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871.
by bartread 5y ago
No, helmets don't provide protection against hearing damage, or at least not enough protection.
872.
by bartread 5y ago
> From another perspective, you can freely explore the enormous landscape of sound produced by FM synthesis, without diving into the deep end of DX7 programming. You can get some of this with Dexed as well: https://asb2m10.git
873.
by bartread 5y ago
> The early 2000s were wild. They certainly were. In my prior job my Windows 98SE development PC had a public IP address.
874.
by bartread 5y ago
I'm from the UK rather than the US and, although I'm no fan of the way we pulled out of Afghanistan (it has a certain sense of washing our hands of the situation about it given how involved we were in creating that situation), in
875.
by bartread 5y ago
Back in 2002 I joined a software company where we each had personal folders on a shared 2TB volume. 2TB was a lot back then, but it was needed because we work working with gene and protein sequences so you end up with quite a bit of data.
876.
by bartread 5y ago
I spent time in Paraguay back in 2003. There was a similar attitude towards Alfredo Stoessner amongst many Paraguayans who were old enough to remember his regime (ended in 1989). Here the driver I was most aware of was street crime: robbery
877.
by bartread 5y ago
I had a similar thought. I'm 45 and GP's dad sounds like the guy I want to be when I grow up.
878.
by bartread 5y ago
I wouldn't think the cracking risk is worse than my 2015 MBP: the glass runs all the way up to the bezel at the edge, which is maybe 2 - 3mm, so not that different to the new machines.
879.
by bartread 5y ago
"Neuron Bursts Can Mimic Famous AI Learning Strategy" is an obnoxiously ass backwards headline given that techniques used in AI, such as back propagation, are to some extent modelled on the behaviour of real neurons. AI, and neura
880.
by bartread 5y ago
Actual gameplay starts at 4:44 I think and, you're right, it does look fantastic. Tend to agree about the overly long preamble.
881.
by bartread 5y ago
Me too. If I got down to 90 - 91kg and 10% body fat I could just about squeeze in but with clothes and my work bag as well? Nope.
882.
by bartread 5y ago
> They stop multiple times in the night so you wake to the beeping of the doors opening and closing. Triggered. This is one of my biggest bugbears with early trains into and (particularly) late trains out of London: endless overly loud b
883.
by bartread 5y ago
It's certainly a frustratingly contradictory place. On the one hand the city wants to encourage growth and innovation. On the other they do this by promoting the most tedious urban sprawl around the edges because of some arcane rule ab
884.
by bartread 5y ago
Sounds like somebody who doesn't know what NIMBY means. Seriously, go and look it up before you throw your cheap and uninformed shots around. They aren't welcome here (and, yes, I note that you're hiding behind a throwaway ac
885.
by bartread 5y ago
This is the problem. Rental stock isn't being added. Private residences are being built that are then bought up by private landlords rather than people who actually want to live there. Private landlords then rent those properties out a
886.
by bartread 5y ago
Sure, or at least they'd discussed firing him because of that (but it was in advance of the invasion, I believe), but he was already what he might have considered retirement age when that happened. Could he have gone on elsewhere if he
887.
by bartread 5y ago
Phil Donahue is 85. I imagine he's been taking things a bit easier for 10 or 15 years. It's not as though Colin Powell has been making headlines for a while either, and for no doubt similar reasons. This has nothing to do with whe
888.
by bartread 5y ago
I don't especially mind tourists in moderate numbers - after all, from time to time, I play the tourist myself. However, I live and work in Cambridge, and if we were to put what you suggest into practice the city would become an absolu
889.
by bartread 5y ago
I just left this comment directly on the article: I don't think you can really say you've exhaused this until you can run DOOM rendered with checkboxes. You might need to get into checkbox dithering with multiple checkboxes to gi
890.
by bartread 5y ago
Oh, come on: I found the piece a bit woolly, but you're making an awfully big assumption there. Just because the author didn't talk about promotions doesn't mean they don't happen or that the company concerned doesn&#x27
891.
by bartread 5y ago
I worked retail for about 3 years, first just weekends and bits of overtime during school holidays all through 6th form, and then for nearly a year basically full time afterwards, and then a couple of the holidays during uni. I've also
892.
by bartread 5y ago
On one level that's great and I'm certainly glad you made it work. On another level, and bearing in mind that Confluence is a paid product, this absolutely should not be necessary and competent search is something that Atlassian s
893.
by bartread 5y ago
No. I do turn on my camera quite a lot, as do many of my colleagues (it's nice to see eachother) but, after reading a recently posted paper about the fatiguing effects of video calls I've started experimenting with switching it of
894.
by bartread 5y ago
I'd imagine it varies a lot by company. I, or somebody else on our team, look at every single CV/resume that comes in, regardless of whether or not the HR team have looked at them. We also aim to respond to every single applicant
895.
by bartread 5y ago
> One thing I'd like to touch upon is you saying that it cost you 5-7 years of your career. Is that really the case, though? My decision not to sue certainly was. Note: my decision. I'm taking responsibility, not blaming the
896.
by bartread 5y ago
This is giving me flashbacks. Years ago I applied for a C-level position at a company I worked for, somewhat to my surprise sailed through the interview process, and was officially offered the job. A few days later the CEO stopped by for a
897.
by bartread 5y ago
I'd also add to this, get to the point quicker. I got really bored with this article about three paragraphs in. You want to persuade me? Start by not wasting my attention. I'm sick and tired of people telling me what to do under v
898.
by bartread 5y ago
Oh, for sure. And I'd definitely take the opportunity to look around for something else if there's nothing more concrete on the table (and perhaps even if there is). I mean he now knows their real opinion of his value either way.
899.
by bartread 5y ago
> I tried to quit, but relented when I was convinced not to How did they convince you not to? Please tell me they have offered you something concrete and haven't just made empty promises or said nice things. (I'm running on the
900.
by bartread 5y ago
> I think it’s rather disingenuous and quite arrogant to make generalizations about the types of people who work at big companies (without even knowing what they do or having ever met them). I get where you're coming from, with your

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