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by tomatocracy 2y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if that's actually an underestimate, because this saga has had a knock on effect on decongestant formulations sold outside the US as well. I don't know exactly why this has happened but my guess is it
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
I mean, yes and no. The World Bank (and other multilaterals) are supposed to provide or facilitate loans which the private sector would not otherwise advance (or provide them on concessionary terms which the private sector otherwise would n
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
I think it's probably more about hedge funds etc where they will negotiate bespoke terms/pricing across the board (including assessing risk which at that level might partly be based on track record, identity of the underlying inve
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
For very large stakes, the terms tend to be much more bespoke though - an automatic sale of collateral amounting to a large % stake is probably not in either borrower or lender's interest.
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
Interestingly some M&A banks keep (or used to, at least) discreet residential addresses where the crucial meetings between senior people can take place over dinner rather than them being obviously seen to meet at the banks or their own
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
Even if it's set up with the "right" incentives, internal cost allocation can cause bad unintended side effects at the firm level. I worked at at large bank during the financial crisis. Individual teams got charged an implied
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
> Storing old PC components seems sensitive - tossing them in a box in anti-static bags in a dry garage doesn't seem to do the trick. From that era (late 90s-mid 00s) it could be down to capacitors failing - there were a LOT of faul
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
"An executive of of a rail company" is not really the full picture here. Network Rail is state-controlled and a government minister appoints the Chairman.
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
This[0] repo which has the stage0 code used by GPs linked repo includes some explanation in the README about why not Forth or Lisp - in summary it turned out to be harder than that, at least for the authors of that project. 0. https:/
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
I also have anaphylaxis, use epipens and have never worried about hitting a vein. I don't think I've ever felt the needle when I've used my epipens. But I do think the needle worries other people who might have to administer
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
It's quite a useful (and fascinating) site and I've browsed it a few times before. But a limitation is that it just has copies of written judgements. Contemporaneous reporting of trials, particularly criminal trials, can give quit
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
Not sure about the Sony ZV or Ricohs but the X100 series are excellent cameras - the compromise of going for a prime lens works very well for this format in my view (Sony used to have the RX1 series but it was probably too expensive and a
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
OpenWRT these days can also be installed on some switches eg the Zyxel GS1900 series (though support for things like PoE and 10Gb/SFP+ ports might be limited, I’m not sure where things stand there).
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
Depending on your exact usage profile, adding a couple of smaller SSDs (in a mirrored configuration) for the OS and anything which changes a lot might enable you to set your NAS to spin the HDDs down for a lot of the time - they draw a lot
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
In addition to the HT5xx ATA mentioned in the article, the newer Grandstream ATAs (at least the HT7/8xx models) also support pulse dialing. One issue that can come up though is that they effectively have tighter tolerances than old mec
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
The fact that the prosecutions continued for so long and that it took so long for the scandal to be dealt with is undoubtedly a huge failure of the legal system. It's also concerning that more people aren't asking questions about
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
It's not that potential investors (in funds) have been burned so much as that the lack of distributions means they either don't have the liquidity to spare or they are up against limits as to what percentage of investments they wa
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
Several years ago, I took my car in to be serviced. When I came to collect it, it was parked at the back of the garage (about 20-30 yards in from the road) amongst other cars the garage had in for servicing or work, with basically a single
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
Yep. This is what I do with my r5. Connect to Wi-Fi network, configured to auto upload to ftp. Unfortunately no sftp support (but it will do ftps). It’s ok, but can sometimes be a bit unreliable. What’s more annoying is that automatically a
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
Agreed. The best thing about them in my view is that community notes can be attached to ads, something which doesn't seem to get much mention when it's discussed.
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
I've been pretty happy with Dovecot's mdbox format. This stores multiple emails per file and multiple files per mailbox which alleviates the problem of ending up with millions of files in one directory on filesystems which aren&#x
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
Alliston was acquitted of manslaughter. Given it was a jury trial and there is little contemporaneous reporting of the trial, details of the manslaughter charge or his defence to it (as opposed to the conviction and sentencing which was wid
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
Indeed, and as the article points out, there are recent cases where the lack of such a law has demonstrably been an issue (the case of Kim Briggs, hit and killed while crossing at a pedestrian crossing by Charlie Alliston is mentioned but I
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
My work emails are in Outlook and I automatically sort into folders (and then I use search folders to see everything new). But one thing which I was surprised helped me enormously was setting up some simple "canned replies" using
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
One other area which I think is potentially quite interesting is using LLMs to help in deciphering "Fed-speak". Eg JP Morgan built an LLM to try to predict the impact on interest rate markets of speeches by various central bank po
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
One thing I still use root for on Android is to enable the Keepass2Android USB Keyboard extension to work - this enables me to plug my phone into a computer which I don't want to put my password database on (eg friends/family mach
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by tomatocracy 2y ago
Financial orders are separate from the granting of the divorce itself in England and Wales and the two can be done in (sort of) either order, confusingly. It's usually thought of to be in the interest of one (or both) parties not to fi
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by tomatocracy 3y ago
Better might be to use the expansion (x+y)^2=x^2+2xy+y^2 along with the observation that in any base, the square root of a 2n-digit number is at most n digits, as in the common method for calculating a square root "by hand" with p
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by tomatocracy 3y ago
I've been using the Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art for years now and it's consistently been my favourite lens for photographs of people - not just the sharpness which is fantastic but there's also something about the way it render
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by tomatocracy 3y ago
I'm sure there will be plenty of advice for testing the backups themselves, but for online backups (either to server or to a service), one thing which is easy to forget to do is to check you can still get access from "scratch&quot

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