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by steverb 5y ago
Yeah, you'd be looking at 80 - 100 here in TN. You might be able to get 150, but if you only have 6 years of experience you probably wouldn't be considered senior here either.
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by steverb 5y ago
I have used this at several work places for particularly thorny issues and architectural changes that require group buy in. It's powerful, but it's also very expensive, especially if you have several opinionated devs on the team.
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by steverb 5y ago
I wonder if bed bug infestations also declined with less travel.
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by steverb 5y ago
Yeah, I need to make a personal rule about posting questions before I've had any caffeine.
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by steverb 5y ago
Nevermind, I see that I misread, they are comparing second shot rates of covid against second shot rates of the shingles vaccine.
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by steverb 5y ago
Wait... the second dose of the covid vaccine protects you from shingles? This is news to me. Does anyone have a source for that? My quick google search doesn't give me any results that aren't about the Shingrix vaccine.
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by steverb 5y ago
I believe you can now query across DBs in Azure via a Linked Server. It still feels a little clunky to me though. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/li...
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by steverb 5y ago
Oh yeah, there are certain things that I know I am going to really care about the quality of. Never ever buy cheap jack stands for instance. The extra money you spend on the good ones is just life insurance.
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by steverb 5y ago
The thing to remember with battery powered tools is that you are not just buying a tool. You are buying into a battery ecosystem. Plan accordingly. Fortunately, you can buy batteries for most popular tool brands long after the brand stops s
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by steverb 5y ago
I have a rule for buying tools. The first one I buy, I buy the cheaper version (Harbor Freight house brand for instance). If I use it enough to break it within3 years, or become frustrated with its shortcomings, then I go buy a "pro&qu
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by steverb 6y ago
I would think so, yes, although I doubt that "completely safe" is an achievable reality.
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by steverb 6y ago
To incentivize vaccine manufacturers to produce vaccines that are affordable to the general populace. In the US you do still have some recourse for injuries caused by vaccination: "The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program is a
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by steverb 6y ago
"But my experience, and those among my friends (I was part of a local VW enthusiast club) is that the cars are fine. But the kicker is you need to stay on top of your maintenance. If you skimp on the regular work, you end up paying for
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by steverb 6y ago
I spent some serious time as teenager training myself out of my southern accent for this reason. You could have a PHD in Astrophysics, but if you speak with a southern accent people will assume you're an idiot. The only downside, is th
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by steverb 6y ago
You might be coloring that one with your own perspective. "Failed to realize" and "Didn't see" both parse with the same emotional connotation for me personally.
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by steverb 6y ago
This is the computer I learned to program on (the TS1000 US Version). The manual for it still has place of honor on my bookshelf.
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by steverb 6y ago
Knoxville here, can anecdotally confirm an increase in the number of California plates I see around town.
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by steverb 6y ago
I would further add that those oversimplified concepts of how the brain works have hung around because they are useful for us as an abstraction to think about how our brain works. They may be bad abstractions at a lower level of detail, but
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by steverb 6y ago
My daughter has narcolepsy and (according to her) always lucid dreams, so I hope this isn't completely true.
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by steverb 6y ago
I actually had a T-shirt in the 80's that said "I got the Babel Fish". Bought it out of the back of some computer magazine(maybe Compute!)? The original game came with some very cool props that I wish I still had. Peril Sensi
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by steverb 6y ago
I've never had to pay spotify a monthly fee to list a song. I've had to pay some one time costs to get the song listed (via a distributor), but I've never had to pay a maintenance fee of any sort. And I assure you, the stuff
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by steverb 6y ago
Fair enough
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by steverb 6y ago
Fair enough.
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by steverb 6y ago
And somehow terrestrial radio stations, which have no subscription base manage to make it work. As I said in the comment above, artists are free to NOT put their music on Spotify if they don't think it's a good deal, but regardles
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by steverb 6y ago
From wikipedia: "Spotify pays royalties based on their "market share"—the number of streams for their songs as a proportion of total songs streamed on the service." Regardless, Spotify is free to pay whatever they think
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by steverb 6y ago
A radio play is around 9.5 cents per play. Assuming there are no royalty splits, then that would be 11 plays to earn a dollar. I think royalties of 1 to 3 cents per stream are completely reasonable. Subcent royalties are just platforms taki
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by steverb 6y ago
It is pretty straightforward to get your music on Spotify and all the other streaming platforms. No record label needed. There are very inexpensive services that will do all the leg work for you, but it take approximately 230 streaming play
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by steverb 6y ago
You mean like https://www.cygwin.com/ ?
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by steverb 6y ago
Having lived through my parents being audited multiple times I am definitely afraid of the IRS boogey man. Merely dealing with an audit (even if everything you id was correct and above board) can be extremely stressful and time consuming. M
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by steverb 6y ago
Question, is the association for you with a singular sound or with a series of sounds (as found in the simulator)?

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