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by jzwinck 11y ago
BobTom, I had a long discussion with you on Monday about exactly how we could solve this problem affecting our production systems. Now it's Thursday and you're telling me you have no idea what we decided three days ago? You'r
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So exactly like immigration to a new country. Interesting. But given the short expected tenure of an average employee these days, I wonder how many are willing to wait for this long pipeline to complete. Getting hired all at once could mean
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Either we adjust or we are self selected in the first place. Maybe both. Taking many short flights for work practically forced me to learn to sleep sitting up even during the day if I was not fully rested. Many of my colleagues and frequent
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by jzwinck 11y ago
I have found a fairly frequent distinction between taxi drivers and Uber drivers as well. Taxi drivers must be at least 30 years old, which may skew it slightly, though young Uber drivers are not the norm either. Uber drivers tend to shoot
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by jzwinck 11y ago
Is code.kx.com your only resource because there's not much else written publicly in these languages, or is it because your employer blocks you from using other resources which are publicly available?
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Yes, compared to lat and long. A good 2D GPS fix is easiest when you have a few satellites in different compass directions, say one at each of N,S,E,W. But for 3D, it is impossible to see a satellite underneath you. You have a bunch of them
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by jzwinck 11y ago
They could use a mountain. They could equally use a balloon (just not to 20k feet). British scientists by that time were knowledgable enough to extrapolate. You can read about the height of Everest and other Himalayas. There are some intere
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by jzwinck 11y ago
They likely had a barometer. The very same method we use today to supplement the rather unsteady altitude reading from GPS. If they did this, the next question would be how accurate their calibration was. Barometric altimetry was only about
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by jzwinck 11y ago
I followed this advice. Now I have two closets and I have laid them out identically. They are a mile apart, so if I'm inside one and want to get something from the other, it takes forever. There's no way to quickly discover if my
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by jzwinck 11y ago
Perhaps they expect one good keyframe to draw your attention, then the title to help you decide whether to watch. I suspect most YouTube watchers are not in it for the aesthetics, but rather for the content, so a title like "Jelly Bea
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by jzwinck 11y ago
You can use Lynx. It is a terminal based web browser, and is older than SSH. It exists for many platforms and is not particularly obscure or difficult to use. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
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by jzwinck 11y ago
Knowing who went to or from a single location at around the same time would be super interesting for counter-terrorism. Of course, the intelligent terrorist would pay with cash, which means no Uber except in India, Southeast Asia, and a few
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by jzwinck 11y ago
I found it strange that the person in charge would bother to make a statement which seems totally counter to reality. What is he playing at? Is he saying they will disband Lincoln soon, as they did Mercury? Or is he putting forth a brand vi
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by jzwinck 11y ago
Even if we restrict the discussion to Australia, Ford is not the only Ford. Witness the Mazda BT-50, which is actually a Ford Ranger in disguise. In Southeast Asia, Mazda light trucks are probably the most popular Ford vehicles on the road.
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Some of what the guy says is generic business speak. But then he says this: "We’re a brand that’s recognized around the world consistently. We don’t have different brands in different parts of the world." Well, you have Lincoln
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by jzwinck 11y ago
People can make a difference in a startup if it takes off. They can also make a difference by doing a small part of the work of a huge company which half the people in the world have heard about and from which hundreds of millions of people
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by jzwinck 11y ago
Swapping racks may not be possible if you don't own the racks. Lots of datacenters are built with their own racks. You might be able to ask for extra deep racks but that's it.
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Taxpayers pay for it. I'm not sure balloons could give adequate control, but drones are a great idea and I look forward to the day when they are so cheap that the same amount of tax money can pay for drastically increased surveillance
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by jzwinck 11y ago
This sounds like "Just pay three thousand dollars per flight and problem solved!" Plus, business class only helps you avoid jet lag on certain itineraries. Sometimes due to timing, sometimes due to crappy business class on some sh
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by jzwinck 11y ago
Two extra employees in a big firm is nothing. As I said before, we could easily have found a use for two more. Not that there was more than 1% chance of it happening.
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by jzwinck 11y ago
I used to work for a company that took that line. We were given a quota, say to hire 5 people. I proposed sending out 7 offers with the expectation that not all would accept. And if they all did accept we would certainly find a use for them
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The self interested way to deal with this as an employer would be to give offers to all three and tell them up front that there are multiple offers being sent out and whoever accepts first wins.
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by jzwinck 11y ago
When a Chinese group does it, you can't sue them. You can't compel their ISP to block them. You can't file a patent or trademark or any other protection for your prior art where it matters. And in many cases, you can't e
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by jzwinck 11y ago
This normal person who has no strategy at all had better just buy a broad index fund. It's made for them! If a person's only belief in the market is that they want to beat it, they are out of luck before the opening bell.
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by jzwinck 11y ago
> If someone (or some company) is claiming to be better than me at using my money to make money, surely they'd agree to put skin in the game, and only profit when I do? Imagine you believe that mail order companies are poised for ra
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by jzwinck 11y ago
If wine is just grapes, it must be vegan-compatible, right? But it isn't! Not only is wine sometimes made with products like nuts and milk, it can even be made using fish guts! https://www.organicwine.com.au/what-makes-
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by jzwinck 11y ago
In many cases a non-technical manager will report to a chain of other managers who are also non-technical. It should not be surprising that the criteria on which they are judged do not include technical decision making. Instead, important m
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by jzwinck 11y ago
I would expect the purchase and sale of the hotel is a matter of public record, so it should be straightforward to check if the guy really ran the place.
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The guy I spoke with was unequivocal: they don't think they can sell enough to make it worth any shelf space at all. Their brand in my market gets allocated enough space for about five flavors. They know exactly what sells how much and
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by jzwinck 11y ago
I thought the same thing about yogurt. The flavored ones have a lot of sugar and people I know say they want a less sweet version. Then last week I met a man in the supermarket. We were both staring at various yogurts. I was comparison shop

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