DrScump

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The fateful, final journey of the Edmund Fitzgerald, 50 years ago today(shipwreckmuseum.com)
2 points by DrScump 10mo ago|1 comments
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by DrScump 1y ago
Location: Sunnyvale, CA (SF Bay Area) - ideal if you need "boots on the ground" in SV without paying full retail Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: C, Informix-4GL, UNIX/Linux, SQL, Database Systems, B
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Dagen H – The Day All of Sweden Switched Driving – 58th Anniversary(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by DrScump 1y ago|0 comments
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by DrScump 1y ago
Location: Sunnyvale, CA Remote: OK Onsite: OK Hybrid: OK Willing to relocate: Yes Past Roles: Customer Support / Service / Onsite Consulting, Programming, Voter Data Systems Development, Ticketing Systems and Sales Technologies:
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by DrScump 2y ago
Nothing there is called "Product Engineer". The only enumerated roles are: Backend Engineer - Carrier Integrations Team Full-Stack Software Engineer, Product Team
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by DrScump 2y ago
Yes.
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by DrScump 2y ago
No paywall on Seattle Times: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/how-an-obscure-energy-...
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An obscure energy calculation could dramatically speed up USA's EV future(seattletimes.com)
2 points by DrScump 2y ago|1 comments
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by DrScump 2y ago
The listing itself says "Hybrid Madison, Wisconsin", not Remote.
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Fleet Problem 13: Pearl Harbor Foreshadowed(historyiselementary.blogspot.com)
1 points by DrScump 3y ago|0 comments
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by DrScump 3y ago
How the entire nation of Sweden switched from driving on the left side of the road (like UK, Japan, etc.) to driving on the right in a single day.
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Högertrafikomläggningen – September 3, 1967(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by DrScump 3y ago|1 comments
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by DrScump 4y ago
The latter position says "No longer accepting applications"
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by DrScump 4y ago
Is there a broader list of roles being hired for? Link?
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by DrScump 4y ago
Just a collection of affiliate links (tag=rorg-20)
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by DrScump 4y ago
>The US has 'rediscovered' it through the tech companies. It's only spoken of in the media positively in the context of newer tech companies. My first programming job was at a defense contractor no doubt considered &quot
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by DrScump 4y ago
(Lost 47 years ago today.)
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The fateful, final journey of the Edmund Fitzgerald(shipwreckmuseum.com)
81 points by DrScump 4y ago|57 comments
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by DrScump 4y ago
Published 85 years ago today.
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by DrScump 4y ago|1 comments
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by DrScump 4y ago
I'm not familiar with that description. I worked as a 370 series (370/3033/308x/309x) OS/MVS computer operator in the 80s, before programming.
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by DrScump 4y ago
Aside from the physical encoding, note the conventions for IBM tape file sequence and labeling: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zvse/6.2?topic=SSB27H_6.2.0/fa2m... You can bypass default label assumptions an
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by DrScump 4y ago
How would he know? This article is strictly about San Francisco companies.
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by DrScump 4y ago
>you can exercise your first amendment rights within the halls of congress Really? You can yell from the gallery? You can distribute whatever written matter you want to staffers and visitors? Um, you do realize that you can't e
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by DrScump 4y ago
>the lethality of guns was much less than it is today That's ludicrous, simply given the state of 21st century medicine vs 18th century medicine with respect to treatment of gunshot wounds alone.
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by DrScump 4y ago
>"The object's weight was 1 kilogram." Leave it to NPR to not understand the difference between weight and mass
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by DrScump 4y ago
>in most of the US it is illegal to build anything other than single-family homes This is a flat lie.
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by DrScump 4y ago
>developers would have to build parking Where , once you've removed all the parking footprint that existed before? Do you have any idea how expensive it is to retrofit underground parking under an existing structure?
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by DrScump 4y ago
>car-free neighborhoods Are people in those neighborhoods willing to forgo the hundreds of vehicle trips a month that they will create via their Uber/Lyft/cab trips and Instacart, Amazon, Chewy, Doordash, and Uber Eats orders?
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by DrScump 4y ago
>Do builders over there even know what bricks are? Builders over here in earthquake country are constrained by earthquake and fire mitigation materials. Plus masonry isn't energy-efficient. BTW, I highly recommend the PBS series &q

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