oasisbob

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by oasisbob 8y ago
With at-will employment and layoffs being what they are, the only thing gauche about this would seem to be the lack of notification to the employer. Having seen several mass "firing-squad" style layoffs where there's a meetin
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by oasisbob 8y ago
How are you defining "professional" in this context? There's a classical sense of professional it seems you're reaching for, but I'm having a hard time thinking of a non-professional white-collar worker which would
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by oasisbob 8y ago
Some of the things are really subtle. My wife grew up in Tamil Nadu, India - and English was her primary language growing up. When we travel, her English is infinitely easier for people to understand than mine, despite how hard I try. (I
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by oasisbob 8y ago
That's a fun set of examples. I think lie up is used naturally sometimes, but I may have just been thinking about it hard enough to fool myself. "She had obviously not slept, the events of the previous day being so disturbing. &
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by oasisbob 8y ago
That's a good point. I can see how it would be really crop and situation dependent. Since we're talking about bad things that can happen with old fruit - one more story where composting is truly awful. There was a lawsuit in these
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by oasisbob 8y ago
Yup, learned something. thanks! Ultra pasteurized simply means that the milk has been heated under pressure at a higher temperature for a shorter period of time (280° for two seconds versus 167° at 15 seconds for standard pasteurized). -
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by oasisbob 8y ago
Very true. The last milk I bought was Darigold here in the US, and the sell-by date was sometime in March. I don't know what they're doing to extend its shelf life so much, but as a childless sometimes-uses-milk home, I love it, a
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by oasisbob 8y ago
How is the farm harvesting? Raspberries are especially perishable - especially when damaged. Eventually I think everyone involved needs to admit that the economics just don't work, and that at smaller scales, composting isn't awfu
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by oasisbob 8y ago
Try _Wood: The Internal Optimization of Trees_ [1], or anything else by Mattheck. My background is more bio than eng, but it's very digestible despite being dense. Truly one of my favorite reads. [1] https://g.co/kgs&#x
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by oasisbob 8y ago
It sounds like you're caught up on the terminology, do you disagree with the underlying concept? https://www.ibtta.org/sites/default/files/Generated%20Traffi... Coming from a chemistry background, the id
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by oasisbob 8y ago
Yes, there are some places where price increases are clearly visible - franchise fast food is a big one. Otherwise, cost of living in the region was already increasing. I've been in Seattle for the last six years and can't really
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by oasisbob 8y ago
> Seattle raised its minimum wage by 37% in one year--neither modest nor gradual. How did you come up with this number? Even for large employers which don't provide health benefits (the group affected with the most aggressive wage i
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by oasisbob 8y ago
Or, Power over Ethernet. 48 volts at up to ~75 watts.
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by oasisbob 8y ago
In NW WA you might be surprised. There's a long history of utility self sufficiency with the San Juan islands, and the area and neighboring counties has a lot of dark fiber available for lease from smaller independent providers. Many m
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by oasisbob 8y ago
Off-topic, but it's very normal for private entities to own public streets in the US. At the time when these areas were platted and lots conveyed, the streets were dedicated to the public use, but were not deeded to the municipalities.
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by oasisbob 8y ago
The post resonated with me because of a stupid bug I hit in a ca 2011 SSD. (Samsung?) After 100 power-on cycles, the drive would brick itself. Required a firmware update in time to avoid. That defect doesn't strike me as being inherent
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by oasisbob 8y ago
Drive onto ranch land with a hot exhaust system, pull off the road into tall grass, start a 200 acre grass fire, and try to use that line of reasoning with a with a straight face.
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by oasisbob 8y ago
Some causes are well-known and easily preventable. For example, Power transmission systems use arrestors and other devices to protect their system from lightning and other badness. Taking a hit may result in the device blowing apart, includ
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by oasisbob 8y ago
> ... given that it is preferable to ship lumber instead of timber There are also regulatory reasons for this one. As I understand it, as a general rule, you cannot legally export raw timbers harvested from federal and state lands in the
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by oasisbob 8y ago
> Speaking of circles, SI hasn't fixed Hz vs rad, have they? I don't think so. Anyone who hasn't heard of the Hz/radian issue should see the "Hz" definition in the units definition file shipped along with Fr
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by oasisbob 8y ago
That strikes me as a misleading read on AB 425. It expands the existing exempted activities which don't require a forestry management plan, like temporary road building: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/bil
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by oasisbob 8y ago
Decided to answer my own question - here's a great history of the NW aluminum industry: https://www.nwcouncil.org/reports/columbia-river-history/alu... The last active NW aluminum smelters closed in 2016. Mos
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by oasisbob 8y ago
That's been my experience too. Even in 2003, the network I was involved in was handing out .0s out of larger CIDR blocks in DHCP leases with no issues.
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by oasisbob 8y ago
The Pacific Northwest used to have a lot more Aluminum smelting than it does now - the power was provided by large hydro power contracts. Not sure if it was changes in these contracts or other market forces that caused the decline.
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by oasisbob 8y ago
I think it's very on topic - connector mounting and robustness is important. BNC connectors hit a great sweet-spot of being cheap and easily available for bulkhead mounting. I've used them for power in data loggers before, since t
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by oasisbob 8y ago
I've never come home to an unexpected plumber, but did have a greyhat "fix" my stuff once, and wasn't outraged at all. It felt like an intrusion, but I was grateful. In ~ 2002 I was off to college with my Linux workstati
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by oasisbob 8y ago
I like your train of thought. You absolutely want the right amount of taper. Regarding wood strength being proportional to area: it can't be as simple as that - wood is a strongly anisotropic material, so direction of loading becomes c
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by oasisbob 8y ago
I find the article and paper somewhat frustrating. It doesn't say anything new about da Vinci, and it sure doesn't seem to add anything which isn't already an accepted idea in biomechanics. The article revives vascular constr
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by oasisbob 8y ago
It's definitely not a new idea. The idea that trees maintain strength by equalizing stress throughout their structure is a classic one. Angiosperms depends on tensile stresses for their strength. Trees keeping themselves upright is all
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by oasisbob 8y ago
Is Chrome delaying too? M70 is supposed to contain the distrust change, and last I heard it's scheduled for an October 16 release.

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