benglish11

5 ms·

1.
by benglish11 2y ago
The attorney general (and the DOJ) is part of the executive branch
2.
by benglish11 3y ago
In most US states the employer doesn’t need to provide a reason for dismissal. Whether they do or don’t you may sue your employer or file a complaint with the state oversight agency. In that lawsuit if you have persuasive evidence of discri
3.
by benglish11 3y ago
It may not be the request package itself but a sub dependency. It only has a few from looking at the repo but something like flask can have a lot (especially with the plugins) and that’s a mainstream and well supported library
4.
by benglish11 3y ago
As someone on one of these drugs long term there are increased risks of some cancers so additional screening is recommended.
5.
by benglish11 3y ago
I’ve been on infliximab for a while. My insurance (in USA) pays about $1800 for the drug + the 2 hours of time in the infusion center. It’s even cheaper (for the insurance company) to do an at home infusion.
6.
by benglish11 3y ago
She was sold as a bride when she was 12 so essentially a slave. Her “husband” seems to have abandoned her though but I don’t imagine getting a hysterectomy or tubal ligation for a destitute woman in rural Uganda is easy to come by.
7.
by benglish11 3y ago
EPIC is also used outside of the US too, there are famous botched implementations of it in Norway and Finland. It’s not just a USA problem
8.
by benglish11 3y ago
These auto mowers are so light they generally don’t make much of a pattern in the grass at all
9.
by benglish11 3y ago
I can’t imagine any commercial data center here in the US using less than 240V
10.
by benglish11 3y ago
Databricks was started by the creators of Spark which was/is an open source library. This looks to be aiming for a similar goal.
11.
by benglish11 3y ago
Well we at least know they use redis as a cache because there’s a CVE about it (I remember because I had to upgrade Redis on our deployments because of it)
12.
by benglish11 3y ago
As recently as this morning I was able to collapse comments on mobile web by just tapping to the right of the commenters name. edit: tested right now and it still works for me
13.
by benglish11 3y ago
A lot comes from tv contracts which are usually paid for by advertisements or subscriptions. Some of that advertising could be from foreign companies.
14.
by benglish11 3y ago
For a meteorology focused response I don’t think the use of meteorological summer is too surprising. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/meteorological-versus-astrono...
15.
by benglish11 3y ago
Arrow is the more universal data format. It is already used to serialize non-python data structures in libraries like spark , snowflake-snowpark and polars. Pandas can read/write in arrow format as well. In pandas 2.0 the numpy backend
16.
by benglish11 3y ago
I think they chose Springfield specifically because how generic a name it was. It is a very common name across many states (might be the most common place name in the US). Groening is from Oregon though.
17.
by benglish11 3y ago
Yeah. They must be. I’ve had several k8s enthusiast dissuade from putting a db in k8s for performance reasons. This may change overtime but I believe there is a performance bottleneck in disk I/o (or at least that’s how it was explaine
18.
by benglish11 3y ago
I think even moving as fast as the average student is a generous assessment. My dad was a math teacher at a public high school in Southern California. At the end of his career he was the math dept chair. He retired recently but he was const
19.
by benglish11 3y ago
That doesn’t necessarily negate their point. What % of students attend a four year college that requires the SAT? If a student attends junior college they wouldn’t need an SAT (among other pathways to college that don’t require it). They di
20.
by benglish11 3y ago
EGO has a commercial line of battery powered equipment. In certain areas all electric lawn care can extract a premium even if gas powered equipment is legal.
21.
by benglish11 3y ago
Also the admin has eye contact in his profile photo! Shouldn’t that be labeled ec
22.
by benglish11 3y ago
You probably wouldn’t do this for a fork. You’d just replace it. The carbon frame though can be expensive
23.
by benglish11 3y ago
Intel is spreading their capital investment around to the US and other friendly countries. They also recently announced a Fab in Germany.
24.
by benglish11 3y ago
Gambling, fantasy sports (which is sort of gambling). Baseball specifically has a history of fascinations with statistics and analytics. As a season ticket holder I still sometimes see people with a scorebook manually managing to keep track
25.
by benglish11 3y ago
Yeah some time ago Plex started adding their own content or pushing you to streaming services, probably in an attempt to be more legitimate. I use Plex currently and I remember this being frustrating. With some configuration you can basical
26.
by benglish11 3y ago
They also have iOS and Android apps, maybe a web app too. Their apps do a lot of integrations with various streaming services which probably has a decent staff to maintain as well. That’s just tech jobs. They also have markering, design, lo
27.
by benglish11 3y ago
Citus is owned by Microsoft as well. https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2019/01/24/microsoft-acquir...
28.
by benglish11 4y ago
Most Americans not being able to name it is not a good standard for bank size. Banks like SVB exclusively have businesses as customers and most Americans do not run businesses. It’s not a tiny no name bank by any reasonable measure.
29.
by benglish11 4y ago
The school district isn’t a corporation it’s part of government. As we all know the government gets to make and enforce its own rules.
30.
by benglish11 4y ago
So I have similar perspective on authority in my career. Something that has helped me is to stop expecting them to be infallible, to always have the answer, to always be exceptional. This helps to lessen the animosity I feel towards the “in

More ›