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by wombatpm 3y ago
He meant the Lake of Fire which is reserved for heretics, non believers, pedophiles, and CAD software
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Back in the 00’s I worked for a fortune 300 company. My day consisted of working with sales (always remote), executives (always traveling), and operations (distributed across the country). My day consisted of conferences calls, emails and a
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by wombatpm 3y ago
- classic print journalism has seen advertising income drastically collapse as ad budgets shifted towards the Internet Print used to have dedicated sales people who had relationships with agencies and brands and could connect those organiza
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Back in the 90’s there was a company in Tulsa called Syntroleum that was using Exxon catalysts that were coming off patent to build mobile GTL facilities that could be placed in oil fields to convert Natural gas being flared to synthetic fu
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Maybe it’s because I come from the printing world of catalogs, magazines, and books printed on web offset printers but typeset implies a level of control and precision that I’ve never seen with HTML/CSS. When I had to build a backend
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by wombatpm 3y ago
PID get real fun when you model physical systems, like say filling a tank while trying to maintain liquid depth and temperature or maintaining a constant reaction rate. You get to start taking laplace transforms. I had a ChemE professor who
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by wombatpm 3y ago
So should companies be prohibited from doing stock buybacks or paying dividends for some period of time if they do a layoff. Or should they be required to rehire laid off workers before doing any new hiring? When it’s truly about maintainin
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by wombatpm 3y ago
I am not a physicist. Does beam divergence decrease in a vacuum? Could we put the lasers in space at L5 to power the swarm? Or L5 for Venus for the increased solar flux?
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by wombatpm 3y ago
A well defined experiment on human Children is incredibly difficult to get past the IRB. Very hard to get informed consent from children and parents. You are left with comparisons between school districts and/or states
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Your coworkers have a large company attitude prematurely living in a small company. “That’s not my job” is how a company loses time, customers, and money. A large company has customers, time, and money to spare. How much runway or VC money
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Having owned a 72 Vega and a 79 Mustang the quality drop off from earlier vehicles was obvious. No one is collecting late 70’s mustangs. No one is restoring Chevy Vegas. American car companies made crap cars and didn’t care until it was too
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by wombatpm 3y ago
If that is true then just give it away. It galls me to hear that the ad driven product makes more than the product I pay for. Here’s a deal, I’ll keep watching, you show me ads and we’ll share in the revenue.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
My little midwestern town only needed three children to die riding to the park before the village finally put in 1/4 mile of sidewalks to link 3 neighborhoods with the parks and schools a 1/2 mile away
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by wombatpm 3y ago
If you are willing to forego 3rd normal form and just duplicate data like mad, and have a million column like a giant excel sheet, then you really don’t need foreign keys.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
I hope it had high ceilings and dormer windows over the doorway as well. Used to see a doctor in an old building like that. Found it really cool.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
One would hope that in vitro studies with human cell lines would identify those possibilities.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Miami University comes to mind
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by wombatpm 3y ago
There are four emojis. I reveal the first 1, they reveal the 2 nd, etc. how many rounds of exchange do you need to happen to be safe?
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by wombatpm 3y ago
But what if translate everything to LinearB or Klingon pig-Latin and then encrypt. Am I required to provide a Rosetta Stone to investigators?
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by wombatpm 3y ago
At one time it was routine to have your SSN and Drivers License # printed on your checks. And in 1988 my student ID number as university was my SSN.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
If you read the manual for Word on setting up large documents, and use styles it’s not bad. Of course that Word 6. I’m sure things are worse.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
The plutonium from the RTG power cells is much more concerning. How many atoms of plutonium do you have to inhale to get cancer?
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Especially if you have to run and deploy on your own servers. Not everything can be in the cloud.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
It’s not the language, it’s the business rules and history. Why is this input file loaded and rechecked 3 times? Because 30 years ago a file load failed, breaking end of quarter reports. This was the fix: if we can read that file three time
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by wombatpm 3y ago
In retrospect the natives of North America would have been better off attacking and killing white Europeans on first sight.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Wait until Neurolink technology gets better and your cat(s) can communicate directly with AI generated voices.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
That’s it!
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Dirt and dust settle on top, those particles trap heat and facilitate melting
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by wombatpm 3y ago
I seem to remember that NYPD, NYFD, and Port Authority had problems on 9/11 because of incompatible radio systems. Are we going back to that mishmash?
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by wombatpm 3y ago
You don't want to now, but they did. I remember taking aspirin as a child. Johnsons Baby Aspirin - it dissolved in your mouth and had a slight orange flavor.

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