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by patja 4y ago
It does seem a bit at odds with my experience monitoring VHF 16 while sailing. When someone is in distress or there is a report of an unmanned kayak (extremely common!), the Coast Guard will almost always put out a call for any mariners in
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by patja 4y ago
The tethered dead man's cutoff is a norm on small outboards. I seem to recall it is even a legal requirement to use it in some jurisdictions (including clipping it to the skipper's body). But on anything out in the ocean like th
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by patja 4y ago
Thanks, this is new since my kids were under 13. I understand why parents let their children lie in order to avoid social exclusion. Kids can be very cliquey and being excluded hurts. I counseled my children that it is immoral to misrepres
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by patja 4y ago
Matt Cutts made it seem like they were serious about it. On reflection, his departure seems like a turning point, albeit perhaps coincidental.
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by patja 4y ago
Curious about the use of the word messenger. Do you mean Facebook's Messenger? Isn't that only for age 13 and over?
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by patja 4y ago
A project I did to make CO2 monitors with a Sensiron SCD41 sensor and Adafruit MagTag e-ink module: https://www.printables.com/model/121265-salud-co2-monitor
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by patja 4y ago
I had the same thing happen out of the azure data center in Des Moines Iowa. I ended up having to geolocate the IP address in combination with a few funky / missing request headers to fingerprint this miscreant. They were rotating thr
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by patja 4y ago
I like the places that just shut the whole company down for specific weeks each year. 2 weeks at the end of the year, 2 weeks in August, etc. You also get the benefit of coming back to a reasonable inbox. It is not really practical for a
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by patja 4y ago
With reorgs I once had five different managers in a single year while I worked at Microsoft, and a few of them were not so great. One was even very publicly fired (publicly as in being the subject of a WSJ and other main stream media artic
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by patja 4y ago
They don't call it by name, but the prominent and frequent use of the Bigby's Hand spell seems like a vulnerability. My understanding is that WOTC defends their IP rights to the spells with specific characters' names attache
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by patja 4y ago
In Seattle we have Democracy Vouchers funded by the city that every voter is sent in the mail and can be used to make campaign contributions. This led one candidate to hire people to solicit/collect these democracy vouchers. He raised
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by patja 4y ago
I am curious about the use of the word "adjacent" Do you think people writing game software are not software engineers?
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by patja 4y ago
I've been riding the Washington State ferries for over 50 years, so I wasn't tricked into cutting. Tourists and recent transplants would easily fall into this trap though. The Bainbridge line is particularly problematic as the c
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by patja 4y ago
Commenting from the Bainbridge ferry line here. Google Maps saw that traffic was backed up and "helpfully" offered me an alternate route that would only end with me cutting into a line ahead of the 50 cars patiently waiting.
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by patja 4y ago
Most telling is the person in the article with some experience working in the recycling industry who was ignorant of the fact that her curbside recycling program does not accept the blue and white Amazon mailers, nor did she know that the p
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by patja 4y ago
Consulting is also great on the job training in how the real world of commerce and business operate, with the bonus that after a year or two you probably have personal knowledge of how a handful of major corporations operate, including whic
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by patja 4y ago
They are extremely high status among friends and family who do not work in tech or IT, or among recent graduate peers who are struggling to get a white collar career going and stuck in service jobs or other jobs that will never break 100k&#
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by patja 4y ago
I have 4 of these Knipex adjustable pliers. I do like them but find that getting them set just right for the task at hand is a bit fiddly. Seems like I am always setting it one setting too loose or too tight. The Knipex product that I lov
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by patja 4y ago
It is possible that the tickets were bought by someone else for the group without individually assigned names.
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by patja 4y ago
I find it surprising that this is something that has to be imagined. I run into real world examples of this all the time. It isn't the norm, but it sure isn't something that requires imagination to see all around us.
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by patja 4y ago
I have used wail2ban and just started using ipban
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by patja 4y ago
Andrew Dent and Elena Donio were consultants on the internal MSFT SAP implementation. They took what they learned about building friendly procurement and expense reporting SAP front end apps to Concur.
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by patja 4y ago
the funny thing about Concur is its origin was the internal expense reporting front end that Microsoft had built on top of their own SAP implementation.
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by patja 4y ago
Our high deductible insurance with Kaiser is about 12k/yr for a family of 3: two parents in their 50s and a teen. Then I max out an HSA (untaxed health savings account to actually pay for things) with about 7k, which generally gets dr
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by patja 4y ago
does WhatsApp still require you to hand over all your contacts to them when you sign up? None of my contacts gave consent for me to share their private information.
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by patja 4y ago
I was hoping this would have some relationship to Dick Pick's Pick operating system.
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by patja 4y ago
Pretty sure i was billed at 10x when I started at Andersen Consulting in 1990. My starting salary was 21.5k.
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by patja 4y ago
99designs is another option, albeit at a higher price point (but still far below OP's budget). I was very satisfied with the logo and redesign I got there. Got to see a lot of options before settling on the designer we chose.
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by patja 4y ago
While on my way to Desolation Sound in British Columbia, I've run across the Canadian Coast Guard hovercraft Siyay https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCGS_Siyay It was quite a surprise, and very loud. Heard it befor
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by patja 5y ago
Post title is missing the word "developer". A senior is an old person, which is (usually) not the same at all as a senior developer.

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