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by wombatpm 3y ago
Elon, his billions twittered.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
I’m in the Midwest. I noticed a big drop off in birds when westnile virus came through. Dead birds in the middle of the yard was a dead giveaway. Don’t see crows anymore. But when I was a kid I never saw hawks, now I can usually spot 5 or
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by wombatpm 3y ago
There is a strong argument to be made that Truman should have been tried for war crimes for dropping the second bomb. You can justify the first bomb as shortening the war, bringing Japan to surrender. The second bomb was about getting an
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by wombatpm 3y ago
I’ve started packaging up my clients python scripts as docker images. Works great for cron tasks and updates/rollbacks are a breeze
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by wombatpm 3y ago
An admitted Aspie not getting SOCIAL media. Color my surprised.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
As a chemical engineer, we would joke about using the worst units in problems. Had a professor specify a volumetric rate in hogsheads per fortnight for a problem once and density in stone per cubic rods
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Chicago to Minneapolis is approximately 420 miles. At 60mph that’s a 7 hr drive. At 70mph it’s 6 hrs. At 80 it’s 5 hrs 15 min. When I was making that drive every other week I hated the slow pokes. There are only some many times you can look
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by wombatpm 3y ago
I still have problems with Voyager and Enterprise landing at all. Besides the maxim that everything is airdroppable at least once.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Isn’t that somewhat satisfied by having groups like the Amish, and Renaissance festivals ?
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by wombatpm 3y ago
I love how costs are immediately passed on to consumers and employees, but profits remain and should never be allowed to decrease ever for shareholders
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by wombatpm 3y ago
This seems right up their getting all Americans to jump off a two foot high chair at the same moment to alter the planet’s spin and orbit
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by wombatpm 3y ago
They SHOULD be on separated infrastructure. Sometimes your separated infrastructure is not as separate as you think. True story. Northwest Airlines (prior to merger with Delta) was grounded for a couple of days in the 90's due to a b
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by wombatpm 3y ago
I’m sure some enterprising DA will find a way to put dealers away for longer by convicting them of violating product safety and fraud i.e. you can’t sell something as heroin if it’s less than 75% pure
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by wombatpm 3y ago
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
So, it wasn't until the working class got pay raises that it was a problem. Company after company raised prices during COVID and reported RECORD profits. But the moment worker salaries go up, it's a crisis, interest rates need to
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Not surprised as there are a lot of real estate projects that only make sense at low interest rates. They need to be recalibrated to the new reality and bankruptcy is how it happens
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Of course Air France 447 shows how the aggressive auto pilot pilot training methodology leads to a different failure mode
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Follow by lowland gorillas to manage the snakes?
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Yes they can. I had a mortgage that was sold to Washington Mutual (no longer in business). They did an audit of my escrow account and sent me a check for $2000. I called and said this seems to be mistake. They said no. OK then. Two mo
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Do you want it to be your word against your employer? Will you employer visit you in jail? Will they pony up and pay your bail?
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Another Hard Disagree. I put everything thing in writing. If it’s not written down it didn’t happen. Want access to prod? Sure give me a ticket. I don’t trust any place that doesn’t want things written down. And the example of a drug trial
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Not in any manner that is useful
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Some would argue that cases where euthanasia is a serious option, healthcare in not healthcare either, and in fact may be closer to torture. And I don’t have a problem with mental illness being the sole criteria. If drugs with horrible side
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Is that necessary if you can just have your processes handle locking themselves?
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by wombatpm 3y ago
I’ve yet to find the project where Celery is the best solution, despite using it on several
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by wombatpm 3y ago
That was an ugly situation. PSA: Murdering your wife/exwife/girlfriend/baby mama is never the answer. Just let it go and move on.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Yes 100%. You articulated my concerns exactly.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Dialysis 3 days a week runs 71k per month. Depending on you Medicare supplement plan that can you between 200 and 20000 a month. Older people may have more money, but the medical industrial complex will try and extract as much as possible.
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by wombatpm 3y ago
My fear is that the law will be settled for large corporations in the stupidest manner possible. For example: I took an into to chemical engineering class, bought and read the textbook. Later in my career I taught that class as a graduate s
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by wombatpm 3y ago
Dying before your child reaches adulthood? Leaving a young family with diminished assets because your chronic medical conditions suck all the resources? Leaving your younger wife with the burden of raising a child in diapers while dealing

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