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by wrycoder 3y ago
I read yesterday that there are now more administrators than students at Harvard, but ‘only’ one third as many teachers as students.
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$1499??
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Meanwhile, the global troposphere is averaging 0.56C higher than it was four decades ago.
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If your planetary system offends the Empire, this is what happens.
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I start by building a Gantt for the top level. Sometimes, I'll just build a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) (the first two columns, e.g. 1. Survey 2. Foundation 2.1 Excavation 2.2 Concrete Forms etc. and put the task duration in the th
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And knowing your dependencies and resource loading.
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That’s just a function of management forcing.
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Gantt and PERT based project management tools are just a way for handling task dependencies and resource constraints. They can be used with any methodology - waterfall, Spiral, etc. Most of the “modern” methodologies like scrum are too shor
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Most of the time these days, you get a nurse practitioner or similar. Their “Dr.” is increasingly a PhD, which is rather nuts. They have only a small fraction of the training and experience that an MD has. I recently discovered that my PCP
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Bare Bones: a simple osdev kernel for 32-bit x86(wiki.osdev.org)
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The New Climate Reality(rogerpielkejr.substack.com)
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Excellent article. Much longer than I expected and with good detail.
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It’s not just that. Philips’ “managers” are screwing up many of their historic product lines and then discontinuing them when the margins go negative.
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Penrose: Generalized Inverse of Any Matrix (1955) (succinctly stated)(twitter.com)
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I got a bill for a 7K$ CT scan. Medicare paid 1.5K$, and 5.5K$ was "contractually adjusted" out. My share was $46. So you need to offset the Hollywood accounting when you say American healthcare is expensive.
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What would "improve" youth voter turnout would be activism and the resulting peer group pressure.
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The Hyades star cluster is 153 light years away[0]. A supernova 30 - 1000 light years distant is expected to have an effect on the Earth's biosphere[1]. If one of the black holes goes active, and if the jet is pointed at us, what mig
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Little Free Radio: An Open Source Radio for Cubesats(lfradio.space)
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Where do you see that? I see MIT license [0]. [0] https://github.com/FindMyCat/engineering-docs/blob/main/LICE...
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You don't have daughters.
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That's why you do a pressure test at twice the working pressure, with the thing under a blanket. This should be repeated every year.
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Maybe Texas should have some more natural gas plants.
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1984, Orwell: ‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’
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At only 150 light years distance, is there a scenario where this thing could prove dangerous?
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It's still there and it isn't a "silent" switch. What I want is a button that severs the phone's speaker connection. Period.
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LSDR – Linux and Software Defined Radio 101 (2022)(iq.thc.org)
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I recommend Torbjörn Åhman‘s YouTube channel. Pure demonstrations, little talk. Hand forging and delicate power hammer work. A very peaceful channel.
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You can learn Scheme in two hours. Haskell, not so much. Stick to SICM.
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One of my least favorite activities was wandering through a video store going, “Nope, nope, nope.” I have 400 in my queue. If I forget to move a recent interest to the top when I return a disk, something interesting will show up. And I love
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It’s a little boring to make out over the phone!

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