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811.
by hadlock 5y ago
Not only are nurses talking about leaving the industry, in the "newbie programmer" groups I help mentor in, there is an alarming number of people who were considering going in to health care/nursing, who are now seriously r
812.
by hadlock 5y ago
We bought a house, then had to move cross-country. After owning, where all they did was examine our finances, it was really degrading having to submit an application to rent a house, background check, references etc. Also when something bre
813.
by hadlock 5y ago
Juniors by definition are entry level, unless you have a degree from a university they're specifically shopping for , or a minor in the sub-market they're targeting (translating Egyptian hieroglyphics, organic chemistry, whatever)
814.
by hadlock 5y ago
Strong agree, Twitter hasn't grown their user base more than 10% since 2015, they might be making more revenue per user but annual revenue is likely ready to plateau if it hasn't already. Getting a premium on your stock is a good
815.
by hadlock 5y ago
Low volume enterprise software is effectively selling perpetual professional services for a company, with access/using a very specific proprietary tool. Selling the software is a lot like dating, the company buying your professional se
816.
by hadlock 5y ago
This is briefly touched upon in Neal Stephenson's "Seveneves", after The Cataclysm happens humanity regrows most technology, but for the most part ICs are limited to 8086-level devices as even thousands of years later they ar
817.
by hadlock 5y ago
Replying to myself again, apparently the thread title changed from "hey git won't let you do this thing anymore" to "here's the CVE", and changed the link too. sorry for the confusion
818.
by hadlock 5y ago
Oh, there it is: https://github.blog/2022-04-12-git-security-vulnerability-an...
819.
by hadlock 5y ago
Or, an exploit was discovered, and quietly patched out recently
820.
by hadlock 5y ago
We had a system like this when I worked at a retail store, and later a movie theater. It was a double-sided cassette that had 60 minutes of audio, and would auto switch from A/B side and back again. Most of the year it was just instrum
821.
by hadlock 5y ago
Do you have any stats on this? As I have read (casually) trucking has been 60-80% of consumer goods delivery (end-to-end), and only in the last 3-5 years has rail started picking up long haul freight, as shipping dry goods like coal has bec
822.
by hadlock 5y ago
Every house in my area has reverse osmosis water treatment, since you can't filter out PFAS. Renters are less lucky and have to install their own system, if they can even afford it. Everyone who uses the river as the primary water sour
823.
by hadlock 5y ago
I bought a Lenovo "Thinkpad" branded Thunderbolt 3 dock, uh, in 2017 and it's been flawless since I got it. They even released a firmware update for it a couple months ago! Sure I paid an arm and a leg for it, about $220 five
824.
by hadlock 5y ago
There's significant advantages to having a 3" thick laptop, in particular is you get 1mm (or more) of key travel; modern Thinkpads have 0.7mm travel due to their slim design. The other is air flow, you can push a substantial amoun
825.
by hadlock 5y ago
The amount of time I spend actually talking on my phone has dropped by about 90% since ~2004. Now that we've entered the covid/pandemic WFH era my phone mostly lives on a desk/table 18-24" from me. Mostly using 5ghz loca
826.
by hadlock 5y ago
Agreed; I suspect the reason why the VW has been targeted by EV makers is largely because the tuner/enthusiast crowd is quite large, and also it's an extremely well understood/documented platform. I haven't seen the EV W
827.
by hadlock 5y ago
The inverter/regen braking, and charger units do have some firmware, but once everything is wired up and working, should work indefinitely without future OTA updates. If the national charging standard changes at some point in the fut
828.
by hadlock 5y ago
Nthing this. ProjectFarm is an impressive, objective, numbers based review of all sorts of tools and lubricants. The guy looks like your average farmer, but he covers pretty much every real world use case and is always impressively thorough
829.
by hadlock 5y ago
Induction cooktops are wildly popular on solar powered sailboats, do you have any sort of information to back this claim up? There are tens if not hundreds of sailing vlogs on youtube who are exclusively using induction cooktops because the
830.
by hadlock 5y ago
Gating features allows them to wait for a future model to release them there and drive sales. There's not much blood left to wring from the digital camera stone.
831.
by hadlock 5y ago
I prefer pgadmin, especially now that they dropped the hard dependency on chrome (that was added semi-recently for version 4)
832.
by hadlock 5y ago
It goes back to bbcode forums, in particular Something Awful, which is ~circa 1999 (1998?). Your post would have an "edited by [user] at [N time]" which only shows up if the edit happened after the next post, or Y time had elapsed
833.
by hadlock 5y ago
I was surprised to find out just now that the last time Russia tested a nuclear weapon was, October 1990. Looks like most of their testing locations are/were located in former soviet bloc countries. Presumably that means any newer desi
834.
by hadlock 5y ago
I think OneWeb is backed by the british government, and as we're finding out, global satellite networks are quite useful in military conflicts. While there's definitely a commercial aspect that has value, the military value is lik
835.
by hadlock 5y ago
This is just called semver or semantic versioning. https://semver.org
836.
by hadlock 5y ago
I'm not sure this is an anomaly. Professional sports used to be an absolutely huge phenomenon, but viewership is way, way down from it's peak around 2000. As are music and film award ceremonies. Super Bowl and Oscar watching parti
837.
by hadlock 5y ago
You need about three engineers to support a ~$500mm/year ecommerce site using managed kubernetes. Really you can do it with two, you need one that understands it, and another guy/apprentice in training who sort of understands it,
838.
by hadlock 5y ago
Almost immediately after you left, they promptly lost the admin password, Phyllis in accounting said, "why don't we just go back to copy machines and filing cabinets, we know how those work" and they unplugged all your comput
839.
by hadlock 5y ago
Or a straight-up lightsaber. The number of iron daggers on the planet 4000 years ago probably numbered less than 100
840.
by hadlock 5y ago
Electric repower of classic cars is a thing. VW Beetles and Mustangs are popular targets. I've also seen everything from a 2CV to a Jaguar MK IV. It's just a charger, an inverter, battery, and drive unit (motor). Apparently the el

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