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by gregmac 5y ago
What is the financial incentive for reporting a COVID death vs something else? Why does such incentive exist? (I am assuming this is a US thing)
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by gregmac 5y ago
I went on a kick of replying (and sometimes declining) meetings without agendas, asking "what is the agenda for this?" And sometimes with an agenda, I will try to reply and resolve whatever it was about asynchronously. There have
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by gregmac 5y ago
> I had a brief foray into Twitter, but had to stop. I followed my senator I very much find the Twitter experience is what you make of it. I did it wrong the first time I tried twitter, and I hated and abandoned it, too. Second time arou
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by gregmac 5y ago
Clicking through some of those pictures, I swear I can smell some of them!
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by gregmac 5y ago
I'm not sure why you're talking as if these are mutually exclusive? I'm in Canada, where midwives are publicly funded, but still not that common (there's a waitlist and not everyone gets in). The midwives have hospital p
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by gregmac 5y ago
The characters don't understand how it works, which is a key part of the main storyline. spoiler alert The books are a couple seasons ahead of the show, and this becomes and even more prominent plot point. It's internally consis
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by gregmac 5y ago
As a consumer, this is the bit that drives me crazy about most of this stuff: a part with a lifecycle of a few years (CPU) is attached to a part with a long lifecycle (cycle, fridge, display/TV), thus making the whole thing effectively
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Outdated Accepted Answers: flagging exercise has begun(meta.stackoverflow.com)
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by gregmac 5y ago
We use it at work for hosting an app designed pre-cloud (using one db per tenant) in AWS: We deploy auto-scaling groups for each major app version (because customers can choose when to upgrade, so we can have anywhere from 1-3 versions live
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by gregmac 5y ago
My favorite time bug: Someone on a team I was on spent probably weeks working on a way to process an inbound sensor data stream (which was generated by another bit of software also maintained by us). The data was akin to an odometer, increa
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by gregmac 5y ago
In the commercial space, I think "wide format printers" have totally replaced plotters at this point. They're basically big ink jet printers, though usually a bit more sophisticated (often 6 or more inks, including variants l
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by gregmac 5y ago
Interesting contrast to the general sentiment about another major IE milestone: http://www.ie6death.com/
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by gregmac 5y ago
It actually seems like a really cool idea as a trainer for "non-UI-oriented" developers (that end up building UI anyway) -- minus all the subjective and dark pattern stuff. Early in my career I worked with a really great graphic d
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by gregmac 5y ago
> Your best hope is once in a while to find a "good" boss who is not 100% on board with the investors and is willing to split the difference. Investors care about results; they don't care about the style middle management
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by gregmac 5y ago
Yeah, exactly. I have lots of "smart" stuff in my house, and it's almost totally controlled either with light switches or automatically. Controlling from a phone is possible , but rarely used because it's not convenient
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by gregmac 5y ago
This. Google must be well aware of their reputation. It boggles my mind why they keep repeating the same pattern. Maybe it's just my bubble (HN, tech twitter, like-minded friends) but it certainly seems like everyone in it is loathe to
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by gregmac 5y ago
And importantly, because they're text, they can live in a version-controlled environment. I mainly use them within Confluence, and even there you can diff between versions to see changes.
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by gregmac 5y ago
I was previously a JIRA admin, and what I very quickly found was making the workflows the least restrictive possible was the most effective. JIRA itself is quite feature rich and that can be abused, but using it to make your configuration r
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by gregmac 5y ago
Is this not just something MS Teams did? [1] You seem to be implying it's an optional setting or customization. I'm not an MS Teams admin, just a user on one instance of Teams, and was happy when the button appeared. It stopped th
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by gregmac 5y ago
I've heard some courses require submitting assignments via git, and that's something that makes a lot of sense. I wish everywhere would do that. Even if (at first) students just do a single `git add --all && git commit -m
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by gregmac 5y ago
It's clear asking a professional to do this and not being up front about paying $0 is unprofessional and a disrespectful waste of time, but I'm not convinced it's actually predatory or abusive. If someone thinks they'll
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by gregmac 5y ago
Wow, thanks for that nice bit of nostalgia! It also made me think of another book I was fascinated by: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1120818.Stephen_Biesty_s... Now I'm wondering if my parents still hav
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by gregmac 5y ago
> no one should be allowed to say or do anything at work that makes anyone uncomfortable in a personal way; no one should really care much about other peoples’ politics. Life is about so much more than politics While this sounds good in
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by gregmac 5y ago
I think that page would have been incredibly useful, but doesn't look like it existed. I was just looking through the source history of the project a bit as I wasn't the original developer (I've just done some fixes; most rec
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by gregmac 5y ago
> A complete and utter waste of time. You spend more time messing about with rebase than solving problems. Unless you're using a garbage client (eg, the git CLI) a rebase to get rid of the "typo" "oops" type comm
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by gregmac 5y ago
At work we have a service built on powerdns-backend (http). The biggest pain there was lack of docs. There's circumstances where powerdns would make multiple requests to the backend app server, and figuring out how to answer its first
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by gregmac 5y ago
I really, really hope that "coming to work sick" is considered bad form from now on, or even outright against policy. It's always been dumb: at best they're just getting more people sick (some of whom will need to take t
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by gregmac 5y ago
If you had flu symptoms, are you not going to go get a covid test?
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by gregmac 5y ago
I've wanted to build a LED cube [1] for a while, but just haven't had the time to get to it yet. This is basically a virtual version of the same thing, very cool. And significantly simpler to experiment with before committing to s
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by gregmac 5y ago
> Many startups (e.g. Slack) aim to replace email Whether or not this is an 'aim', chat (slack, texts) is a distinctly different medium than email, in the same way voice chat is. Voice is synchronous, real-time communication. I

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