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by trimbo 7y ago
Proterm is my guess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProTERM Edit: actually the author said it was modem mgr. http://www.apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/GS.WorldView/v1999/Oct/...
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> I think the general population has not yet appreciated the possible severity of the ensuing economic downturn. My fear as well. The swiftness and ferocity of this downturn is like nothing ever, AFAIK. 22 million out of work in 4 weeks.
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Monet disagrees. https://www.cmonetgallery.com/en-plein-air-painting.aspx
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I'm super surprised to see this article not mention the phrase "opportunity cost". That's what someone pays to save with something like Splunk. Pay cash to make SWEs more effective towards solving the problems that make
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Nukes should be the future but it won't happen. People are scared of it, and don't understand fission. Popular docudrama shows, like Chernobyl, propagate myths that reactors can explode with "2-4 megaton power".[1] Polit
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This was my question as well. If the change can't be measured even with a benchmark, what is the goal?
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My guess is that it's such a significant share of the workforce that it is considered material information for a public company. For other commenters asking about the workforce: Yelp has an army of salespeople because they have to sell
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Since no one has put this reason out there: to have one's development OS mirror production[1]. IME, the "develop on Mac, break on Linux" problem is not uncommon, even with high level abstractions. Plus, things like docker are
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by trimbo 7y ago
> Every millisecond of performance improvement or every last % of latency improvements lead to dollars. I just pulled up their front page for Vancouver and it took 3 seconds to load completely. Just the initial HTML server time was over
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I see your 2 billion for a carrier and raise you $1 trillion for the F35 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/magazine/f35-joint-strike...
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> They United Stats Government should do it That's what they're doing and what the article is about. [Edit: not buying the companies outright, but buying their debt] The person I was responding to was proposing something else a
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Who with cash is going to buy all of these businesses and take on their debt? Apple? Microsoft? Some PE firms? Or is your proposal to default on all the debt for those industries and buy the companies in a firesale? Tourism would actually d
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It's not just one or two companies. At minimum: all retail, all airlines, all hotels, all cruise ship companies are at risk.
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Fascinating link, I had no idea YKK was like that. Vertical integration stories like this, or Ford's Rouge plant[1], make me reconsider my general predisposition towards "buy" in the software space. For many years, I've
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Something like "Principal Engineer" is usually the term for this.
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It was announced like a year ago... So is the news that it's now orderable for people who can afford $6K for a monitor amid a pandemic?
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Tough spot... best of luck to you. Hopefully that job still comes through.
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> to get the actual number of confirmed cases today I think for this part you meant "actual number of cases"? Since the confirmed number was 1/10th of that.
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> No one in NYC, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, ... have big garages to stockpile supplies I think most of San Francisco by area is zoned "RH-" (Residential Housing), and most of that RH- area is RH-1 or RH-1D (single family).
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N=28... in a lab-setting. They even say it themselves: "Furthermore, we should bear in mind that this is an experimental study, with relatively small numbers of volunteers, which limits the generalisability of some of our findings.&quo
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A coworker asked the other day: what's the end point on WFH and school closure? I think it's a good question. In this specific case, for Northshore, have they specified? Is it some number of weeks, months, years? Is there some inf
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by trimbo 7y ago
This is one of those posts that brings out comments about things being over architected for the business. My mind definitely went there. But, at some point, companies that want to keep talented tech people need to let them go build what the
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San Francisco
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Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician Portrayed in 'Hidden Figures,' Dies at 101(hollywoodreporter.com)
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I agree with you, but it will never happen. I lamented with a few reasons why in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19167207 The best we can do is get behind solar and wind and pray for a fusion breakthroug
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I know this is about Mac's transitions and call me sentimental but I'm a little sad there was no mention of the 6502 and 65816.
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> In most of the communities I never see a police presence. An SFPD cop told me years ago that they won't get involved because of social media. Social media outrage doesn't care about context, and their job and pension is on th
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This is a really good article, worth reading all the way through. For me, this was the line that sums it up: > After Brexit, London sees itself as dependent on Beijing’s goodwill.
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This assumes the Disney back-catalog strategy makes sense in the digital age. Pre-VHS, Disney would re-release movies in theaters. They could re-release Fantasia, or Cinderella, or whatever, and still make money in theaters in the 1970s. Bu
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It does seem similar, but it's an original film, not a documentary.

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