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Not from 2021, but in May 2020 Fabfilter’s update to Saturn 2 is great, and the original was already a fantastic Saturation plugin I’ve used a lot.

My neighborhood is the same. The ground and site prep out at DIA the Civil Engineer friend told me about took things like that into account.

I for one have had much of the cement replaced around my house (some more than once) and when I had the driveway redone, explicitly asked them to mitigate against the clay with whatever they had that made sense. I forget what all they had extra in the proposal that I approved (it was 10+ yrs ago) but my new driveway isn't having any issue while some neighbor's new ones are already cracked again.

"the American southwest"

Here in Denver, at least, our runways are all made of cement instead of tarmac. I knew one of the civil engineers who worked on the special blend of cement the used, and from what I remember of what he told me, it is much thicker than I expected, and has other stuff in it compared even to highway-grade cement to make it more durable. The freeze-thaw cycle is still rough on the cement, in 2007 $11 million of cement slabs had to be replaced due to that. The airport as a whole has 15,000 20-square-foot slabs across its multiple runways.

Of course, one could still have buckling with cement if the expansion joints are too close together for the expansion of adjoining slabs over a certain temperature. Perhaps this is what actually happened here?

Finished mastering my latest EP and uploading it for release on Monday. Also did a bit of compiler warning cleanup on multiple UNiXes for next release new code work.

Most pro level (ie not free) plugins are available as VST on mac as well. I mix/produce music for myself and others and was delighted I could host my Fabfilter Pro C2 compressor and Pro Q3 eq I already use via OBS.

Love your username. Connects with what I came here to say, which is that Arvo Pärt stands very much in opposition to the conclusions of this article. His compositional technique of tintinnabuli is beautiful and engaging and his many compositions continue to delight me since I found out about him five years ago.

The web bit was fun enough, I tried the iOS app. On my iPhone 12, with my 50 yr old eyes, the text is too small to read and there is no way to adjust it.

Govt. mandates 32 hr workweeks. Employers drop pay 20%.

Not shocked.

Yep, they are the top of the dung heap.

Shame on UPenn.

In effect tho, using reader mode in the browser on archive.[a-z]* is about the same as outline.

Archive.is (etc) did it better?

Curious that strtol() etc wasn’t profiled as this concerns turning ints into strings. Snprintf has a lot of other overhead.

Edited to indicate I was hired at a salary above my experience. Took me 5 years to grow into being Senior when I was really a Junior. But was still payed as a Senior the whole time. I do make well above market for my years in my geographic region.

I’ve stayed at my current job 24 years. I was hired at a Senior level above my experience with better pay than I probably deserved as I was 18 month out of uni. Still, my total increase is 278%. I had a 7 year span in the middle with almost no increase - about 7%. I wonder if those seven years coincide and were during an economic downturn?

Most of my career has been using Clearcase. (Last 18 years)

Or your junior summer was in covid lockdown (like my son who gets his degree this spring where most of his highly regarded business school cohort could not find internships in their field due to lockdown).

He’s started looking for a job now, hopefully this isn’t an issue for him.

For the TLDR; crowd, note at the end reads: “ (For the lawyers: This was a bit. Ethan Coen had nothing to do with it.)”

I remember the fun of going to a couple Sega arcades in Tokyo in ‘98 when there on business. At one of them they had people out front handing out mini packs of Sega branded tissues! They gave me several, it was a cool souvenir I shared with a few friends.

"Three‐axle 60‐ft articulated buses are the next most common transit bus in service [in the USA], comprising about 10% of the fleet. The curb weights for these buses currently range between approximately 38,000 and 50,000 pounds, and fully‐loaded weights range from approximately 56,000 to 65,000 pounds." (page iii)[1]

Fully loaded weights for 3-axle US buses from the linked report's executive summary are 28 to 32.5 tons, empty range from 19 to 25 tons. So a not-fully loaded 3-axle bus was very likely over the 26 ton limit.

Three axle buses should not have been on that bridge. Would be interesting to see if that route was changed recently from 2-axle to 3-axle service.

[1] https://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/tcrp/docs/TCRPJ-11Task...

In Colorado, at least, independents get to vote in primaries. In 2016, Colorado Proposition 108 passed allowing independent voters to vote in the primary elections. Now, independents can request a party’s ballot before the election. If they don’t, they’ll be mailed all parties’ ballots but are instructed to fill out just one. If they turn in more than one, their vote is invalidates for all primaries voted in.

Other states could also require laws like this.

The event in question is The Australian Open… making your comment sound very strange.

They tested this by sending a survey questionnaire to random people.

I don't care who you are, I consider that a request to mine me for my data. I do not participate in survey requests from anyone.

Perhaps all this is showing is who is more willing to give up the time to take the survey and their private information?

I still wouldn’t be a big enough sucker to trust that.

Paper towels for me everytime.

But their blowers are not just better at drying hands than a standard blower - they are also better at spreading nastiness from people who don’t wash thoroughly. https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/04/dyson-dryers-hurl-60...

All I know is the Bosch I got two years ago uses 3 gallons of water, 2 hours, and some rinse aid, and, in near (blissful) silence, cleans my dishes better than any dishwasher I’ve used in my 50+ year life.

Can't edit anymore, you're right, I typed an extra 0 -- he actually makes $5k per year on Spotify. I was up too late and not thinking correctly. I think the $50k was his total across all services.

I get .03 to .05 of a penny per stream on Spotify for my music, depending on factors I don’t understand. So $3 to $5 per thousand streams. Still not great but not as dismal as you put it. I have one very successful friend who gets about 1.2 million streams a year on Spotify. He works usually with two collaborators so the ~$50,000 he makes per year on Spotify is split three ways before income taxes. Of course he also is on other platforms too.

I know all about that. And for some reason they still work for me.