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by 98codes 1y ago
The only thing worse than no internet is one bar of signal.
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by 98codes 1y ago
When I was in the 8th grade (back in the 1900s), I took a typing elective class, because I figured if I was going to be in front of a keyboard typing for a living as a programmer, I should learn to do it right. That was a rare very good dec
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by 98codes 1y ago
[citation needed]
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by 98codes 1y ago
AI models being "sold" into apps is the new version of Google paying to be the default search in web browsers. Main difference now is that the worst version is the only one being sold.
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by 98codes 1y ago
Is it dumb? Yes. Can you still use Notepad as Notepad? Also yes. We'll all survive.
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by 98codes 1y ago
We ran out of acronyms some time in the late 2000s I think; ever since then, name collisions everywhere.
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by 98codes 1y ago
Open standard or not, how is it a standard at all? I spent a while trying to find what the current version number of the spec is, and I could not find one. Theer were SDKs, and the SDKs have versions, but the protocol itself seems to be on
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by 98codes 1y ago
Makes me wonder if the pattern will continue to follow, and we start to find certain agents—maybe due to config, maybe due to the training codebase and the codebase they're pointed at—that will become the single one out of the group we
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by 98codes 1y ago
/s, presumably
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by 98codes 1y ago
100% why I bothered to stick w/ OneMedical after the Amazon acquisition. I tried to get a "New Dr/New Patient" appointment with any local doctor I could find that took my insurance, and the closest I could get was 3 week
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by 98codes 1y ago
When it comes to test results, does HIPAA prevent anonymization, such that all would be provided is test input & eventual result?
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by 98codes 1y ago
Every few years I turn on that HDR toggle for my desktop PC, and it never lasts longer than a day or two. Top tip: If you have HDR turned on for your display in Windows (at least, MacOS not tested) and then share your screen in Teams, your
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by 98codes 1y ago
My father, for one. He was entirely happy with radio in the car and CDs at home.
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by 98codes 1y ago
Put another, I think more accurate way: hindsight is always 20/20. Very often, the thing that seemed impossible that suddenly wasn't anymore looks "obvious" when looking back at the completed solution.
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by 98codes 1y ago
Where do you live where vehicular manslaughter is not being prosecuted?
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by 98codes 1y ago
> would be classified as a criminal if they did what they're doing today... 20+ yrs ago American that was alive and adulting in the 90s checking in: no, they wouldn't have. Even after 2001.
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by 98codes 1y ago
Then you decide if the positives outweigh the negatives and unfollow them or not. This particular situation is why the only thing I miss from Twitter at this point is the ability to mute an account's reposts rather than the full accoun
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by 98codes 1y ago
Getting onto the allowed vendor list for the US Government is a dire process even for the largest of global service companies, by design by the folks already on the list. I was able to work as an individual as a subcontractor for a subcontr
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by 98codes 2y ago
Source: Trust me bro
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by 98codes 2y ago
I'm sure there have been bat changes all along the way, and if the Yankees hadn't scored 20 runs that day we wouldn't be reading about this either.
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by 98codes 2y ago
Remind him that he needs to turn in his interlocking NY for an interlocking LA.
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by 98codes 2y ago
The concept is out there -- different players would have different tendencies that would require slightly different adjustments. This will make the team owners either do their own analysis, or come up with yet more excuses to hide the fact
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by 98codes 2y ago
This supports the inverse square rule for seafood restaurant quality vs. being near the ocean. There are good places, but right on the water? Universally bad.
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by 98codes 2y ago
I imagine bringing up the current situation with John Deere and how the law would enshrine the right to repair the tractor that you bought with your own money would go farther than most arguments with those folks.
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by 98codes 2y ago
Reminds me of the equivalent you see so often about driving where people slower than you are morons, while those faster than you are crazy.
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by 98codes 2y ago
Reading through this, the main thing I'm seeing is the opportunity for impact. They think you're doing great, they promoted you, and now they are looking for you to lead this new (to you) underperforming team, in order to get them
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by 98codes 2y ago
In my GenX brain, a Van Halen album* comes to mind. * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFxg1nB9yQ8
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by 98codes 2y ago
Same, and now I've spent the last two weeks trying to convince YouTube that I don't need several different videos of Christmas music playing over a fireplace. Feels a whole lot like the dumb emails I get from places like Home Depo
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by 98codes 2y ago
The Sky Follower Bridge browser extension[1] works really well to find everyone you were following on Twitter and find their Bluesky accounts. It finds matches, close matches, and maybes so you do need to review, but the tool doesn't a
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by 98codes 2y ago
One of the big things that keeps me where I'm working now is the org structure that keeps managers & non-managers on separate career tracks until significantly higher in the org chart than most big companies. Moving between manager

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