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by patja 3y ago
Perot Systems (later became EDS) was famous for this in the 80s with their college hires.
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by patja 3y ago
Lawyers, tax advisors, sales & marketing...all are "necessary" evils that would never exist in a perfect world. We should be looking for methods of limiting and discouraging the "need" for these professions wherever
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by patja 3y ago
They go hand in hand. Having the ability to provide a team to execute on the plan the management consultants sell is a powerful business model.
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by patja 3y ago
Lots of Fortune 500 to 1000 companies lack the ability to recruit the best and brightest. And mostly they don't really need them. But when they do, consultants offer a ready made solution to get a project done.
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by patja 3y ago
The term "creative" has always bothered me as it seems to usually be applied to roles that don't actually create anything other than pretty pictures/designs/words. I guess it makes sense from the aspect of "cr
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by patja 3y ago
Yes that's it
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by patja 3y ago
Which Victron app? My install of Victron Connect doesn't seem to do this.
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by patja 3y ago
I still remember having my mind blown at a Pirates of Puget Sound party in the 80s where there were banks of 1541 drives connected in pairs happily copying disks with no C64 connected to the drives . Just insert two disks and it would cop
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by patja 3y ago
Can the museum turn around and sell it at a profit?
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by patja 3y ago
That's impressive! Mine was over $100. The SCD40 in module format is $45.
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by patja 3y ago
A similar project can be done without soldering using parts from Adafruit, including a module for the Sensiron chip. Here is a project I made using Adafruit's e-ink module and the SCD41 module they sell: https://www.printab
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by patja 3y ago
Who is this surprising? 50 year olds grew up on Asteroids, Donkey Kong, and Zork.
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by patja 3y ago
It is 4x the density of the Victron LiFePO4 batteries I have on my sailboat.
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by patja 4y ago
De La Rue also printed (maybe they still do?) the Microsoft COAs (certificate of authenticity stickers) which have many of the same security features as currency.
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by patja 4y ago
If you don't have any crack houses handy, Requiem for a Dream is also pretty effective.
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by patja 4y ago
is there anything preventing a continuous "rinse and repeat" cycle of creating Mormon dating sites for purchase and shutdown by the church?
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by patja 4y ago
Sounds like the conclusion of Candide. When confronted by the misery of Pangloss' best of all possible worlds, we must cultivate our garden.
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by patja 4y ago
> Nowadays college is a baseline consumer good that "almost everyone" is expected to consume I think this depends quite a bit on your socioeconomic class. Overall in the US, only about 1/3 finish a college degree
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by patja 4y ago
Slack is prohibitively expensive if you need more than 90 days of history, and Discord isn't very open or great for search.
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by patja 4y ago
The costs seem inflated. There are no monthly charges for operating an AIS transponder, which costs about $1000 and is simple to install. The Coast Guard collects all AIS track data, and publishes it on a 6 month delay via the NOAA Marine
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by patja 4y ago
Also was a key plot device in Luther season 5
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by patja 4y ago
The one and only reason I've had an Apple Developer account is to accept Apple Pay payments through Stripe for my small business' web site that has existed since 2008, and I can't get them to accept my perfectly good credit c
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by patja 4y ago
A Sense of the World by Jason Roberts is a book about the man who invented the use of the cane as a device for the blind to use for echolocation. The book doesn't really focus much on that detail, but it's an incredible story of
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by patja 4y ago
You are correct. But Seattle's history with desegregation bussing had a major impact on the nature of the schools in Seattle today. It was very common for students to spend a total of 90 minutes each day being bussed across town rath
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by patja 4y ago
Seattle proper has no proper/modern roundabouts. It has hundreds of traffic calming circles which are often confused with roundabouts, but are not in the same class. Roundabouts have dividers at each entry/exit point which are la
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by patja 4y ago
My brother in law has a successful Etsy shop where he mostly sells "charcuterie boards" he makes in his home workshop as a side gig from his job as a VP of a civil engineering firm. There isn't much to them: no joinery, jus
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by patja 4y ago
for me, Comskip is the killer feature I would be very sad to give up. With Channels do you have to manually FF through ads?
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by patja 4y ago
When OneDrive works it is nice. Problem is that when it doesn't work, you can be in for a hell of a ride trying to get it working. I just finished spending more hours than I want to count trying to clean my dad's PC of all licens
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by patja 4y ago
I'm still rocking my 13 year old SageTV installation. Even the hardware clients are still working well. So grateful they were allowed to open source the software after Google acquired it.
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by patja 4y ago
Every day I also get at least a dozen very obvious phishing emails that end up in my primary Hotmail inbox. The algorithm just doesn't seem very good.

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