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by petsfed 4y ago
That lays bare the economics of the layoff in a very easy-to-understand way, provided the raises don't eat up all the savings from the layoffs. Using nice round numbers, the following would need to be true for the layoffs to make sense
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by petsfed 4y ago
I worry that the nuance here is not actually down to interpretation, but the consequences of extremely rapid dissemination of information. I don't even think those of us in tech have come to grips with how that matters, let alone if&#x
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by petsfed 4y ago
I suspect that fitting something like this into what looks like standard prescription glasses will require some advances in manufacturing optical materials. I think its already possible to make the appropriate lenses to sufficient precision
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by petsfed 4y ago
Did he ever express that he thought it was for big-whigs [sic]? Did he put in long hours alongside you? Is there any possibility that the manager thought "we work these people like dogs, we should treat them better, the least we can do
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by petsfed 4y ago
Like, when does it stop being "we're playing spy" and becomes "daddy won't let me come over and play because he says your toaster told google about me". The face painting in particular (especially the OP's
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by petsfed 4y ago
Two things: First, power structures are not fundamentally necessary in productive endeavors, but division of responsibility absolutely is. I submit to your authority in situation A, and you in turn submit to my authority in situation B. B
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by petsfed 4y ago
I'm not sure that it was any less toxic, just that the background level of toxicity has decreased. My mother clearly remembers being called out in front of her church for the unforgivable sin of attending a school dance, and that was i
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by petsfed 4y ago
I think there's merit to at least forestalling rule-by-assassination. Like, yes, I would not mourn a lot of people who end up having protective details. But I absolutely don't want to live in a world where all it takes to change a
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by petsfed 4y ago
Yes, but another way to look at it is that the volume of successful strikes of the last few years are making the powers-that-be sweat a bit. This feels like a sacrifice play to me. I'm sure that the cost of improving wages, hours, and
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by petsfed 4y ago
To everyone saying "your code doesn't have to last that long", did y'all miss that the OP is talking about embedded C? There is no nuke and pave with a new framework on an embedded system. At best, you'll see the
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by petsfed 4y ago
>Sadly, these are mostly types of common sense. The lack thereof is the real issue, not ones experience level. I've spent a lot of time teaching rock climbing, and just about every aspect thereof. Something I saw again and again is
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by petsfed 4y ago
I've been hard pressed to find anyone who honestly believes there should be zero consequences for violating laws or generally acting in an anti-social manner. What I find a lot is folks who believe the entire judicial system, police, p
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by petsfed 4y ago
I'm not sure where you're living that you haven't experienced easy access to countryside. It's always been in easy reach in the 7 western states I've lived in, even in the Bay Area and the very center of Boise. In f
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by petsfed 4y ago
Speaking as a (former) partner of a University of Oregon grad student, what it actually came down to was that folks weren't paid enough to even live in the community they worked and taught in. I was making more at my shitty retail job
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by petsfed 4y ago
My information is about 10 years old, so that makes sense. It also makes sense that such evals are of limited utility, as the people I know who worked down on the ice were ... difficult personalities to get along with.
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by petsfed 4y ago
The threat is not from strangers, but from fully vetted and trusted community members having some kind of psychological event that leads them to bad actions. The various entities working at McMurdo do pretty thorough pre-deployment psych ev
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by petsfed 4y ago
DAs more than judges, since DAs need successful convictions on crimes important to their constituency to get re-elected, and they need police cooperation to get successful convictions. A judge may well throw this out on its merits, but the
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by petsfed 4y ago
That's pretty much it. The environmental objections to nuclear fission are in the same genre as objections to hydroelectric dams, but hard to compare. You pay the environmental impact of the dam upfront, in the form of ecosystem disrup
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by petsfed 4y ago
I think the real threat is the already dire state of American faith in its own governmental system. The issue is not that the congress people are in a position to act on insider information. It's that they're in a position to make
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by petsfed 4y ago
I think the way to improve that is to somehow lower the cost of housing, such that workers can afford to live close enough to the office to minimize the time cost of commuting. When I was commuting in the Bay Area, I'd walk half a mile
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by petsfed 4y ago
The core of the argument is that for a significant number of these deaths (especially mental health or substance abuse related), if the mothers had been allowed to abort the baby, they would be in addition allowed to get the mental health o
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by petsfed 4y ago
My last experience with U-Haul (October 2021 to March 2022) is indeed my last experience with them. Over and above the standard incompetence stemming from franchisees somehow working against an umbrella organization for scheduling, pickup
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by petsfed 4y ago
That's a fair point. I admit, I moved away from the Arduino framework pretty rapidly after embedded development became my job, well before I had to contend with everything else under the hood. I never ran into an issue of quasi-hidden
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by petsfed 4y ago
That's exactly what's described. Arduino's framework divides main() into two functions: Setup() and loop(), but they're essentially the same as whatever comes before the while loop, and the while loop itself, in a standa
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by petsfed 7y ago
The apparent randomness of the retail schedule was one of my leading complaints. I didn't really mind that I didn't have Saturday and Sunday off per se, it was that I never had the same day off, so my friends couldn't include
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by petsfed 7y ago
"There's also altitude compensation but unless you're doing something really weird that shouldn't affect you so much." Disagree. I've moved co2 sensors between sea level and 2000m, and measured reference 400ppm
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by petsfed 7y ago
The core device is typically on the order of $50-$150 US, but with many of the sensors that CO2meter sells, you're also getting a microcontroller, display, power supply, etc. You'll frequently find temperature and humidity sensors
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by petsfed 7y ago
I'm fond of the Sensirion SCD30. Its low cost, low power, and easy to interface with. A lot of NDIR CO2 sensors pull 5V, so the sensirion's 3.3v power is nice. Digikey is currently out of them, but SparkFun has them in stock. Nice
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by petsfed 9y ago
Camping on a rancher's land with permission is easy. But given the expected crowds, friends in e.g. Glendo (population ~200) plan to be out enforcing their property rights against the anticipated tens-of-thousands of out-of-towners.