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by abakker 6y ago
Behold California! master of the Pyrrhic victory. Now we have more unemployment claims for CA to process. I'm sure they'll get right on that.
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by abakker 6y ago
As someone who doesn't play any games on my phone, and doesn't care at all about Epic, I guess the best alternative here for me, is that Apple just allow 3rd party app stores. I guess they could fully sandbox those stores so that
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by abakker 6y ago
It turns out that most of my friends from SF have all left for the same general area, so it became a pretty easy decision for us. Additionally, We are moving to a place where many of our college friends also live, so we are hoping that some
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by abakker 6y ago
In my early 30s here. All my friends have left, and now we are doing so, too. You are right, IMO. Most of those friends are in tech and plan to move back eventually, but are hoping to score better deals on rent then. For now they live in th
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by abakker 6y ago
I can't help but think the founding fathers probably wrote the second amendment with single shot muskets in mind. I think the ultimate issue, though, was that after the civil war, looking at what our founding fathers intended and what
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by abakker 6y ago
I agree that things used to be different, but, not usually better. apps used to be malware a lot more on desktops, no sites had great reliability records, and the OSes and devices were slow, heavy, and un optimized. Sure, phones are not des
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by abakker 6y ago
There are other minerals in manure. Basic multivitamins and active bacteria besides salmonella benefit the soil.
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by abakker 6y ago
I still remember before test mode, when the teacher would just come around and do 2nd, +, 7,1,2 and that would reset the calc to factory settings. It became mandatory to have the USB adaptor to reload apps. The Ti83 is how I learned to prog
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by abakker 6y ago
I like this - in general, I’m a fan of this (my job is survey research). There are many different approaches to getting better results than most reviews get. Personally, I’d love to see a max-diff approach to reviews.
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by abakker 6y ago
We barely need a Yelp for restaurants. I think it is time for the internet to acknowledge that the pointless drivel in star rating systems is just not helping anyone. If you’re going to start a system for rating things, give it more nuance
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by abakker 6y ago
That would be virtually impossible. There are SO many bones. In many desert washes it only took us minutes to find some. Most of what you find won’t have much scientific significance.
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by abakker 6y ago
Self reply - the place I went is called Timescale Adventures. I got to find some pieces of dinosaur eggshell, as well as plentiful bones.
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by abakker 6y ago
There are several places in Montana that you can absolutely do this. I’ve done it and it is fun.
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by abakker 6y ago
Mythic comment.
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by abakker 6y ago
Tacit, institutional knowledge is what is being paid for. Not just people who can do a job, but people who already know the nuances of the job. If you’ve ever worked in management you know the ramp up period to being effective is months, no
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by abakker 6y ago
This isn't a complete answer, but, modern powder metallurgy along with exacting thermal control can make some blades that would probably take impact MUCH better than medieval ones. You could achieve more hardness and toughness with mod
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by abakker 6y ago
Agree with you completely. A simplistic way of pointing this out is that EVERY tax and every cost regressively effects the poor more. If you are close to break-even, or you have negative surplus already, then additional cost is always worse
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by abakker 6y ago
Potentially, managing isn't a full-time-job, full-time. There are management moments that can easily consume you for weeks/months, and if the manager should have been coding also, then the timeline is ruined. If the manager has sl
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by abakker 6y ago
Alternative POV: if they're not an engineer, then they NEED to be good at something else. I can imagine a situation in which a really excellent, organized, project manager with excellent ability to run interference with other teams&#x2
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by abakker 6y ago
I don't think this is a useful response. The concept of accounting is deeply integrated with the rules of accounting. The implementation details are the concepts, really. I'd suggest making the examples conform to the actuality
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by abakker 6y ago
Mach 4, UCCNC, LinuxCNC - pretty much any machine control software is crap UI, but it works and we live with it.
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by abakker 6y ago
Systems example: farmers are paid per pound for tomatoes. They therefore want to water heavily before harvest so the tomatoes get as heavy as possible. Then they ship the heaviest possible tomatoes to a factory to be dehydrated into ketchup
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by abakker 6y ago
The sheet metal workspace in fusion360 does this pretty nicely.
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by abakker 6y ago
most of that drone related survey work is actually for things like gravel, or earth-moving processes for construction. It is also not particularly difficult or novel, and solved well by several different packages. For construction, it is of
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by abakker 6y ago
I agree, and do not think your position on the state of our planet is extreme. I do not think that asking autodesk to suspend licensing to a coal mine is going to stop coal mining. Nor will Autodesk adopting honest PR solve the climate cris
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by abakker 6y ago
The central argument about bullshit jobs (the book) was that automation did, in fact, replace a huge number of jobs in the economy. Maybe even as many as were predicted to be lost in the worst doom and gloom scenarios. Graeber's conten
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by abakker 6y ago
I understand the POV here, but as a user of autodesk products, I don't want Autodesk to turn away the revenue they need to keep making products I use. products are an ecosystem and if the product gets worse or updates get slower then t
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by abakker 6y ago
OOC, what does "Scale" even mean here? is the OP saying you cannot infinitely serve ads because a given piece of content only attracts a finite number of viewers? or that there are a finite number of subject for a piece of content
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by abakker 6y ago
Watch for the literal perfect example of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8ryQOiX05k Aaron Gwin wins this World Cup Downhill race after breaking his chain in the first 50 yards. No pedaling after that and yet he'
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by abakker 6y ago
I do not think "most businesses that are having to sell out are probably on their way out" is even remotely born out by fact. Many businesses - Dell, Marketo, Informatica, have been bought by PE when they wanted to restructure or

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