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Great article. My father was a software engineer at DEC in the mid-80s through the 90s and we often had DEC equipment at home. I grew up playing FLIGHT on a MicroVAX, learning BASI…

I posted a "Who's Hiring" post as an employee seeking a referral bonus. I got a few leads from that and ultimately referred two of them, one of whom we hired and is still working w…

Think of it as the same as the internal resistance of a conductor. Some of the photons are effectively absorbed by the fiber and turned into heat.

You mean besides the constant vibration and acceleration of pistons changing direction multiple times each second?

Totally agree. I do a lot of interviews for my employer and no one cares about your GPA or really even your degree once you have some work experience. I've been working in IT and s…

Their banks can receive wire transfers just like any other bank.

It goes both ways. Emigration _from_ the US to another western country is also incredibly difficult.

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I'll be the part of the story he didn't tell you is more interesting.

You can also get the METAR (observations updated hourly) from the Aviation Weather Center: https://aviationweather.gov/metar/data?ids=KORS&format=decod...

My 17-year-old Honda minivan does the same. A few seconds on the brakes while going down a steep hill will trigger a downshift.

As a frequent motorcyclist, being able to see over a station wagon doesn't matter when most vehicles on the road (in my area) are SUVs and pickup trucks. When I'm not on 2 wheels, …

> Does being hit by a 6500 lb vehicle as a cyclist or pedestrian really differ materially from being hit by a 7500 lb vehicle...? Depends how fast it's going.

The new Lightning comes in around 6500 lbs. Maybe you saw a number for the old Lightning from the 90s, which was around 4600 lbs.

That's because lots of planes flying today are still from the 1950s.

Some blog posts about this from their website: - https://www.tetrascience.com/blogs/announcing-our-series-b-t... - https://www.tetrascience.com/blogs/announcing-our-series-b-t... -…

I'm a long-time Google Music subscriber (at the original $8/mo price point) and had no idea that it even came with YouTube Premium until I realized I hadn't seen any YouTube ads in…

Sure, maybe if the car is 40 years old. But every modern gas car (and all the diesels I've owned) will handle it just fine.

Some judges are elected; they could easily be grossly unqualified.

While it might be valid to frame suicide as death from mental illness, how can you say that the death rate from mental illness has been increasing when we don't even really know th…

As a resident of a place with hot dry summer, I can confirm that the last thing I want to do is to add to the heat with boiling water.

He neglected to mention his time machine.

USPS is legally required to charge rates that don't result in a marginal loss.

And for most people, sound quality is largely subjective. What "sounds good" to person A might sound like garbage to person B.