signalsayge

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[–] signalsayge@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I don't think I appreciated God Emperor until after my 4th read through of the series. Frank Herbert definitely has a great insight into the human condition. Soul Catcher and The Godmakers come to mind most readily but his entire body of work explore different facets of humankind.

[–] signalsayge@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Do you think Jason Momoa knows what role he got into?

[–] signalsayge@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At first I thought this might be a hilarious dig on Canada since they haven't won the cup since 1993... not sure if you're serious.

[–] signalsayge@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

This honestly sounds like the best solution to this particular problem.

[–] signalsayge@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Based on my experience, this honestly sounds like a VA policy. I'm on Bupropion through the VA (for possibly similar reasons as you'd want Vyvanse) and they are particularly stingy about it, only giving me a 30 day supply at a time.

Even with a different provider at the VA, you may get the same result.

[–] signalsayge@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago

Yes they will get paid eventually. They put that into law after 2019. If you are furloughed, you cannot use leave. Even if you are emergency essential and still working during the shutdown, I don't believe that you can be paid for leave (but you can still take it if it was scheduled before the shutdown).

[–] signalsayge@lemm.ee 50 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Just make sure it's RFC 2324 compliant. You don't want it throwing any HTTP 418 error messages.

[–] signalsayge@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you're having power on issues, I would make sure you are using a standalone power brick. I've used a Surface Pro for work and I've found that sometimes when connected to the docking station, it wouldn't power on. When connected to a standalone power brick it usually would. For a standalone power brick, I've used both the one that came with the Surface and also a 65W USB-C adapter with a USB-C to Surface per cable.

[–] signalsayge@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

To your point, geostationary satellites are in orbits around 22,300 miles away while Starlink is in a LEO orbit ~342 miles away. At the speed of light, that's an additional quarter second round trip time minimum. Absolutely forever in internet speeds. My experience with GEO is a latency >550ms round trip. With the TCP/IP protocol built the way it is (aka, three-way handshake), a webpage wouldn't even start downloading until almost 2 seconds have passed.

[–] signalsayge@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

The military personnel will not be paid during the shutdown just like the government employees. DoD personnel that are emergency essential will have to keep working but that is a small fraction of the civilian workforce. Yes, everyone will be paid backpay (including furloughed civilians), but the point is that a lot of people cannot financially handle getting their paycheck late. Especially when there is no idea when the government will start back up.

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