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Low-cost measurement of facemask efficacy for filtering(advances.sciencemag.org)
1 points by dpeck 6y ago|0 comments
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Ancient Sysadmin Wisdom(mobile.twitter.com)
3 points by dpeck 6y ago|0 comments
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by dpeck 6y ago
They’re somewhat useful for monitoring. I don’t expect that they’re much of an actual deterrent and ymmv on if they’re worth the price. But don’t discount the value in monitoring something that you can’t fully control. By the time someone g
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by dpeck 6y ago
A place to put outside shoes and put on inside slippers (flip flops in my case) is good for clean floors anyway. I highly recommend, whether that’s a little mudroom or just a walled rubber/plastic container to take off shoes. That said
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by dpeck 6y ago
I agree on the weed out, I have less confidence in the quickly. Bigger companies move at glacial pace and most are going to do everything they can to not let on that there are any problems at a group/division/whole enterprise leve
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by dpeck 6y ago
The recruiting dept of a lot of companies are only pretending that they’re hiring to justify their own existence as long as possible. Many actually are not, though not all of them even know that they are pretending until it goes to VP/
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by dpeck 6y ago
Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett. I’d start with the DEATH series (Mort is first book in that one) but a lot of folks like the City Watch. (Guards! Guards!). Lighthearted, hilarious, and some real insights into the human condition in a t
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by dpeck 6y ago
This. So much this. Unless you’re going the vulnerability/malware research, reverse engineering, or something equally specialized don’t paint yourself into a corner and limit your options with over specific signaling. And realize that
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by dpeck 6y ago
That in and of itself isn’t surprising. Programs tend to be ranked in top 5/10/25/50/100 kind of buckets and that would define where they’re recruiting from when they’re told “get the best” and have to draw an arbitrary
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by dpeck 6y ago
Sadly less applicable now with the explosion in the number of PMs accompanied by the responsibilities that developers haves ceded away to them. Early in my career (~20 yr, and obviously ymmv maybe I just had good ones) product folks knew th
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by dpeck 6y ago
added and out of the edit time: Even if these were only around existing school property and different classes used just morning or evening the kids could still get some instruction, the parents could have a brief break, and get food (and Go
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by dpeck 6y ago
large pavilions with picnic tables, lighting, and fans works well and we should be building them all over our communities. They're cheap to build, keep everyone dry, shaded, and reasonably cool. It's obviously not as good as air c
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by dpeck 6y ago
It’s not just software, it’s like that for every industry. There are some, usually large, group of people whether in sales/marketing/operations/etc who aren’t particularly interested in the industry of their business but pref
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by dpeck 6y ago
A video stream of some sort while kids are playing a game together, like Minecraft or Animal Crossing, seems to work well. The game takes the place of blocks/toy for them to interact with and takes the stress away from them having to g
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by dpeck 6y ago
FAANG, no question. Its more money, huge benefits, and it's easier.
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by dpeck 6y ago
this is the answer to why so many things are the way they are. Those with enough money to make something not be a problem, don't tend to even think about it again after writing the check/swiping the card.
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by dpeck 6y ago
Edit that “buy out” to “form some sort of public/private partnership with an independent board” I think things are too entrenched these days, but the schools strong points complement each other so well.
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by dpeck 6y ago
Largely the state leadership is in for the economic benefits, but not the social consequences of having a more educated population.
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by dpeck 6y ago
This is right on, and just another example of GT (a top tier engineering school) being physically located in, and largely beholden to, a state that doesn’t care about, or is downright hostile to all things “technology”/“smart”. I love
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by dpeck 6y ago
Birch beer is a lovely beverage, had it on a trip through the mid-atlantic states during college. I don’t remember ever seeing it at retail here in the south, but it seems like root beer and generally the heavy herbal type flavors have fall
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by dpeck 6y ago
Perhaps I’m just dense, but that’s exactly how I would read this tweet from late February: https://mobile.twitter.com/cdcgov/status/1233134710638825473... “ CDC does not currently recommend the use of facemasks to
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by dpeck 6y ago
Through what means?
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by dpeck 6y ago
| Isn't it the police's responsibility to prevent violent crime? There have been several Supreme Court cases that have answered that question with a hard “No”
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by dpeck 6y ago
The joyplots naming has been phrased out due to the horrible meaning of the phrase “joy division”
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by dpeck 6y ago
That is what github is heading towards.
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by dpeck 6y ago
Had that exact same experience. I’ll never forget that morning. Waking up with the sun up and immediately thinking the worst, then exuberant joy when figuring out he was fine, just sleeping well for the first time ever.
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by dpeck 6y ago
CS degree here, I don't think you're in a bad place at all with Industrial Engineering. There have been quite a few times that I've wished I would have done a dual degree route there to have a better understanding of stochast
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by dpeck 6y ago
It sounds silly, but set aside time for a purpose is a good thing. A friend of mine and his spouse do a twice a year “offsite” where they go camping somewhere and spend half of the Saturday talking about where they are in the year financial
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by dpeck 6y ago
On Food and Cooking is a wonderful introduction to practical everyday food science.
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by dpeck 6y ago
early is going to depend on what you mean by early, but first means you either know the founder(s) or you know a friend of the founder(s). Generally you will have worked with them in the past. My last one we weren't a unicorn (though

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