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 Discussion on answer by nvoigt: Hourl…

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Jul 5, 2024 19:38
Write an angry email on work time about how insulting the penny jar is.
 

 Discussion on answer by jay613: Can I…

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Jun 28, 2024 21:11
elsewhere I'd recommend a brick over an outlet with built in USB. The bathroom might be an exception. I have more faith in whoever makes the outlet unit designing something that will remain safe and functional in a highly humid to condensing environment than the racers to the bottom making USB bricks.
 

 Discussion on answer by Justin Cave: …

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Jan 27, 2024 17:59
At the risk of sounding overly cynical, you don't need an MD to conduct anesthesia. You need someone who had the training in the past. There are ex-doctors no longer bound by their oaths who were booted for reasons that don't put their capability in question. They'd represent a potential recruiting pool.
 

 Discussion on answer by TheDemonLord:…

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Oct 2, 2023 06:27
The only thing I'd add is that while the recruiter probably didn't discuss OP directly with the employer (filtering out >90% of initial applicants is a big part of why people pay external recruiters); they probably were under instructions to only send the top N candidates on. (Only candidates above a certain threshold might be possible too, but in that case the recruiter could have failed OP at the end of the call instead of waiting a day.)
 

 Discussion on question by Crushed: Cr…

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Sep 18, 2023 19:21
@joeqwerty For a recent example in the US. Not quite the same scenario as what OP is describing, but the fraudulent electricity use charge would still fit. abcnews.go.com/US/…
Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Sep 18, 2023 19:21
@joeqwerty Mining with computers you own and pay the electric bills for is generally legal. Installing miners on someone else's computers and using their electricity is another matter.
 

 Discussion on answer by Robert Rapple…

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Aug 5, 2023 20:50
I remember reading years ago that McVeigh's truck bomb did significantly less damage to the OKC Federal Building than it could have due to his detonators not all going off simultaneously because his detonator wires weren't all the same length. While that was AnFo not RDX, it leads me to believe you'd need something better than just letting the detonation pass through the entire mass of explosives to get the intended result.
 

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Jul 17, 2023 20:30
@WeatherVane it should be noted that while there's no federal requirement that all businesses accept cash, there are some city wide ordinances that do require doing so. The general argument being that not taking it is discriminating against the poor who are more likely to be unbanked.
 

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
May 24, 2023 18:30
@AzorAhai this is a decent explanation of the difference in bedding styles: craneandcanopy.com/pages/101-duvet-vs-comforter
 

 Discussion on answer by rumtscho: Wha…

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Mar 9, 2023 21:23
I'd never heard of unsorted rice before seeing this answer, but as a kid in the 80s/90s sorting dried beans and finding an occasional pebble was a thing.
 

 Discussion on question by Jefferey Da…

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Oct 20, 2022 15:47
Congrats(?), for coming up with a system that makes Project Orion look reasonable: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)
 

 Discussion on answer by Joe Strazzere…

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Oct 6, 2022 19:38
The US Govt is especially picky on this front, at a prior job management had to send out reminders that if you spent an hour doing internal training one day but made the time up by still doing a full 8 hours of billable work you couldn't "donate" the hour to the company and only put 8 hours of customer work on your time sheet. In many cases because you only worked 8/9ths of the day for the govt, the company was only allowed to bill 8/9ths of your cost for the day to the customer and the govt viewed it the same as any other form of time sheet fraud.
Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Oct 6, 2022 19:38
Even as a salaried employee in the US this would be problematic if timesheet data is used to control what the employee's labor costs are billed to. External customers are the biggest risk here because time off is billed against overhead not to the customer's contract; although depending on how internal accounting works it could also be a problem for some companies.
 

 Discussion on answer by supercat: Wha…

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Oct 6, 2022 08:07
I believe the failure point was somewhat higher than the 40x you gave. Checking my memory with google I found multiple brands of old 56x drives for sale and 52x ones from Sony (as brand name as it got at the time). Also a forum thread about a 60x drive having launched but the poster being unable to get the (overseas) maker to send one, with speculation that it finally hit the bad disk breaking limit. I believe I had a 52 or 56x drive; and despite buying the cheapest cdrs I could find never had one fail mechanically.
 

 Discussion on answer by Philipp: If v…

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Aug 26, 2022 13:56
@Philipp While they may not have assets worth seizing, I judge mosquitos to be universally splatable. SMACK
 

 Discussion on answer by Franck Dernon…

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Jun 9, 2022 15:36
@epa095 for a question about rental cars recent sales is probably a better figure than the overall market because rental companies generally don't keep cars for more than a few years.
 

 Discussion on answer by JRE: How to c…

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Apr 22, 2022 16:03
You can get UPSes that will do what you need. This one from APC can take 120/240V 50/60hz input and produce 120V 60hz output power. For input it has a c13/14 style connector so you should be able to get a cord connecting to your local wall standard. apc.com/shop/us/en/products/…
 

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Mar 22, 2022 05:30
I think the discussion about if the other company could provide non-explicit videos or not is missing the point. If OPs company isn't primarily in the adult video industry they should have provided the person doing something with them a place to sit where they won't be visible to anyone casually walking past. And if it is in that business, and for whatever reason they can't keep it out of sight, it should've been brought up when making an offer at the latest not in paperwork they have to know most people won't bother to read.
 

 Discussion on question by Moshe Katz:…

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Oct 15, 2021 09:26
@user253751 not to mention this case despite its size is going to have lousy cooling compared to any halfway decent modern case: 1x92mm and 1x80mm (PSU) fans in the back, and what looks like 2 more 92mm fans in the front which are going to be hobbled by the paucity of holes in the front panel to draw air through. The larger volume will mean it'll take a bit longer to heat soak if you put modern high power components in; but just about anything with a pair of 120mm fans (1 intake 1 exhaust) should beat it in steady state temps because they can cycle the air so much faster.
Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Oct 15, 2021 09:26
@Dai my Caselabs SMA8 is similarly tall; and they had a similar case that was about 6"/15cm taller (enough extra vertical space for a 140mm radiator running front to back on the side of the case).
 

 Discussion on answer by Chris: Are fu…

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Oct 2, 2021 14:49
This is just providing confirmation of what the OP is using as the basis for the actual question which is "do covid-19 vaccines reduce the chance of infection" not "do they reduce the severity of infection".
 

 Discussion on answer by bdb484: Can I…

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Sep 17, 2021 16:17
I assume a disabled person who was too drunk to control their powered chair well would instead get the same public intoxication charge that someone who was stumbling around on his feet would be charged with.
 

 Discussion on question by Franck Dern…

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Sep 10, 2021 13:11
@Tor-EinarJarnbjo Did you choose Tylenol intentionally, because a US label will say Acetaminophen not Paracetamol?
 

 Discussion on question by BSD: I want…

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Aug 29, 2021 15:42
@J... also Masonry construction that can pass US Earthquake, Hurricane, and Tornado codes is a lot more expensive than wooden framed buildings are here.
 

 Discussion on answer by Matthew Gaise…

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Aug 19, 2021 20:29
... and remember it's not necessarily a linear effect. I might be ok with a 10% pay differential between a really nice and average comfort job; but if being made miserable by policies in some way I'm not even going to stay short term unless the pay is crazy good; double normal might be able to get me to stay a year or three; but once past the owning a house, debt free, and large "oh crap" fund in the bank stage even that would rapidly pale in comparison to being able to enjoy my life.
 

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Jun 14, 2021 15:09
@nick012000 I don't think I've ever seen a gas powered chair/scooter indoors; the motorized ones have always been electric.
 

 Discussion on question by R. Flicker:…

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Apr 21, 2021 04:36
@Rob the stated floorplan size is 32 square meters (~35 square feet). I'm not sure if that includes the loft space (my attempts to guesstimate based on appliance sizes is giving me dimensions that would put each floor at about 2/3rds of the listed area); but even if the loft isn't counted and the usable area is double it'd be really small for a freestanding home in the US (if not a small apartment).
 

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Mar 25, 2021 00:23
@domen I'm a bit skeptical about the numbers quoted in that article. The equivalence numbers for LED bulbs indicate that they're about 6x as efficient as incandescents, not the 3x between the typically 15% and 5% figures in the article. FWIW the 5% number is familiar to me from prior reading.
 

 Discussion on answer by Dragongeek: W…

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Mar 8, 2021 13:40
@DarrelHoffman the tanks were almost empty. If they had more than just a few vapors left you'd've had a far larger explosion and SN10 would've been torn apart in a shower of debris like SN04 instead of being launched up mostly intact.
Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Mar 8, 2021 13:40
@JPhi1618 if a "Good landing" is one you can walk away from, and a "Great landing" is one where the aircraft can fly again; I think didn't explode on impact is reasonable for a definition of a "Successful landing" whatever problems may occur later.
 

 Discussion on answer by GdD: Can anti…

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Jan 19, 2021 14:53
@slebetman I've read that China is building air to air missiles with several hundred km range with the specific intent of being able to snipe awacs and tanker aircraft operating well to the rear of US fighters. These would be a modern equivalent to the Phoenix missiles the F14 carried to engage Soviet naval bombers before they got close enough to the carriers to launch their cruise missiles.
 

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Jan 16, 2021 02:34
With entry level m.2 SSDs approaching/at price parity with sata SSDs while still offering better performance the only reason we'll see a new SATA standard is if HDDs live long enough for NAS type applications that they become able to saturate the 6Gb data link. If that happens, what we'll get will probably be a backport of the 12Gbps SAS standard, still only used for spinning rust.
Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Jan 16, 2021 02:34
@MarcusMüller Sata express is a dead standard. It was sata + 2 PCIe lanes. Between M.2 SSDs for consumers and U.2 cables and the various data center optimized form factors/connectors a 2 lane PCIe link for remote mounted SSDs is no longer of value; and otherwise it's just a SATA3 connection.
 

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Dec 18, 2020 16:46
@knechtrootrecht the only providers I can find offering that sort of flight today are all using a Mig-29 (assuming it's not multiple sites reselling the same Russian service anyway); one says it's because Russia retired the last Mig25's in favor of the 31; which has significantly worse visibility from the rear seat.
 

 Discussion on answer by RonJohn: Open…

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Dec 10, 2020 19:44
@user253751 in the US credit cards are required to have more card holder friendly policies in the event of your card/number being stolen and used for fraudulent transactions. For that reason alone, in the US, I'd recommend never using a debit card linked to your primary bank account for internet transactions. Secondly, when I was younger and only had a debit card, I ran into problems where my bank had a maximum transaction limit of only a few hundred dollars, and had to split larger internet orders into several parts to process them. Lastly, I put all my spending on a CC for rewards (1% off)
 

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Dec 10, 2020 04:01
@Fizz as of August ~300 of 800m (eyeballing the bar sizes) doses of Covid-19 vaccine the US had on order were the Oxford/AstraZeneca version, and the FDA has previously stated the intent to approve anything with >50% efficacy; so I'd expect a lot of Americans to be getting that one. nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02450-x
 

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Oct 30, 2020 12:07
I can come up with an explanation for being able to use non-viral FOSS libraries but not forking them. Management/legal are taking the position of IP Maximalists and have a blanket ban on creating any code that they don't own full and completely unencumbered and unrestricted ownership of. Yes that's an idiotically pointy-haired policy; but OPs management hasn't exactly covered itself in glory over this whole debacle.
 

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Sep 22, 2020 17:35
@user1532080 I think they normally do that by appearing to the upstream port as a USB hub with a keyboard and a mouse (touchpad) as two separate devices.
 

 Discussion on answer by Moo: Visitor …

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Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Aug 21, 2020 14:48
@ptyx that sounds like a new question
Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Aug 20, 2020 19:58
@AloneProgrammer there's almost certainly more to the story than in the original question; but judging by the answers that Moo's question on legal.se has gotten so far, we'd be doing the OP no favor in trying to get a more complete explanation of what happened and why.
Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
Aug 20, 2020 19:58
Based on comments on the original question: Doesn't the OP also need a second lawyer to attempt to reverse the damage from their initial blunder prior to attempting to visit family in China?
 

 Discussion on answer by Kate Gregory:…

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Dan is Fiddling by Firelight
Feb 18, 2020 20:12
@Willeke I'd not be surprised about some bars not being willing to accept foreign ID. Fines for businesses caught selling to minors in the US are high enough to put offenders out of business, so some being unwilling to risk accepting anything other than the US licenses they can computer verify isn't completely irrational paranoia even if non-US fake ID are far less likely to be a problem than in-state drivers licences.
 

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Dan is Fiddling by Firelight
Feb 11, 2020 14:48
I'm surprised smoke detector didn't catch that. Almost anything it spots network wide gets nuked down almost immediately
Dan is Fiddling by Firelight
Feb 10, 2020 18:11
huh. That's the same version I'm using...
Dan is Fiddling by Firelight
Feb 10, 2020 15:30
@ITGremlin my FF doesn't have a problem with it. Have you turned build in settings to more paranoid levels, or installed a plugin to do so?
Dan is Fiddling by Firelight
Feb 4, 2020 16:51
shouldiblamecaching.com
Dan is Fiddling by Firelight
Feb 4, 2020 16:50
still works for me
Dan is Fiddling by Firelight
Feb 4, 2020 16:45
if nothing else the blog post implies it's possible to override any default PW with a lazy reuse one
Dan is Fiddling by Firelight
Feb 4, 2020 16:44
nor I
Dan is Fiddling by Firelight
Feb 4, 2020 16:23
Encrypted passwords stored in the registry and a path to escalate to the system privilege level as a result