maestroia

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by maestroia 2y ago
I was talking to a college professor I know a couple weeks ago about this exact thing. And what they said comprised a substantial amount of the expenses of their 4 year private college made perfect sense, because it's happening to eve
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by maestroia 2y ago
The "6 GHz" band is an unlicensed frequency for very-low power (VLP) devices in the US. Specific bands are: "U–NII–5 (5.925–6.425 MHz) and U–NII–7 (6.525–6.875 MHz)". VLP is defined as those devices which "operate a
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by maestroia 3y ago
$500M? Pocket change... THE LITTLE VAX THAT COULD https://userpages.umbc.edu/~rostamia/misc/vax.html
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by maestroia 3y ago
It's always difficult for people to ask for help. The best thing senior engineers can do is set the example and ask for help when they get stuck on something--even if it's something they could figure out on their own with some ti
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by maestroia 3y ago
In the mid-/late-80's, you could easily get full PII (SSN, Name, DOB, address, mother's maiden name, etc) green-bar paper reports someone tossed in the trash when finished.
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by maestroia 3y ago
I think the calculations are off here. The USDA lists average wheat yield across all types to be between 44 and 49 bu/acre from 2020/21-2023/24. https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/wheat-data/ Pl
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by maestroia 4y ago
Let's say you're within the ballpark. A three year savings of $10B would be equal to their stated investment into OpenAI. Assume there is a global slowdown, and a corresponding decline in revenues; layoffs may be the way they&#x2
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by maestroia 4y ago
I don't think the drones flew over the installation. Rather, the article states, "features YouTube videos taken from drones flown over places around Area 51". (emphasis mine) So long as the areas are either public lands, o
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by maestroia 4y ago
There are a few variables to this. Are you a contractor or consultant (there is a difference). What you offer (warm body or solution). Location. Target companies size and industry sector. Economy status. Personal relationships with client
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by maestroia 4y ago
While remote work has made it easier and more prevalent, "hiring fraud" has been around forever. Especially in larger corporations, where interviewing was done by loosely associated teams, and the faces of all the in-person candi
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by maestroia 4y ago
>But because a lone Product Owner sees a path to promotion if they can figure out that one single killer feature that will get a massive new adoption of hypothetical new users (hardly ever realized). This++. It's also the young hot
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by maestroia 4y ago
I agree with the first sentence, and re: the second, also was using a C linter in 1986.
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by maestroia 4y ago
It sounds like we're roughly the same age, so I won't go completely into "get off my lawn" mode. But most families in the 80s could not scare up $3K easily, it was a boatload of money; and if they could, it was for emer
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by maestroia 4y ago
In 1995, I started replacing the WYSE VT-100 terminals at my small workplace with Pentium desktops, in order to prepare for the switch to client-server in the next ERP version. They averaged fron $2700/ea ($5100 today) data entry mode
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by maestroia 4y ago
"By the time the 1980s came to an end, it was unusual for a household to be without a personal computer." As someone who graduated college when the 1980s came to an end, I can say it was unusual for a household to HAVE a computer.
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by maestroia 4y ago
Someone I dated last year has worked on the administrative side of hospitals for years. Her statement was "everyone is hooking up in them, and it's typically ignored. Unless they use a patient bed, then all hell breaks loose.&quo
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by maestroia 4y ago
I run my business' email on a cloud VPS. It's a two step solution, with a FreeBSD host running a tightly configured Postfix as my mail gateway, and a Windows server running hMailServer (This is a great piece of Windows-based open
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by maestroia 4y ago
Regular provider == (Microsoft 365 || an Exchange Server)
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by maestroia 4y ago
If you're into medtech or healthcare, Rochester, MN. Rochester itself is around 80-100K, but in the middle of rural SE MN with several smaller communities around it.
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by maestroia 4y ago
I grew up on a farm in the US Midwest. When I was 4 (early 1970s), I was given my chores of watering livestock. I also started bottle feeding my first orphan lambs, and started getting other orphans from neighbors. It became quite an incom
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by maestroia 4y ago
Let's reverse the situation and ask, what did she do which he considered disrespectful? Did he go all passive-aggressive over those items? Did he discuss them with her? Would she consider changing her behavior, even minor? It takes t
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by maestroia 4y ago
And keep a red Swingline stapler with you...
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by maestroia 4y ago
Always look at the amendments... The amendment attached to this bill is probably a "poison pill amendment". The bill itself plays well PR-wise. But the amendment probably contains language politically damaging to the opposition
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by maestroia 4y ago
Used to???? I still do.
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by maestroia 4y ago
Irony. Hosting a list of applications for self-hosting on a SaaS platform.
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by maestroia 5y ago
Great. Now they've done it: "How about a nice game of chess?" --Joshua/WOPR, WarGames
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by maestroia 5y ago
PT Barnum was an optimist.
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by maestroia 5y ago
"The Secret Of My Success" with Michael J. Fox: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093936/ It's funny, silly, totally 80s, but one of the best inspirational business movies out there. It is my go-to whe
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by maestroia 5y ago
This fall marks 41 years since my introduction to computers and programming. In the fall of 1980, I got to start using my jr high's DECWriter II teletype terminal (with greenbar paper!) connected to a PDP-11 40 miles away via a 300 ba
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by maestroia 5y ago
You'll enjoy this read from 1996. "...the on-board shuttle group produces grown-up software, and the way they do it is by being grown-ups." https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff

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