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by metaphor 23d ago
Similar in smell to political science degree --> career politician, I think pg nails it: > The hard part of startups is product: knowing what to build, and being able to build it. And that kind of knowledge comes from studying comput
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by metaphor 23d ago
Anyone in test for the domain able to attest that formal USB compliance verification would have detected the design defect that this hack resolves?
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by metaphor 2mo ago
> You have the right to a degree in XYZ... No, you don't.
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by metaphor 2mo ago
> Except that three saturated-fat-laden strips of bacon for breakfast prevents the need for lunch Said no overweight American ever.
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by metaphor 3mo ago
It's a distinct signal of pure ignorance that you conflate the highest levels of publicly elected executive leadership with "government employees".
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by metaphor 3mo ago
Data is on pragmatic lockout after 3 months, not 12. For years, enterprises have been conditioned to lean into OneDrive and forget about it. Indeed, that dark pattern is a festering disease across consumer Windows. This is classic Microsoft
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by metaphor 4mo ago
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
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by metaphor 4mo ago
During undergrad years, IFC fraternity pledges had to memorize the Greek alphabet for obvious reasons. This is how the capital letters were taught amongst bros. A BRA EZ HO I KAM NEON PETY OXY O
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by metaphor 6mo ago
> This is what we had to build in the 60s... >> drift less than 1.5×10−5 °/h Wow...just wow. Not a GNC engineer, but that drift spec strikes me as exceptionally good today, let alone the 60s. EDIT: > Even modern laser
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by metaphor 6mo ago
That's all motherhood and apple pie, but I'm sorry: the reality that we live in and incentives at play are such that if a capability can be exploited, then it will be exploited to the detriment of the consumer. Full stop.
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by metaphor 6mo ago
In my mind, the prose of the sequels were so unlike Clarke when I read them as a teen that it created a long stint of aversion towards spending time on anything with co-authors. I owe Rendezvous a lot though; had I not discovered that book
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by metaphor 7mo ago
The median US hospital is also a nonprofit; indeed, more than half are. I fail to see how focusing on this opaque median measure tells us anything meaningful. Care to speculate on the trends I pointed out? I simply don't see how compen
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by metaphor 7mo ago
Ahh, grokked. Thanks for helping me better empathize with such a nuanced situation.
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by metaphor 7mo ago
Appreciate the perspective. > A not small number of the rural docs are foreign born and trained and they essentially work this crappy jobs until they have permanent residency and then they move to more desirable markets. Not sure that
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by metaphor 7mo ago
Hmm...sniff test sampling: - HCA[1]: FY25 profit margin = 9.0% - UHS[2]: FY25 profit margin = 8.6% - THC[3]: FY25 profit margin = 6.6% Yeah, a bit of disaggregation is likely needed here, but in these companies, labor expense as a percentag
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by metaphor 7mo ago
> There were 147 unfilled slots for pediatricians, 805 for family medicine, and 357 for internal medicine. They don't have the applicants; it's not the slots. You lost me...from your cite[1]: | Specialty | Positio
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by metaphor 7mo ago
> The dirty little not-so-secret is that we pay doctors too much in the US. Doubt. > That's partly because we have a doctor shortage here (medical schools collude to limit the number of new doctors created each year). Now exp
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by metaphor 7mo ago
I assumed it was a wink to the Nov 1972 Playboy model[1] whose centerfold face became a de facto baseline test image for DSP algorithms without consent. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna
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by metaphor 8mo ago
Who said anything about beating GPS or other functionally equivalent GNSS?
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by metaphor 8mo ago
What makes you think cell tower triangulation is the only data point being exploited to minimize position error?
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by metaphor 9mo ago
I don't think he ever got the first half of the advance...cherry-picking from the TFA: > They offered a $5000 advance with the first half paid out when they approve of the first third of the book and the second half when they accep
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by metaphor 9mo ago
> ...and hopefully had a 10 or so satellites in view. I believe you'll need 12 GPS sats in view to gain incremental accuracy improvement over 8.
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by metaphor 9mo ago
> accuracy is a mix of both granularity and divergence I respectfully disagree. In context, "granularity" is nothing more than a resolution constraint on reported timestamps. Its inclusion adjacent to the specified "dive
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by metaphor 9mo ago
I've noticed a lot in the SFF genre, including my current fiction read: Joe Abercrombie's latest release The Devils [1]. You'll see something like the following on the bottom of book details: > At the Publisher's re
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by metaphor 9mo ago
Which is funny reading how TFA tries to feign ignorance: > When we shipped Actions in 2018, we had no idea how popular it would become.
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by metaphor 9mo ago
To be sure, the relevant statutory regulation[1] didn't always read the way how it does. [1] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F...
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by metaphor 9mo ago
> So, note for me: If I want NTP redundancy and I'm using NIST's servers, pick one NTP server from each of NTP's three sites. System robustness hazard that won't tolerate just querying time.nist.gov at 4-sec or grea
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by metaphor 9mo ago
> I am astonished that NIST does not have multiple clocks over multiple distributed sites with robust ability to detect and bypass individual failures. They may not operate redundant clocks at a single site, but ITS redundancy posture[
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by metaphor 10mo ago
Naw, slip shifting is a thing.
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by metaphor 10mo ago
Hold up...5-speed manual transmission in a '78 Datsun?

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