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by Edman274 5y ago
A riddle that stumps 3rd graders: Q: "What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?" A: "Your name." Given that your name is going to be used by other people a lot more frequently than you're going to use
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by Edman274 5y ago
It is so fucking frustrating to explain to anyone who works as a manager in a call center that the only real thing you can count on being able to understand in your IVR system are actually just DTMF signals. For whatever reason, it seems to
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by Edman274 5y ago
As bad as it is for any developer at Amazon, I have to say that I'm going to feel more sympathy for the people in the warehouse who are told to get back to work when a line worker dies of a heart attack in the middle of their shift due
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by Edman274 5y ago
1. A global pandemic that has resulted in 4.5 million people quitting their jobs in the United States in the last month has resulted in people leaving jobs with long shifts. I bet that this has also affected people in TSMC fabrication plant
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by Edman274 5y ago
I built a Google Apps Script Gmail add-on (with a UI and card view for a selected email) for archiving email contents as a PDF to an internal enterprise document system using GAS and AWS API Gateway. Here are two extremely annoying problems
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by Edman274 5y ago
Or, they never attained a 6th grade reading level and our teachers and standardized tests allowed them to still graduate high school, because failing to get a high school diploma virtually guarantees someone will be in poverty for the rest
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by Edman274 5y ago
Besides the fact that they used "99 percent" in a colloquial, informal way ... is that really how calculations like that work, or should work? I mean, if you have 99 percent availability, and 99.999 percent availability, maybe it&
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by Edman274 5y ago
This is a bad faith reply. Non-existent hypothetical devices are not worth considering when talking about the morality of something that someone does today.
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by Edman274 5y ago
Not the person you replied to, but I really feel like enforcement must be a pretty substantial part of what stops people from speeding and driving recklessly, given that traffic enforcement has been de-emphasized since the start of the pand
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by Edman274 5y ago
The voices, stories, announcements, photos, hopes and sorrows of millions, no, literally billions of people, and the promise that they may one day be seen and heard again now rests in the hands of Dave, the one guy who is closest to a Mic
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by Edman274 5y ago
They probably thought you were crowdfunding when they went onto the website and it said "Money. We always need money. Right now our funding goal is $50,000."
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by Edman274 5y ago
An experimental fusion reactor is not a large building, or ship, or dam, or bridge. We've been building large buildings since the pyramids of Giza. We've been building large ships since before the Dreadnought. We've been buil
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by Edman274 5y ago
So - twice the cost of the war in Afghanistan per year, after financing is calculated?
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by Edman274 5y ago
Sometimes, drivers rob / assault / murder passengers and sometimes passengers rob / assault / murder drivers. Sometimes, you want to do background checks on people driving, and you want to have a way for a passenger to r
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by Edman274 5y ago
I probably should've looked this up before I decided to comment but at least according to this: https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/en/datasets The ratio of male to female tagged voices in the English dataset is 45 pe
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by Edman274 5y ago
I'm guessing that of the 4,600 new hours of speech, maybe 4,100 of those hours are of men's voices and 500 hours are of women's voices, yeah?
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by Edman274 5y ago
"The companies that hid data and knowledge since the 70s about climate change, and who have funded disinformation campaigns to this day about its validity shouldn't be sued for their part in causing a global catastrophe. No - no
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by Edman274 5y ago
Or, as anyone who's spent the last year patiently waiting in line at a Microcenter has observed, the price of a gaming enthusiast's graphics card.
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by Edman274 5y ago
Wait, let's keep using this analogy. If the World Wide Web was invented in 1991 and by 2002 no one had created useful websites besides marketing for scams, drug marketplaces and sites to pay ransoms to, and the energy consumption of th
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by Edman274 5y ago
Yeah, in my experience no one uses or supports that specification, which is a shame because if you're using something like AWS Connect with AWS Lex for telephony IVR, you can't just create a grammar and then have AWS Lex figure ou
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by Edman274 5y ago
https://xkcd.com/1494/ "Lifehack - you can just take all the luggage off the conveyor belt at the airport and leave with it. They don't check at the door!"
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by Edman274 5y ago
That happened in 2006, and I would argue that the effect of them moving from PowerPC to Intel was dwarfed by the effect of people wanting to be able to do things like iPhone app development.
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by Edman274 5y ago
Microcenter deliberately lies about the stock of graphics cards on their website by saying that there are none in stock - even if they have some at the physical store itself - because, as overheard from a long term employee: "Just imag
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by Edman274 5y ago
When you have to justify to yourself why you're a millionaire or a billionaire and "dumb luck, some modicum of skill, and being first" isn't a satisfying reason, you have to rationalize to yourself that you deserve it be
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by Edman274 5y ago
Everyone freaks out about oil. Japan attacked the United States in World War 2 because the United States stopped exporting oil to Japan. It was the primary motivator behind Pearl Harbor.
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by Edman274 5y ago
If you zoom out to 20 years it shows that back in 2011 the same thing happened; did we have hyperinflation in 2011 or huge price increases in food in 2011?
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by Edman274 5y ago
They do, but most people get their flood insurance through the National Flood Insurance Program, which makes determinations of risk based on data collected back in the 80s, and doesn't have premiums that cover the actual risk, which me
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by Edman274 5y ago
I'll insert the bugs, and you can fix them, and we'll make bank together!
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by Edman274 5y ago
>"If it is absolutely immoral to genetically engineer a human being that would require an organ transplant then it would seemingly also be immoral to not utilize readily accessible technology that could have prevented such a disorde
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by Edman274 5y ago
It would absolutely be immoral to genetically engineer a human to be born so that their gender identity and their biological form don't match. It would absolutely be immoral to genetically engineer a human so that they need to have

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