devchix

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by devchix 6y ago
Do Google contractors make more than Google employees? If yes, the premium is the priced-in risk. I sincerely don't know, but US government contractors make more than the GSA schedule counterpart.
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by devchix 6y ago
I have the same question, I'm writing a whitepaper (a useful one, with how-to steps things and supporting code), and I cast about looking for a style guide and format for "whitepaper". Imagine my surprise when I found a site
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by devchix 6y ago
My experience is similar: the ready-to-cook stuff like boneless skinless chicken breasts have been near impossible to find. The last time I went to the grocery there were huge bags full of unprocessed parts like leg quarters and half-split
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by devchix 6y ago
I did check it out, no lie, I find the art work not very engaging, bordering on creepy. For context I liked all the Mario/Wario/Peach/Yoshi etc incarnations and found them to be really cute.
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by devchix 6y ago
I'm not a gamer, but I want to play something to maintain connection with family and distant friends. What should I play? I was once given a copy of Civilization and after playing it for a day, decided it was too much work and I alre
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by devchix 6y ago
Having grown up under Solaris, which was BSD-flavored at one time, and then added SysV commands, and when Linux was on the ascent, added the GNU suite ... all I have to say is, bring it! All the inconsistent compile options for sed, find,
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by devchix 6y ago
I know you jest, but of interests, there's a phonebooth someone set up for folks in Japan who have lost family members in the 2011 tsunami to "call" and "talk" to them. Scroll down to "Really Long Distance&quot
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by devchix 6y ago
Thank you, I understand better now with the numbers worked out. Although in this example, outcome is dependent on circumstance and LBOs are not covers for malfeasance the way they're frequently talked about.
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by devchix 6y ago
"extract value" -- what does this mean? Sell off the furniture? Fire 50% of the employees? I have image of Richard Gere saying "I buy companies that are in financial difficulties, I break it up into pieces, and I sell that
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by devchix 6y ago
Right, and in that case I've made a bad decision and now I "own" a company that is not doing well and have more debt to service. The company declares bankruptcy, gets restructured or folds. How does that help me? That is to
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by devchix 6y ago
Thanks for that. But why is the company now worse off than before? A company can be funded with equity or debt (different terms and obligations, I understand) but if a company converts 100% of its outstanding shares to debt, why does anyth
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by devchix 6y ago
The idea of "fast fashion" is noxious! All those faddish things worn for a season then to take up space in landfills. I don't think I've found affordable clothes made to last anymore (a good quality wool sweater, maybe
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by devchix 6y ago
Please explain? Why is there the association that private equity creates corporate debt?
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by devchix 6y ago
:wq! because I really mean it!
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by devchix 6y ago
What is the point of this article? "We want more complexity!" said no one ever. People want ease of use, that attribute alone makes any software complex. I once attended a presentation about downtime management. Take-away: pla
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by devchix 6y ago
Bruce Schneier already posit that hack-a-thing challenge is not a good test or proof of whether a thing is vulnerable. Back in the days when everyone was coming out with hash and cipher algo there were bounties offered as PR of how strong
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by devchix 6y ago
He hacks his home oven to use the self-cleaning cycle to bake at 800°F. :blink: I'm not comfortable doing that. I rarely crank mine to 500°F, when I do there's quite a bit of smoke that has to be vent.
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by devchix 6y ago
This is amazing in that one would endure pain and disfigurement to advertise social standing, but I guess I speak from a time where there are other ways to display class standing. Dueling fell out of favors in the French aristocracy becaus
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by devchix 6y ago
Free weights and kettle bells. Not even on the used market. Twill tape and elastic. This is a herringbone weave strip of fabric, you use it to tie pajama pants, cloth bags, things like that. People are using it for ties for homemade face
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by devchix 6y ago
Real waffles use yeast, sadly another item that's becoming scarce. Here's the Cook's Illustrated recipe which I use very often, it turns out excellent waffles. 1 3/4 C milk 1 stick butter (melted but not hot) 2 C flour
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by devchix 6y ago
Yes, just so. Some days ago I posted an NPR Planet Money article about the effect of COVID-19 on farm workers, who are mostly immigrants, and the replies to my comment was so cavalier I could not engage. "The food will be fine",
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by devchix 6y ago
> Webstaurant would ship a pallet of flour, 50 bags of 50lbs each, for $1,081 or $0.43/lb. > Unfortunately, between placing the order and them shipping it they ran out of stock Insanity! I'm heartened that people are still b
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by devchix 6y ago
Python Net-SNMP. Python GPG. My Python ecosystem as I drag it from place to place. I ask myself why I do this, frequently. In the distant past, Solaris 9 for x86 on a laptop. I was younger (and dumber) then. Took much longer than 100 hr
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by devchix 6y ago
yp prefix, eg ypwhich ypcat, etc. Stands for Yellow Page, later became Sun NIS because Yellow Page is a trademark.
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Antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral effects of 3 essential oil blends(2017)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by devchix 6y ago
This is the wrong way to look at this. You are not paying $12.95 for a bound copy of papers with ink on it, nor for a printed disk with magnetized bits on it, nor the electricity that powers the servers that host the transfer of those bits.
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by devchix 6y ago
I encourage you to give the podcast a listen. Hygiene and sanitation conditions for farm workers are horrific. The not-yet-realized future where undocumented farm workers successfully cross the border, then fall ill, is even worse. Now y
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by devchix 6y ago
Um ... > The empty grocery shelves are unnerving. While we're probably not going to starve in the long run, the farm system is going to be seriously stressed. Most of our fruits and vegetables are picked by hand. 73% of farmworkers
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by devchix 6y ago
I've read both The Jungle and Nickel and Dimed , but not Atlas Shrugged . To this day I have never hired anyone to clean my house or fetch and carry for me, it's a direct influence of that book. One day when I'm old and
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by devchix 6y ago
I've gotten rid of most of all my paper books a long time ago, I had too many and was always tempted to buy more. I even got rid of my beloved Austen anthology that's how seriously I was paring down. I figured I can get everythi

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