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by criticas 2mo ago
Lol, not compared to what they paid us :-)
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by criticas 2mo ago
If you were already an IRIX shop, the servers were performant for a lot of uses. SGI did networking and disk I/O at least as well as Sun, IBM, and HP. We ran NFS and Perforce for hundreds of developers on SGI servers.
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by criticas 2mo ago
or The Andromeda Strain. I was on the edge of my seat for the last half of the movie as a 10 year old when it came out. The book still holds up as a medical mystery - thriller and warning of unintended consequences.
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by criticas 4mo ago
Traveling internationally with hundreds of pounds of gold wouldn't be that hard for a CIA senior official on "official" business. A diplomatic passport and access to the State Department or War Department's fleet of air
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by criticas 5mo ago
You will no longer be scare when either you do not enjoy work enough at the current comfort level, or you have something better to go to. Since the first seems unlikely, explore the second. Start side projects, unrelated hobbies, voluntee
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by criticas 6mo ago
/hogs reminds me of the earlier (mid Eighties) /nightowl and nightowl group. Davie Curry and others were taking up precious disk space on utilities of dubious necessity. One example was dog, a version of cat that displayed the f
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by criticas 6mo ago
Sounds like I met George only a little later - Fall 1980. By then, EE's had two Vaxes to abuse - EE and ED. The ADMs were supplemented with ADDS Regent-20s. Students had strong opinions about which was better. LSi purists looked do
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by criticas 6mo ago
No, the bottom of the page says they subcontract production. So it's an infomercial for a company that markets sweaters they may or may not design. And they disclose that in the article, if very subtly.
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by criticas 6mo ago
Not at these prices :-) $150 - $200 for a sweater is not cheap. I think of fast fashion in terms of "how many times do I have to wear it to get my money's worth?" If the answer is less than the number of times I'd we
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by criticas 6mo ago
What a thoroughly modern world we live in. My first reaction was to check if this was an April Fool's blog post.
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by criticas 8mo ago
Nice idea, but "small composable programs" includes R scripts? That's great if you're already using R, a bit much to install if you're not. You could simplify things by cribbing from the Hacker's Diet ( https:
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by criticas 9mo ago
Off the top of my head: Chair Standing Desk Redundant Network Connection / VPN / Better Home Network Noise cancelling headphones / earbuds Cheap laser printer Power protection Thunderbolt dock. Enough charger ports so everyth
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by criticas 1y ago
It's unfortunate election insecurity is only an issue when the other side wins. Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) were quick to label the claims about Biden's anomalous win in 2020 including irregularities in Georgia,
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by criticas 2y ago
My wife was a great example of this. She was an undergraduate math major, then went on to get her master's and PhD in engineering. The first year of the master's was largely remedial engineering courses - statics and dynamics, t
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by criticas 2y ago
No, I had the same strategy in computer science, foreign language, and elective courses. CS? The first week of the class, I'd read the entire language manual. I wouldn't understand everything, but when a concept was explained i
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by criticas 2y ago
Check your state laws. Here, there are a variety of liens available to enforce a small claims judgement. While foreclosing a real-estate lien requires an attorney, the process begins with a debtor's examination. Being called in to c
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by criticas 3y ago
I read that book in 1985, and heartily recommend it. I was blown away by Reid's observation that in another era, Kilby and Noyce would be more famous than Edison. Reid notes the reason for that is ironically, their invention unleashe
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by criticas 3y ago
If you're in the US, there are many resources. Many states have a beekeeper's association that offer mentoring, training, and apprenticeship programs. If you have a child, 4-H probably has a program. The US Department of Agricu
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by criticas 3y ago
Also, that "80%" had a sample size of 63; they had 361 total, but only 63 had information on the hunter's gender.
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by criticas 3y ago
Don't believe the clickbait titles. It's nothing earth shattering or unexpected. From Skepchick: "This study also can’t speak to the frequency of female hunters: “80%” is a binary number, meaning that it only tells us that a
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by criticas 3y ago
Looks like a display error, right? Your query was 50+123/1000000, so the answer is correct. For some reason, the calculator is not displaying the "+". Are you intentionally obfuscating this? If you enter it as you have dis
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by criticas 4y ago
Talk about timeless - Strang was the textbook for my undergrad course in Linear Algebra - 40 years ago.
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by criticas 4y ago
Corollary: Dave Ramsey's observation that Cash is King. It's less true now that commercial sellers (car dealers, big appliances, etc) often make money on selling you the financing, but few sellers will forego a sale just because
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by criticas 4y ago
If the batch jobs have few or simple interdependencies, scheduling is the easy part. Are your tasks too complex for cron/at/batch? For example, do they require coordination across machines? That might suggest looking at slurm&#
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by criticas 4y ago
I love Apollo, but it's not a complete answer. If you attempt to visit an 18+ reddit on mobile, it will redirect you to either HOME or Reddit's official client. Not the "iOS App you've selected for Reddit", the of
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by criticas 4y ago
Wage Theft? A 2017 report claimed that US wage theft (by companies against employees) was 100 times the size of reported robberies ($50 B vs $438M). https://www.workingnowandthen.com/blog/wage-theft-the-50-bil...
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by criticas 4y ago
I'm going to guess induction at military boot camp. It's designed to be a significant emotional event. Any marines want to chime in?
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by criticas 4y ago
Nature is lit. Moths' wings and fur are extremely efficient at absorbing sounds. One study showed a moth's wing scales absorbed up to 87% of the sound energy directed at them. ""Even more impressive is that the moth&#x
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by criticas 4y ago
If you've bought a license, who's going to know? "Developing Mission Scenarios" is indistinguishable from "Flying the Cessna under the Golden Gate Bridge". The question is more "Is it worth buying a Dev o
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by criticas 4y ago
Nuclear (fission) generation is more expensive - but you have to compare apples-to-apples. Electricity production will be a mix of sources. Renewable / Sustainable tends to be variable - think solar, wind, and even hydroelectric to s

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