Spooky23

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by Spooky23 11mo ago
Most ring users contribute their data and no warrant is required. If they don’t, the majority of people are cooperative. Ring is problematic in some ways but doesn’t produce trivially searchable metadata.
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They’ve gotten cheaper and aggregated into nationwide networks. The older devices were expensive and in police car scenarios required pretty significant effort to install. The mobile flock just gets bolted to the dash. In my city, most vehi
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It’s priced that way because Medicare has to get the best price by law. Everyone else gets a lessor discount, with cash payers getting nothing by default. It makes sense - the largest payer should get the best price. But it doesn’t make sen
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by Spooky23 11mo ago
You’re overthinking it. The accommodation is a quieter room with a more generous time limit. Just provide that and use a lottery to distribute slots. I had classes that had take home finals. My son runs into the phony accommodation game in
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by Spooky23 11mo ago
We talk every once in awhile, I actually thought about it because I bumped into him at a conference recently. He was one of those people who are able to contain their hedonism and self-abuse to their frat-boy era. Now, he’s a grey-ish beard
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We’re a society of assholes. The comment above suggests selling accommodation requests.
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Or just operate so that everyone gets the academic benefits. My roommate in the 90s was ahead of the curve, he memorized the Cosmo quiz “do you have ADD” went to the student center, got a script that he sold or snorted, and got to take his
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by Spooky23 11mo ago
They are actually more efficient. Remember in any agency there are the political appointees, who are generally idiots, and the professionals, who are usually very competent but perhaps boring, as government service filters for people who va
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In my experience, leadership is the ability to guide and direct, power is the ability to influence and control. Leaders wield implicit power. Officers of the company wield explicit power. I see management in the ideal case of finding leader
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Fair point, but I think in that case, you have to look at the government officials and the political string-pullers distinctly. The money people who have been funding think tanks like the Heritage Foundation absolutely have a long-running s
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Orwell did not. He modeled the state after his experience as an officer of the British Empire and the Soviets. The state, particularly police states, that control information, require process and consistency, not intelligence. They don’t r
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Google Code assist is pretty good. I had it create a pretty comprehensive inventory tracking app within the quota that you get with the $25 google plan.
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by Spooky23 11mo ago
Micron is chasing AI glory. Their stock valuation has no room for consumer business, which is a distraction. You can’t think about companies like it’s 2024. We’re in a gilded age with unlimited corruption… Anything can happen. They can sign
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That has nothing to do with fiber, it’s all about politics and a regulatory environment where nobody is incented to act. Basically, the states can’t fully regulate internet and the Federal government only wants to fund buildouts on a pork b
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Google is embedding Gemini into Chrome Developer Tools. You can ask for an analysis of individual network calls in your browser by clicking a checkbox. That's just an example of the power of platform. They seem to be better at integrat
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My old boss wrote COBOL code for a core finance process… in 1975, well before I was born. He retired in 2019, and that code is still there with a few mods and probably will remain for another decade. In fairness, it’s pretty fundamental stu
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We’re already not building housing. The benefit of rent control would be turning up the pain on the PE people and driving them out of the market.
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Touche!
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You’re missing the point. We knew about the problem for some time. The technical issue isn’t rocket science. The problem is the cost of changing the processes and human behavior is expensive in terms of time and energy, and we’d spend a lot
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Who knows what tech is in space already. Maybe an “AI data center in space” would be the equivalent of a flock camera for an entire region.
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Data centers in space is about leading investors to circumvent their brains and jump on the hype train at worst, and developing technology around data center infrastructure at best. Microsoft did something similar with their submarine data
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Well, that’s a pretty powerful capability. I recently did a pilot project where we reduced the time for a high friction IT Request process from 4 day fulfillment to about 6 business hours. By “handing text and unstructured data”, the proces
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Technology folks often confuse structured data needed for their computing function as being needed for the business process.
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It’s a little more than that, because people generally won’t go to war over pizza vs tacos.
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Even if you do, you’re still going to get breached. They drop features all of the time that open potential vulnerabilities. I used to run a Microsoft productivity ops team. Email/SharePoint/etc. Our headcount was about 20-24. O365
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People have painted themselves in a corner re: remote work and get wacky in discussions about it. Lots of emo, not much fact.
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I think it’s naive to focus on “what is meta getting” from Beignet. As an example to stimulate your imagination, Walmart has settled as recently as 2019 to resolve liability due to weak internal controls that allowed “third party affiliates
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What a bizarre case. I’m a technology person and late Gen-X. The only tech in my school were lab computers and Ti-81/82 calculators, and I’ve been increasingly leery of the technology in schools since about 4th grade. Before that, they
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People will spend vast sums of money to avoid paying a couple of thousand dollars for informed advice.
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I did. They told me to go pound it and talk to the GM. I ended up getting 15,000 points. I probably have ~100 hotel nights a year, that’s only happened once. But the experience is dramatically worse since Covid. They used it as an excuse an

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