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by snake_plissken 6y ago
I always loved Penn Jillette's (one half of Penn and Teller) character . The 90s sysadmin vibe is on point especially with the random earing in only one ear.
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by snake_plissken 6y ago
What is "this" tangent again? I might be going off on a tangent here but, I bet it's this novel idea that companies should raise their compensation when they have trouble finding people to fill their open positions.
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Laser jolts microscopic electronic robots into motion(physics.cornell.edu)
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by snake_plissken 6y ago
Heh many thanks, you are correct. Somewhere in there I divided something incorrectly.
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by snake_plissken 6y ago
Some quick math: 32 miles per second (see one of their linked articles, https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/conferences/vasimr-plasma... ) is 155,200 miles per hour. Assume you accelerate at 21 MPH, which is about 1 g (
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by snake_plissken 6y ago
I've thought about a similar question: what happens if there is no minimum wage? If people are already struggling when being paid the minimum wage, what happens if business are able to lower it even more? Yeah I get the dynamics of s
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by snake_plissken 8y ago
The best thing about these paintings is the observation of dogs' personalities and how they can match up so well to human personalities. You could substitute cats, but because dogs are usually more gregarious and eager it just makes m
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by snake_plissken 8y ago
Where is the source for this or is it not up yet? Jones'n to dive into Channel<T> to see what's going on in there.
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by snake_plissken 8y ago
Was listening to Bloomberg Radio this morning and Tom Keene brought this up randomly...I was surprised to hear only ~1500 were ever built; seems like a low number for a plane that's been around since the 1970s. One thing I have always
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by snake_plissken 8y ago
Pi-Hole is different from using a hosts file in that, Pi-Hole returns 200 OK with empty content for any requests to the black-listed domains?
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by snake_plissken 9y ago
Not a direct answer, but I recently tried to get a documentation and organizational thing going. To start, I created a dictionary which contains all of the terms, topics, ideas, reports, systems, internal phrases, etc; basically anything a
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by snake_plissken 9y ago
I was surprised share buybacks were not mentioned. Seems like every company has been doing this over the past few years. I'm no finance guru: is there a reason buyback money couldn't be diverted into pay raises?
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by snake_plissken 9y ago
Awesome presentation. To me the most magical part is not the manufacturing process, although that is very special, but how a team of engineers designed something which is made up of hundreds of millions of transistors, each in a specific lo
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by snake_plissken 9y ago
Wooo that is dirty. In general, I'm not sure how to feel: 75% not ok, and 25% ok with this type of question? As much as I despise these types of interview questions and this type of interviewing process, reading about them after the f
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by snake_plissken 9y ago
Looks like it's just a rough edge per this very insightful comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16136912
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by snake_plissken 9y ago
What's with the output of the hexagon's vertices? There technically isn't a 285th degree line of meridian, or are they saying, 285 degrees east from 0? In which case, why don't they just subtract 360 from all values gr
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by snake_plissken 9y ago
Tangential: on the way to work today I was pondering the economy after hearing about the recent unemployment numbers on NPR. These days I tend to think about what's going to be the downturn catalyst. Which got me thinking about the r
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by snake_plissken 9y ago
Regarding Intel ME/AMT: how does it work when the computer is powered off? On a wired network, I imagine some system which stores the nearest switch's port connected to that machine, and you could send some sort of signal which p
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by snake_plissken 9y ago
Ehhh I don't know about this. As a (semi)senior programmer who still takes support calls, either because people call specifically for me or because I have to handle the call, I can't express the value of speaking with end users a
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by snake_plissken 9y ago
My tech dudes and dudettes in the Bay, I feel for you. Kind of. 95 degrees in 20% humidity...it could have been worse John. A lot worse. Try networking 8 connection machines and debugging 2 million lines of code in 95% humidity at 95 de
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by snake_plissken 9y ago
Yup sure thing!
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by snake_plissken 9y ago
Interesting. Some bones to pick: https://github.com/jarulraj/sqlcheck/blob/master/docs/query/... First, dat implicit, inner join. Second, it could be written more clearly that, in this case, t
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by snake_plissken 9y ago
Random question I've always had issues resolving: if the Gambler's Fallacy is real, how can you detect loaded dice?
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by snake_plissken 9y ago
I like Alien 3. I don't know exactly what it is that I like, but it's there. Maybe it's the religious penal colony theme? The Quake-esue feel to the setting? The different direction in style and setting it took from the o
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by snake_plissken 10y ago
This is pretty cool, especially the physical applications sections. And it brought back some memories from various physics classes on the enigmatic questions that lead to the development and understanding for some of these functions. See
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by snake_plissken 10y ago
So lift is due to pressure differentials on the top side of a foil? It's just that the traditional reasoning as to why those those differentials formed (air moving at a faster speed over the top) was not accurate?
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by snake_plissken 10y ago
Heh I've been applying to some gigs recently and those job application pages! They can be infuriatinggggg. Oh, upload the resume that you just spent 2 hours tweaking and feel great about? Simple enough you think. No, a parser tries
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by snake_plissken 10y ago
When Corporations Rule The World - David Korten Neuromancer - William Gibson Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy
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by snake_plissken 10y ago
Say I rent a crane from you. In the course of renting the crane to put new air conditioning units on the top of my building, there is an accident and the crane causes damage to a nearby building. If the owner of the damaged building sues y
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by snake_plissken 10y ago
Serious echoes of the Asian Financial Crisis of 97/98. A lot of Dollar denominated debt being issued outside of the United States with prospects that the Federal Reserve is going to raise rates. Although it's a little different,

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