joncrane

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by joncrane 7y ago
Is the site down due to traffic? I'm getting intermittent errors.
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by joncrane 7y ago
You're asking people to use a much more expensive part (transmission) to reduce their speed. The days of using the transmission to slow down are over. Brakes are better and more reliable (and cheaper) than ever.
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by joncrane 7y ago
The canonical AWS answer for things that you want in Glacier that only support export to S3 is to put a lifecycle policy on the bucket to move to Glacier after 24 hours. One day in S3 = 10 days in Glacier and since Glacier is presumably for
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by joncrane 7y ago
This is going to sound like circular reasoning, but bear with me: In order to raise self esteem, one must do esteemable things. Volunteer, be kind, let people in in traffic, work out, do these things consciously. You have to spend energy e
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by joncrane 7y ago
I agree that IC for life is not a good career move, but it's not the wanna-be IC's fault. It's the industry. I work with this guy, he's about 60. I think he has a degree in Physics from Oxford, but he has a Texas accent
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by joncrane 7y ago
Impact assessments are generally contracted out via RFP. As a government contractor myself, I have no confidence that a random environmental impact assessment has any semblance of reality to it. It's a crapshoot as far as which contra
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by joncrane 7y ago
Twice! They tried to land at the original airport again, it happened again, they cleaned it again, then diverted. The pictures are intense! Edit: The original title was way more focused on the fact this is a Boeing 737; I feel the new pos
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by joncrane 7y ago
HGH is a wonder drug, but it's tricky. Not only for the expense factor, but like everything else, when you add exogenous hormones, your body stops producing them. So if you supplement with HGH for years or even months, your body stops
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by joncrane 7y ago
It's the exact same reason people post misleading pictures on their dating profiles. Because it works some of the time, due to the sunk cost fallacy (people have already invested in something so they stick with it even after the decep
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by joncrane 7y ago
"Absolute moron" is a bit unkind when he was an unsuspecting subject of CIA research into the effects of LSD, isn't it?
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by joncrane 7y ago
When I was a mechanic, we used the joke "must have been built on a Monday" when a car came back for repeated issues, but I think it was lighthearted humor at best. I'm not sure how much truth there was to it.
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by joncrane 7y ago
I've had a bunch of surgeries and I wasn't given much of a choice as to when they were scheduled. These were orthopedic surgeries, but nothing urgent (stuff like a labrum repair or whatever). I was simply told to be at the hospi
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by joncrane 7y ago
He tricked her into having a baby with him, then abandoned them financially and emotionally.
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by joncrane 7y ago
Assuming that the story in https://medium.com/@jennifer.blakely is accurate, that man is a monster.
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by joncrane 7y ago
The reason to stick with it is if you're trying to optimize for dollars earned per unit of effort expended, government contracting can't be beat.
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by joncrane 7y ago
Just want to chime in and say the vast majority of people working on government contracts fall into two categories: 1. Hard working folks trying to do the right thing (approx 20-50% of the people) 2. People who are coasting and nominally
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by joncrane 7y ago
This prepared you for the 'real world' better than any programming lessons could!
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by joncrane 7y ago
Just wanted to say the real interesting content is in the writing here: https://treatwell.engineering/how-i-made-a-digital-carburett... I see you mentioned the Honda CB750 which also had 4 independent carbs. I once had a CB
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by joncrane 7y ago
Aren't there brands of tractors made in India and/or China that are less computerized and perhaps easier to run and repair than the bad green ones from the USA?
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by joncrane 7y ago
Humans are irrational.
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by joncrane 7y ago
While only a footnote, I like the nod to nuclear energy. I remember in the 1950s, there was a Popular Mechanics cover touting nuclear as a coming technology to power homes and even cars. Imagine the next Tesla-like company offering to insta
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by joncrane 7y ago
Thanks!
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by joncrane 7y ago
I believe that Western Washington is indeed experiencing less rainfall lately.
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by joncrane 7y ago
It would be interesting to see the proportion of legal to illegal economic activity over time.
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by joncrane 7y ago
Talking is faster than typing, but reading is MUCH faster than talking/listening.
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by joncrane 7y ago
>noblesse oblige I think the course of events in the USA in the decades since the 50s has essentially answered the question of what happens if you leave it up to the most fortunate to decide how to treat the least fortunate.
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by joncrane 7y ago
Kind of related: does anyone else notice how long it takes to change channels on the TV these days? It used to be instantaneous when cable first came out and at some point it became this laggy experience where you'll press buttons on
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by joncrane 7y ago
Inversion of the yield curve was probably the best signal, but that reversed itself.
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by joncrane 7y ago
>Because the Fed is the Fed, it's almost alway going to be the cheapest counterparty to borrow from. Wrong. It used to be this way but they switched it up in 2003.[1] The Fed is considered the "lender of last resort" and
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by joncrane 7y ago
It's actually measured as an average over a two-week period. Unsurprisingly, lending and borrowing activity is highest on the last day of the measurement period. Generally speaking, banks try to maintain a steady reserve ratio over th

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