skylanh

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by skylanh 5mo ago
Small teams prioritize expertise and agency. Large teams prioritize service resilience and depth of coverage.
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by skylanh 9mo ago
Two large lotteries in my area: Lotto Max: 1:33,294,800 Lotto 649 1:14,000,000 (excluding the smaller pool draws of 5/6, 4/6, etc) One ticket as the width of a human hair (60-80 µm). The winning numbers are a hole the width of a h
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by skylanh 1y ago
Back when I was invested into todo lists and the Android task list app I was using was still available (since archived by the author): 01 Today 02 Soon 03 Month 04 Scheduled 05 Later 09 Cancelled other tasks lists like "1 SuperImportan
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by skylanh 1y ago
I find HN rife with its own form of "I'm too smart" bro-science. Your cardiologist spoke directly with you; they're a trained, accredited, licensed, and in good standing professional. Go with your interpretation of what
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by skylanh 2y ago
The full article is available as the published Nature version care of Yale's Carlson Lab. Specifically, Baik, L., Talross, G.J.S., Gray, S., Pattisam, H.S., Peterson, T.N., Nidetz, J.E., Hol, F.J.H. and Carlson, J.R. (2024) Mosquito t
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by skylanh 2y ago
Author font family: normal normal 14px Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; News YC font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; Per https://unicode.scarfboy.com/ these are the characters (formatting issues are expe
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by skylanh 2y ago
I heard this presented as a photography class. Doing a quick search shows that it's from a memory plot in "Atomic Habits" by James Clear. The story features Jerry Uelsmann and having his class of photographers either work by
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by skylanh 3y ago
This used to be a feature in Opera a decade ago IIRC.
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by skylanh 3y ago
Thank you for giving that insight against my assumption! I discovered GPSJam a few months ago, and have enjoyed some of your content on Twitter, and really enjoyed your work on the longer form article from a few years ago (the FBI one; &quo
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by skylanh 3y ago
(major assumption) That's more than likely the position of the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78). Its support planes are in the area [1], and it was sighted on Sep 28 near Italy [2], and if I understand it correctly, has been tasked to this
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by skylanh 3y ago
> Aside from not being able to differentiate one window from another similarly colored window in the background I thought this was my slowly acquired technical debt: "what option have I missed? Is this like Aero and I have to turn i
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by skylanh 3y ago
No edge case dependencies on the WWW server's configuration, and no sudden "why did we just saturate our external connection?" No emergency change requests from the outage team that has to be impacted by other areas and fit i
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by skylanh 3y ago
The codes are possibly (also) related to incidents that CDC or other organizations would like statistics on. Lemur's aren't common, ducks are, and "Chlamydia psittaci in ducks: a hidden health risk for poultry workers" i
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by skylanh 3y ago
I have more trust for eBay then Amazon at this point. However, I think the last purchase I made through Amazon was super specific (particular model of washing machine agitator motor) and unlikely to be glump-binned. So perhaps that's
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by skylanh 3y ago
My first comment on this site was about Bombardier. Bombardier went into high-risk, high-reward territory, and failed: 1) project they'd never done before 2) technology they'd never used to build and model 3) highly integrated sup
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by skylanh 3y ago
We're dealing with extensive loss of localized institutional knowledge in my workplace. The specific area I work in has one technically astute resource with experience dating back further than six years. There are other resources wit
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by skylanh 4y ago
This article has no analysis, insight, or data. It has a few singular datums, but doesn't establish any relations or context. Unless I missed it in a one page article. This is just click-bait without the annoying pop-ups.
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by skylanh 4y ago
Canada's "The Trucker's Protest" is more commonly referred to as a hostile occupation and blockade. There is a strong white-washing attempt by certain unsavory elements to recast it as a benign protest movement.
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by skylanh 4y ago
This issue has come up in the past on other forums, I think one of the answers that I identified the most with was saying: "I'm not sure I agree with that, and I have a few significant concerns. I'm not comfortable agreeing
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by skylanh 4y ago
That's a fair point, and I think you're giving a good example of a certain context of established-expert wrt beginner and how to treat it. FWIW, I had a friend indicate that because (tenured?) teaching positions are such high dema
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by skylanh 4y ago
I've an established theory that most people will try to pull you into a small sub-set of a field or area that they're an expert in, and then beat you silly with their knowledge. This is particularly brutal if they're ego-cent
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by skylanh 4y ago
It would be if you could be bought by IBM...
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by skylanh 4y ago
BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY; "Peering Out a 'Real Time' Window", By Peter H. Lewis, Feb. 8, 1995 https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/08/business/business-technol... The article also indicates Int
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by skylanh 4y ago
This was an issue decades (oof) ago with IRC and other public forums. C&C through a third party. The issue as I recall is that the IRC moderation tools didn't allow shutting down the various channels quickly enough or quickly banni
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by skylanh 4y ago
Depends on if you have comb-selections of the people hired. If we follow one path all the way to the end: If you can bring on a large number of people, then you can potentially evaluate them as "up-and-coming" high-quality talent.
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by skylanh 4y ago
I see you aren't familiar with Raymond Chen. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/author/oldnewthin... Microsoft had a program internally within it's development teams for Windows 95 that you could
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by skylanh 4y ago
The Operations Room has an excellent, very detailed breakdown of the events of Desert Storm: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLErys4h2oiuyKCuzZhpHh...
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by skylanh 4y ago
A few notes on this, since I looked at it a little: The grand-father is: https://twitter.com/DerekRKENT - Derek Richford (in Kent) Derek has indicated that he needs a break from this, and would not be the appropriate contac
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by skylanh 4y ago
The resources I could find that reference this indicate that they needed 30k £ to finish the interior--the same page indicates they were fund-raising 190k £, and the charity that operates on about ~214k £ a year. Do you have any inductions
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by skylanh 4y ago
I see. Another wood-house project created by civil engineering or building material science graduates (Leeds Beckett University)--similar to the last one. Build costs similar to brick (ouch!), requires a specific CNC operator to build panel

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