nathanjw.bsky.social
Boston-area nerd, computer professional, parent, cook, brewer, award-winning cidermaker. Xoogler. He/him.
Also @[email protected] (fediverse), nathanw.62 (Signal)
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Nine seems like overkill, yeah, but paying usually involves a lookup/confirm step and it's probably good that you can't just iterate ticket numbers and see what they all are.
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When I worked in Y2K auditing, a large fraction of errors we found were systems that had done that sort of hack ("pivot year"), but inconsistently through the system - only in some places, or different pivot years in different places.
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"the" municipal tax budget, ha - the local bus system goes through 44 distinct municipalities.
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Costs more, I think that's it. If it requires a service upgrade, it costs a *lot* more. The point of the video is not to worry if those costs look prohibitive, you'll be *fine* with a not-as-fast charger.
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DFP is great - I live a couple of blocks away - but i would not try to drive there. I guess it's less bad than the North End?
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A caveat, which the paper mentions: that study is entirely on the older vaccine, which has now been almost entirely phased out. Looking good for the new one but the studies are smaller. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Half the immune system is busy holding the leashes of the other half of the immune system so it doesn't reduce you entirely to goo, so I'm going with "no".
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And you can turn it off!
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And also "is it blue".
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Hey, at least quarter-hour offset timezones already exist! (Looking at you, Nepal)
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Yeah, my experience at MIT was similar - department stockrooms were the place to get all the jellybeans for your build. Students, even grad students, probably didn't have transportation out to You-Do-It anyway.
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Sometimes I think I stick with photography to make my other hobbies look cheap by comparison.
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And they all change when you cross town lines, which is like every other block.
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And then I'd be busy redirecting the people who were puzzled why they weren't at their hotel because they had gotten directions to Auburn St instead of Mt. Auburn St.
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What's that blue going on in the middle? Some ambient light playing tricks?
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Maybe the by-right rules should already reflect what we want.
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Suppose I fundamentally object to the idea that it's only the local neighborhood that should be this involved - it should be citywide. (Hell, I tend to think city-level zoning is already much too parochial). Where do we go from here to make that happen?
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Ah, excellent. Another Worthwhile European Initiative that we could stand to adopt here.
US ACH involves two numbers - the bank routing number, which can be validated by table lookup, and the account number, which is variable size and can only be validated by asking the bank in question.
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Credit card numbers having a check digit surely helps here.
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They're great and I used one for years and years but my back started hurting and backpacks work better than messenger bags now.
Currently enjoying a Tom Bihn backpack of some sort.
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Hm. I have doubts about the essential validity and legitimacy of the CBA process. I'll have to take a look.
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Uh oh, what did I miss?
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From 2014:
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I bought a DVD of this because I was interested in watching it, and then somehow never got around to it; I think it's still in shrinkwrap on the shelf.
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If you've gotten a lot of mysterious "hi, are you Jamie? oops, wrong number!" texts, they're usually attempting to start this.
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V2L is great and I hope that when I get around to replacing the current car it's more common... right now it's just Hyundai and the Ford truck?
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Barely makes the news? This was the top of the front page in Wednesday's print edition.
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That's quite an assumption!
I assume an employer's attitude to remote staff is going to be much more.... remote. "We compensate you, deciding how to make a good workspace with that comp is your problem."
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These days I would consider the incremental expense of co-working in addition to having a "home office" to be a deterrent - once I have a home office and not just my living room or bedroom it's less attractive to pay for *another* space.
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I did roughly that, 2002-2004 - I called it "commuting to my telecommuting". It does rely on the employer actually being set up to do remote or hybrid well, and few manage that.
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"I could really use one of your Valium".
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We have one in our kitchen, it's great.
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This seems pretty marginal. How can the data exist for sale and everyone *except* the police can buy it?