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I was talking to a college professor I know a couple weeks ago about this exact thing. And what they said comprised a substantial amount of the expenses of their 4 year private col…

The "6 GHz" band is an unlicensed frequency for very-low power (VLP) devices in the US. Specific bands are: "U–NII–5 (5.925–6.425 MHz) and U–NII–7 (6.525–6.875 MHz)". VLP is define…

$500M? Pocket change... THE LITTLE VAX THAT COULD https://userpages.umbc.edu/~rostamia/misc/vax.html

It's always difficult for people to ask for help. The best thing senior engineers can do is set the example and ask for help when they get stuck on something--even if it's somethin…

In the mid-/late-80's, you could easily get full PII (SSN, Name, DOB, address, mother's maiden name, etc) green-bar paper reports someone tossed in the trash when finished.

I think the calculations are off here. The USDA lists average wheat yield across all types to be between 44 and 49 bu/acre from 2020/21-2023/24. https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-produ…

Let's say you're within the ballpark. A three year savings of $10B would be equal to their stated investment into OpenAI. Assume there is a global slowdown, and a corresponding dec…

I don't think the drones flew over the installation. Rather, the article states, "features YouTube videos taken from drones flown over places around Area 51". (emphasis mine) So lo…

There are a few variables to this. Are you a contractor or consultant (there is a difference). What you offer (warm body or solution). Location. Target companies size and industry …

While remote work has made it easier and more prevalent, "hiring fraud" has been around forever. Especially in larger corporations, where interviewing was done by loosely associate…

>But because a lone Product Owner sees a path to promotion if they can figure out that one single killer feature that will get a massive new adoption of hypothetical new users (har…

I agree with the first sentence, and re: the second, also was using a C linter in 1986.

It sounds like we're roughly the same age, so I won't go completely into "get off my lawn" mode. But most families in the 80s could not scare up $3K easily, it was a boatload of mo…

In 1995, I started replacing the WYSE VT-100 terminals at my small workplace with Pentium desktops, in order to prepare for the switch to client-server in the next ERP version. The…

"By the time the 1980s came to an end, it was unusual for a household to be without a personal computer." As someone who graduated college when the 1980s came to an end, I can say …

Someone I dated last year has worked on the administrative side of hospitals for years. Her statement was "everyone is hooking up in them, and it's typically ignored. Unless they u…

I run my business' email on a cloud VPS. It's a two step solution, with a FreeBSD host running a tightly configured Postfix as my mail gateway, and a Windows server running hMailSe…

Regular provider == (Microsoft 365 || an Exchange Server)

If you're into medtech or healthcare, Rochester, MN. Rochester itself is around 80-100K, but in the middle of rural SE MN with several smaller communities around it.

I grew up on a farm in the US Midwest. When I was 4 (early 1970s), I was given my chores of watering livestock. I also started bottle feeding my first orphan lambs, and started get…

Let's reverse the situation and ask, what did she do which he considered disrespectful? Did he go all passive-aggressive over those items? Did he discuss them with her? Would she c…

And keep a red Swingline stapler with you...

Always look at the amendments... The amendment attached to this bill is probably a "poison pill amendment". The bill itself plays well PR-wise. But the amendment probably contains …

Used to???? I still do.