philjohn

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by philjohn 4y ago
Know why that was? In a lot of cases it's because in a lot of states they weren't even able to start procesing mail ballots until polls closed on election day. Processing a mail ballot involves physically opening the envelope, rem
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by philjohn 4y ago
I have, it has holes big enough to drive a big rig through, and has been widely panned by people who know about cell phone location tracking.
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by philjohn 4y ago
Have you read the discussion D'Souza has with someone at the WaPo? There are holes in 2000 mules you could drive a big rig through.
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by philjohn 4y ago
Yep - that's fair, great answers!
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by philjohn 4y ago
10c is survivable with a good blanket for a long stretch (average Jan temperature) -2c in MA is not (and it's often far colder than that)
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by philjohn 4y ago
I mean, homeless people freeze to death if they stay in places like MA - is it really hard to think that CA with a far more temperate climate would see more homeless people?
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by philjohn 4y ago
Is the problem that prison in the US doesn't focus on rehabilitation, leading to a revolving door of recidivism? Decriminalising drugs has been seen by many to have been a positive policy change in Portugal, is it just being done diffe
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by philjohn 4y ago
It's also how the newish Furby's interact with a phone or tablet app. And I believe how Cisco teleconfernce allow wireless configuration of a screen share.
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by philjohn 4y ago
I suppose it depends - although it's pretty much the worst case for write amplification, 1-4 bytes leading to a 4k block erase and reprogram.
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by philjohn 4y ago
It was a fun experiment showing my kids what some leftover Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut did to a soda can.
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by philjohn 4y ago
Especially on an SSD
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by philjohn 4y ago
But are they susceptible to changes in ocean temperature (either up, or down)?
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by philjohn 4y ago
Shame lots of plants have been cut down in the lungs of the earth, the rainforests of South America.
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by philjohn 4y ago
I work in a FAANG at this level - but one of the expectations is "you lift the others up around you" rather than just handing out tasks, and the other is "you write the hardest parts of the system". For me this can be so
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by philjohn 4y ago
Similar story to the husband of my sister-in-law's sister (I think that's how you say it). Metastatic Melanoma, had spread to his stomach. Got on the trial for Ipilimumab and is still here a decade and change later.
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by philjohn 4y ago
The new monitors are great - I had a Zio patch stuck on me for two weeks, also due to some ectopic heartbeats (especially when exercising) with a button to press and a notepad to log symptoms when button was pressed. The cardiologist had th
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by philjohn 4y ago
There's a chance, however, that their descendants aren't as ruthless, or as competent. Doesn't one of the Koch sons sell Hawaiian print t-shirts?
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by philjohn 4y ago
Are they cash flow positive? They made a loss in the latest quarterly filing?
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by philjohn 4y ago
Altered Carbon, and to a lesser extend Upload! touch on this dystopian part - the great leveller is that every billionaire will one day die - imagine if that wasn't the case, and they could keep hoarding wealth and having undue politic
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by philjohn 4y ago
Well, and Facebook kind of hurt the media in a pretty big way with people getting their news from them, and other social media.
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by philjohn 4y ago
Thought I'd chime in here with my low-cost NAS/backup server/home server. It's running in a 2U case I got from servercase UK that takes 6 hard drives, it's running: - Core i3 9100T (35w TDP, configurable down to 25W
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by philjohn 4y ago
Look at the screenshot of one of the news sites in the top list "DOCTORS ADMIT COVID BOOSTER CAUSES AIDS". If we can't call out genuine lies, where do we stop?
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by philjohn 4y ago
How's that working out in gerrymandered districts?
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by philjohn 4y ago
I was having a tangential conversation with my parents this morning. They're getting on, and are looking at selling a treasured holiday property in a warm country - I originally thought it was due to not feeling able, or wanting to, vi
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by philjohn 4y ago
Are you writing low-level software, such as filesystems, or raw block backed database storage engines? If not, then that's definitely a decent maxim to live by.
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by philjohn 4y ago
The Alesis ADAT 8 track digital audio recorders used SVHS tapes as the medium - at the end of the day, it's just a spooled magnetic medium, not hugely different conceptually than a hard drive.
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by philjohn 4y ago
It's populism - "here's a terrible complex problem, but it's ok, we have a simple solution that you can understand!" It doesn't matter that the complex problem doesn't actually have a simple solution, and
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by philjohn 4y ago
Immediate parent, or close "adult in a trusted position" (e.g. scout leader, pastor, close family friend).
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by philjohn 4y ago
Have these zip codes been normalised for socioeconomic factors, otherwise this could very well be correlation and not causality.
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by philjohn 4y ago
Aha! Happy to provide a TIL :) That's really the killer feature of the trackpoint - especially for touch typists.

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