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sciurus

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About sciurus

I'm a principal engineer at SurveyMonkey based in Atlanta, GA. My personal website is https://www.polibyte.com

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    I think they're talking about https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth-ousts-army-chief-of-sta... > Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to st…

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    You can send profiles collected by opentelemetry to pyroscope. https://grafana.com/docs/pyroscope/latest/configure-client/o...

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    The repo page says "This repository was archived by the owner on Feb 10, 2026. It is now read-only."

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    Very cool project! I saw you were looking for help sourcing things like balloons and gas. https://groups.io/g/GPSL/ worried be a great place to go and ask for help with that, if yo…

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    If you're interested in high altitude ballooning, there's an active community around it. https://arhab.org/ https://www.superlaunch.org/

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    I checked the first five items while logged in with Amazon Prime. They all required a minimum order of either $25 or $100 to get free shipping.

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    The GPS satellites aren't receiving anything. The GPS satellites transmit signals, and the starlink terminals (and other users of GPS) receive those signals.

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    SurveyMonkey | Canada (Remote), US (Remote), Ireland (Remote), India (on-site) | https://www.surveymonkey.com/ SurveyMonkey lets people create beautiful, engaging surveys and forms…

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    https://testanything.org/ ?

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    https://instances.vantage.sh/ shows coremark scores for each EC2 instance type.

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    See https://clockss.org/about/how-clockss-works/ for an overview of the implementation.

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    (I think we was just introducing himself as Ben Spector, the lead author of the paper.)

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    > Glad to hear it didn't go into detail on human anatomy. Why do you think children shouldn't get answers to questions about human anatomy?

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    You're assuming the "legacy" system is being replaced by a new one, which isn't the scenario being described in the link or the book. They cover approaches for continuing to safely…

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    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer

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    > Mitchell Baker did not leave the gravy train by stepping down as CEO, she merely moved to a different seat on the gravy train - chair of the Mozilla Foundation Mitchell has not b…