karlkatzke

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by karlkatzke 5y ago
Yes, those cumulogranite clouds are dangerous.
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by karlkatzke 5y ago
We use exactly this solution internally at $work to handle our customer support, inbound sales, and other 'generic' group email that gets read by software and eventually gets to humans. It all goes through a separate inbound path
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by karlkatzke 5y ago
There's been plenty of resolution. The "artifacts" were never authenticated by anyone responsible, and were almost certainly modern reproductions dumped in the bay to gain a patina and then lost.
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by karlkatzke 6y ago
The same argument was made regarding moving from frame-on-body cars to unibody cars in the first place. It turned out that the weight and assembly savings and the increase in crash safety far outweighed the costs and risks, and that metal i
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by karlkatzke 6y ago
Complete aside: How cool of a name is "Dr. Zsolt Robotka"? Pretty sure Dr. Robotka will also be the name of the next Bond villain.
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by karlkatzke 6y ago
No offense towards the average bear, but I would probably have dictated a statement the same way. I’m not an average bear though. I regularly read and refer to things learned from airlines and other high criticality career fields, and talk
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by karlkatzke 6y ago
I worked in journalism at the tail end of the local paper era. My first degree is actually an associate’s in journalism and I won several state-level awards for journalism in college in the late 90s. (In fact, my two year college paper swep
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by karlkatzke 6y ago
Fitting for a yankee doodle dandy, though.
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by karlkatzke 6y ago
To be fair, I personally no longer buy WiFi “smart” devices, but I don’t mind if my wife buys them. I get the dual benefit of having the “smart” when it works, and pointing and laughing at her when it doesn’t, because I told her so.
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by karlkatzke 6y ago
Maybe they bought the dogfood from the Amazon Marketplace, but it was counterfeit.
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by karlkatzke 6y ago
Just migrated an ecommerce consulting client from a major VPS provider in the US to AWS. There's two main reasons. One is that the traffic to this client is heavily driven by ad spend, and the site fell on it's face hard this past
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by karlkatzke 6y ago
What Kushner did disassembled something like 30 years of UN effort in the region. He enabled an alliance between two bullies who could agree on a couple of things, and will now use that alliance to beat the shit out of people that disagree
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by karlkatzke 6y ago
Sure, there isn't an expectation of privacy. But that implies that the property is Hunter Biden's in the first place and that there's an intact chain of custody of evidence if there are misdeeds, which there isn't. Again
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by karlkatzke 6y ago
Why do Donald Trump's children have top secret clearances that they're ineligible for and work in the White House with him? Why does Donald Trump owe foreign banks nearly a billion dollars? Why did two banks forgive millions of do
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by karlkatzke 6y ago
This is the Hunter Biden laptop story. The theory here is that Hunter Biden, for some reason, flew 3,000 miles away from his home to drop off some devices with unencrypted sensitive data for repair and data recovery at a place where the own
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by karlkatzke 6y ago
Keep in mind that this is Greenwald's perception. The story he's referring to has so many holes in it that it's more of a mesh than a woven cloth. Maybe a lace. There isn't much to it except criticism of Biden. Removing
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by karlkatzke 6y ago
VoiceThread | Backend Software Engineer, DevSecOps Engineer | Full-Time | Remote - USA-based, +/- 6 hours of US EST VoiceThread is an asynchronous distance learning platform serving the higher ed and k-12 markets. As you can imagine, t
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by karlkatzke 6y ago
> Isn't the obvious answer that CEO/executive pay should be tied more closely to performance? Short term or long term? How do you measure performance in a way that can't be gamed? How do you prevent alignment of the compan
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by karlkatzke 6y ago
Also the Austin campus that just broke ground last year.
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by karlkatzke 6y ago
The author even calls out that hot dog stands are regulated for cleanliness and possible danger to consumers. Consumers do things not in their own best interest all the time. Think MLMs, rent-to-own appliances and furniture, upside down lea
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by karlkatzke 6y ago
You can fly a single over the ocean, you just have to carry extra equipment.
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by karlkatzke 6y ago
One engine, a turbocharged V-12.
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by karlkatzke 6y ago
3300 feet in balanced density conditions. You’d better not bet on 3300 feet in Phoenix during the day time most of the year. Or Denver for that matter.
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by karlkatzke 6y ago
It seems to require a pretty seriously long runway to take off. On a warm day, we’re talking international airport length runway. While pistons are cheaper than turbines, that’s because almost all of the approved pistons on the market use 1
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by karlkatzke 6y ago
> They can't lay off employees or reduce staff until, currently, end of September. The WARN letters for October 1 layoffs have all already gone out. They needed to be out before August 1st. So we'll know of any further layoffs
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by karlkatzke 6y ago
The worst case scenario is that 10-15% of our population that comes down with COVID-19 over the age of 40 has some sort of permanent organ damage. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/cardiology/articlepdf/27689..
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by karlkatzke 6y ago
> It is quite difficult for the human mind to vacillate between one strong opinion to another The author has apparently never met someone on the autistic spectrum with ADHD and who has enough life experience to know how to be wrong grace
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by karlkatzke 6y ago
https://xkcd.com/351/
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by karlkatzke 6y ago
They also frequently get deleted, which is why a lot of people who have channels that feature or regard guns also have second or third channels for non-gun related things, on which they refer to them as "pew-pews" or other similar
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by karlkatzke 6y ago
> trying to ignore everyone's amazing and enriching family activities posted in photo albums on Facebook when our kids are sat in pyjamas on the Nintendo Switch at 2pm Keep in mind that people only post when they've made the ef

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