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by secabeen 4y ago
From what I can gather, the current crew for most trains is 2. There are no cabooses anymore, so it's just what crew can fit in the engine compartment, and there is no provision for crew rest or sleeping on the train. Engineers and c
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by secabeen 4y ago
Precision Scheduled Railroading can work, but the changes it entails need to accrue down to the workers, who are still running on a very draining call-based system that produces a lot of burn-out. If the railroads want to run a firm schedu
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by secabeen 4y ago
Yeah, this is largely true. Teaching-focused career paths in California Higher-Ed would be at Cal State or the Community Colleges. UC is about research, and expects all faculty to focus on research, although there are some continuing lect
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by secabeen 4y ago
> The short answer is: administrative bloat. That's where all the money is going. Universities employ far more non-teaching staff than ever before. A large bulk of this staff is essentially dedicated to marketing the university to p
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by secabeen 4y ago
The CPI tuition number is also quite complicated to calculate: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/college-tuition.htm I can't fully tell here how much of this is the non-linear relationship you identified vs
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by secabeen 4y ago
The Unit 18 union has done a pretty good job across the UC in making it possible to be a temporary lecturer for a few years as a viable part of a career path. It's not a permanent job, and the costs of living have gone up quite a bit
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by secabeen 4y ago
This is true, but most of those jobs have significant training requirements (Lawyers, Accountants, and specifically Doctors and Dentists), and/or expect exceptionally long work hours (Doctors, Lawyers, Consultants, and especially Finan
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by secabeen 4y ago
There's been some movement to repeal those provisions, and let me tell you, the Nextdoor Karens are very very unhappy that their kids aren't going to be able to live in their childhood home because they won't be able to affor
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by secabeen 4y ago
Teaching is not the primary focus of most Ivy League universities, research is. There's more money in research and faculty would rather be doing research. Undergraduate instruction is also valuable, but is a secondary priority.
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by secabeen 4y ago
The question of whether 62.5% indirect cost rate is appropriate is a good one, but 10% is certainly not enough. Indirect costs include many things that are required in order to perform research, including real estate, power, building maint
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by secabeen 5y ago
Is OAuth2 on their roadmap?
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by secabeen 5y ago
Going off-grid is really expensive unless you're willing to make significant quality of life cuts when you go outside your system capacity. A string of overcast days that only produce 50% of normal, or a series of hot or cold days tha
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by secabeen 5y ago
We still run it today; they had a major release last year, I think. Its key feature is that it remains email-first. Customers never interface with the website, for them it's all just like they're emailing a human, with some extr
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by secabeen 5y ago
Really depends on your scale. At the Terabyte to 100s of TB level, you can solve most storage problems at minimum cost with NAS or ZFS on commodity hardware. Ceph/Object storage comes into its own at the multi-petabyte and higher leve
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by secabeen 5y ago
> Once your past a few racks of equipment, you have generator tests and service appointments, redundant AC, Redundant UPS, dual power to each rack, etc. Dual Internet connection, and a link to your other server room that you use for DR,
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by secabeen 5y ago
That's a factor, as is significant reductions in immigration. I expect California's population growth will return once things return more to normal.
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by secabeen 5y ago
Sonos is also not really a bluetooth speaker. If you want that, you should spend much less on a UE Boom. Sonos has also starting putting Bluetooth LE into all their new hardware, so that they don't have to do a Wifi scan to find new de
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by secabeen 5y ago
What do you feel is the biggest risk to your success?
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by secabeen 5y ago
This. My kids have chromebooks, and they have two accounts active on their devices, on at their .k12 for school stuff, and one for their gmail that is open.
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by secabeen 5y ago
> "Moderate" Republican party members would make their statements about "this isn't the way things are done' every time Trump did something crazy, but every single one folded and fell in line, every single time.
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by secabeen 5y ago
Yeah, I work in University IT, and everything we purchase goes through separation of duties. If I prepare an order, someone else has to do the order approval, and someone else has to mark the item received before it will be paid.
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by secabeen 5y ago
I would extend this concept to all non-cash financial assets. All of what you wrote above applies to Tesla shares, or Ukrainian real estate, or anything that's not currency. It would still be incredibly useful, but it's also bas
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by secabeen 5y ago
Because Sony wants the official retail price to be $X. If you get an allocation from Sony, and then sell at $x+300, you won't get any more allocation.
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by secabeen 5y ago
I'm not so sure the costs of running a university are going up. Here is expenditure data from the ed department: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d20/tables/dt20_334.10.a... Expenditure per full
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by secabeen 5y ago
I've tried the thumb clusters, and I just mis-hit space too often with them. I'm sure I could get used to them, but I really do prefer a wide space bar with a large target area.
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by secabeen 5y ago
Nothing. The House has yet to act, and we don't know if Biden would sign it.
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by secabeen 5y ago
I think speed of production is also a factor. A factory can stamp out CD/DVDs very quickly, flash has to be written out to by a computer.
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by secabeen 5y ago
Just be very careful when buying a used leaf that has any chance of having spent time in the southwest. The OG leafs have no battery temperature management, and many of had their batteries baked in the Arizona sun.
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by secabeen 5y ago
For those of you interested in the Chicago approach, a bibliography of textbooks used in Chicago UGrad math is maintained here: https://github.com/ystael/chicago-ug-math-bib
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by secabeen 5y ago
Honestly, when I'm buying backups, I want to be a paying customer; that aligns my providers incentives with mine. Being a will-never-pay-again customer means that they want to minimize the costs of serving me, and are happy to see me

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