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Lyrl

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  • Good luck, everybody

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  • I believe it depends on the latitude, since away from the equator the Sun rises at an angle and not straight up. It can be low enough to still be below the visor, but risen enough to have moved far enough south (if in the northern hemisphere) to be problematic when driving southeast in the morning or southwest in the evening.

    I found this image on Google search that I think illustrates the phenomenon: https://share.google/okYRf16lB1vegnVax

  • Good luck, everybody

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  • http://stevekluge.com/astronomy/riseazimuth.html

    At the Equator, where the Sun rises and sets perpendicular to the horizon, the Summer Solstice Sun rises 23.5° north of due East, and sets 23.5° north of due West.

    The Sun moves around a lot over a year. I don't think it's practical to try to plan a grid around it.

  • BoM asked to explain ‘what happened here’ after cost of website redesign revealed to be $96.5m

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  • The website revamp was part of a larger overhaul of BoM’s IT systems dating back a decade that has cost taxpayers $866m after a 2015 “serious cyber intrusion” exposed vulnerabilities in its systems.

    You threw out four years as an estimate of the time period involved, but if I am reading the article correctly this was more like ten years.

  • BoM asked to explain ‘what happened here’ after cost of website redesign revealed to be $96.5m

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  • If the government procurement person doesn't really understand the deep technical requirements, they are likely to choose the bidder who also doesn't really understand the deep technical requirements, and is the low bidder because they don't realize what they are getting themselves into.

    By the time everyone realizes how much more is really required, they are already halfway through the project. The government could have saved money by choosing a more realistic higher bidder to start with. But once they have half a program from the low bidder, throwing that away and starting over doesn't save any money. Better to just finish with the team that's invested with the project.

  • BoM asked to explain ‘what happened here’ after cost of website redesign revealed to be $96.5m

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  • I work at a large company that is critically dependent on VAX software written in the 1980s for almost every aspect of functioning. This was recognized as a problem. A replacement coding and testing team was established. It included a full-time team of contractors - a handful US based and I believe dozens located in India - along with a few full-time dedicated employees and maybe a dozen each of people brought part time out of retirement (the people with the 1980s knowledge!) and people with other main jobs who had to start dedicating significant time to support.

    It ran for two years, then two more years, then another year. Very much a case of "the more you know, the more you know you don't know" in that the more functions were programmed and tested, the more edge cases and sub-function requirements were uncovered. This program has been upgraded in pieces by so many people for so many decades that no one realized how hugely complex it had become, and what an enormous undertaking it would be to replace it. But after five years - more than double the original two-year projection - it was coming together, more things being really finalized than new needs being uncovered.

    And then the software that the replacement program was being written with lost support. It was too old. Documents were written to try to give some future team a better chance of success, and everything was disbanded and shut down.

    Being peripherally involved in that really made me more sympathetic to fiasco large tech projects.

  • Dems eye new way to shake up 2028 primaries: ranked-choice voting

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  • If it gave party leaders more in depth knowledge of which candidates had broad appeal (which is likely - knowing how popular each first + second choice combination is gives power to data analytics), they could more accurately spend resources to win more general elections. Actually giving the party more power.

    Eventually. They would have to completely rebuild many of the established campaign strategy tools. I think sunk cost fallacy (we invested in these tools, we can't switch to a system where our expensive software and stuff isn't used!) is a more powerful block here than power hunger.

  • Dems eye new way to shake up 2028 primaries: ranked-choice voting

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  • Republican lawmakers grow alarmed over signs of 2026 election wipeout

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  • They believe the other option would have resulted in even worse outcome. As long as they can imagine it being worse, they can believe voting for their (misguided, but not as much as the other) team is the right thing to do.

    The silver lining is that if their team is less inspirational, some voters will become discouraged and stay home instead of voting.

  • Republican lawmakers grow alarmed over signs of 2026 election wipeout

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  • The 2026 optimistic projection is House Democrat majority, and Senate Republican majority (but narrower majority than now). And Trump will still be President in 2026.

    How are Democrats supposed to imprison (executive branch) or impeach (Senate required for conviction) in 2026?

  • The need for feed

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  • I rarely see blue jays at my feeder, and never any other corvid, but your experience shows that isn't universal.

    I did a quick search, and this post seems to say usually they only come to feeders with peanuts, but sometimes in spring and summer they will come to regular seed feeders. https://thecottonwoodpost.net/2022/05/02/the-maddening-truth-feeding-crows-and-jays-harms-other-birds/

    Corvids are also good problem-solvers and learn from local flock experience, so your local population might have innovated a behavior that isn't common to the species in general. I have seen reports of crows putting walnuts under tires of cars at red lights to crack them, or using a plastic lid to snowboard down a roof for fun, but unhooking feeders so they fall to the ground and break open is a new one for me.

  • The need for feed

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  • Now I need the bird species to be part of the story. Most songbirds are unable to learn new whistles. Corvids (crows, ravens, magpies, mockingbirds, cat birds, etc.) are a common family that is an exception, but generally they don't come to feeders. If it was a corvid, what was this guy putting in his feeder? Parrots are another major exception, and they will come to feeders, but they aren't native wildlife in many parts of the world. If it was a parrot, where did this guy live?

  • Can anyone in IT confirm?

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  • I get the "notified teams, they did nothing" frustration, but I have seen how it can happen with low-maintenance features in departments with turnover. Team has one tech-minded person who sets up $feature, it fills a team need and gets embedded in business routines and just works, no one has any idea where it came from other than, for a while, $techieTeamMember had something to do with it. Techie person moves on in their career, other team has turnover and as a result team completely loses even vague tribal knowledge of where $feature comes from, or especially if it is embedded inside another user interface, what it is called. Now notifications of $feature breaking are completely meaningless to the team - they don't associate any words in the email with the thing they use.

  • spongebob big guy pants okay

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  • Thanks Gustave

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  • It decreases the need for accuracy when used with shot. In a longer barrel, the shot will expand in a relatively small cone. Coming out of a short barrel, everything in the general vicinity in front of you will get little damaging pieces embedded all over their body.

  • My landlord partnered with a financing company - I can pay $15/month for the luxury of making weekly payments on my rent

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  • Insurers do this to doctors, too. They take a large "convenience fee" for electronic payment to the doctor. And they have no option to get physical checks. The relevant US regulatory agency briefly declared it illegal, but was convinced by lobbying their rule wouldn't hold up against a lawsuit, so they withdrew it. And Congress doesn't care to make the law more clear.

  • Spill

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  • My grandfather enlisted at 18 to fight in WWII. He was the second youngest of 13 siblings. His oldest brother died around age 18 in the flu pandemic that was going on during WWI. My reference point for the space between the wars has always been the time it took to have 13 children.

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    TIL: There are 27.4 Empty Homes for Each Homeless Person in the U.S

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  • They might not mind the subpar housing, but they would for sure mind the lack of food pantries and medical services in the places the empty housing exists. If it's not dying rural town that completely lacks those things, it's sprawling suburb or vacation community that requires a car to access them.

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    TIL: There are 27.4 Empty Homes for Each Homeless Person in the U.S

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  • Homeless people, on average, contribute less to society than housed people, on average. Generally multiple societal structural failures and bad luck are major contributions to a person ending up homeless, but their own genetic- and nuture-driven characteristics play a role, too, and having a higher physical and mental disability burden than the average human is common.

    Also, living remotely often means subsistence is a major part of how people get on, and subsistence is an intensely knowledge- and skill-based task highly specific to locale. Hunting in rural Alaska is not immediately transferable to hunting in Greenland, and dumping someone in rural Montana is not going to poof make them an expert gatherer.

  • Please help me under stand my spouse's gift and their hurt

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  • My husband and I told family what we wanted for occasions was a gift in our name to charity X. We picked one each year that takes online donations and sends cards "Person donated to us in your name!" They went along the first two years, they didn't donate the third year, and my husband and I stopped announcing charities after that and we all went along happily without gifting.