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by larkost 5y ago
To program simple things, maybe not. But if you are trying to do something complex then having a severe memory limit adds one more area of complexity to the process. If you can remove areas of complexity then you are doing three things: 1.
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by larkost 5y ago
For Americans visiting the Netherlands one word of caution: many of the pay terminals (especially the parking ones) do not seem to like U.S. cards, and even some the vendors from Europe. When we were on vacation there a few years ago it wa
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by larkost 5y ago
It really is. I happened to stay for a week in the house of the man who owned the company that (at that time) provided all of the cheese for McDonalds in all of Europe, except Russia. His plants were subject to lots of random inspections wh
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by larkost 5y ago
It is ok that you did not feel comfortable with that, but pay negotiations are exactly why you would want to have a recruiter: they handle that for you, and are generally incentivized to get you as much money as they can since they generall
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by larkost 5y ago
If your taxes wind up higher, then you have to file your U.S. taxes, but they wind up being minimal to 0, as the U.S. counts the taxes you pay there in lieu of paying to the U.S.. Mostly your extra expense should be in fees paid to one of t
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by larkost 5y ago
Hollywood accounting only works because the producers are taking the profits out by spending the money on outside firms that they get a piece of. That does not work in college sports: they are just plain losing money... except for the coach
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by larkost 5y ago
Not only that, but depending on which state you are in in Germany (and Austria) you get routed at around 4th grade. If the teachers decide that you are academically fit for it then you go on to the Gymnasium, which prepares you for college,
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by larkost 5y ago
How exactly is Apple supposed to know that you have switched phones? Any way I can think of requires privacy intrusions that make me shudder. However, they do have UI on all of their iMessage programs, and on the website that you can get to
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by larkost 5y ago
Please cite your supporting sources for that assertion. What I have been hearing does not support that, and even seems to be slightly the opposite (but not a lot of weight on those).
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by larkost 5y ago
This was the medical community's censuses at the time. Turns out now we know that this hinged on a few misunderstandings and generalizations, and have turned that corner. But at the time it was the best information we had: https:&#x2F
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by larkost 5y ago
Remember that in the beginning there was an enormous shortfall of the masks that were known to be effective in preventing respiratory disease. The CDC (and others) were very worried about medical personnel not being able to get them, very j
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by larkost 5y ago
To clarify the clarification... I think this refers to people who are housed in "emergency housing" by some agency like FEMA because their regular home is no longer viable (e.g.: burned in a wildfire), and they have not been moved
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by larkost 5y ago
I am certain that your "insurance payment" is missing out on the portion that your employer is paying. The big tax increase that the headline is talking about includes that. If you look at your paystub you can find the total cost,
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by larkost 5y ago
This would not be creating another bureaucratic layer. It would be replacing the portion of the system that is currently a private bureaucratic layer (insurance companies), and replacing it by expanding (and modifying) the existing governme
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by larkost 5y ago
You are forgetting that insurance companies are a middleman eating up some of the costs, both as profits and as costs. It is a slightly unfair comparison (Medicare has more older people who have large single-issue costs, so less admin work)
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by larkost 5y ago
Here is the breakdown from this article for 2020: https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2021/demo/p60-27... 8.6% are uninsured Of the insured: - 54.4% of the ensured on employer based insurance - 1
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by larkost 5y ago
Are you sure she is not subtly convincing you to take the role? Presumably she is temping you into the manner in which it happens.
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by larkost 5y ago
I am sad to say this, but the insurance probably did not pay for the last $10K, that probably magically disappeared after the insurance paid for what they paid for. Again the explanation in the form of an example: My wife's dentist alw
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by larkost 5y ago
I disagree with your assertion that the requirement for the internal SSD was a marketing decision (your word was "corporate", but that could mean anything). I think that it was probably a technical decision. Likely there is a very
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by larkost 5y ago
But at scale you now have more and more machines that are going offline. That tends to me to push the organization more and more to having something doing this sort of management. And without a BMC-like system, that means more in-person wor
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by larkost 5y ago
The lambda thing is not about whitespace indentation. It is a purposeful decision that if you need more than one line to do it, it should have a name. At first I disliked this, but it does nudge you towards readability, which winds up to be
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by larkost 5y ago
It is a little more complicated than that: having the index at the end is great for writing tape, but sucks for reading tape. The nice thing of that design is that you can "stream" the data (read one file, write it, and just make
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by larkost 5y ago
Note that FileMaker has (as far as I can tell) always been owned by Apple. Claris inc, and now FileMaker are whole owned subsidiaries of Apple. I am not disagreeing with the languishing bit, only the hint that it had something to do with ow
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by larkost 5y ago
The big difference is that the Democratic bills all are focused on making sure that more eligible voters can and will get out to vote. They are not picking out groups and trying to discourage those from voting, which many of the Republican
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by larkost 5y ago
I know that a lot of conservative news outlets have been repeating this over and over, but the facts just simply don't support this statement. The largest TV news organization by viewership is Fox News, and has been for a long time. Fo
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by larkost 5y ago
That is a bit of a mis-statement. Apple was in trouble at that time, but it was not on the brink of a bankruptcy (despite the constant use of the word "beleaguered' by the press), and Microsoft's investment did not materially
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by larkost 5y ago
I don't hear this being brought up by Democrats at all. And if you look at the statistics by party on who is getting vaccinated I think it is pretty stark that this is not having much of an effect. So even if that caused some Democrats
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by larkost 5y ago
Source please. I know a number of PHDs, and they were all early in line to get vaccines. I have not seen numbers for PHDs (only MDs), but I would be willing to wager that the vaccine rates for PHDs have been high the whole time. Certainly n
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by larkost 5y ago
This is a complete mischaracterization, and bordering on a lie at this point. She was very specific about not taking it because President Trump said so (rightly, given Trump's history of promoting improving treatments). But you don&#x2
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by larkost 5y ago
But these are board positions. They are not chosen based on measurable skills, but rather almost always on some combination of connections and a specific mindset. This has often been called the "old boys club", and the persistent

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