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by skylanh 5y ago
I read a horrifying description by a American of their employment and health insurance situation. Some details I don't understand, and I may be misremembering, but the gist was: - they were (under?)-employed within their field, at an o
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by skylanh 6y ago
I had a critical acute stressor a few years ago, I wont describe the situation, but the symptoms were: - panic attacks - waking up into a panic attack; imagine sleeping, then waking hyperventilating, shivering, and for lack of a better word
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by skylanh 6y ago
Current thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/kxw7g5/am_i_getti... Past threads: https://www.reddit.com/user/bad0seed/submitted/
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by skylanh 6y ago
Can or should the headline of this HN post be updated to include (rumour) or (speculation) or (unconfirmed)?
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by skylanh 6y ago
Depth of field increases as the focal length decreases. It's exceptional enough that there are very involved manual procedures for taking 10-20-30 pictures with a telephoto lens wide open, and stitching them together to give a wider a
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by skylanh 6y ago
Depth of field effects caused by long focal length lenses (preferred in portraiture for this reason), called "bokeh". In this case the light is coming into front lens elements, and it doesn't appear to be corrected for disto
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by skylanh 6y ago
I think I have the answer, and it's a lot less interesting than it appears at face value. These titles are created by an IT company that is selling software / services. The software appears to do platform price matching / an
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by skylanh 6y ago
Fines are issued to players, coaches, and the team depending on the severity and type of offense. Examples: Mike Tomlin fined for blocking an on-field player, the team may have been penalized by forfeiting draft picks: https://ww
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by skylanh 6y ago
For what it's worth, I like Bryan Carnathan's reviews a little more for Canon specific stuff: https://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/Canon-RF-800mm-F...
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by skylanh 6y ago
I'm not particularly familiar with arbitration and the resulting paperwork, nor with financial claims against another party. However, I do know that minutes of mutual settlement can be filled with a court, and the court will, based on
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by skylanh 6y ago
I use some of the techniques as offsite "well, maybe it's with that cloud storage?" disaster recovery backup options. I have used Backblaze, and was storing 16TB there, and that was $50/month. I did a simple envelope cal
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by skylanh 6y ago
I imagine they have the elusive and ever present "arbitration clause" where they don't actually have to actually sue their students.
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by skylanh 6y ago
https://github.com/dan-v/rattlesnakeos-stack I haven't tried it, but I believe part of the reason that AWS is recommended is due to the build time.
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by skylanh 6y ago
Network demand seems to be the best answer. There were key network switches and fibre that was located at those sites which was destroyed during the events. I remember nothing was working or loading. News sites went to plain text with mi
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by skylanh 6y ago
For what it's worth, one of the organizations that I've been following regarding COVID vaccine's in less developed economies is GAVI: - https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/cold-supply-hot-demand I don&#x27
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by skylanh 6y ago
https://www.rcfp.org/scraping-not-violation-cfaa/ > A federal appeals court last week issued a “hugely important” decision with potentially major implications for data journalists when it held that using computer pr
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by skylanh 6y ago
For someone that wants to quickly get to the action: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux > In 2019, Evan Ratliff—who wrote a series of articles about Le Roux for The Atavist Magazine—published The Mastermind,
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by skylanh 6y ago
I would turn this around and say: Find a list of: - consumer and commercial insurance companies - healthcare insurance companies - retail banks - any industry that has been doing high thoroughput, large value, and large volume sales in a ve
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by skylanh 6y ago
I think there are two parts to this I should address: Yes, there are frames that go on top of COBOL. But a lot of the reasons to actually use COBOL come down to: - there are 300+ applications on your mainframe, and each has an interface, a
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by skylanh 6y ago
If you bring in most people with previous programming or systems exposure, they hear "COBOL", and make jokes about "COOL COBOL" (COBOL Object Orientated Language). This somewhat includes myself. If you bring in someone
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by skylanh 6y ago
Draft horse logging; we had it done in a sensitive woodland. It's not particularly fast, and it would be expensive.
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by skylanh 6y ago
Well, if we're doing actionable conspiracy theories then: - it caused $15 million in damage, and $100 million in updated security -> contractor needing work - it was a "domestic terrorism" event -> what legislation or p
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by skylanh 6y ago
As an extension to this comment, other costs that could impact the delivery price of 1GB of total usage: - speed - overall saturation of tower (# users per tower) - population density (full coverage of an area may be difficult) - technology
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by skylanh 6y ago
Cost of multiple shifts at multiple locations + cost of implementing verification process + cost of security and oversight + cost of extra inventory loss due to employee theft vs Cost of negative image (deferred via simple returns) + cost o
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by skylanh 6y ago
This was my first impression as well, except with less knowledge on the subject. Someone, somewhere said "huh...", and placed another filter into the pipeline to handle these types of images. While looking for something to sound s
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by skylanh 6y ago
> state-owned monopoly on violence There's an interesting 2012 Ted Talks presentation by Peter van Uhm the then chief of defense for the Netherlands. He discusses the state monopoly on violence as a central point of how and why the
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by skylanh 6y ago
I was curious about this, so did a little search: Other interesting results were: Canada forced to honour Bayer's patent on ciprofloxacin (BMJ. 2001 Oct 27; 323(7319): 956. PMCID: PMC1172996) > In an embarrassing mix-up, Canada&#x27
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by skylanh 6y ago
Takeuchi H, Taki Y, Sekiguchi A, et al. Regional gray matter density is associated with morningness-eveningness: Evidence from voxel-based morphometry. Neuroimage. 2015;117:294-304. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.05.037 from https:&#x2
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by skylanh 6y ago
This appears specific to your setup and testing process. I tried this with several browsers, and this did not occur for me. Browsers: Firefox, Chrome, Edge Perhaps you're referring to the link on the website which says "Click her
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by skylanh 6y ago
> Added their own packages version of every package. > Added their own package repository (MRAN), replacing CRAN. How is any of this different than the many incompatible Linux packaging solutions? How would you address insecurity and

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