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Thanks for making exactly my point.
I’m not sure a journalist for this exalted American newspaper here knows anything about this and frankly the excited language of this article is dumb af. Probably because excited people keep paying for subscriptions to this trash.
It took my amateur self nearly 10 mins to ask around to qualified friends and research some counter ideas.
https://genius.com/Barenaked-ladies-enid-lyrics
Not a bad estimation from a song long ago, as it turns out.
My undiagnosed dyscalculia combined with an unnecessarily difficult calculus course at mun.ca cost me my degree. All other requirements met.
Yeah I am throwing shade because I was made to feel stupid by callous faculty when I fully understood why you’d want tests for sequences and series but just couldn’t hack those exams and assignments where they threw three curveballs per problem.
I grew to understand trig in high school by programming a rotating cube on a Sharp calculator. It ran at .5 fps. My teacher passed me because it was clear I had a grasp.
I would have done better at UofT - I compared their curriculum after the fact. One maybe two curve balls per question. Just couldn’t afford it.
I still have to use my fingers to count basic addition and subtraction. I can’t read an analog clock unless I really think about it. I have immense problems remembering the names of people I just met.
Luckily, at the time, I had a history of good IT admin work to make up for it.
And 25 years later, I am very happy with how my career has gone, no letters to my name.
It’s good to see someone else’s famous and major success despite such a burden.
For anyone else, get whatever exemption you can. Lord knows the golf caddy of their rich parents’ friends do the same.
I’d be as bitter as the prof who smoked cigars in his office, but my Cayley medal still hangs on the wall as a reminder of something that would take way too long to put to words.
The reason this conversation is so foreign to most of us is because back in the day of shortwave radio our suburban and urban environments weren’t soaked in RF interference.
Go out to the middle of nowhere and try a shortwave radio or an SDR with an extremely long wire antenna strung up in trees. You’ll receive the world.
But frankly the doctor who prescribed larger and larger doses of Venlafaxine shouldn’t have been qualified either.
It’s a much more potent norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor than it is for serotonin. My understanding is by the time you get an effective dose you’ve got some collateral negative effects.
Ironically, we are discovering the human condition by evaluating what we are “not”.
… but, we are.
Source: if you do this stuff or even dare to name another microservice after a Harry Potter character when 11.5 million people rely on it, I’m going to dedicate the rest of my life to having you fired from everywhere.
Maybe the timing rather than the locality might be a better input.
https://www.lilygo.cc/products/t-deck
Runs meshtastic:
The new UI is being developed right now…
Assange news is pretty big. I guess I was surprised that wasn’t top of the page.
And I always defer to the Jargon file for my own axioms. It’s been a long time with that as a North Star.
It reminded me of all the restaurant toilets in Athens that instructed you to throw your used toilet paper in the trash and not down the antiquated drainpipes. No blame no shame. It is what it is in one of the oldest cities.
Tokyo used to be like this too in 2014.
Starlink must be making a killing in places like this.
If a passenger can’t lift the bag into the overhead themselves, perhaps they should check it either before security or at the gate.
Bad reactions all around, certainly. I can think of no quicker way to piss off a crew member with extensive safety and security training than to call them a “Waiter” when they’re the ones tasked with handling life threatening emergencies should they arise.
On the gripping hand, FAs are also trained in deescalation.
Was working at $company when our mission critical software went absolutely haywire one day.
The way I proved it was the leap second was because the QA and Prod environments crashed hard at the exact same time.
If you’re running old as the hills enterprise software, maybe plan to have some extra help on call that day.
“Hey Facebook did you know -3:30 GMT is a time zone?”
Ah, memories. Time zones are hard. Don’t roll your own timekeeping libraries for business prod. Just like crypto.
Worth a re-watch in this day and age given your comments on the zeitgeist.
Now that’s something to be grateful for.
As cgeier put it: hard disagree.
Love you buddy.
https://youtu.be/8WJQb_zMpxU?feature=shared
It’s cheap. It desenses easily. It picks up more noise than signal and makes an unacceptable amount of harmonic interference on transmit.
If you’re really interested in having a handheld radio, get your Amateur licence and buy a Yaesu FT5D. Worth it for so many more reasons.