bigjimmyk3

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by bigjimmyk3 8y ago
The headline says 1954, but that is a misreading of the cover page. The report appears to have been authorized by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 but its publication date is listed on the cover page is 1967.
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by bigjimmyk3 8y ago
My initial attraction to screen / tmux was when I spent most of my time logged into remote servers. The ability to start a long-running script at the office, detach from screen, then re-attach at home to check on it later was indispens
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by bigjimmyk3 8y ago
FT8Call has been renamed to JS8Call (and also mentioned upthread).
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by bigjimmyk3 8y ago
tivert's reply is correct, and WMT does it on a surprising array of goods. The most visible example is "Great Value" frozen pizzas, which are produced by the same company that makes and sells Red Baron. Cost conscious consume
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by bigjimmyk3 8y ago
You are correct that more stores are mixing their house brand in with "national" brands (or whatever term you want), and that stores have discovered the good ROI that comes from upping their house brand game (which is the point of
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by bigjimmyk3 8y ago
I think it's different because of intent. Supermarkets and large retailers (e.g. WMT) seek deals to relabel and sell products as "house brand" but it's generally done in such a way that they are selling to customers who
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by bigjimmyk3 8y ago
It's possible that your automation saved jobs by enabling your former employer / client to remain solvent. Sometimes the choice is not "30 jobs without automation or 10 jobs with automation," but rather "10 jobs wit
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by bigjimmyk3 8y ago
I think you hit the bullseye here, because the tasks you highlighted simply aren't done at most other QSRs. They are novel ways to apply human labor to fast food (at least, novel within their competitive space).
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by bigjimmyk3 8y ago
I think I read the OP's assertion in relation to your counterpoint like this: when thinking through the problem, your initial iteration of work is allowed to say exactly that: a leap year occurs every 4 years. However, you should do so
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by bigjimmyk3 8y ago
A train's emergency braking system is somewhat sacrificial (using it can damage engines, cars, etc.) so you're probably correct. I'd say that in either case, most people who are not "train people" will dramatically
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by bigjimmyk3 8y ago
I had PRK about a year ago, and I'm very happy to have done so. I wore contacts / glassses for about 35 years prior, and I don't miss them at all. I have experienced some of the post-op complications mentioned in the article,
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by bigjimmyk3 8y ago
TMND is rarely mentioned in these discussions on HN, and I think that's a shame. Despite being a bit over 20 years old, it's a fascinating study of documented high net worth individuals. They also do a good job of contrasting hig
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by bigjimmyk3 8y ago
Have you been talking to my wife today? Because she reminded me of forensic accounting as soon as I got home. Yes, that is a thing but it's not part of a normal financial audit (at least not in the US).
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by bigjimmyk3 8y ago
I knew that phrase was going to bite me! See my reply above, where I clarify that "reliability" is better said as "reliability as a summary representation of our books."
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by bigjimmyk3 8y ago
What Tyrek said. Also, I could have phrased it better as "assurance that the company's financial statements accurately portray the activity in their accounting ledger(s)." An audit is about matching the financial statements t
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by bigjimmyk3 8y ago
Married to an accountant, and her words are echoing in my head (loudly): "The purpose of an audit is not to discover fraud!" An audit is a written opinion on the reliability of a company's financial statements (my words this
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by bigjimmyk3 9y ago
Spree may be dead, but its successor Solidus ( https://github.com/solidusio/solidus ) is still seeing regular fixes and feature updates.
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by bigjimmyk3 9y ago
For "light reading" on this subject, try _Working Effectively With Legacy Code_ by Michael Feathers. We used it to very good effect at my last company.
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by bigjimmyk3 9y ago
I have a similar service (1gbps up/down) and I was able to get 944mbps by cabling my laptop directly to the ONT. According to my research, that's the practical maximum since there is some protocol overhead taking up part of the pi
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by bigjimmyk3 9y ago
I recruited someone to help me play a prank on a friend, and in return she asked me to find her a date from my university (we attended college in different cities). She forgot to say "other than you" so I won that one. We went to
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by bigjimmyk3 9y ago
A few years ago I felt like I should contribute something back to SO (having used it plenty of times for research), but somehow I got routed into a "gotcha" UX where the site would repeatedly tell me that my previous action was ag
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by bigjimmyk3 9y ago
Seconded -- while the decision-making ability is centralized (not in each individual robot) the system as a whole is still able to make its own decisions in many areas.
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by bigjimmyk3 9y ago
I'm controlling zigbee devices with hass via a lightify hub, and I know there are other supported methods as well. EDIT: clarified that I am using homeassistant to talk to the lightify hub.
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by bigjimmyk3 9y ago
We had the best luck with an electric comb -- that is, a comb designed so that the louse completes a circuit and receives a small (but lethal) dose of current. It is difficult to build up a resistance to that.
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by bigjimmyk3 9y ago
After a few initial hiccups, my wife is sold on Walmart's grocery pickup service. For short-range delivery, they are also experimenting with "terrestrial drones"[1] which I have seen around town once or twice. 1. http:/
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by bigjimmyk3 9y ago
I remember reaching my state spelling bee and noticing that some of the other kids had a book I had never seen. It turned out to be _Valerie's Spelling Bee Supplement_ and when I got to the national bee almost every competitor had one.
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by bigjimmyk3 9y ago
As an employer, I like contract-to-hire because it gives me a chance to learn more about the employee -- and vice versa. Most of these have worked out quite well, a few have ended in... spectacular fashion. Point is, I have always felt that
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by bigjimmyk3 9y ago
I'm in a similar situation, but don't think of this as an unsolvable problem: 1. Find people who are great at it and be interested in how they do it. I think of this as learning to read good design before you write it. They may be
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by bigjimmyk3 9y ago
All good advice. After about the same amount of time, I am seeing things from the other side -- that of the manager / employer. I have had quite a few employees who came to me and sheepishly told me they were accepting another offer. I
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by bigjimmyk3 9y ago
I have a story from the other side. In the late 90s my university RA position involved installing and maintaining a network in a nearby school district. One day, a teacher at a junior high indicated that one of his brighter students was &qu

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