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by romwell 3y ago
>I suppose one could attempt a truly exotic design in which the fuel tank gets gasified, piped past the payload, and then burned, thus allowing the tank to be on top, but these seems unlikely to work very well. I've been thinking of
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by romwell 3y ago
>Yes, the cool thing about this approach is that you can reach extreme vehicle mass ratios without staging. Autophage is , effectively, continuous staging. Except instead of discarding fuel tanks, they are burned. >But it's only
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by romwell 3y ago
There might be reasons why he's dead. Him dying in a motorcycle accident is awfully convenient for whoever hired him if he was, indeed, involved in the operation.
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by romwell 3y ago
> I have to think they will lose at least 10% just through attrition. Which is one of the benefits of making such an announcement. You don't have to pay severance or unemployment benefits to those who quit on their own. And if you
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by romwell 3y ago
Works for me now too, probably the server was not handling the load.
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by romwell 3y ago
FIY, your archive link is not working too at the moment. What do we do? Sigh I put on my robe and wizard hat https://web.archive.org/web/20190228221758/http://www.bash.o...
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by romwell 3y ago
What does age have to do with it? "Turn that frown upside down" isn't a phrase that would make much sense to people who didn't hear it before. More so if English isn't their first language or they are neurodivergent
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by romwell 3y ago
>70 years ago kids would regularly have nuclear attack drills (akin to our fire drills) Yes, but the economy was doing better. >Go further back and we get WW2 Before the war, most people were not expecting an apocalypse-level event
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by romwell 3y ago
There's that, there's also a better understanding of mental illness, so less if it goes unrecognized, undiagnosed, and unrated. Growing up, I was an intelligent kid (if a bit shy) who just needed to be more organized . Today, I
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by romwell 3y ago
Came to this thread to mention Belphagor. Saw the beast in person in Kraków. Was inspired enough to dedicate a poem to it: O the forgotten craft of yore! To darkest arts I turn once more. With new and oldest runes combined,
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by romwell 3y ago
Goddamit.
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by romwell 3y ago
I'm a happy paying OsmAND user, and can confirm that it works great in Ukraine. Drove from Kraków to Kyiv and then to Chișinău Aug-Sep 2023, Kraków to Odesa and back in 2022, and never had a single issue.
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by romwell 3y ago
>The article states otherwise No it doesn't. You're ignoring the context. You can't have too much iodine when it's obtained from iodized salt. ...because you can't handle that much salt. From the article: 10x&#
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by romwell 3y ago
>Not sure why you're being downvoted. Literally the equivalent of building your own ramp. Because we are on Hackernews, where everyone likes to think themselves a scrappy startup owner, and not a person with a disability who might n
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by romwell 3y ago
>What would you have them do instead? A simple answer for you, BTW: Pay a student $15/hr to transcribe all meetings in real time for the employee. Or pay money to professionals in the field to set up a solution. You know, people
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by romwell 3y ago
>nowhere that I saw in GP does it say in his own time Nowhere did I see that GP said the employee was paid extra , had the expectations on other projects reduced in writing and deadlines shifted , or had his working hours reduced at s
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by romwell 3y ago
> He had a full budget and this was right in line with stuff he had already done research in anyway, so he just went for it. reply So you're saying, not only you didn't pay him extra , but that the company got to benefit from
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by romwell 3y ago
> They can pay the employee who probably is the expert at this, the guy with the hearing loss, Aaaaaaaaand who said they paid him? Not the OP, for sure. It seems like the disabled person set the system up in their own time to help t
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by romwell 3y ago
>What would you have them do instead? Why instead ? They didn't a bad thing, just nothing beyond what the law requires.
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by romwell 3y ago
>I have literally been told in job interviews that the company would not be “allowed” to hire me because I’m hearing impaired, That is literally grounds for a lawsuit. >so yes, making an effort to support an employee’s disability an
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by romwell 3y ago
As opposed to what, an IBM 286 that everyone else gets? An "Alienware" is not a Ferrari, those things cost about the same as any other professional-level workstations.
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by romwell 3y ago
>He ended up rolling his own solution >That's very nice of you ...doesn't compute. What exactly was nice here?
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by romwell 3y ago
>Awesome! I love hearing about places making the effort to be inclusive. The extent of the effort being getting their employee a slightly-more-expensive-than-average tool that would enable them to do their job better regardless of the
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by romwell 3y ago
>Just wanted to say you’re a great employer to be so incredibly accommodating to the point you get them an Alienware So gracious, to give a software developer some hardware to run the software they need to work , that costs a whopping
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by romwell 3y ago
Reject tradition (comics), embrace modernity (memes). /r/NCD[1] uses memes to tell the news to American adults (and fight misinformation along the way). Disclaimer: I'm an unashamed contributor and a NAFO[1] member [1] htt
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by romwell 3y ago
>You might be firing yourself up a little too much Why, I'm not "firing myself up" at all. To the contrary, it's rather calming to talk about fonts rather than wars. > The web site banner and slogans are ehh lets s
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by romwell 3y ago
>It seems really important to clarify what you will and won't do in your projects. Sure, but that's not what the designer did. Their comment didn't mention one specific change that they are (or aren't) going to impl
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by romwell 3y ago
I've had this exact thing for years! It does work as described. I also haven't found a good use for it in the 10-15 years that I've owned it.
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by romwell 3y ago
>Why not build a digital audio player that has the cassette tape formfactor? Put whichever flash media directly into the cassette. Transmit audio over the cassette head like those old line-in to tape adapters. Use the wheels of the casse
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by romwell 3y ago
>I think what they said is actually a lot more interesting <...> Your rewriting of the comment says exactly the same thing it did before. My assessment of it remains the same. I think an important part of maturing as a developer (a

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