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by frompdx 2y ago
It is always been unreasonably inconvenient to get a copy of the STE100 spec. But not quite as unreasonable as OP implies.
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by frompdx 2y ago
There are additionally certain ways sentences are to be constructed that are beyond the means of simple spellcheckers. The accepted vocabulary list is the easy part of the spec.
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by frompdx 2y ago
In my experience MS Word was not the primary means of producing technical documentation in the fields this spec is intended for.
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by frompdx 2y ago
I would like to offer a more comical tinnitus anecdote as someone with a moderate hereditary hearing impairment. I have always had tinnitus for as long as I remember. Usually it's a constant ringing that gets more intense until it st
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by frompdx 2y ago
Neither could any of the technical writers I worked with when this was proposed.
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by frompdx 2y ago
Nothing 1984 about it. It is for situations where English is the standard, but a non-native speaker might be involved or it is otherwise important to avoid ambiguity. As an example, when this standard was written it was common for small b
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by frompdx 2y ago
Believe it or not they used to charge for a copy of the standard as well.
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by frompdx 2y ago
I used to write technical manuals for aircraft and this really takes me back. At one point in time there was an endless debate about whether or not the company I was working for would adopt STE100, S1000D, or both. At the time software su
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by frompdx 2y ago
If you aren't getting to the first call there is something up with your resume. Are you applying directly or working with a recruiter? Applying directly is a roll of the dice in my experience. I have gotten just one job in tech by a
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by frompdx 2y ago
You might be interested in how Expensify use(s/d) SQLite for their product. https://use.expensify.com/blog/scaling-sqlite-to-4m-qps-on-a...
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by frompdx 3y ago
I have not personally used this Forth, but I would like to point out some very nice differences between existing implementations. - Permissive license. Other Forths such as FlashForth for the Arduino are copy-left. - Direct threaded code.
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by frompdx 3y ago
* Digital SLRs are already on the way out in favor of mirrorless designs. * HDMI will be replaced by USB-C or some other multi-purpose standard. * USB/Audio ports on handheld devices like smartphones. * General purpose personal computi
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by frompdx 3y ago
Have they considered simply banning car-theft instead? That seems a lot more straight-forward.
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by frompdx 3y ago
While it doesn't deal directly with cloud development, "Designing Data Intensive Applications" covers much of what you are interested in learning about such as large-scale or distributed applications. "Kubernetes up and
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by frompdx 3y ago
It's even harder to compete when you don't have the content users want while charging more than ever.
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by frompdx 3y ago
One time my dad installed a new driver on a Windows 95 machine that somehow broke the sound card output. Sound on that computer didn't work again until I re-installed the OS. Rebooting that computer meant walking away and finding som
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by frompdx 3y ago
Interesting. It reminds me a bet of janet-sh. I can see the utility if you are working with JavaScript or TypeScript. It might even work with ClojureScript using shadow-cljs. https://github.com/andrewchambers/janet-s
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by frompdx 3y ago
True, but a heatpump can heat and cool. Power outages can happen in the summer as well. During heatwaves the local power company actually cuts service to some to prevent wild fires. Losing power during a heat dome is what I'm thinki
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by frompdx 3y ago
My recommendation on short notice would be to get a couple Mr. Buddy/Mr. Big Buddy heaters. You can get days of use out of one if you buy an adapter and a propane bottle for a gas grill. Says on the box they are indoor safe, just be
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by frompdx 3y ago
> not-ugly Tesla I tell ya I gotta disagree. It is a boxy and weird looking thing. It's how I'd imagine a PS1 era graphic of a first generation Honda Ridgeline (also ugly).
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by frompdx 3y ago
Black and white film processing. It used to be taught in schools. Many schools still have their darkrooms and no longer use them. It is a practical application of physics, chemistry, and art.
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by frompdx 3y ago
Submittable | Bellevue, WA or Missoula, MT | Sr. SRE Submittable is looking for two Senior Site Reliability Engineers to join our infrastructure team. If you are passionate about cloud native tooling like Kubernetes and ArgoCD and wish to
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by frompdx 3y ago
A few that I really like. - Grokking Algorithms: Simple and to the point explanations of common algorithms with pictorial representations. - Let Over Lambda: A Guide to making the most of macros in Common Lisp. - Starting Forth: Never used
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by frompdx 3y ago
I have 260 items in my vault. Of course, I'm sure it could use some tidying up.
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by frompdx 3y ago
k6 is great and it seems to keep getting better. I found the API for http stress testing to be very easy to use. It really shines with multi-step API testing.
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by frompdx 4y ago
Who's going to spend millions (or billions) of dollars developing better supersonic technology when one of the most important markets is off-limits? Militaries, for one. But that doesn't mean supersonic flight is completely off
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by frompdx 4y ago
I’m struck by the fact that American economic growth went off the rails in 1973, the same year the overland ban on supersonic flight came into force. This seems like a hasty conclusion to make. There are plenty of things that correlate w
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by frompdx 4y ago
I've always liked this quote from True Detective Season 2. “Sometimes a thing happens, it splits your life. There’s a before and after. I've got, like, five of them at this point, and this is your first. But if you use it right —
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by frompdx 4y ago
The title should be "What is the fastest and simplest way to host a web app in 2023?". Not sure about Render, but the others you mention do not appear to be wholistic. They either focus on the frontend exclusively, or are inten
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by frompdx 4y ago
Edit: The values should be Should be 209b and 153b, respectively. The author of the article made a mistake in their graphic which showed the value of SVB as 20.9b when it should have been 209b. I carried this mistake over in my original p

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