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by randerson 6d ago
In one of the videos you can see dark clouds behind the plane. I suspect the pilots knew they'd have to divert to a different airport if they couldn't land and put pressure on themselves to not have to do that.
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by randerson 7d ago
The band Muse (who has been around 32 years) just lost their Instagram handle thanks to this..
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by randerson 14d ago
They're old because they didn't get hit by a car.
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by randerson 15d ago
Had this done too to cure PVCs - a irregular heartbeat that wouldn't have killed me, but it did lead to an enlarged heart and low energy. I remember feeling great during the procedure thanks to whatever meds they gave me. I could wat
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by randerson 16d ago
Good video about what happened to her body: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ7M01jV058
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by randerson 17d ago
The likelihood of Omarchy being hacked is no doubt compounded by the number of enemies DHH has created who would love to see him fail.
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by randerson 24d ago
Moving Synology-to-Synology, I was surprised at how easily I could just move the original HDDs (in their original order) from old enclosure to new enclosure, and it just worked.
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by randerson 28d ago
If you get laid off, it is your personal relationships that will help you land another good job while everyone else is fighting over the scraps that get posted online.
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by randerson 28d ago
My Mach-E came with CrossClimate2 tires and I am not impressed. I've accidentally lit up all 4 tires under hard acceleration on a dry road, despite 5000 lbs pushing them into the ground and some amount of traction control still active.
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by randerson 2mo ago
In most of the USA getting around by car is mandatory. Trampolines are optional. Trampolines are one of the top avoidable causes of ER visits.
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by randerson 2mo ago
NYC even dumps their old subway cars to create coral reefs: https://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-subway-cars-turning...
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by randerson 2mo ago
Though he also eliminated a lot of value for shareholders of World Book, Encyclopaedia Britannica, etc
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by randerson 2mo ago
My car (from VW Group) came with Active Lane Keep. It detects when you're drifting out of your lane and steers you back into it. Sounds great in theory. Except that in the US, if you're cruising in the right lane then every time t
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by randerson 3mo ago
Bonds only give you certainty to the extent that inflation remains certain. Stocks generally rise with inflation, whereas bonds continue paying out the same nominal amount, which buys you less over time. As a retiree I'm 50/45&#x2
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by randerson 4mo ago
As someone who is currently going through the diagnostic process for MCAS with a specialist: A negative Tryptase blood test doesn't mean you don't have it, it could just be that you're not having an active flare-up at the tim
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by randerson 4mo ago
90% of EDS sufferers have the Hypermobile variant, for which there is no genetic test. At least thats what I was told by an EDS specialist a few years ago.
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by randerson 4mo ago
I requested my personal data from Lexus to see what they had on me. Not only did they store sensitive data about me, it also included personal data about 2 random Toyota owners who were incorrectly linked to my email address. I could see th
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by randerson 4mo ago
> they remain in important ways mysterious even to those of us who train them "The AI works in mysterious ways"
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by randerson 4mo ago
I've implemented PCI-DSS and have 12 years of level 1 audits behind me. I actually find their rules to be sane, pretty good security practice. Internally, we made many of the controls standard across the board even for out-of-scope sys
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by randerson 4mo ago
I've had SOC2 auditors choose a random commit from our GitHub history, then ask to see the associated Jira ticket, logs from the build and deployment, etc. Hard to reliably pass an audit if you don't know which changes they'l
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by randerson 4mo ago
I won't defend Biden's weak border, but I don't see any signs that he was specifically letting in people based on their political leaning while excluding others, nor were they given a fast track to citizenship.
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by randerson 4mo ago
My insurance agent told me that insurers in the US generally don't cover floods at all, because its expected that your compensation will come from the government.
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by randerson 4mo ago
Not just race, but political orientation. Not all white South Africans qualify for refugee status - only Afrikaners. A group who are generally conservative and likely to vote Republican once they've been fast-tracked to citizenship. (E
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by randerson 4mo ago
What if built a containment dome and then filled it with cold water?
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by randerson 4mo ago
Even if the board votes in favor, wouldn't it be tax evasion to fund a for-profit corporation using a 503(c)(3) - which is tax deductible for donors?
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by randerson 4mo ago
> a million people on mars definitely won't be achieved this century, as the place is fucking awful Mars could make for an interesting prison, though. Like the Australia of two centuries ago. If nobody volunteers to live there I wou
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by randerson 4mo ago
What if the help they need is just to talk to someone without fear of consequences? If they dispatch you to an institution you could lose your job just when you need money to pay for the bills you'll be sent. With some careers, like be
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by randerson 4mo ago
I live in the US and while most of us know about the more serious crimes that often get prosecuted, there is a long tail of crimes that no single person could memorize. Over 60,000 pages of federal laws alone.
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by randerson 4mo ago
Its one of the few places you can be fairly sure you're chatting to people, not bots, who have no agenda to sell you anything. Of course if it ever becomes popular, that will quickly change. But for now it is like early IRC.
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by randerson 5mo ago
I'm just expecting a reduction in volume, vibration, and unpleasant resonance. In any of these categories you can already find some machines are quieter than others despite comparable air flows. So its definitely possible to reduce n

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