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by prirun 3y ago
I got an F in writing from a Purdue professor, and hated the class. He had us analyze poetry for example, and I just couldn't do it. A couple years later I had to take a writing class at Oakland University in Rochester, MI, got an A,
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by prirun 3y ago
Maybe they have tech that shows them our radar scanning patterns, so they know where to be. And maybe other tech to make themselves less visible via vision, ie, light bending or something like that. They might want to see how humans react t
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by prirun 3y ago
One-time payment of $10 per GB. Hmm, seems a bit rich since current storage rates are $0.00099/GB/mo (Amazon Deep Archive). $10 would store a GB on Amazon for 841 years: 10/(0.00099*12) = 841.750 Considering that the averag
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> Interestingly, I was the only candidate who reached the panel interview stage. Maybe they just closed the open position w/o hiring anyone?
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Link to the actual report, which is an interesting read: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
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Amazon makes it very easy to see the 4/3/2/1-star ratings just by clicking the rating you want on the left after clicking the rating on the item page. Not saying all the reviews are legit, but they do let you see the poor ra
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by prirun 3y ago
I started acyclovir a couple of days after shingles broke out, in 2017. It calmed down after a couple of weeks, so they knocked it down from 5 pills a day to a maintenance dose. A couple of weeks later, it flared back up. This went on fo
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by prirun 3y ago
I have shingles in my left eye, since 2017. It didn't go away because after after a year or 2 of dealing with it, a doctor suggested I get my immune system checked. Turns out my immune system is for shit (IgG levels got down to 80; t
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by prirun 3y ago
> I believe the same happens in the US, one state such as California will make progressive law changes that force companies to just apply the same standards across other states as it's less legal and regulatory burden, so effectivel
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In a lot of places this article says something like "cause X only occurs 33% of the time, cause Y only occurs 20% of the time ... so they are not the primary cause of homelessness" It would be interesting to me to see how many hom
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by prirun 3y ago
https://corporate.target.com/press/releases/2022/02/target-t... If Target is doing this, I'm guessing others are too.
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They should expand this to 90-9-1-.1 to include the .1% that cause all the problems that eventually lead to content moderation, claims of freedom of speech violations, hate speech, bannings, and eventual closure of forums.
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by prirun 3y ago
My beef with Youtube is that it keeps showing me the same suggestions over and over. I do use an ad blocker, originally installed for security reasons. I have found a lot of good content on YT, but lately, the suggestions are just terrible
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by prirun 3y ago
How can the first sentence of a peer-reviewed article be: "Households that cannot be able to afford their water bills may lose access to drinking water and wastewater services." You be joking!
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IMO they are impressed with your demo and fishing for inside information. If they can get you on the phone, get you talking, and flatter you enough, you'll probably blab some stuff they can use for their own project. You have a demo a
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by prirun 3y ago
I asked how to change the variable block size in HashBackup (I'm the author) and it told me to use the -b option to the backup command and the default is 4K. However, the backup command does not have a -b option. It does have a -V opt
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In my long computer career, I've only had a couple of times where someone got ahead of me by lying or misrepresenting their skills. When working with such people, it's pretty obvious to most that they don't know what they&#x
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by prirun 3y ago
It's ironic that the movie studios want license agreements for content they own to cover distinct uses (streaming vs DVD's for example), yet they expect actors to agree to allow their voice, likeness, mannerisms, etc. to be usable
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My personal, unsubstantiated opinion is that the food most people eat is now full of substances and chemicals that weren't there 50 years ago. A huge example is high fructose corn syrup. Almost everything is sweetened with that inste
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I avoid riding with anyone nowadays because I'm afraid they will either get or make a phone call while driving. As a passenger, I'm not in a strong position to say "Hey, you know it's not safe to drive and use the phone
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by prirun 3y ago
I read an article about GDPR this morning, and it clarified that there is no minimum damage threshold either. So someone could pursue a GDPR claim for 5 cents damage (the example in the article). A rational person wouldn't of course,
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by prirun 3y ago
If someone buys a $1500 Apple computer, are they expected to tip 20% - $300?? Craziness. Tipping sucks. Businesses should be required to pay decent wages with no tipping allowed IMO.
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> When machines take over more work and boost our productivity, Brynjolfsson says, that's generally a great thing. It means that society is getting richer, that the economic pie is getting larger. > after the software company ado
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> it's interesting to compare to his wealth tax proposal from a few years ago, which went up to an 8% tax on wealth above $10B I have less of a problem with a 100% (or very high) income tax for income over $1B because it's at l
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I tried to get into working out a few times in my life, but it was always short-lived, usually because I'd injure myself because I didn't know what I was doing. Getting a good trainer makes all the difference in the world, and I d
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And a reason that banks have had so many withdrawals is that their deposit interest rates have not kept pace with money market rates, so a lot of people, especially if they had a lot of cash in a bank, have been moving their cash to money m
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How do you verify whether an entity is making money using the software?
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The first big fitness challenge IMO is to convince people to switch from convenient, garbage food to actual food. The second challenge is to convince people to eat less food. After that we can worry about an exercise plan. But no, instead
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Experience has shown a couple of things: 1. These offers are not for your lifetime, but for the lifetime of the company, which may not be that long. 2. If the company does live a long time and becomes successful, it often reneges on these
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IMO it's naive to think there is going to be some large public space where reasonable and thoughtful free speech occurs. In my experience running public forums on an e-commerce site, you can have this for small groups of people, but a

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