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by zdragnar 5mo ago
A senior in highschool two or three years behind should not need extra-remedial classes for grades 1-8 maths during their first year at college, and especially not 600+ of them at once.
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by zdragnar 5mo ago
Do they not have remedial classes for these students? It's been more than 20 years, but back in my day, if you weren't ready for entry level classes (but still got in to university) you took remedial classes first.
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by zdragnar 5mo ago
At least in the US, there are regulations around what constitutes "full time" employment, and many benefits (such as insurance) are tied into being offered only for full time employees, or at different tiers between part and full
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by zdragnar 5mo ago
As someone with very specific tastes in music across several genres, yes, it's hard to find new bands making what I like. Every so often I'll find one, but it's pretty rare because- surprise!- the market for people with my ta
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by zdragnar 5mo ago
Antiochian (eastern rite) and Assyrian Orthodox both do at least some of their masses in Aramaic, which can be interesting, though there may be a mix of others as well (note that Assyrian is fully independent, whereas Antiochian is in full
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by zdragnar 5mo ago
If you want to move the goalpost of the conversation that's fine, but it's different from what the previous person was talking about, and why it doesn't make sense to blow up at them for it. > You are a troll. There's
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by zdragnar 5mo ago
The hyperscalers aren't making sales directly from the data center, so there's not much to tax other than the land value, the electricity they use, and the few employee salaries. You'd need some sort of data ingress/egre
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by zdragnar 5mo ago
> Companies can be bought and sold but not if it creates concentrations of economic power that allow them to dictate prices to vendors or customers. The policy in question (as stated) should have prevented Ma Bell and Standard Oil from g
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by zdragnar 5mo ago
One does not mention TFS in polite company
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by zdragnar 5mo ago
Never ever prompt someone to discuss personal relationships in an interview. The moment the conversation drifts into religion, family status, child count, sexuality or gender makeup, or any number of other things, you can easily run afoul o
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by zdragnar 5mo ago
My last job was a mix of on shore and off, and we had about a 40% success rate on the offshore compared to roughly 85% onshore in terms of people working out, but also a fairly small sample size. Latin American countries have become more po
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by zdragnar 5mo ago
Having worked at a place with few or no design documents, few or no specifications and a team that was at least half outsourced or more, I can say that was not an effective place to work.
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by zdragnar 5mo ago
I know people who will adamantly insist that keeping classes within similar development ranges is harmful and will vociferously reject any such proposal, up to and including things such as "gifted" schools and the like. It's
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by zdragnar 5mo ago
In a thread about China, I replied to a post about how American healthcare is bad. My main argument, which is in my first comment, is that healthcare is a bad way to show the difference between China and the US, since they are actually have
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by zdragnar 5mo ago
Rural China has a per capita GDP 1/10th of the US adjusting for purchasing power; if their health care wasn't cheaper only the very richest could afford anything at all. Even the wealthy coastal areas are 1/3 of the US. China
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by zdragnar 5mo ago
The Chinese healthcare system is not so different from that in the US. It is primarily employer-sponsored insurance, with subsidized insurance programs for poor and rural folk. Up until 2005, roughly 10% of the population couldn't even
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by zdragnar 5mo ago
Head out to Amish country, there's plenty to be found if you look for it. With that said, depending on the community, they may use tools powered by belt driven by or air compressed by non-electrical means. Each community decides where
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by zdragnar 5mo ago
> It's heavy, so not portable like the one the author uses My first mechanical keyboard was a das keyboard, which was also quite heavy, and it completely spoiled other keyboards for me. I've tried quite a few others since in va
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by zdragnar 5mo ago
Oh no, they were not advertised as such. It's rather painfully obvious in the worst cases.
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by zdragnar 5mo ago
I've noticed something similar with AI assist authored books as well. Early on it does alright, but after some chapters the beginning of each chapter repeats the end of the previous, and obvious LLM tells become more frequent. The more
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by zdragnar 5mo ago
Mine was perfectly happy to automatically set up on something else when it was downstream of another router, and subsequently moving it up to be the primary router was equally painless. YMMV, though I suspect newer software on the device mi
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by zdragnar 5mo ago
I was honestly pretty pleased with my unifi equipment. There was an issue setting up via Bluetooth / Android, but I am 99% certain that's an android thing since I had the same problem with other branded devices. Setting up via a l
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by zdragnar 5mo ago
You're comparing unions that cover short-term contracts (film production, MLB) with "blue-collar unions" that represent hourly or salaried long-term employment contracts. Is it any surprise that people who work as salaried em
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by zdragnar 5mo ago
I can't imagine they'd spam every account with an email address, though an email to organization owners would make more sense.
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by zdragnar 5mo ago
Meh, I've had people come out to give me a quote for rooftop solar and they told me not to bother. Between the latitude (upper Midwest) and tree coverage shading parts of the roof throughout the day, it wouldn't pay off in a reaso
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by zdragnar 5mo ago
You're comparing apples to oranges, at least a bit. $60k for a roof plus solar is going to be for a larger US home compared to a UK home- probably in the 3000 sq ft range, unless it's a very steep roof with lots of dormers or corn
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by zdragnar 5mo ago
Both refactoring UI's ideas you mentioned and component css far predate tailwind. Atomic CSS really solves problems that only exist if you're holding the tool wrong, in my humble hot take.
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by zdragnar 5mo ago
I think it demonstrates that OP isn't in a team that has any autonomy or meets with anyone outside their team. I've worked on a large, complex project for a large company, but the whole time I knew what the purpose of the project
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by zdragnar 5mo ago
There are a lot of devices that have reasonably distinct patterns to their power consumption. Motors- especially well pumps, but also large central air fans and some others- are going to look very different from a microwave or vacuum cleane
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by zdragnar 5mo ago
My (not battery) Makita chainsaw is fantastic, and I have definitely put it through its paces.

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