frenchman_in_ny

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by frenchman_in_ny 1y ago
What's interesting here is that there's discussion [0] about shippers declaring general average [1] on this. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzmk6aDumek [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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The $10k Job Search: Career Coaching, LinkedIn Fees, Résumé Help(wsj.com)
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Job Hunting for 21 Months(businessinsider.com)
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by frenchman_in_ny 1y ago
Sigh. I know I'm not the "right" industry for HN, but I find the news & discussion here interesting and that's why I'm here. I really trying to keep my head up when I see these "who's hiring" post
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by frenchman_in_ny 1y ago
Very cool. One nit is because of the graph smoothing, it looks like you have negative hours P2 time 2014-2015 and Heavy time 2021-2022. I thought the ICAO "Heavy" designation applied to aircraft above a certain MTOW instead of tim
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by frenchman_in_ny 1y ago
We have a large ~20K person BuyNothing community in my area (also NYC), and a few of us have thrown the same idea of a tool library around. We always hit a wall on the discussion of liability & liability insurance. Any ideas on how othe
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by frenchman_in_ny 2y ago
Re "UK electricity prices are set by the highest priced generator which is normally gas" Worldwide, electricity prices are set by the highest priced generator at the given moment of needed generation -- it's the dispatch curv
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by frenchman_in_ny 2y ago
I think a big reason why cruising sailors would remove the labels is that there's a belief that cockroaches & other bugs would lay eggs in the paper / glue [0], and having an infestation on a sailboat is then challenging to de
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by frenchman_in_ny 2y ago
In the banking world, employees have been fined significant sums, or even forced from their jobs [0], for unauthorized use of messaging platforms. And here, it's barely a shrug. Unbelievable. [0] https://www.reuters.com&#x2F
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James Reason, Who Used Swiss Cheese to Explain Human Error, Dies at 86(nytimes.com)
2 points by frenchman_in_ny 2y ago|1 comments
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Sam Altman Returns to Political Fund-Raising(nytimes.com)
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Treasury Official Quits After Resisting Musk's Requests on Payments(nytimes.com)
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The Big Garmin Watch Crash Issue(dcrainmaker.com)
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by frenchman_in_ny 2y ago
I've been unemployed from the finance world for ~18 months now. I've applied to over 1000 jobs (per my LinkedIn), though lots of those jobs just seem to be evergreen reposts on LinkedIn & not actual jobs. It's absolutely
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by frenchman_in_ny 2y ago
I was at an Open House at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory [0] a few weeks ago, and one of the researchers was doing something adjacent to this -- recording the sound of earthquakes for analysis. Will try to find who it was. [0] https:
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by frenchman_in_ny 2y ago
It's likely a Chapter 11 reorganization, not a Chapter 7 liquidation [0]. So basically the equity holders get zeroed out and debt holders get some level of recovery in the form of new debt or combination of debt & equity. [0] http
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by frenchman_in_ny 2y ago
Just FYI on the Babboe line of bikes, be aware that there was a recall [0] on some them recently! (And I say this as a Babboe owner myself) [0] https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2024/Cargo-Bicycles-Recalled-Du...
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Iceland embraced a shorter work week(cnn.com)
25 points by frenchman_in_ny 2y ago|2 comments
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by frenchman_in_ny 2y ago
Hopefully there will be some sort of study released relating to the restart of the grid. From memory of the 2003 East Coast Blackout the restart mechanics are fairly complex.
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by frenchman_in_ny 2y ago
Just FYI - at least through the HD website, they will tell you aisle Y bay X (though it may not say "bottom right"). So the assistant at HD isn't adding a ton of value.
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Submersible Titan USCG Marine Board Public Hearing [pdf](media.defense.gov)
1 points by frenchman_in_ny 2y ago|0 comments
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NYC tests ebike battery swapping(technologyreview.com)
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Investors revive enthusiasm for European tech startups(ft.com)
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by frenchman_in_ny 2y ago
Though, unlike in the US, the investigators in France are required to seek evidence of both innocence and guilt [0]. So theoretically there's no need for defense experts. [0] https://www.justice.gouv.fr/justice-france&#
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by frenchman_in_ny 2y ago
Wasn't there an issue that with magnetic cables the ground pins aren't the first pins connected / disconnected? (Edit -- autoexec had the same memory of the same thread as I did)
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by frenchman_in_ny 2y ago
Unemployed for over a year here. Somewhat of a different job sector vs most here (leveraged finance structuring / investment banking). Have gone both through networking & have applied to over 1,000 LinkedIn jobs, have looked at adj
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4.7 Earthquake in NYC(earthquake.usgs.gov)
12 points by frenchman_in_ny 3y ago|1 comments
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by frenchman_in_ny 3y ago
I was laid off in May 2023 from one of the bulge-bracket banks. Had been doing founder-focused lending on shares of private companies. I'll tell you that I've applied to probably 1,000 jobs since then (across the spectrum of oppor
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by frenchman_in_ny 3y ago
I just revived my MP3 collection after getting frustrated with this & Spotify and purchasing a Pi5. But the process of self-hosting, correcting ID3 tags, etc is so time consuming (& frankly somewhat beyond my ability level) and is a
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by frenchman_in_ny 3y ago
I'm building 529 balances for two kids, and I have future "school" dates for both, along with expenses for both starting at those future dates. I guess I'm not understanding how it's working in the plan & cashfl

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