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by shagie 10mo ago
> What are your figures as a percentage of total production of Jim Beam goes to Canada? I don't have Jim Beam specifically... but: US spirits exports to Canada plummet 85% in Q2 - https://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2
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by shagie 10mo ago
This isn’t just a “things are bad” but because of the need to age spirits a prediction that N years from now, demand will still be lower. Canada is a big factor, though one shouldn’t ignore the upcoming generation’s preference for recreatio
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by shagie 10mo ago
That sounds correct. This issue would be when the decimal separator matches the argument separator. In that situation =IF(A1 > 42.1, B1, C1) would be equivalent to =IF(A1 > 42,1; B1; C1) The possibility of incorrect parsing of equat
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by shagie 10mo ago
> but your only tool is Excel instead of some programming language There is little difference between (if (> a b) c d) and =IF((A1 > B1), C1, D1) Excel is the most widely installed functional programming language IDE.
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https://news.sky.com/story/how-a-reddit-post-blew-brown-univ... > How a Reddit post blew Brown University shooting investigation wide open > Frustration had mounted that the murderer had managed to get away and t
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And if you want to hike it, you've got the International Appalachian Trail... https://iat-sia.org/the-trail/
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The chart with that data is https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6516123533d9510e36f3259c/... Starting at 2019 and saying "pre-pandemic levels" might be a bit disingenuous since that was a leap to a boom... and
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> The point of hiring a junior is that you get a (relative to the market) cheap investment with a long-term payoff. This is only a consideration if you can pay enough to keep the junior for the long term pay off. Companies that aren&#x
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When you see 6.1% unemployment for computer science new grads, that invariably comes from https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/college-labor-market#--:... Computer Science is tied for fourth lowest underemployment and
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by shagie 11mo ago
It's been around for nearly a decade. Taxing Robots : Easier Said Than Done (2017) https://www.ctf.ca/EN/EN/Newsletters/Canadian_Tax_Focus/2017... Robots, technological change and taxation (2017)
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by shagie 11mo ago
> I’m also a sucker for 35mm in medium format so you can see photo content around the glorious sprocket holes. Have you seen Ted Orland's holga photos? https://www.anseladams.com/products/tree-in-snowstorm-yose
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https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2550 For a fun read taken to April 1 absurdity.
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by shagie 11mo ago
From the post "Yes, the FCC might ban your operating system" - https://prplfoundation.org/yes-the-fcc-might-ban-your-operat... 2.1033 Application for grant of certification. Paragraph 4(i) which reads:
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by shagie 11mo ago
One of the things that image shows is the slightly higher density of the Times version (compare row by row) allowing the paper to put more text on a page and thus reduce some of the costs. This appears to be done by increasing the height of
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by shagie 11mo ago
> And Comic Sans for letters sent to friends finishing design school, obviously. ... and libressl. https://web.archive.org/web/20140625075722/http://www.libres... (and the talk - https://y
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by shagie 11mo ago
I took a semester long 500 level class back in college on the theory of knowledge. It is not easy to define - the entire branch of epistemology in philosophy deals with that question. ... To that end, I'd love to be able to revisit
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by shagie 11mo ago
Twitter, Reddit, HN don't always have the consistency of conversation that two people talking do. Even here, I'm responding to you on a thread that I haven't been in on previously. There's also a lot more material out th
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by shagie 11mo ago
> Like it can't think or reason about something without writing it out first. Setting aside the philosophical questions around "think" and "reason"... it can't. In my mind, as I write this, I think through v
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by shagie 11mo ago
SDR for listening does not require a license. For transmission, depending on the power and frequency may require a broadcast license. https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/dx5sln/do_developer... Depe
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by shagie 11mo ago
The company making a device that is licensed by the FCC has to do everything that they can to mitigate the risk of an unlicensed broadcast on their devices. https://www.fcc.gov/oet/ea/rfdevice > INTENTIONAL RAD
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Gift link for the article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/technology/new-york-times...
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The picture of the collapsed one is at https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/cpsprodpb/7fee/live/52acf... It would be curious to know what parts and connectors it should look like are. And that textu
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by shagie 11mo ago
> The sole occupant was taken to hospital with minor injuries.
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by shagie 11mo ago
> Java applets can invoke JavaScript functions present in the same web page as the applet. The LiveConnect Specification describes details about how JavaScript code communicates with Java code. https://docs.oracle.com/jav
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by shagie 11mo ago
From days of old... Invoking Applet Methods From JavaScript Code - https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/deployment/applet/in... and Invoking JavaScript Code From an Applet - https://docs.
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From a more complete article... https://www.universetoday.com/articles/one-extremophile-eats... > But that’s not all Chroo can do - it can live on Lunar and Martian soil, and produce oxygen using only them and photo
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by shagie 11mo ago
I'm saying the idea that you can do one test for software engineering and never have to study again or be tested on a different domain in the future isn't something that professional engineering licensure solves. Furthermore, lice
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> Professional engineering associations between civil engineers and chemical engineers? One takes the FE exam ( https://ncees.org/exams/fe-exam/ ). You will note at the bottom of the page "FE Chemical&quo
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by shagie 11mo ago
Sunk cost. You've spent... 20 to 100 hours on interviews. Maybe more. Doing it again is another expense. Onboarding. Even with good employees, it can take a few months to get the flow of the organization, understanding the code bas
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by shagie 11mo ago
I'm unsure about how long your career has been. At Taos, there was a monthly training session / tech talk on some subject. At Network Appliance ('98-'09), there was a moderate push to go to trainings and they paid for th

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