SlightlyLeftPad

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by SlightlyLeftPad 3y ago
This is a perfect example of a cost savings opportunity that offers no benefit and is really just a foot gun when it comes to operational complexity. The cloud cost savings almost never justify the operational costs here. There’s typically
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by SlightlyLeftPad 3y ago
It’s interesting to me how important simply having that written down was to both the perception of the company from the outside and the products that it delivered. Since it was removed from writing both are similarly impacted negatively. Co
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by SlightlyLeftPad 3y ago
Would it be wrong of me to coin the terms Natural Organic Oil and Natural Coal? They are both, in fact, natural and organic after all. Adding a prefix like Natural or Organic definitely resonates with a lot of people and builds a perception
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by SlightlyLeftPad 3y ago
I think I see where the misunderstanding is now and that there is indeed a gap in my statement. The point I was trying to make here was to challenge the need for nuclear energy _in the first place_ by installing solar in every parking lot.
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by SlightlyLeftPad 3y ago
Weird way to interpret my reply but you do you. I didn’t miss those things and I’m really agreeing with you but leaning more heavily into the solar since it’s not nearly as controversial as nuclear and the “land issue” is, in fact, very of
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by SlightlyLeftPad 3y ago
I agree, it’s equally likely that the person they were trying fire was an asshole too.
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by SlightlyLeftPad 3y ago
Honestly the parking lots should be the absolute first stop on the search for places to put solar. Literally all parking lots can and should be filled with solar. Nature preserves should be the absolute last place to install it. Why on eart
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by SlightlyLeftPad 3y ago
Thank you.
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by SlightlyLeftPad 3y ago
Any way to get passed the paywall?
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by SlightlyLeftPad 3y ago
Ok so it’s more of a social engineering issue then, it sounded more like a flaw in the SIM tech at first.
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by SlightlyLeftPad 3y ago
Is your SIM an eSIM? Are eSIMs inherently more secure? Genuinely curious.
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by SlightlyLeftPad 3y ago
My preferred solution would be phone -> local backup (for safety) -> Google Photos (for convenience). If the sync to local is about as good as google this would be the best for me. Distant Plan b: phone -> google photos -> local
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by SlightlyLeftPad 3y ago
Google photos, I have all devices syncing photos to one place and now I don’t need to worry about did in-law A remember to backup their phone when they inevitably lose it at the grocery store. Arguably the only remotely important thing we h
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by SlightlyLeftPad 3y ago
1Password family has been a game changer for me. Just for sharing secure data with my partner who used to use the same 6 letter password on every site, life changing. It’s also been a great tool to teach my teenage kids good security habits
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by SlightlyLeftPad 3y ago
Definitely agree there, I’m not proposing going back to landlines or any variation. That said, I feel like the fact that just about any app you install signs you for all the notifications all the time is a bit of a dark pattern.
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by SlightlyLeftPad 3y ago
What I actually started doing is setting my voicemail greeting to a fax machine tone. In Google voice you can also put spammers into a penalty box, so only they get the fax machine. This stopped a lot of my spam calls.
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by SlightlyLeftPad 3y ago
My elderly in-laws have lept at the chance to get rid of landlines, only to be replaced by near constant WeChat or iMessage pings. It was this at this point that I discovered that they’re not alone and most people live with near constant mo
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by SlightlyLeftPad 3y ago
I tend to be a bit on the cynical side, but I feel like SEO has already turned the internet into a digital dystopia. It’s hard to imagine AI doing significant damage _there_. The internet as we knew it in the 90’s and early 2000’s is long g
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by SlightlyLeftPad 3y ago
This practice is now called “Search Engine Optimization.” Right?
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by SlightlyLeftPad 3y ago
Spoken like a true software/devops engineer…
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by SlightlyLeftPad 3y ago
I also want to echo this. For me, it’s examples like yours that I live by. It seems like the right thing to do, naturally. Teaching people and sharing knowledge is the often the most rewarding part of my career at a personal level but it is
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by SlightlyLeftPad 3y ago
Unfortunately, I have seen many of these types of people pass by management. The worst ones are the ones who do play political games correctly because they’re the ones who either get away with it at the very least or worse, make the talente
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by SlightlyLeftPad 3y ago
After working solely with AWS for 11+ years I managed to answer 3/20 correctly…What a relief.
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by SlightlyLeftPad 3y ago
Kill me
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by SlightlyLeftPad 4y ago
Interesting, I always thought I had to have a net worth of a billion dollars or own a private island to be inducted. I’ve got some farming to do. <disappears into the internet misty void>
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by SlightlyLeftPad 4y ago
I actually agree with you and millennials are, rightfully, somewhat bitter about it. It’s not just post-war benefits. It was the era of 9-5 jobs, pensions, union jobs that paid nearly 6 figures in rural America…in the 90s…with no education,