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by brudgers 1y ago
“Should I quit? My boss wants me to use” Assemblers Compilers Relational Databases Garbage Collectors The Internet Source Control
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by brudgers 1y ago
No. Good luck.
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by brudgers 1y ago
Because anything else would be unprofessional, you can safely assume the getting-away-with-it calculation considers the applicable attorney general and that there is a budget for political contributions as well. The calculation also include
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by brudgers 1y ago
I wonder whether or not this uses the one cheap and low-quality cassette mechanism readily available or some new decently designed cassette mechanism...but I am too unlikely to buy it to "research" the question.
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by brudgers 1y ago
Engineering is tradeoffs. This one turns out to be politically unacceptable. But context matters: + what is the situation without the bridge? + what was the budget? + what was the timeline? + what land is available? + how much disruption to
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by brudgers 1y ago
Supporting Linux on M-series processors might be about the most environmentally friendly program Apple could possibly have because it would extend the useful life of the hardware Apple produces.
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by brudgers 1y ago
Yes, really. Executives can be an exception. Exceptional circumstances are an exception. Increasingly less common union jobs are an exception. But ‘at will’ is far more common in the US.
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by brudgers 1y ago
Like I said “if it matters.”
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by brudgers 1y ago
[random advice from the internet] If it matters, hiring a lawyer might get their attention. But while it is probably an injustice and $3k feels like real money to most people, how much are your time, and emotional energy worth? You are up a
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2-D Digital Waveguide and Finite Difference Modeling of a Sitar (2015) [pdf](ripublication.com)
1 points by brudgers 1y ago|0 comments
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by brudgers 1y ago
Assuming nothing kills you in nature Weather is the only likely natural hazard outside polar bear country (and to a lesser extent grizzly country because grizzlies are less likely to see you as food). And if you are in polar bear country
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by brudgers 1y ago
When you are willing to pay for your RDBMS, you are likely to get an optimizer that does algebra for you (and does algebra pretty well). On the other hand, if you are hand coding the query, you are hand coding whether you use SQL, Linq, or
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Dick Burwen's Sound System(burwenaudio.com)
4 points by brudgers 1y ago|0 comments
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by brudgers 1y ago
In a business context verification is pretty normal…Credit Checks, Letters of Credit, Insurance Binders, Bank Statements, References, etc. LinkedIn is a business platform. Anonymity does not seem consistent with its value as such. Anyway, P
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by brudgers 1y ago
Some comments from when the site was being frequently submitted to HN, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28421792
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by brudgers 1y ago
Assuming HO scale.
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by brudgers 1y ago
It would not be unreasonable for an inspector to assume something like the train layout was mentioned in the listing or otherwise known to the buyer.
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by brudgers 1y ago
If people are picking through your trash to reconstruct images from selphy cartridges and that matters, you probably have bigger operational security issues. Because that takes a rather determined adversary with non-trivial resources, you p
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by brudgers 1y ago
My parenting advice is that your attention is on optimizing a non-optimizeable challenge. The advice is based on experience. Imagine asking this question in 2002. That’s before social media, before ubiquitous data, before smartphones, befor
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by brudgers 1y ago
The injection moulds and industrial machine tools for fabricating a DAT are also expensive and writing valid data to each tape is time consuming.
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by brudgers 1y ago
DAT entered the market at about the same time as CD, but was much less successful. For all its notional advantages, DAT never really caught on in the domestic market Audio distribution dominates the consumer market and CD’s can be pressed
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by brudgers 1y ago
It is not a luxury. It is decision about who you are.
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by brudgers 1y ago
Your child wants to spend time with you. Not with a computer. And you both will be better off for it. So put your child on your lap and let the computer be an excuse until you give yourself permission not to need an excuse. Because they are
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by brudgers 1y ago
Everyone copies Hacker News now.
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by brudgers 1y ago
Minding your own damn business would be a good choice. Nobody asked for your help.
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The Traditional Prinner(essaysonmusic.com)
2 points by brudgers 1y ago|0 comments
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by brudgers 1y ago
In principle, deleting archived data is the opposite of backing up. It is not clear what problem with existing backup strategies this solves. I mean you can use a traditional delta backup tool and make one full copy of the current data sepa
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by brudgers 1y ago
Change your feed to what you want. Other people’s feeds are none of your damn business.
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by brudgers 1y ago
As a Show HN a few months ago, https://www.minesweeperpro.com/
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by brudgers 1y ago
What are viable strategies for any particular person with some ability to make an impact to steer the trend into another direction here? Most platforms allow you to shape your feed. But changing what other people want? Well that's pr

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