scottshamus

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by scottshamus 2y ago
I was curious about your point that we only have ~20 years supply. The article you linked doesn’t really defend that estimate, I think it’s actually pointing out that’s the absolute floor of our supply. It mentions estimates of undiscovered
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by scottshamus 3y ago
I’m not sure if only ordering from legit chains helps anymore. I’ve heard (and it’s mentioned elsewhere in this thread) of chains sub-contracting with ghost kitchens to offload the delivery traffic from their real locations. No idea on how
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by scottshamus 3y ago
If anyone reading this hasn’t heard this before, I encourage you to read the do’s/dont’s of protobufs for some other good best practices. https://protobuf.dev/programming-guides/dos-donts/
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by scottshamus 3y ago
We’ll start being asked for utility bills during interviews and recruiters will screen for people with heat pumps. “Candidate must have updated insulation and new windows”
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by scottshamus 3y ago
Work on revenue-generating projects/products. When push comes to shove, cost centers are cut first. If you work on search ads at Google, you have a lot of job security. I wouldn’t want to work on customer support tools there…
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by scottshamus 3y ago
I interpret that more as banning all of the shadier situations like the mattress companies that own “independent” mattress review sites.
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by scottshamus 3y ago
In the article, it says they added sponges in the tank for that exact reason after they had a lot of sloshing during testing.
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by scottshamus 3y ago
He’s accused of conspiring to trick voters into using fake voting methods so they didn’t vote. How would you react if someone created a fake voting location and put a full page ad in a newspaper telling people to vote there?
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by scottshamus 3y ago
This almost happened before when Trump issued an executive order for Bytedance to divest TikTok. Most of the media outlets reported that Bytedance was actively courting U.S. corporations to buy Tiktok. I'm sure there was a lot more goi
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by scottshamus 4y ago
It may not be related to nature. I remember reading research on how sunlight and focusing on distant objects is really important for developing proper eyesight. The current issues with eyesight could be a side-effect of spending more time i
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by scottshamus 4y ago
I think the passive system will likely using steering wheel sensors and driving-facing cameras to detect if a person is paying attention similar to Teslas requirement for FSD
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by scottshamus 4y ago
People with serious mental health and/or addiction issues
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by scottshamus 4y ago
Agreed. Even if your GI bill doesn’t technically cover all of your expenses, many schools have Yellow Ribbon Programs that waive any excess cost https://www.va.gov/education/about-gi-bill-benefits/post-9-1...
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by scottshamus 4y ago
I did a similar program in 2011 for one of the largest life insurance companies in the U.S. At the time, I thought it was a new program to get COBOL programmers since they were becoming more difficult to hire but your comment made me realiz
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by scottshamus 5y ago
Tangentially related but I always appreciated Jeff Bridges hand-written website https://jeffbridges.com/latest Only posting because there’s a few suggestions about hand-written styling on a web page.
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by scottshamus 5y ago
If you don’t mind, could you provide any more info on how to find providers for point to point relays? I didn’t even know this was an option and I’m having a tough time finding any information that isn’t specific to large businesses.
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by scottshamus 5y ago
I’ve never worked with fiber optics but I wonder if that’s the point of the recirculating loop i.e. use a shorter fiber but run the signal through it multiple times to simulate a longer length.
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by scottshamus 5y ago
I appreciate you taking the time to tell your story. It’s easy to view expensive treatments that only extend someone’s life by a year or two as too costly but those remaining years can be the most important for that person and their friends
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by scottshamus 5y ago
I think we’re going to discover that the people operating these sophisticated instruments aren’t properly trained on how to handle anomalies in their data. One of them was simply an out of focus nightvision system with a triangle focal ring
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by scottshamus 5y ago
Exactly what I was thinking… code reviews are a major component of many security requirements.
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by scottshamus 5y ago
Newsweek has an been an independent publication since 2018.
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by scottshamus 6y ago
There’s lot of good solutions out there but if you really like using Postgres, you could move your logs to a secondary Postgres DB or Postgres server so it doesn’t affect your application DB’s performance. I’ve scaled this to 10s of million
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by scottshamus 7y ago
There has been active work on this: https://www.w3.org/annotation/ It says web annotation but it was born out of an open annotation initiative. The fragment selector supports the most common media types https:/&#
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by scottshamus 7y ago
There’s a javascript library called aXE that’s pretty good at catching the major things. There’s also a browser plugin to check a site by hand.
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by scottshamus 8y ago
I'm going to look at this more later, but my first thought is how does this compare to WAL-e https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e
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by scottshamus 8y ago
Do you have any citation for the "dramatically worse" claim?
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by scottshamus 8y ago
Please do. It would be great to hear how a company took a pragmatic approach that worked well enough for them. The mindshare right now seems like people are pushing for using combination of five different technologies to do simple aggregati
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by scottshamus 8y ago
Your body has automatic reflexes to wake you up if you start to inhale water or lack oxygen. If he didn't wake up, then there was probably some underlying health issue that actually put him into an unconscious state.
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by scottshamus 8y ago
Depends on what you are worrying about. Is it your product's future? Competitors? Keeping customers? Managing employees' performance? In my experience, stress comes from having all of these problems but not having any plan. I woul
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by scottshamus 8y ago
Irish and Italian people were previously considered separate races but have merged into the "white" race. Have the genetics of Ireland changed drastically in the past 100 years? Or was it the social construct of "race" t

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