logfromblammo

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by logfromblammo 5y ago
Doubling over 10-12 years is an average annual inflation rate of about 7% . It's not 2%, but it isn't 15% either.
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by logfromblammo 5y ago
That statement is only supportable if vegans had a policy of annihilating meat-eating humans, which seems anathema to the vegan philosophy. So maybe we can qualify that by saying "one day, no human will eat meat harvested from unethica
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by logfromblammo 5y ago
One could still run a numbers station? There's no way to prove the code words have any meaning beyond what is obvious.
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by logfromblammo 5y ago
The drug may end up in the manure, and the parasites may encounter it there at a marginally-lethal dose. When the parasite progresses further in its life cycle, its offspring may be resistant when they infect the next livestock animal. Mos
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by logfromblammo 5y ago
For AWS, as fully remote, for ridiculously high compensation, yes. Otherwise, no. As a user, I have observed product searching and sorting to remain in a nigh-unusable state for decades now. I cannot fathom how such a state could be permi
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by logfromblammo 5y ago
The password-change form should be using a password field, and that should not be allowing any code or scripts to grab the plaintext stored in it. If the code that compares your current password to the new password can read the plaintext of
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by logfromblammo 5y ago
I think "unsubscribe" should only be offered after a customer has been charged. Before that, it should be "cancel" or "annul". For instance, if there is a "free trial" period, wait until after that e
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by logfromblammo 5y ago
If that policy is enforceable, someone would have to be storing passwords in plaintext, or the hashing algorithm is too weak. IT shouldn't be able to tell anything about plaintext password similarity beyond equals or not-equals.
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by logfromblammo 5y ago
Perhaps those problems are US problems, not specifically fission power problems? Does it look any different in France?
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by logfromblammo 5y ago
I find chitchat and small talk with the restaurant staff to be exceedingly creepy. As an introvert, I take it as a symptom of abusive management.
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by logfromblammo 5y ago
I'd wager cash that the "12" in "Level 12" is a reference to apostleList.count() .
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by logfromblammo 5y ago
The time is now to dredge and dump, and build fixed oceanic platforms at their territorial extremes, while the construction crews can still breathe air and weld cheaply. The only motivation any other country has to preserve the EEZ of Tuval
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by logfromblammo 5y ago
Somebody has to stock up. Just-in-time delivery didn't, and that's why we're in this supply chain situation. In the future, not only is it possible your money will buy you less, it is also possible that no amount of money,
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by logfromblammo 5y ago
For some bizarre reason, management has not yet assigned a task to their programmer underlings to automated themselves out of existence. I can't imagine why. I don't think it's a matter of trust. Management sees their job a
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by logfromblammo 5y ago
The minimum viable product would take 2h-4h. A professor shouldn't be teaching students to prematurely optimize or to gold-plate their first effort. Deliver version 1 before starting version 2.
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by logfromblammo 5y ago
As one of those back-end-preferring developers, the thing about front-end development is that the correctness of UI code is subjective, and furthermore subject to the user's opinion. On the back end, I can write heaping piles of uni
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by logfromblammo 5y ago
I applied once to Digium. I was rejected, because they were "looking for someone who could hit the ground running" (in those exact words). Months later, I saw that the same job posting was still up, and still active. It may not
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by logfromblammo 5y ago
To extend the plumber analogy, prospective employers will frequently look for plumbers with specific experience in copper pipe, rigid PVC pipe, or flexible PEX pipe, as though fragmenting the plumbing space in this fashion has any bearing o
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by logfromblammo 5y ago
This assumes that companies do not make unwise investments, when counterexamples are legion.
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by logfromblammo 5y ago
Forever. DRM is created under the cryptographically insane belief that one can treat a person as an eavesdropper at any time after they have been an authorized recipient. That is the unsolvable problem that guarantees DRM will never be abl
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by logfromblammo 5y ago
Much like one cannot have a patented trade secret. The grant of patent requires disclosure, and using the court system to publicly resolve disputes. If one uses technical means to protect information, parent poster proposes that courts sho
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by logfromblammo 5y ago
This comment applies to more of my real-life interviews than any other. So many ask, "How do you do X?" and the correct answer in a real job situation is always either "Look up the documentation for X, and do it that way.&quo
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by logfromblammo 5y ago
Private utility companies are often subjected to regulatory board controls. Their local monopoly is limited by a representative (supposedly) of the public's interests. That low-risk investment has its potential returns limited to wha
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by logfromblammo 5y ago
Durability and repair-friendliness are threats to manufacturer profits. You can only sell a good pair of boots once every 30 years. You can sell a bad pair of boots every season. (Thank you, Watch Commander Vimes.)
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by logfromblammo 5y ago
Seasonal business hours can be posted as any time of day in UTC. DST can only adjust by exactly 1 hour.
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by logfromblammo 5y ago
At the expense of standing at the school bus stop in complete darkness for most mornings of the school year. 13 years of rising hours before dawn and walking and waiting in darkness is enough. I would suggest that the government of any stat
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by logfromblammo 5y ago
Could always move from Pacific Daylight Time to Mountain Standard Time.
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by logfromblammo 6y ago
It's not a pay-wall; it's a beg-wall.
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by logfromblammo 6y ago
How about a body cam system that automatically switches to RECORD whenever a weapon or tool is removed from the belt, and cannot be switched back to STANDBY until everything is back in its place?
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by logfromblammo 6y ago
The usual problem for breath-holding is not lack of oxygen, but surplus of CO2. It is the latter that creates the panicked urge to breathe. Free divers and stunt magicians therefore hyperventilate prior to diving, or getting sealed inside

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