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jlack··on Making regular GPS ultra-precise
Extra satellites only have the potential to help a little bit in urban environments by increasing the odds of having a satellite directly overhead. Dense urban environments will have high multipath(longer time for signal to get to the receiver due to bouncing off buildings) which causes the position to be inaccurate.
jlack··on Young graduates are facing an employment crisis
I was simply providing an anecdote to a post about students not being able to find internships, not claiming entitlement. My point being some students take multiple offers, reducing availability.
jlack··on Young graduates are facing an employment crisis
At my company, we have increasingly been experiencing interns reneging on their offers. Students will accept multiple offers and then bail on the one they don't want last minute which prevents us from replacing them with someone else. We bring in hundreds of interns every summer and the reneg rate is approaching 20%. It sucks because it prevents people from getting an internship(and us getting the intern).
jlack··on Mach 3.5 Over Libya in an SR-71 Blackbird
He sells his books anytime he gives a talk. I got an autographed copy ~5 years ago when he was a speaker at the museum of flight in Seattle during the seafair airshow.
jlack··on Learn to sew your own outdoor gear
I've made his 'fastpack' a couple times and really like how it turned out! I will say, I found the written instructions difficult to follow(for me) and stuck pretty much exclusively to his videos that accompany the pattern which were much better.
jlack··on Thousands of Mazdas in the Seattle area are stuck on a single FM radio station
HD radio can broadcast images for the radio station, etc. that is displayed when you are tuned to that channel.
jlack··on YouTube ranks “wholesome and funny” comments higher?
I think it depends on the niche of the particular video. I've found channels like woodworking/machining have insightful comments from professionals in that field which may have alternate solutions or point out why something is done a certain way.
jlack··on Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates
This makes no sense. It's incredibly clear at this point that vaccinated people with covid spread it just the same as an unvaccinated person with covid.
jlack··on It takes $420k per year to run Lichess
An employee costs more than just their salary.
jlack··on OSHA to require employers with 100 employees vaccinate or test workforce
I'm arguing that you can't compare the two.
jlack··on OSHA to require employers with 100 employees vaccinate or test workforce
Do you get a yearly polio booster?
jlack··on Police have been quitting in droves in the last year
I would think it varies depending on where you are policing.
jlack··on Epic Games just bought a North Carolina mall for its new headquarters
Here's a youtube channel if you'd like to experience living in a ghost town vicariously.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEjBDKfrqQI4TgzT9YLNT8g

Guy bought an old silver mining town and has been living there over the pandemic

jlack··on Covid-19 at a homeless shelter in Boston: Implications for universal testing
Random testing was performed in Johnson County(KS) over the weekend.

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article242010356.html

jlack··on Microsoft Teams breaks daily record with 2.7B meeting minutes, tops high by 200%
My problem with it is that Teams fails to do what Skype/Lync did do well, while trying to mimic slack and not achieving that very well either.

For instance you can't break out individual chat windows to take up less space. Dial-in numbers for meetings aren't there by default either, you need individual licenses - which is probably why it's 'free'.

jlack··on Louis CK inspires Jim Gaffigan to sell comedy special for $5 online
But even if he is riding the coat-tails of Louis CK, isn't it still a good thing that more people are starting to provide direct content for very reasonable prices?