Spooky23

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by Spooky23 1y ago
We don't have laws anymore. Just pay off POTUS so he can declare cheap "fat shots" and let Kushner or Barron own the importer, and you're good.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
That was a laugh I needed and I’m using that in the future. The timing was perfect and I lost some coffee. Thank you!
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Some people are psychopaths when people ring their doorbell.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
There’s a bunch of ways to achieve a similar goal. Especially if the scenario is you and your family to home or a server. I use it with a few friends and we do stuff like host backups for each other. It makes it easy to securely allow that
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by Spooky23 1y ago
As VC backed startups run out of ideas that meet their return requirements, they pivot to government. The whole flock thing is brilliant as the FBI is the sales force through their grant programs.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
I participate in Nextdoor.com because of a community group I work with. The fear in people’s hearts is insane. One memorable one was a Little boy who decided to sell candy bars. I knew the kid from my son’s school. Some psycho followed him
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Eh, not really. I've working in spaces where I've run infrastructure ops including end user for huge orgs. Think >100k people, mostly in the US. What I am now, other than a pilot of a few thousand Copilot for O365, all of this
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by Spooky23 1y ago
I think it’s hard to draw any conclusions about the auto market. The cost escalations of cars and the bizarro economy have changed the market fundamentally. The weird gaps of supply in model years because of the pandemic and prices are just
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Great points. I have several people close to me who are firemen. They see shit you’re not really intended to see, and often don’t have a way to work through it. My mom was a nurse, mostly in CCU and ICU. She was an incredible advocate for h
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by Spooky23 1y ago
No, it’s not. Whataboutism is collaborating. Don’t be that guy. The difference with this administration is that they aren’t even pretending to follow the nominal controls or rules to wield that force. There was a legal concept around the dr
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by Spooky23 1y ago
I think those narratives aren’t really correct either. At a 50,000 foot level, yes those numbers work out. But occupational numbers look at all sworn officers and don’t necessarily tell the story about the line police on the street. That sa
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by Spooky23 1y ago
I worked at a US college that had a big semiconductor engineering and manufacturing engineering program. They were about 20-30% international, but the program wasn’t huge. Frankly, it’s shitty work. Software is where it’s at. Hardware peopl
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Great point. I'd add that one way to get improved performance is to ask Gemini/ChatGPT to write the prompt for you. For software, have it write a spec. It's easier to tweak something that is already pretty comprehensive.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
The H&R Block software is better imo.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Adobe gets to charge somebody a big bag of money.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
We pretty much have those already. The long-term issue is that it's seen as a "states rights" issue and both the more extreme left and right wing political players are against ID for different reasons. With specific relevance
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Fair point and I agree with you 100%. I wasn't aware that people are this bonkers. I haven't followed this issue super closely, and based my previous statements on our experience - I have school-aged children and our lockdown dril
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by Spooky23 1y ago
The system is such that there are 6,000 jurisdictions issuing ~20,000 types of birth certificates in the United States. It's a bonkers system, and relying on these breadcrumbs for a fundamental right is awful. For 80% of people, nation
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Risk management is on a scale. You always try to react to high-probability, high-impact events (traffic accidents at pickup) with rules, controls and people. You may have rules to high-probability, low-impact events (running in the hallway)
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by Spooky23 1y ago
My father in law was a fixture in the city newspaper coverage for many years. The facts are usually reliable or refined as a story develops. The narrative is not -- as the people talking to reporters always have an axe to grind, be it ego,
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by Spooky23 1y ago
No, it’s a rabbit hole argument that appeals to people who are ignorant of the reality of identity or are fine with disenfranchising people. Given the context that the federal government is currently rounding up US persons and detaining or
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by Spooky23 1y ago
That’s two reductive and poor arguments. Both sides fallacy doesn’t fly in 2025. Voting machine anxiety for lack of a better term has been a presence for some time and isn’t a partisan issue. What is a partisan issue is President Trump’s ba
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by Spooky23 1y ago
There’s interdependence, which is a system that benefits the world and the US. The US taxes the world with inflationary currency, and most of the planet has been relatively peaceful.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
In the US? Whenever possible, we build industrial facilities in rural areas for a cheaper workforce and to avoid unionization. Meat packing is the textbook example. Distribution centers are the more modern one. It’s always important to talk
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Yeah, and you’re going to be poorer as a whole. People in backwards places like rural and urban ‘hoods live reasonably well with very low labor productivity relatively speaking. I don’t think you understand how primitive American society is
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by Spooky23 1y ago
You underestimate the low end of the labor market. People may not jump for a nickel, but they absolutely will for $0.25-0.30.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
I’m not the OP. Heavy labor is… a lot of work. It’s rough in the body and some people aren’t cut for it. In the 90s as a high school kid, I made $14/hr as a farmhand when the minimum wage was $4.75. They’d hire 4 crews of 4 guys each a
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by Spooky23 1y ago
Look for used thin clients. You can get HP t630s for ~$50 or less. They have a nice AMD SoC. If mostly idle, they draw about 2x a Pi. Loaded, they are similar.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
My anecdata - I’m not based in NYC, and I’ve interviewed a half dozen excellent candidates purged from FINRA. That place has been set aflame. SEC is worse from what I’ve been told.
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by Spooky23 1y ago
The weaker companies experience the impacts of financial stress more quickly, and investors start to flee to safety. Running an economy based on the whims of a decrepit old man and the weirdos he surrounds himself with introduces a lot of r

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