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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
If you dig into the the margins they aren't looking very good, even if they got a fair number of eventual winners correct. Predicted vs Actual (FiveThirtyEight's averages vs NYTimes' current tally; Biden's margin is posi
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
Man I hate that attitude. My company pulls that on absolutely every benefit asked about. "We've done a survey and our pay and benefits are on par for the industry" = we are proud to be a profoundly mediocre place to work in e
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
Where were you getting anything close to that, outside of a T1 line? No matter what I did or where we lived, 56k dial up in practice was a consistent 3.2 kBps download. 128 kbps MP3s were always about 3.5 MB, which took about 20 minutes to
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
We opted to slash&burn our guest list (~150>20) and do a very small ceremony in September for this reason. We didn't want the stress of dragging out, and as cases were spiking in August we didn't feel confident 2021 was eve
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
Ideally yes and I play that game as long as I can, but eventually it often comes down to a direct "What is your current salary" question. Responding with "I'm looking for $X-$Y" often isn't an acceptable answer
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
The best I've found is just lying. Being cagey and asking "well what is it worth to you" seems to be working less and less these days. I've had companies flat out refuse to continue without a concrete answer to the curre
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We Cracked the Redactions in the Ghislaine Maxwell Deposition(slate.com)
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
Having been on both sides, that seems like the most likely explanation. For a given job posting we see hundreds of applicants, 90% of which have no business applying for that job and maybe another 5% are close but unqualified. The process h
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
It's always amusing to get updates from our AI/ML department (I'm tangentially involved with them enough to stay in the loop). It's 3 people - smart, but fairly typical CS Masters level. They've been working on AI&#
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
While we're on the topic of enterprise hard drives, does anyone know who makes Hewlett Packard Enterprise drives? https://www.cdw.com/product/hpe-hard-drive-600-gb-sas/450348... We have a few of their machine
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
I begrudgingly upgraded from a 6S to the new SE back in August due to a shattered screen. Other than a substantial camera upgrade, louder speakers, and no headphone jack I honestly couldn't notice a difference between the two. The 6S i
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
Mine is similar. Can easily fall into a light sleep which lasts about 30 minutes, then I wake up. I've never been able to figure out of it's something environmental pulling me out, or just me. Those 30 minutes are just enough of a
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
It may be precisely fabricated exactly as specified in the CAD plans. That doesn't mean the CAD isn't riddled with errors. I've worked in traditional construction and the plans are never accurate with hundreds of omissions&#x
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
Interesting. Thanks for the information. Might be a project for a cold night this winter, or we just are pretty happy with Rokus now. I'm certain the onset of the problem didn't coincide with a new router, and I've gone throu
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
Mine still "work" but something changed around 2017 and they became so unreliable I don't bother any more. The Chromecast to Device connection is lost after about 10 minutes, making all controls not work. Can't pause, sk
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
Followup to this story which was quite popular about a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21161043 Very little new information unfortunately. No proof either way, other than the way he's been playing is nea
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
For anyone who has dealt with Autodesk in a professional setting in the last 2 decades, this was 100% expected. They are an awful company whose entire business model is "the first hit is free, kids!". I can get things like limitin
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
I think that's the main reason we prefer it. Sitting down and listening to an entire ~45 minute arrangement as the artist intended is a much difference experience than creating your "greatest hits" spotify playlist and jumpin
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
> Also, it's super unpopular to say so, but fidelity and dynamic range from an LP, even on a relatively fancy turntable, lags what you can get from CD or high-bitrate digital by a measurable margin. While true, that doesn't nec
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
It's well established that some trace amount of aluminum leaches into your food when using foil, and it's more pronounced with acidic foods. As far as I'm aware there's no evidence of any health effects of this (still tr
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
If it's multiple Windows machines, Microsoft also has the Mouse without Borders "PowerToy" https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=354... It works very well too.
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
We have a 60s hand-me-down Eames. It is a very good chair. The build quality is fantastic and stylistically it still holds up. It is truly a "lounge chair" though - almost a semi-recliner. I rarely use it if it's a social si
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
If anyone is looking for a better chair, we found this was a great time to pick up Herman Miller Aerons off of craigslist. There's a steady stream of small-to-medium offices in our area closing, and they're all liquidating office
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
I'm to the point I only buy things on Amazon that have no foreseeable downsides if they are counterfeit. Based on some recent purchases I made: Fake tent stakes or juggling balls? Who cares. Camping grill or coffee grinder? Not taking
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
It seems like they learned a lot of lessons from the Digg redesign and are being a lot smarter (or insidious...) about the transition. Digg rolled out massive changes overnight which caused a sharp, immediate rebuke. Reddit has been slowly
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
That's fair. Maybe it's worth looking into again. > You are running this sequentially and by hand?! What happens when the server is dead and you need a new one? You provision it by hand and go through the stages to get it into
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
We do realize that's a downside and are very careful about documentation. We only have 2 admins on the system, and both of us are well aware of everything that has been done. Our experience was Ansible was amazing until it isn't.
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
And all of those tools (at least the ones I've looked at) use SSH internally as well and are just as susceptible to network errors, except they tend to fail with less feedback than the raw ssh command. I never take it on blind faith ei
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
On paper I agree with you, but that has not been our experience in practice. Bash "just works" with some very well understood limitations. Every one of these "better" solutions introduces 10x the complexity with 10x the
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by scrooched_moose 6y ago
The Oprah one is probably worse: https://twitter.com/Truttle1/status/1274361095285886982

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