VLM 6y ago
He went to Yale not Harvard and his name was Deming and I don't actually agree with OP but I think that is who OP was implying.
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by VLM 6y ago
The impedance bump between this framework and the evaluation system for the rest of the company including management at most places must be pretty large. It strikes me as the kind of thing you'd expect to see in a boilerplate programme
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by VLM 6y ago
I remember a W1GHZ project from the 00s or maybe even the 90s where he eventually got hairpin filters for low microwave frequencies to work using cheap PCBs. Generic fiberglass is NOT consistent across multiple mfgrs enough that you can spe
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by VLM 6y ago
WRT drilling problems the industry standard solution is make a little hole in the PCB layout so there's a ring of copper and use the stiffest sharpest carbide bits you can get but realize you can't hand old carbide the slightest s
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by VLM 6y ago
Its the death of the meme of the "universal OS". There will be Linux for desktops to run a web browser (aka poorly emulate a chromebook) and for docker and docker only. If you want a non-containerized server or some kind of non-de
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by VLM 6y ago
> It used to be that the recommendation for swap was 2x ram. It always boiled down to never allocate more swap than you're willing to wait, and memory capacity multiplied over the years far faster than real world drive thruput. So I
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by VLM 6y ago
Earlier times are for high school sports competitions. Everyone has to get up early all year, so the track team does not have to stay up late a couple times per year. Well, also football, basketball, etc

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