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by bb611 1y ago
On the other hand, sometimes cutting the cable is at least as dangerous as causing the aircraft to crash, for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Cavalese_cable_car_crash The only safe system is for aircraft to
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by bb611 2y ago
Current SFDC software engineer - this is just cover for a widespread engineering hiring freeze since the layoffs in January 2023. There's a ton of pressure to control costs after the near shareholder revolt that caused the layoffs. The
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by bb611 2y ago
NYT's political coverage has been extremely poor this year, with very obvious editorial control preventing negative coverage of Trump. It's not obvious to me they have a bias here, but given the clear systemic issues in other repo
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by bb611 2y ago
I had an MRI in February and specifically asked about my wedding ring, the tech said it wasn't an issue. We didn't discuss composition or any other details.
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by bb611 2y ago
Phone numbers are initially assigned geographically but people generally take their phone number with them as they move.
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by bb611 2y ago
Yes to the extent they're able. This article is a pretty good overview of the situation across Las Vegas that night: https://www.facs.org/for-medical-professionals/news-publicat... In short, every hospital was ove
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by bb611 2y ago
People would just have called it "ov" and moved on. Look around the tech ecosystem, lots of thriving projects with stupid names.
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by bb611 2y ago
> Read the linked PDF from the CIA FFS. Its a fun theory and that has multiple articles linked from the 80s. Readers should note that while the declassification source is the CIA, this was simply a note from a retired Army Lt. General pi
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by bb611 3y ago
> My understanding is that tasers are AC, thus involuntary movements will be back and forth rather than just in one direction. Tasers AC output is at low frequency but still significantly faster than human muscles can move, if you watch
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by bb611 3y ago
Fred Noonan was hired as the navigator specifically for this leg of the flight because of his navigation skills, which he proved by establishing Pan Am's transpacific routes, so it's not obvious to me why a navigational error woul
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by bb611 3y ago
No computer (device), but definitely a computer (person who computes) the location of the plane and destination in a formula that relies on the correct date for accurate long distance navigation.
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by bb611 3y ago
Because these employees are in California, Google is required to give 60 days notice of termination. Typically in big tech layoffs this is done as paid garden leave.
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by bb611 3y ago
> Of those who reported an addiction, 38% identified an addiction to cigarettes ... alcohol (22%), marijuana (21%)
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by bb611 3y ago
You're conflating the civil and criminal judicial systems when the reality is they're quite separate, and defamation has its own special corner of the civil realm where plaintiffs have a very steep hill to climb.
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by bb611 3y ago
$10k means very different things to people of different socioeconomic statuses, but the new owner took a rinsing to keep this dog alive - german shepherd puppies from almost all breeders cost less than $5k. Likely the vet simply knew someon
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by bb611 3y ago
I think your guess here is pretty much spot on. TFA links another article explaining the $10,000 bill is a combination of $3,000 of completed tests the original owner had already paid, the surgical procedure, and aftercare costs.
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by bb611 3y ago
I work at a large SF based SaaS, there's so much money in that space the company spun up a team to build an air gapped version of our product for restricted networks. It's definitely much slower than the private sector, but if the
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by bb611 3y ago
> Cyberpunk 2077 from that studio was perhaps one of the greatest dumpster fire releases of the current decade That may have been its critical reception but the game was wildly profitable for CDPR: https://www.forbes.com/
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by bb611 3y ago
> I assume that means that you will be using their lawyers rather than your own (which they have in house and so are cheaper to use than the ones that bill you, the would be defendant by the hour). Litigation is almost universally outsou
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by bb611 3y ago
As an egregious google maps power user, these are the ones that bother me: 1. Offline maps don't actually download all the destinations in the mapped area 2. Google maps is bad at displaying densely packed businesses - this is an issue
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by bb611 3y ago
Absolutely not "all", a massive amount of management (non-commission and commissioned officer) time is spent policing the behavior of 18-22 year olds, frequently including dealing with their criminal behavior both in and outside o
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by bb611 3y ago
Can you share what jobs those people performed?
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by bb611 3y ago
His offer was always well above fair value, which is why Twitter's board took him to court to enforce it.
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by bb611 3y ago
> Yet simply because this user owns the obvious name, there is no real alternate sub for California-level news. Alternatively, the users aren't bothered by the moderation there and no one's felt the need to start an alternative
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by bb611 3y ago
Your argument belies reality, where moderators even on the very large subreddits turn over all of the time. The oldest moderator on r/news has only been in their position for slightly more than 3 years: https://www.reddit.co
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by bb611 3y ago
I think your comment isn't being well received because it represents fairly stark national differences. In the US, a DNR is primarily for a medical setting with staff who've already identified you and confirmed its veracity. Withd
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by bb611 3y ago
The article you're citing literally blames streaming, which incidentally has also been largely responsible for a decline in music piracy - it's too cheap and convenient for most consumers to bother pirating instead.
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by bb611 4y ago
The shrimp were an impediment to a small fraction of the planned build, the build was modified with minimal impact on the project, and an even more aggressive expansion of the campus was completed in the last 5 years without impact. If anyt
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by bb611 4y ago
Agreed. We know issues at the design stage can be avoided by improving systems, making that the personal problem of someone with a PE is a bandaid solution. Improve regulation, fund regulators, incentivize companies to fund quality processe
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by bb611 4y ago
I'm a current employee, this is still accurate; teams get absolutely no work done in the final 2 weeks of the year outside of extremely critical fixes.

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