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by jcadam 7y ago
$50k to not write an alcohol-fueled angry screed on my personal blog sounds like a pretty fair trade to me. I'd take it.
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by jcadam 7y ago
> "I worked from home for three years with a $220,000 salary" I stopped reading right there. I really don't want to hear someone in this situation complain. Suck it up or find a new job - take a pay cut if you're re
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by jcadam 7y ago
> Whatever killed Boeing's engineering culture is irrelevant. Oh I'd disagree. To fix the problem and prevent it from happening again at Boeing or elsewhere, it would be good to figure out how the culture at Boeing became so b
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by jcadam 7y ago
There's probably a lot of truth to this. I've heard that they have to source their beans from many different suppliers and resort to over-roasting to ensure a more consistent (albeit, burnt) flavor. Most of the smaller shops sour
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by jcadam 7y ago
I've never seen a clean restroom in a Starbucks. They're about at the same level as gas stations.
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by jcadam 7y ago
Their coffee has become quite mediocre as well. I remember when it used to be fairly good. There are several locally owned coffee shops where I live that serve much better stuff.
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by jcadam 7y ago
That's really bad - the guy even knew he was sick. I wouldn't have gone to a party with a fever no matter what virus I was hosting.
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by jcadam 7y ago
Burn two weeks of PTO when you may not even be sick. I wonder what the compliance rate is?
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by jcadam 7y ago
> We have a planet that is in dire need of this kind of motivated action, and yet Elon would rather be distracted by this dream. What? You see a motivated person with the resources and drive to pursue his dream and you're upset tha
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by jcadam 7y ago
> "I have no idea, probably whatever your deductible is" That would be your out-of-network deductible, since your anesthesiologist is guaranteed to be out-of-network.
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by jcadam 7y ago
I've heard it said that you have an almost 50% of catching something if you go on a cruise.
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by jcadam 7y ago
IIRC, the crew was largely responsible for spreading the virus. Not that I'm faulting them. They simply were neither trained nor equipped to do a specialized job that was essentially forced on them - operating a quarantine facility.
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by jcadam 7y ago
"To summarize, COVID-19 spreads less efficiently than flu, transmission does not appear to be driven by people who are not sick, it causes more severe illness than flu, there are not yet any vaccines or therapeutics, and it can be cont
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by jcadam 7y ago
Hard to find numbers on asthma, specifically. I have mild persistent asthma, for example, which for me means if I take a daily (low) dose of an inhaled corticosteroid, I can generally go about my business like a normal person and almost nev
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by jcadam 7y ago
Because boss says no.
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by jcadam 7y ago
Part of the reason I had been hoping this virus wouldn't hit Florida (where I live) until summertime. It's miserably hot and humid down here from about June to September. Also, school would be out.
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by jcadam 7y ago
The current guidelines are to test only those with respiratory symptoms who have also traveled to certain countries recently. Resources are limited, having everyone with a minor case of the sniffles rush the hospitals all at once doesn&#x27
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by jcadam 7y ago
Be calm, I'm all better.
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by jcadam 7y ago
Eh, one had traveled to Italy recently, the other is UNK. I've been surprised Florida didn't come up sooner, given all of the tourism here (and winter is tourist season).
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by jcadam 7y ago
Sometimes, it's good to be an introvert.
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by jcadam 7y ago
Last I read it was anywhere from 2 - 14 days.
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by jcadam 7y ago
Risk assessment says not to set foot in a medical facility right now unless I'm actively dying, thank you very much.
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by jcadam 7y ago
My family just got over some sort of respiratory bug that had most of us sick last week. This morning I awoke to find that 2 cases of this thing have been identified in my area. Huh. We most likely just had a cold. Most likely.
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by jcadam 7y ago
I've had good luck with more of a hybrid architecture: one central monolithic-ish service and numerous supporting microservices to perform specific (usually asynchronous) tasks. The microservices tend to be things that are easily sepa
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by jcadam 7y ago
I really hate the way AWS forces you to choose between portability and cost-efficiency.
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by jcadam 7y ago
For the longest time, I was using dual 1920x1080 screens. Eventually, I decided to upgrade and got myself a 31.5" 4k display. That lasted about 6 months before I ditched it for a 34" 3440x1440p Ultrawide. I found coding on the 4k
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by jcadam 7y ago
Could also be the changes in consumer technology. Back in the day, watching a move at home meant renting a VHS (or Beta if you chose your VCR poorly) at Blockbuster/Hollywood video/et al., (and after a new movie was released to VH
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by jcadam 7y ago
Anesthesiologists are never in-network, it's usually the most expensive part of having surgery in the US. Another major annoyance -- if you have surgery, the hospital usually gets their money from you right away. However, you'r
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by jcadam 7y ago
Hilarious. I was thinking maybe go out and find an old, rusted-out, barely running AMC Eagle, but this is better.
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by jcadam 7y ago
Every "Agile" shop I've worked in was awful and has been doing it wrong according to Agile fans. "That wasn't true Agile" is starting to sound about as credible as "That wasn't true Communism." B

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