mcculley

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by mcculley 4y ago
Thanks for that CBO document. Yeah, I wish I knew what the percentage was now. Certainly the tax is higher than in the 80s. There are some perverse outcomes. In South Florida, I see boats doing nothing but advertising, floating billboards,
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by mcculley 4y ago
> Barges don't pay for US waterway use. There's a tax on fuel, but it pays maybe 10% of the cost of maintaining waterways. Do you have a citation for this 10%? I operate a tugboat company. We move barges. We currently pay an ex
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by mcculley 5y ago
I worked on DoD projects that I later realized were unethical, or at least unethically used. Yes, I do think that my current work is less likely to be used for terrible purposes just to get someone promoted.
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by mcculley 5y ago
I won't edit my post. Maybe I did use bad wording. I will contemplate that. I don't think Go is "bad". The important point to me is the expectation that Go will adapt to its user community. For example, I am not at all s
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by mcculley 5y ago
It sounds like you enjoy Go. That is great. I am referring to TFA/post which sounds similar to many experiences with Go. Of course all languages have pros and cons. I am referring to the specific situation where people are expecting a
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by mcculley 5y ago
I am both bemused and empathetic for those who keep having this realization with Go. It is like an abusive relationship and people stay in it too long before realizing it is not going to get any better. I took a look early on at Go. I tinke
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by mcculley 5y ago
They are not banned in the break room. They are banned from desks. This is very common.
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by mcculley 5y ago
The office I described was far from fancy. It was a DoD project in the 90s run by Lockheed and beneath minimum standards for safety. It was literally in a modular building that had been assembled onsite. The floors sagged and the fabric on
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by mcculley 5y ago
They would likely be safe, but how would you know? Inspect every one? It is easier to ban them.
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by mcculley 5y ago
I found telecom environments to be similarly sterile but more competently designed and managed than SCIFs. Maybe this is unfair and what seem to be failures are actually by design. Maybe the soul crushing environment is a necessary conditio
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by mcculley 5y ago
No, but I did remove the BitTorrent client that was serving up his entire drive.
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by mcculley 5y ago
Most of them are in good working order, UL approved, and not bought at a garage sale and improvised to run continuously. You cannot trust your coworkers to put a heating element on their desk.
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by mcculley 5y ago
Yours and other replies have convinced me that the risk is very low. Regardless, I will continue to throw any similarly improvised device in the garbage rather than take the risk.
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by mcculley 5y ago
Because I had to intervene multiple times after it had clearly been heating the pot continuously all day and the smell of burnt coffee was evident on the entire floor, I don't think it had any safety mechanisms remaining, if it ever ha
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by mcculley 5y ago
If I still owned a physical office, I would not want my facilities manager to inspect every coffee pot to determine the risk. I would make sure to provide the caffeine some other way. In that same building there were some desks with fans be
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by mcculley 5y ago
Over the course of a few years I spent a lot of time in a secure environment in a DoD facility to which I had to travel multiple times for a project. The environment, a maze of cubicles filled with computers, had been installed inside a his
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by mcculley 5y ago
This was effectively a heating element without a switch. Yes, the risk is low. Still stupid to do it.
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by mcculley 5y ago
I completely agree that the incompetence of the organization was greater than the carelessness of my coworker. Regardless, he should not have plugged in a heating element without a switch.
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by mcculley 5y ago
I worked in an office with a fire hazard coffee pot. One of my coworkers wanted a coffee pot on his desk. He found an automatic drip coffee maker at a garage sale. It had a broken switch. Being a frugal engineer, he routed a wire past the s
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by mcculley 5y ago
I also hope they know, truly, the value of life. I am not optimistic that they are wise enough to wield the power they have. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accid...
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by mcculley 5y ago
I don’t blame the civilian. I am not optimistic that the military organization that owns this fighter jet is capable of making good decisions.
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by mcculley 5y ago
Exactly. These organizations are entrusted with nuclear and biological weapons.
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by mcculley 5y ago
This is a perfect example of how state militaries have more power than they are mature enough to handle. This is the likeliest explanation for The Great Filter, in my opinion. Civilizations develop power well beyond their wisdom and then sn
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by mcculley 5y ago
Rich people generally get that way by learning how to effectively leverage other people’s money.
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by mcculley 5y ago
I have been using the filename "meeting-notes:10/1 \n Unix & Windows.txt" to test various apps. It tends to expose just how brittle modern computing still is.
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by mcculley 5y ago
That people can be so oblivious to the ways in which targeted advertising actually works while simultaneously so vulnerable to conspiracy theories about "hot mics" has me worried.
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by mcculley 5y ago
Do you have a citation for this? I find this to be surprising given that I have heard the exact opposite: That efficient supply chains lead to eggs too fresh to easily deshell when hard boiled. When I had my own hens I would deliberately ag
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by mcculley 5y ago
Yes, it means McDonald's did expect it to happen. > "Normally you don't get 3rd degree burns..." It was normal. "Other documents obtained from McDonald's showed that from 1982 to 1992 the company had receive
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by mcculley 5y ago
It had been happening for years.
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by mcculley 5y ago
"Other documents obtained from McDonald's showed that from 1982 to 1992 the company had received more than 700 reports of people burned by McDonald's coffee to varying degrees of severity, and had settled claims arising from

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