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by alaithea 7y ago
If you didn't read all the way down, this was one of the coolest parts: > Here's an amazing fact: The discoverer, Gennady Borisov, is an amateur astronomer who works as an engineer at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute. He ma
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by alaithea 7y ago
What you are calling an "educated guess" is basically the definition of insider trading. > On Friday, August 25, 2017, Ying texted a co-worker that the breach they were working on “sounds bad. We may be the one breached.” The
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by alaithea 7y ago
This is doubly ridiculous. As CIO he ought to be held accountable for the loss of millions of people's personal data. Instead, he gets what amounts to a slap on the wrist for insider trading.
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by alaithea 8y ago
Can you elaborate on the histamine/lead issue?
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by alaithea 8y ago
People whose kids are older may have forgotten how hard it is to get even five minutes to one's self at home, when there are infants or toddlers in the house, let alone an hour or two. Without an adequate support network in place, a pa
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by alaithea 8y ago
I love Deckset-- using it is like having presentation creation superpowers. But since it's OSX-only, I've moved to GitPitch, which is cross-platform and has the added benefit of hosting the slides. https://gitpitch.com&
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by alaithea 8y ago
Hate to break it to you, but it's been twice that long. ;)
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by alaithea 9y ago
Schedule A positions mean a different thing in the US Federal Government employment context than the IRS context... Schedule A just means a term-limited position. Those are W2 employees, not contract.
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by alaithea 9y ago
The OP seems to misunderstand the function of NIST, as well. NIST does not "approve" other agencies' software systems. NIST is a standards-setting organization only. They create and publish standards, but do not enforce them.
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by alaithea 10y ago
At this point, the fix is just a matter of popping open a terminal, hitting Ctrl+R and typing "restart" to find the command that fixes things, and hitting Enter. So yeah, it is annoying but not a dealbreaker by any means for a pow
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by alaithea 10y ago
I can't speak to this generation of the machine, but I've had a decent experience with Ubuntu on the 3rd gen Carbon X1. I have constant issues with the wifi, though... networkmanager needs to be restarted a couple times a day or e
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by alaithea 10y ago
I'm pretty sure what you're talking about exists in the OpenControl repos somewhere-- I'm just not sure which one (sorry). My former 18F colleague was recently talking about translating controls about password specifications
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by alaithea 10y ago
The U.S. Federal Government already has [NIST-800-53]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIST_Special_Publication_800-5... ) (for software), and [FedRAMP]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FedRAMP ) (for clo
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by alaithea 10y ago
This was already started by 18F. If you haven't heard of them, they are the first U.S. federal gov digital consultancy, and the primary force behind a lot of security/certification improvements already. https://github.c
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by alaithea 10y ago
I think that woman's view is in the minority. If that particular community is not open to male allies, but you want to help, please keep looking and find one of the many communities that is!
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by alaithea 10y ago
It's funny that this is just becoming a thing. I heard about flag-driven releases from somebody in DevOps at Facebook last year, and how integral they were to their release process there. I ran my own SaaS as a self-taught, solo develo
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by alaithea 11y ago
That's not correct. 18F predates USDS by about a year, and we are (and always have been) independent of each other, though there is a lot of cross-pollination in our work.
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by alaithea 12y ago
I know you said you wanted "support," as opposed to suggestions of pills to take. However, more sufferers of anxiety need to know about this, so I'm going to say it: get a magnesium+calcium (+D) supplement. If you are magnesi
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by alaithea 12y ago
This all seems to come down to a couple of factors, namely the hygiene hypothesis and the gut microbiome. I suspect that many of the dietary changes which several posters have mentioned as having helped their allergies may have in fact just
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by alaithea 12y ago
I would never in a million years sign up for an SMS service like that, yet I have been signed up for things like that no less than three times during the several years I have been a customer of T-Mobile. I have just managed to catch the cha
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by alaithea 12y ago
That depends on what you want to do with your junky input. And if it's junky enough, no tool is going to be able to divine what you want to do with the data until you do some manual cleanup. However, just to put it out there, csvkit ha
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by alaithea 12y ago
Why? I know and love csvkit, but never heard of csvfix.
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by alaithea 13y ago
[edit: the author has since corrected the Gini definition in the article] I've never encountered the Gini coefficient before, but reading up on it on Wikipedia, the author appears to have the measure flat backward. "A score of &qu
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by alaithea 13y ago
If you're a subscriber, as I was, you can go into your account settings and "Suspend Indefinitely" your account from being charged. There is also a comments section. I'm betting they'll pay a lot more attention to t
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by alaithea 14y ago
His LinkedIn profile says he went to university in '89-'92, which would put him in his early forties, if he went at a usual age.
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by alaithea 14y ago
I wanted to try using it, but they only supported the city "proper" that I live near (a couple hundred feet from the border, actually), and not my metro area. While I could see that being a hard thing, dev-wise, to do, I'd say it was a huge
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by alaithea 14y ago
Yeah, best price I can find is $489 on eBay.
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by alaithea 14y ago
Actually, it comes with a wristband to clip it to for sleeping.
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by alaithea 14y ago
I saw one of these transactions go down a month or so ago in my town (a DC suburb). A somewhat ragged looking woman was lugging a large bottle of tide down the street. Another person waved at her and they approached each other in the middle
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by alaithea 14y ago
Yeah, it had a way to subscribe to a community, and then people would send tracks out to the community. Awesome stuff from people would then just show up in a folder on your computer.

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