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by quasse 3y ago
Profession induced trauma is finally getting taken seriously in the medical setting, another high stakes field. Group therapy for doctors and nurses is finally becoming a thing, but unfortunately it is completely dependent on being employ
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by quasse 3y ago
Meanwhile Seattle is planning to maybe-kinda-sorta begrudgingly start building one single light rail line to the west side of the city in the next few decades. Maybe it'll be ready by the time I retire.
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by quasse 3y ago
Wow, what an absolute gem of '90s / '00 web design.
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by quasse 3y ago
In case you're not joking, government entities in the US are not allowed to build road structures that will collapse the first time a farmer drives a loaded grain hauler over them.
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by quasse 3y ago
Do you measure concerning levels of glyphosate in the pre-filtration water? I've always been curious about this for the sake of my friends who live in rural areas near pesticide dependent farmers.
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by quasse 3y ago
This is the type of stuff that trips up many Kickstarter / crowd funded projects. "I have a great idea, I'll just manufacture it in China and sell it as a product!" This is a great overview of the process and complexity
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by quasse 3y ago
I am automatically extremely skeptical of any think tank who's name starts with "Common Sense" or similar, and I feel vindicated once again. This seems to be a lobbying piece on behalf of the mega-developers who build slap-da
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by quasse 3y ago
At least in my city, the Air Force is the major source of PFAS pollution in our waterway, because they dumped firefighting agents into it for decades at their airbase.
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by quasse 3y ago
The thing that keeps me on Delta (despite frequent flyer status being worth ~nil) is that fact that they're the only one out of the big three who has not frequently delayed my flights by more than an hour or just cancelled them outrigh
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by quasse 3y ago
This is multi-level cell flash memory, and it's been in use for years. Instead of "high" or "low" voltage they use the in-between states to encode more bits per cell. [1] I worked at an embedded startup when SD card
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by quasse 3y ago
The banging was likely the sound of hundreds of news organizations flogging this story to get more clicks.
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by quasse 3y ago
I don't think this is very uncommon. I know a lot of people seem to spend a lot of their waking hours generally "ruminating" on their coding work but only 5-10 actually sat down and implementing the solutions at the keyboard.
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by quasse 3y ago
I think the big difference between this person and me is the sign of the slope on that "happiness while coding" graph. The older I've gotten (and I'm a bit older than them) the less I've felt the need to always be c
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by quasse 4y ago
> even though my Tesla has radar it has been disabled via software The fact that people put up with this is crazy to me. If I bought a car with a feature and then it was later taken away via an OTA update because the manufacturer didn&#x
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by quasse 4y ago
> The part I didn't like was how they made me get out a credit card while they we're treating me. Yes, I recently had to visit urgent care after probably ~8 years of staying out of the hospital. To be allowed in the door of the
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by quasse 4y ago
Based on input from my friends at Meta, this is a direct side effect of the way individual performance is quantified. Each person is required to "excel" along four axes, the two relevant ones for this story are likely "engine
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by quasse 4y ago
I am extremely out of the loop on the latest crypto developments / schemes, but * Where did this foundation get $3B to buy Bitcoin? * Is there any proof at all that they traded it to a counterparty who actually attempted to prop up UST
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by quasse 5y ago
This is something I'm very interested in. Is the average Western consumer of COVID misinformation, racial hate-baiting, etc. seeing a sudden decrease in new "content" to share? Does anyone know of any organizations studying t
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by quasse 5y ago
Aren't you like two days late on this AM radio talking point? [1] [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/23/canada-trude...
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by quasse 5y ago
> Then the battery. Oh the battery. The computer would randomly wake up from hibernate and drain the battery till it was dead. I have a Precision laptop (absolutely top of the line business laptop that shares hardware with the XPS 15) th
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by quasse 5y ago
I notice that several people are bringing up Texas bridges in this thread for some reason. One extremely major difference between bridges located in Pittsburgh and Texas is that Texas does not need to salt its roads. Municipalities that sal
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by quasse 5y ago
Wow, I wonder if the "Service Request" that came out of that tweet being marked Closed meant they ever fixed that: https://pittsburghpa.qscend.com/311/request/view/?id=ea13511... My guess is no.
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by quasse 5y ago
This is exactly what I did. After graduate school (focused on the wireless networking space) I was really burned out on software development. Important context is that my undergraduate degree was in mechanical engineering, even though I end
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by quasse 5y ago
I've been planting wildflowers at my new house as well and it's very fun to watch which plants different insects prefer. I've noticed that Monarch butterflies ignore almost all plants in my area but they love Mexican Sunflo
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by quasse 5y ago
Unfortunately it looks like this is really a fall guy with no mention of where the instruction to hide this information came from. On the other hand, according to his Linkedin Mark Forkner worked for the FAA before moving to Boeing to becom
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by quasse 5y ago
Wow, the list of atrocities on this place's Wikipedia page is horrifying. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Rotenberg_Educational_Ce... The founder sounds like a psychopath who was enamored with 1940's utop
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by quasse 5y ago
This was common in my engineering school too. I enjoyed creating the cheat-sheets more than any other form of studying, because what better way of learning three chapters of thermodynamics than having to distill them into 10 lines of text o
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by quasse 5y ago
My partner is a nurse and this does not surprise me in the slightest. Up until she quit near the end of 2020, nurses were required to put their PPE (N95 masks) in a "special" tupperware with holes poked in the lid at the end of ea
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by quasse 6y ago
The University of Wisconsin used (and still uses AFAIK) this system as well. "Shopping" for classes was horrendous, and there were at least three interfaces to search for classes. I can only imagine how hard it was to populate the
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by quasse 6y ago
As well as stripping comments, did they also strip and replace variable names? This code reminds me of trying to grok autogenerated Java GUI code in CS101.

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