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by a3n 5y ago
I put my finger on the protective cover over the laser turret switch, and usually that's enough. I've never actually lifted the cover.
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by a3n 5y ago
Anger and poor impulse control led me to rage quit a job. And I wasn't the best developer. I don't think any job was ever sorry to see me go.
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by a3n 5y ago
> In the same time frame, I worked at Boeing doing design work on the 757. After I graduated I worked at Boeing in a test group, and wrote control software for test rigs, mainly to test Fuel Quantity Indicating Systems on the 57 and 67,
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by a3n 5y ago
In 19 and 82 or 3, I worked at Lockheed Shipyard in Seattle, in a sort of tech writing capacity on a Navy ship building project, based on my recent experience in the Navy. The business closed with completion of the ships. We had to fill out
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by a3n 5y ago
"hastily" referring to the 800 that were to be deployed with a day or so of relevant riot and weapons training. Salute!
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by a3n 5y ago
But isn't that "removed" money being lent out by the bank?
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by a3n 5y ago
It sounds like news of historical Rome. The governor of a far trans mountain province. Generals sent there to protect the empire against even more distant threats. Shady deals between the governor and the generals. Hastily assembled legions
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by a3n 5y ago
So politicians are formally setting themselves up as more equal than others, able to violate a site's TOS with impunity, where the rest of us can't. Royal roads are back, baby!
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by a3n 5y ago
> I also wish this research was opt-IN rather than opt-OUT. > The reason I was given for not doing it this was that if it was opt-IN, people wouldn't and the research wouldn't work bc not enough data. Double checks ... Yep i
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by a3n 5y ago
> But I also believe that when it comes to the future health of the planet, the question is not one of whether or not we continue to have babies. People will always have babies. Here, there and everywhere. Instead, it is a question of ho
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by a3n 5y ago
Fascinating, hopeful and yet saddening. I would like to have seen something about Inuit experience with Belugans speaking HSL, Human as a Second Language.
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by a3n 5y ago
Use an ad blocker. It viewed just fine for me. Your poor experience is justification enough for blocking. I await the day when internet ads are not resource sucking, malware vectoring, PII leaking surveillance systems. Until then, I block.
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by a3n 5y ago
Automation may merely not yet be readily adoptable.
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They can charge what they need to be profitable, after discovering how much they need to pay workers to apply and show up. Which will drive away many customers who have become accustomed to cheap service built on "shit jobs." At s
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If you think about joining, talk to anyone in the reserves deployed in the last 20 years, and ask them about "stop loss," and being deployed for 364 days rather than 365, so that you don't get benefits associated with a year
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Lawmakers intro legislation to create civilian reserve program to fight hackers(thehill.com)
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by a3n 5y ago
In a typing class in middle school. On a typewriter. In the seventies. I don't know how fast I can type, and I don't care, it's never affected ... anything. (Former sw dev)
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by a3n 5y ago
It got out of control because I got complacent, started eating a lot of what I shouldn't, and didn't do my finger stick sugar testing for a long time. Then, because it's diabetes, I started peeing a lot. Then I measured and k
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It was "during this period," but only coincidentally. Diabetic. I let my blood sugar get wildly out of control. Daily sugar in the 300s, A1C 13 something. Consulted doc and medical nutritionist. Nutritionist suggested daily carbs
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by a3n 5y ago
Boulton and Watt would be an even older O.G. startup, with Boulton as the business founder and Watt the technical founder. They formed their partnership on Watt's improvement over Newcomen's steam engine, used to drain water from
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by a3n 5y ago
The Pragmatic Programmer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pragmatic_Programmer Unix Power Tools https://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/unix/upt/index.htm If you want the doorstop: https:&#x
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by a3n 5y ago
Has she been made aware that it's not her code? Or does she have a different relationship with the company? Since you have a working example, can you code it up independently? It doesn't sound like she's of irreplaceable cali
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by a3n 6y ago
In the last year or few, 99.03% of the spam calls that I've answered have been robo calls. So they're all but free to the calling org. Prosecution and lawsuits could make it unprofitable. Jail time would make it very unprofitable.
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by a3n 6y ago
> The plans are likely to meet stiff opposition from device makers as end-of-life dates for devices are usually an open secret among the tech-savvy but stating them at the launch of a brand new bit of hardware is unlikely to be popular w
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"This statement intentionally left blank."
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by a3n 6y ago
> Maybe less well-known is that ~ is an alias for one’s home directory. And ~mylogin is another alias for ones home directory. And more generally, ~otherdev is an alias for otherdev's home directory.
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by a3n 6y ago
Nice. Bash is more than just bash. Composition is a killer technique.
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by a3n 6y ago
Truck driver. The comm terminal in my truck (Qualcomm) has a female voice, for navigation waypoint reminders, reading messages, and warnings. It is not a pleasant voice. I've name it after my ex wife, because it's always telling m
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> In an email, a Cellebrite representative wrote: "Cellebrite is committed to protecting the integrity of our customers’ data, and we continually audit and update our software in order to equip our customers with the best digital in
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by a3n 6y ago
The researchers have a future at Facebook, which experimented on how to make users feel bad. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=facebook+emotional+study&t=fpas&ia...

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