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by rwbhn 6y ago
Recumbent trike. Between balance issues following brain surgery & shoulders ruined by arthritis I could no longer bicycle. Getting back on the road was life changing.
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by rwbhn 6y ago
Yeah, if one has to regularly interact directly with prod, some sort of visual indicator is super helpful.
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by rwbhn 6y ago
Note that ambulance ride (depending on insurance) may cost an order or 2 of magnitude more than the taxi. Well worth it in some circumstances - but not always the best option.
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by rwbhn 6y ago
Thats stdin & stdout. stderr is file descriptor 2.
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by rwbhn 6y ago
Flashback to a utility that only existed as a binary, but was key to some prod processes. Even better - by the time I met it, said utility crashed on a SEGV after it accomplished it's task. So SOP became - ok, xxx crashed, we're g
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by rwbhn 6y ago
I got thrown recently by an update log (powerapps solutions) which seems to do exactly this - an in-flight install/update is shown as a failure until it completes. Eventually figured out I should ignore entries with a null completion t
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by rwbhn 6y ago
I would be very curious to hear about your favorable experience with untested failover systems. My last job we tested our active/standby failover like clockwork every 3 months. It served us very well.
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by rwbhn 6y ago
Haven't bricked emacs yet :-)
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by rwbhn 6y ago
Thx! Looks like just what I need.
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by rwbhn 6y ago
Perhaps one should have proper controls in place?
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TikTok collected device identifiers for year in violation of Android policies(theverge.com)
2 points by rwbhn 6y ago|0 comments
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by rwbhn 6y ago
Had mine surgically removed going on 10 years ago. Not dead yet!
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by rwbhn 6y ago
Source for those charges? Article this currently points to says "The third defendant is a juvenile. With exceptions that do not apply to this case, juvenile proceedings in federal court are sealed to protect the identity of the juveni
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by rwbhn 6y ago
Basically dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23990075
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by rwbhn 6y ago
Curious about how you feel about the number of people needed to farm 100 acres of, say corn, today vs 200 years ago. Was all the automation applied to that problem unethical?
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by rwbhn 6y ago
"the work is still going to get done by someone" - this assumes an infinite supply of devs willing to do unethical work. Sure, in this specific instance they probably will - but I don't think we should completely dismiss the
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by rwbhn 6y ago
Sorting by date I see 2 additions to the table on 2020-07-21.
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Tracking Covid-19 in the United States(preventepidemics.org)
1 points by rwbhn 6y ago|0 comments
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by rwbhn 6y ago
FTA: Previous work using CRISPR in mouse embryos and other kinds of human cell had already demonstrated that editing chromosomes can cause large, unwanted effects.
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by rwbhn 6y ago
"California coronavirus hospitalizations jump 32% in two weeks" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-25/newsom-c...
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by rwbhn 6y ago
Reading this via Feedly on Android. For audio podcasts when I'm biking I use BeyondPod Pro [1] - tried a bunch of options, it was the only one I found which reliably downloads episodes while on wifi and plays them with no issue while o
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by rwbhn 6y ago
57 and been writing software almost my entire career. Brief foray into mgmt, 15 years ago. Saw the error of my ways and went back to straight dev work. See no reason that will change. So, yes. Just make sure companies you work for have a st
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by rwbhn 6y ago
Per the current contents of that link, he is now a _former_ deputy.
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Cosmic bursts unveil universe’s missing matter(sciencebulletin.org)
2 points by rwbhn 6y ago|0 comments
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by rwbhn 6y ago
Current title of the linked article: "Organ donation law in England has changed".
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Estimating QALY Losses Associated with Deaths in Hospital (Covid-19)(avalonecon.com)
1 points by rwbhn 6y ago|0 comments
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by rwbhn 7y ago
I believe the poster meant "effectively lifetime appointments". Some relevant stats: https://www.opensecrets.org/overview/reelect.php
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by rwbhn 7y ago
Work for a hospital system in Boston and can confirm - testing guidelines here remain quite strict.
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by rwbhn 7y ago
Rolling out that tech has got to be more expensive than checking the load first.
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by rwbhn 7y ago
It gets worse! From updated story at same url (so annoying!) "Workers were reportedly expected to download a file to their Android phones, enable a setting that allows for the installation of apps from untrusted sources, and then bypas

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