geomark

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by geomark 8y ago
This is a lot like the conversation I had with that group. Assume it's just management being oppressive for their convenience. But oh, didn't think about maybe those seats are needed. Hey, why can't they sit in a windowless o
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by geomark 8y ago
I made a terrible oversight. Where I live there is no need for heating. Gas is only used for cooking. So my previous comment does not apply to a huge portion of the population. My bad.
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by geomark 8y ago
We forgot how insane it is to pump explosive gas into our houses... Here in the developing country where I live the locals think Americans are insane for doing this. When I first moved here I thought they were backward because there is
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by geomark 8y ago
If I had thought of it first, as you say, I would have immediately realized a couple things wrong with it. Like taking space for my personal projects where a desk for another engineer is supposed to go. And having grow lights on a timer tha
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by geomark 8y ago
Some years ago at a big tech company a CAD software development group was folded into the department I was managing. I took a walk around. We had hard wall offices with 2 or 3 desks in each. In one office one of the SW devs had set up a sma
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by geomark 8y ago
"Let’s take a quick quiz to cement your understanding." "Now you have the tools you need to complete our project." Where is this quiz and this project? Am I missing something?
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by geomark 8y ago
At a company I used to work for one of the project areas had an (in)famous "wall of sugar" as they called it.
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by geomark 8y ago
sqlzoo.net might be something you would like.
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by geomark 8y ago
Very good point. Encountered that situation a few times.
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by geomark 8y ago
Indeed some of these rules and policies are ridiculous. I particularly enjoyed my time as a mid-level manager at a large aerospace company where we did stack ranking each year. We had to stack rank an organization that consisted of five dep
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by geomark 8y ago
I am glad to read your suggestions, coming from someone with experience. And indeed I have been doing some of this. The teachers at his school are very good. It's other issues that I'm not satisfied with (detailed in my other comm
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by geomark 8y ago
I've been wrestling with this for a while. First issue with the school is the quality of classmates. It is a small school with small classes, which is good, right? Except there are only six students in his class this year and his class
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by geomark 8y ago
There was a recent large scale study that claims PM2.5 levels present in cities have a significant effect on healthy children's lung capacity, that by the age of eight children who live within 100 meters of a busy street have a 6% redu
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by geomark 8y ago
Agree. Although HN is better than most forums (hats off to the mods), you see many cases where a comment does add to the discussion but is clearly unpopular and gets neg rep'd because others did not agree with that point of view. That
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by geomark 8y ago
Another hardware lander here. Did a lot of verification of processors in the past, including one that was Mips-like. Parent comment is correct in its suggestion that verification is a much bigger deal than getting HDL that will compile and
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by geomark 8y ago
Or the people who rely on them.
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by geomark 8y ago
Aquaponics is when you combine fish farming and hydroponics, circulating the water from the fish pond which is full of fish poop to feed the plants, and utilizing the plants to filter the water, in a semi-closed system. That's not what
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by geomark 8y ago
I don't smoke. But it's not me anyway. It's what the growers tell me is preferred by their customers, which are mainly local restaurants. The soil is the local dirt that has been amended with compost so it's nothing spec
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by geomark 8y ago
About half a kilometer from my house in a rural area is a leafy greens farm that has two sections, hydroponics and soil grown. Both are covered by nets and are pesticide-free. They claim demand is for the soil grown is higher because people
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by geomark 8y ago
There were some non-NASA boxes that had long periods powered off on the shaded side of the bus and had to operate at powerup at initially very low temperature. And then operate on the sun side for extended periods at an elevated temperature
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by geomark 8y ago
Not hugely informative, but nice. The title over-promises pretty wildly. That's practically an understatement. It just barely touches on the challenges of extreme temperature range and radiation hardening. The difficulty of getting y
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by geomark 8y ago
Isn't it the same everywhere in the world? My first hand experiences are the US and Thailand and I have also researched quite a bit the medical tourism industry. Although there are some differences, it seems universally the case that m
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by geomark 8y ago
In some places, like where I live, rhesus-negative is very rare, 0.2% of the population for O- and B-, 0.1% for A-. It is usually tourists who need the blood and the blood banks just don't have it. So we often see calls go out for bl
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by geomark 8y ago
I laughed.
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by geomark 8y ago
That happened to me, once. So yeah, I think my anecdote is cancelled out by your experience.
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by geomark 8y ago
Or the doctor says you need to lose weight because your BMI is above healthy range, without even looking at you to see that you are extraordinarily fit with all muscle mass and little body fat.
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by geomark 8y ago
I read a story, wish I could find the link but can't, that at the same time as these "attacks" were appearing there was an ongoing special program at the CIA involving agents taking some kind of experimental nootropic. I gues
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by geomark 8y ago
Another native US citizen here. Expat now. Also rarely travel to the US. Aside from the obnoxious visa process (my family are not US citizens), transportation issues are a serious deterrent. You need a rental car in the US and that has beco
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by geomark 8y ago
Ah, there's an offer. And it sounds pretty sweet. Then I went to the article and it says that it is a £30,000 fund. So that's enough for 10 male nurses :/
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by geomark 8y ago
I was wondering about this as well. Did some googling. Saw many articles about how there is a strong demand for male nurses. Found nothing about special incentives or other benefits for being a male and entering nursing. Maybe they exist bu

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