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by bluGill 2mo ago
There are a lot of incredibly smart non-autists. Or maybe slightly autistic, but enough awareness of the real world that they can be managed.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Since this was for fun, and the goal was learning at least as much as solving the problem that is just fine. More people should get NIH for those purposes. Now if he is presenting his tools as a good way to solve this problem, something yo
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by bluGill 2mo ago
The old jeeps had the speedometer in the middle of the dash. I don't know how that worked but they were never good on road vehicles anyway (they could do it, just not well) and off road you don't need that. Jeeps in the past 30 o
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by bluGill 2mo ago
That is ONE elite. There have been many elites over history with different levels of wealth and different things they did. Those who could afford a lot of slaves were not out in the field, but not all elite were that wealthy. I'm su
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by bluGill 2mo ago
A real historian has written on this. https://acoup.blog/2021/03/19/collections-clothing-how-did-t... > And textile production was a major activity (indeed, the major activity) for probably around 40% of
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by bluGill 2mo ago
If you need stitches then the ER is the correct place to be.
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> I can't think of any other time something good has come out of a private equity roll-up. Just remember bad news sells. I'm reasonably sure there are a number of other cases where this happens, likely most. However they are no
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by bluGill 2mo ago
True, but farming was still somewhat visible to many of the elite. The bible (old testament) has a number of farmers who were also elite.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
> Outside of monasteries, the intersection of men who were literate and men who were directly involved in food production was tiny Higher than that. While the educated men likely did not do much farm labor (depending on the local details
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Even if you only have stitches you want the ER to have those machines just in case the doctor looks at your injury and says "wait, this isn't the standard routine thing everybody has we need to get you into the expensive machines&
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by bluGill 2mo ago
The question is can he do more? Or he is already at the limit of what he can oversee and attempts to do more will mean he can't oversee everything and so everything gets worse.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
There is a real problem. There is a lot of overhead. You can use accounting to hide it in various places, but it still exists. I want a hospital large enough to handle disasters (think tornado destroys a large area), but that means there
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by bluGill 2mo ago
perhaps, but insurance companies are very good at figuring this out and in turn amortizing the costs out.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Just be careful. While hospitals need to do better, a large part of what I want from a hospital is to be over prepared. Just in time is good, for a lot of things, but there needs to be a large buffer of things in inventory at a hospital jus
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by bluGill 2mo ago
> According to Galen, food “is probably the most important of all medical subjects,” Just remember that in medieval times growing food was the job of the majority of men. Men also were the people most likely to be educated and actually w
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by bluGill 2mo ago
That certainly happens. On the other hand, engineers are typically way too eager to claim a spaghetti code. We need to rewrite the whole thing. After long experience, I've concluded most cases of people complaining that something needs
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by bluGill 2mo ago
How do I stop someone else from putting that back on my backlog again? Just today I had someone open a bug on my code because they decided that the organization was wrong. Some modules should be moved from one directory to another. Never mi
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Well, I'm reasonably certain there are dozens of YouTubers who figured it out. I wouldn't be surprised if I could figure it out myself, although it's unclear. But yes, repairmen, they would not be replacing a single relay. Th
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by bluGill 2mo ago
I'm making a point to be careful what I allow into my backlog. If realistically we're not going to do it, it doesn't belong in the backlog. There are a lot of things I want to do that are not in the backlog because I know rea
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Your first assumption is completely and utterly wrong. I do not require anyone to have the best education. America does have a great education system. Do others do better? Well, that's very, very arguable, but let's accept it for
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by bluGill 2mo ago
If it's me against Russia, no, I can't plan and prepare. - ALONE. Ukraine spent several years after 2014 planning for another war with Russia and there had reasonable success despite being in a apparently much worse situation. Ukr
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Right, and there is very good reason you need to care about a lot of things. That Dragon will burn your village and kill you. You better be concerned about that - you will die. Your life isn't scripted. If have the option to not igno
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by bluGill 2mo ago
That is easy to say. You can put it on a political mailing "vote for me and I'll"... However details matter. I've yet to see any detailed proposal that isn't obviously worse than where we are now.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Every system I can imagine as a real unintended consequence that is worse than what we have. The ideal should move to needle back - but there is no way to make that happen that isn't worse than where we are now.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
When nobody is going to work for the same company for decades what is the point? This is both management's fault for not valuing the people they have (it is very common for cost of living raises to not match inflation or much less inc
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by bluGill 2mo ago
The reality is you couldn't hand over jobs to the most qualified person. In most cases the most qualified person already works for you (or is you!), and just needs an assistant who by definition is less qualified. Suppose you found som
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Mostly because it is so common (web) it doesn't matter what language you use there is a good maintained tool to read and write JSON.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
If you have a complex configuration you are doing it wrong... Spend some time thinking about you really want and turn it into a simple key-value setup. JSON should feel like it is overpowered and bloated for your needs. (I'd still u
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Which is better than the all too common middle ground: writing something once and then not maintaining it. I've been burned many times reading some documentation and thinking I understood until I discovered the code has changed since
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Grade crossings exist all over - they are so much vastly cheaper than the alternative that other options are often not reasonable. There are many possible reasons you don't see them where you are anyway. I would guess that the reason y

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