boatswain

joined 2 years ago
[–] boatswain 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Put a pebble in your shoe.

[–] boatswain 80 points 1 year ago

Making a profit from healthcare and health insurance.

Or even just make private health insurance illegal.

[–] boatswain 2 points 1 year ago

Oh nice, great find!

[–] boatswain 48 points 1 year ago (17 children)

10 years ago would have been 2014; at that point 25 Bitcoin would be a good chunk of cash:

The price of bitcoin opened the year at $770, according to the CoinDesk Price Index. By mid-December, it was trading in the mid-$300 range. This represents a drop of more than 50% from the start of the year.

It'd be interesting to know when this was actually from; it's a great screenshot even without the exact details, though.

[–] boatswain 7 points 1 year ago

Along with that, I'll add in "number" vs "amount":

  • A shocking number of people get this wrong (countable)
  • The amount of confusion about it is distressing (aggregate)
[–] boatswain 2 points 1 year ago

Ah interesting, thanks!

[–] boatswain 13 points 1 year ago

Interesting! Sounds like they may have changed things a few times, or maybe my co-worker's memory has some gaps.

[–] boatswain 47 points 1 year ago (5 children)

A coworker of mine has worked with CrowdStrike in the past; I haven't. He said that the releases he was familiar with from them in the past were all staged into groups and customers were encouraged to test internally before applying them; not sure if this is a different product or what, but it seems like a big step backwards of what he's saying is right.

[–] boatswain 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's much different than the brown bread my family calls Irish soda bread. Here's the recipe:

  • ½ lb./225g whole wheat flour (1-3/4 c.)
  • 3 oz./75g unbleached white flour (2/3 c.)
  • 1½ oz./40g porridge oatlets (3 heaping Tbsp.)     (steel cut oatmeal or John McCann--in a tin)
  • 1½ oz./40g  wheat bran (1 c.)
  • 1½ oz./40g wheat germ (1/2 c.)
  • ½ tsp. baking soda
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • 1 pint/600 ml buttermilk (2-1/8 to 2-1/3 c.)
  1. Preheat a cool oven, 300ºF/150ºC/Gas mark 2.
  2. Grease and flour a 2 lb./900g loaf tin (I use an 8-1/2 x 4-1/2 x 2-5/8 inch bread pan).
  3. Mix all the dry ingredients together thoroughly.  Then, add them to the buttermilk and mix quickly to make a wet dough (I have found it better to use only 500 ml or 2-1/8 c. buttermilk).  Turn into loaf pan and bake in the preheated oven on the very bottom shelf for 2 to 2-1/4 hrs.  When cooked, the bread will shrink from the pan slightly and sound hollow when rapped on the bottom with the knuckles.
[–] boatswain 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When I make it it's much wetter than that and definitely needs to to poured into a bread pan. This is for Irish Brown Bread, not for the white flour soda bread with currants and whatnot.

[–] boatswain 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's much closer to a cake, really; it's a batter more than a dough. It's not sweet though, which is a defining factor for a lot of people.

[–] boatswain 5 points 1 year ago

Then this is definitely your easiest and safest way to go: no new services to configure, no rolling the dice to see how upset the org will be about possible policy violations.

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