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by kingaillas 5y ago
The Army Corps of Engineers is a thing... their civil works authority makes them the final authority on water management (changing river flow, dams, anything related to water management.) Not sure about supervolcanos though, couldn't f
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by kingaillas 5y ago
Not OP, but yep, my cards have been locked to the merchant. I've only experienced this with Kickstarter and then a secondary payment collector (BackerKit, etc) where some extra charge had to be finalized, typically shipping or maybe I
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by kingaillas 5y ago
Sure, but start right now solving a few problems from previous years. You'll want to know how to open and read a file, parse input (generally line by line, splitting each line on spaces), get familiar with data structures such as the d
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by kingaillas 5y ago
>Is there a dearth of skilled labor for building houses? Yes - https://www.npr.org/2021/07/30/1022642064/planet-money-why-a... In summary, the US has been underbuilding ever since the housing crisis,
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by kingaillas 5y ago
You better not switch your keyboard layout to dvorak... 'ls' are both right pinky letters. ;)
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by kingaillas 5y ago
That's a good video: humorous, informative, interesting. >If was looking for solid working class / middle class job, I would be watching this video for tips! You might want to watch more videos, move over to his youtube channel
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by kingaillas 5y ago
Missing a /s tag? Isn't that the (International Brotherhood of) Teamsters?
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by kingaillas 5y ago
> In the beginning nobody knew how dangerous the virus was, so risk management should have been much more strict. That won't work. Right now we have a pretty good idea of how dangerous the virus is, and plenty of US citizens don&#x2
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by kingaillas 5y ago
It was earlier - the 1984 movie (Terminator) had the scene where he rips out the page from the phone book, looking for the Sarah Connors listed there. :)
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by kingaillas 5y ago
Framework just started shipping their hardware, so perhaps all these mentions are people that have received their preorders (or read about people receiving their preorders). https://frame.work/
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by kingaillas 5y ago
At my previous company, I was caught in a mass layoff (best I can estimate is it was ~10 employees at a site with ~200? It's been 12 years and my memory is fuzzy). The company was known for annual layoffs of a handful of people, and th
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by kingaillas 5y ago
>Hey, why is it called the United Nations instead of the United States anyway? Oops, cause there already is a United States. But the UN is clearly an organization of States not Nations. States are sovereign political entities; of course
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by kingaillas 5y ago
>spend $5,000 a semester That's what I spent a semester (total)... in the early 90's. These days it is more like $5,000 a semester (per class)!
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by kingaillas 5y ago
It's not a hoax, it is call the gender equality paradox. https://www.thejournal.ie/gender-equality-countries-stem-gir... Countries with lousy job prospects for women (to sum it up bluntly) see higher STEM participation
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by kingaillas 5y ago
I think this is a reference to naming virus mutations... after 10 more mutations (?) we'll arrive at the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet, Xi. Which is also the family name of the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.
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by kingaillas 5y ago
It might be Sceptre ( https://www.sceptre.com/ ). They do make smart TV's (their Android TV line) but their other lines are basically panels.
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by kingaillas 5y ago
>The freaking out about "oh no I gotta write a small library myself" is absurdly overblown here I don't think it is. At work, I'm adding some basic metrics/logging functionality to an internal library, to see how
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by kingaillas 5y ago
I'd interpret the phrase "taking geometry" in this context to refer to the quality and depth of math education available, and to a lesser degree how wealthy the school district is. Given typical HS math curriculum (algebra&#x
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by kingaillas 5y ago
>I always wondered if studying law, also prepares your mind for coding Could work in reverse too. I met the author Ken Liu at a convention, and he mentioned he started out as a software engineer, and then went to law school. And then beg
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by kingaillas 5y ago
Part of the business model is to work with manufacturers to offer smaller packaging, i.e. less product, for the same price. Consumers are more sensitive to price and not unit price. Another strategy would be "shrinkflation" (great
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by kingaillas 5y ago
Climate change is more than just how mild the winters will become. It is also different weather patterns like heavy rainstorms and the resulting floods. Cologne Germany is about 50 degrees north and the surrounding areas were hit hard. Zhen
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by kingaillas 5y ago
>How do they think Facebook will stay operational? The same way ads work in print media - the publisher doesn't have as detailed targeting info for the advertiser, and presumably would charge less.
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by kingaillas 5y ago
All the gas stations in OR are full-service, that is, an employee of the gas station will fill your gas tank for you.
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by kingaillas 5y ago
A colleague implemented a small utility in Clojure (~50 lines long) that worked great. It led to a mandate that allowable languages are: C/C++, C#, Python. The colleague left 4-5 years ago for an external job. Part of the problem was t
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by kingaillas 5y ago
Meanwhile, I refer to Git Flight Rules ( https://github.com/k88hudson/git-flight-rules ) on a weekly basis. Especially the branches section - somehow I'm checking in or pulling from the wrong branch, or branching fr
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by kingaillas 5y ago
>U.S. government usually only fixes issues in a short term mindset That's part of the problem - Representatives get elected every 2 years so they have a short term mindset. But, the government isn't the only player here. U.S. C
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by kingaillas 5y ago
>An independent auditor, with reputation on the line, I don't think this will matter. Moody's and S&P are two rating agencies that both failed to give useful info before the 2008 financial crisis. Their reputations weren&#x
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by kingaillas 5y ago
Not having municipal broadband is different issue than having municipal broadband outlawed state-wide. https://ilsr.org/washington-state-removes-all-barriers-to-mu... Seems to me the Democrats in WA have worked to allow mun
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by kingaillas 5y ago
This tickled a memory... I remember seeing a Bioinformatics for Perl book ~20 years ago. I found it on O'reilly's website: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/beginning-perl-for/0596... Searching m
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by kingaillas 5y ago
Matt Levine's summary in his current newsletter is this: "So at some point the company looked for ways to make this insane business model work, and it found one. It’s pretty simple: What if MoviePass collected your $10 each month

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