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by drtz 6y ago
I love that this took a perfect storm of having a statistician and sys admin both bent on finding the cause of a weird intermittent problem in their own way. This could have happened a million times where the story was a lot less interestin
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by drtz 7y ago
It seems so backwards that we would be furloughing hospital workers right now. Hopefully those finding themselves without work can lend theirs skills in locations where we don't have enough workers.
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Hospitals Furloughing Staff, Altering Physician Pay Due to Covid-19(revcycleintelligence.com)
16 points by drtz 7y ago|10 comments
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by drtz 7y ago
Impossible Burger doesn't have any dyes. The redness is from the soy leghemoglobin, which also gives it the meaty taste. https://faq.impossiblefoods.com/hc/en-us/articles/3600189374...
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by drtz 7y ago
Another side of the same coin: anything "free" that you wouldn't use if you had to pay for it isn't providing value.
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by drtz 7y ago
I've been a regular Wireguard user for the last year and love it. Google just gave me the motivation to finally make a donation. Thanks for the great work!
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by drtz 7y ago
I was surprised to see one of these challenges pop up for me on LinkedIn this afternoon. As annoying as these challenges are, I'm glad to see one asking for something other than picking blurry bicycles and invisible crosswalks. (Yes, I
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How to Solve Enforcement Challenges(arkoselabs.com)
1 points by drtz 7y ago|1 comments
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by drtz 7y ago
Too bad money can't buy happiness [0] [0] https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/worlds-happiest-countries...
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by drtz 7y ago
Purely anecdotal, but my experience with Fi has been far less than ideal and I'm about ready to switch to another network. Right now I'm about a week into fighting with support, so far unsuccessfully, to get back $40 in charges fo
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by drtz 7y ago
Couldn't this same performance boost be achieved by adding an optional "strict mode"-like flag for object literals to v8? Adding JSON.parse(…) everywhere you need an object literal seems exceptionally kludgy, even for JS.
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by drtz 7y ago
Exactly: Raytheon is going to have considerably more lobbying power after this merger.
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by drtz 7y ago
> The trouble is everyone congergrates in the kitchen! That's fine if it's nice and wide and has plenty of counter space, but awful if it's really tiny and the only means between the living room and the patio where your ot
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by drtz 7y ago
Isn't Ireland is home to these business because they have lower corporate taxes than the rest of the EU? Lower taxes likely make it harder to fund the regulatory agencies that should oversee these companies, which were intentionally co
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by drtz 8y ago
Mac Spotlight Search doesn't follow this rule and it's sooooo annoying. I have Firefox and Firefox Developer Edition both installed and the top search suggestion seems to randomly switch back and forth between the two depending on
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by drtz 8y ago
I'm in Allen which is outside of the DART service area, though, so I'm probably not covered. Although I'm just across the Plano-Allen border. Maybe I could just walk a couple blocks south and summon a ride. :D Thanks for the
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by drtz 8y ago
Dallas has the same problem as LA. I live about 3 miles from a light rail park & ride but I don't even have bus service. I'd love to be able to use a ride share service, but taking Uber or Lyft adds another $10-15 to my daily
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by drtz 8y ago
I had planned on building out a home audio system using Chromecast Audios w/ small amplifiers distributed around the house. I even did a test run with my patio speakers and it worked out great. Now I'm going to have to rethink thi
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Inorganic phosphates may be making us couch potatoes(utsouthwestern.edu)
1 points by drtz 8y ago|1 comments
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by drtz 8y ago
I gave up when I got to the section on munufacturability. The idea that a package this size isn't big enough to house a large amount of digital logic is just wrong.
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by drtz 8y ago
No, because it is just an estimate. Every medical estimate in the US will include language that explains services other than those in the estimate may be provided, and you'll be responsible for paying for them. The provider is under no
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by drtz 8y ago
Somewhat ironically, mechanics seem to be generally considered one of the least trustworthy forms of business. I wonder why the medical profession hasn't seemed to earn a similar reputation. Maybe they will but they just haven't g
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by drtz 8y ago
My main takeaway: people want to avoid writing JavaScript about as much as they want to avoid writing machine code or Java bytecode.
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by drtz 8y ago
I once had a recruiter cold-call my employer's main line, ask for me by name and falsely claim to the receptionist that they had already been in contact with me about a position. The whole office heard about it within 30 minutes. Not a
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by drtz 9y ago
Nazis gave us Volkswagen. I don't have to support Nazis to own a Porsche in 2018.
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by drtz 9y ago
> ... there's almost always somebody more unscrupulous, devout, or patriotic than you who knows or is willing to learn what it takes to finish the job ... If you believe that doing something is wrong, the idea that someone more unsc
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by drtz 9y ago
> It's not your right to have access to YouTube's audience. This raises an interesting question: who built that audience? YouTube or its users?
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by drtz 9y ago
Not sure I'd call it a "good portion" in this context, but it's 6.2% according to FHWA. > Today, the 46,730-mile Interstate System includes approximately 2,900 miles of turnpikes. https://www.fhwa.dot.gov&#
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by drtz 9y ago
We have a round hole and a triangle hole, and we're telling the courts to decide which one to put the square peg in. Sooner or later our legislatures are going to have to deal with this issue.
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by drtz 9y ago
If you're building something you plan on throwing away, or won't be around to maintain, it makes perfect sense to throw things together quickly. If you're building something that will be a foundation for many future projects,

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