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by hotsauceror 9y ago
It seems fairly intuitive to me. Think of a bunch of marbles falling through a series of nets. Changes in a particular marble, or in a particular net, might let the marble fall through. Marbles that fall through one net get to try again
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by hotsauceror 9y ago
Telomeres, which protect your DNA from unravelling, degrade with age. I don't keep up with the aging literature but I've heard this mentioned as one of the major reasons determining the human lifespan. Regarding the "twice y
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by hotsauceror 9y ago
"...why have our bodies, and those of other animals, evolved so as to make the particular structural materials that they do make, and not to make others, especially metals..." Because that's what's good enough to get thr
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by hotsauceror 9y ago
- Current penalties do not weight the cost-benefit equation sufficiently to overcome the financial and agility costs of implementing strong data security policies. - Current remedies are designed for the convenience of the entity (write a c
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by hotsauceror 9y ago
Agreed. I really, really wanted to find a slick way of doing lab notebook / bullet journaling electronically, I tried Notepad++ Workspaces and OneNote. But neither of them really worked for late-night ops work, troubleshooting notes,
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by hotsauceror 9y ago
It took about two weeks of daily use. I switched my mouse at work to be left handed and committed myself to not switching back if I got frustrated. Before I knew it, it felt as natural as my other hand, and I can go back and forth with ea
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by hotsauceror 9y ago
I've tried both, because as an IT guy it made sense to use, you know, computerized tools. But as a DBA, I live and die by checklists and multi-column quick reference tables. I find these are much easier to create, maintain, and updat
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by hotsauceror 9y ago
I hear you. We have a group that really likes Twilight Imperium but my God, the amount of rules consultation... I think the ColdWar Commander / Blitzkrieg Commander games can be picked up in that time. Movement, command, and combat r
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by hotsauceror 9y ago
How accessible? "I Ain't Been Shot, Mum" by Too Fat Lardies and "ColdWar Commander" are fun, quickish, and just a step above beer & pretzel rules. The TFL guys in general are big fans of the original Kriegspie
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by hotsauceror 9y ago
No offense intended, of course. In my mental picture of a Marketing department, there's lots of creative back and forth and sort of, "brainstorming all the time" which is probably about as accurate as any stereotype. Everyo
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by hotsauceror 9y ago
Yeah, but by then you, and all the others, have already left. Plus, the costs of a re-remodel can be quite persuasive. Time is on the side of the folks who made the original decision to commit to the open floorplan concept in the first pl
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by hotsauceror 9y ago
Cargo Cult is exactly right. Our organization is selling us this right now. "We're creating a more collaborative atmosphere! Facebook does it, this must be what IT people want." (Any discussion of paying IT staff like FB,
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by hotsauceror 10y ago
I second this. I use ConsoleZ daily as my main shell for cmd and for powershell. It does everything I need it to do, I can dial down the UI to the absolute bare minimum, it's fast and responsive, and it's highly customizable.