catlas3r

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by catlas3r 6y ago
The exams and credentials part is certainly murky. One could argue we make it worse in tech. Among the certifications I hold is at least one with "certified engineer" in the title (RHCE), but that's hardly only ambiguous one,
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by catlas3r 6y ago
I prefer the term "software engineer" for a reason I haven't seen yet in this thread: clarity when speaking to people in other industries. Among many of the people I talk to on a regular basis, if I told them I was a "de
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by catlas3r 6y ago
Ask any tech worker in an office about the free snack selection. My coworkers get genuinely outraged when we trade out one brand of prepackaged nuts for another, or when their preferred soda goes out of rotation. Never mind they all make si
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by catlas3r 6y ago
Why stay on premise? Cost. On-prem is roughly on-par in an average case, in my experience, but we've got many cases where we've optimized against hardware configurations that are significantly cheaper to create on-prem. And sunk c
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by catlas3r 6y ago
How is that working out? One challenge it seems ever locale is dealing with is a large faction of people who cannot see the forest for the trees, so to speak. It seems everywhere I've lived, there are large factions of folks who cite i
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by catlas3r 6y ago
> I am a dropshipper and average margin on products I sell is 60-100%. Name checks out.
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by catlas3r 6y ago
This is a good cause, but the headline given to this post threw me. Clearly, it's meant as "make communication between prisoners and their loved ones outside of prison free of cost" But because of the phrasing, I read it as &
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by catlas3r 6y ago
The number of rides is useless in estimating the percentage of the population with high risk for exposure if you don't also have the proportion of the population exposed to that risk.
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by catlas3r 6y ago
Cigarette smoking rate is widely studied; no reason to use anecdotal data here. The tobacco smoking rate in New York is 14.1%; it's 11.3% in California. Some difference, yes, but far less difference than you see between either and some
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by catlas3r 6y ago
Actually, no they don't. There are 5.6m rides per day. The average trip contains at least two rides: there, and back again. Many trips contain substantially more than two legs, and many people take more than one trip per day. I can&#x2
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by catlas3r 7y ago
The employer has no legal way to mandate that. That said, if it were consistent with generally accepted recommendations from the government, and my employer was not just allowing but encouraging that recommendation, I probably would comply
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by catlas3r 7y ago
Hmm, why _does_ RaspberryPi.org use a Raspberry Pi for this? I guess we'll never know.