Spooky23

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by Spooky23 2mo ago
There are different ways to go. I lost my beautiful wife to cancer that was aggressive. The ups and downs, the terror and the joy of hope is brutal. At some point she knew, pretty late in the game but didn’t want to let us all down. My dad
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If.
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They want their $19.99 so you cover your other stuff.
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They did - they turned a 24 month loan/AppleCare that you could re-swizzle with a new phone and exchange the device on the same terms (except the cost delta for the phone) to a shitty leasing arrangement that costs 25% more.
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by Spooky23 2mo ago
What if I don’t want to “own my phone”? Look, I have one camera with me and one child. As long as the camera gets better every year, I’m gonna want a better camera, every year. I don’t want to deal with carriers and trade-in shopping. Unfor
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by Spooky23 2mo ago
It’s all about the AppleCare. I’ve used the upgrade program from the beginning. The issue with it from Apple is if I have an iPhone, iPad, MacBook I’m not gonna buy the $20/mo AppleCare. They are also dumping a weird risk premium on th
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by Spooky23 2mo ago
It’s actually a super popular bike route as it’s a 20 minute path to the central business district downtown. And again, 4-5 people have lost their lives in as many years. In this case most of the hubbub was really about a pedestrian island
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by Spooky23 2mo ago
In a nearby suburban town, the GOP Chair forced a referendum on a road project. New York has a complete streets program where bike lanes and pedestrian friendly crossings are included in most projects. Iirc 4-5 people have died crossing thi
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by Spooky23 2mo ago
I had a similar experience. In my case, they gave me a few dates to fly out and do some sort of final boss talent show interview. Then… nothing. I got the sense it was some internal political drama but maybe the recruiter disappeared… that
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by Spooky23 3mo ago
It’s a forcing function. If you are running a company you need to be in control. Some engineers dngaf or will sandbag everything. We did a 90 day push and identified where we found value and where we didn’t. Our tools teams really upped the
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by Spooky23 3mo ago
Worse, they’re running tests that are hacking third party computers with no controls other than “guardrails”.
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Are they? The word “guardrail” is mostly novel in common use, and in my interpretation is some bullshit applied at the LLM or surrounding system. It’s used like “firewall”, but even in real life, guardrails are not a security control. I wou
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by Spooky23 3mo ago
Ah, yes. The airgapped lab with internet access.
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I don’t smoke but when I would consult in large companies especially I’d always find the smokers and pop by on my way back from a walk. They are always a good group of people, with a roguish edge as smoking became less acceptable. Usually t
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by Spooky23 3mo ago
Data is the new oil, AI labs are the new steel mills.
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by Spooky23 3mo ago
I think we’re closer than you think. I grew up in a similar place - my school had a rifle and trap team. Great place to grow up. I’d often go out for the first they day turkey season and miss school. Reality is shooting sports licensing chu
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by Spooky23 3mo ago
The more… enthusiastic gun people among us think that the national firearms act (which strictly regulates automatic weapons) is an abomination. It’s unique in that it’s the only right that aligns with business marketing. Peddling fear, most
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by Spooky23 3mo ago
The CSAM issue is both very real and abused by politicians. When I did some work with a police agency, it was explained to me that there’s a pattern of escalation with people and they tend to accumulate collections and many escalate to actu
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by Spooky23 3mo ago
We “lost” a signage device in a facility we were doing an IoT refresh on. It was an old wyse terminal, and at some point a CF adapter with an SD card was added, and a construction project buried it inside of a block wall. lol. It’s still th
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by Spooky23 3mo ago
Not for nothing, but what do you think is happening in the United States? American workers have lost income on inflation adjusted terms from 2000-2025. The top 5 companies have a market cap that exceeds the top 30 in 2000, and the concentra
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by Spooky23 3mo ago
Fair. I’d argue that lack of friction is meaningful. Also, the Feds are creative in their application of the law. Things like HIDTA designated areas led to Flock-predecessors - scaled infrastructure deployed decades ago. One of the “drug co
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Closed loop systems that require explicit consent to share outside the organization. Flock is like 50x worse than NSA stuff like PRISM that everyone freaked out about. The Feds have full access to search everything, are no doubt exempt from
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by Spooky23 3mo ago
They do have a legitimate purpose and help to solve crimes. The network effect, funded by federal grants to make a surveillance infrastructure nationally is the biggest issue.
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by Spooky23 3mo ago
You’re confused becuase they set out to confuse you. The waste isn’t in employees doing their jobs, it’s what they are doing. IRS enforcement is a great example. Enforcement is the most expensive way to get tax compliance. The IRS spends lo
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by Spooky23 3mo ago
Rather than claim that they passed money around to make money, a nice income statement demonstrates that they made money. Cooking up fake transactions to make an investor think there is business happening is the definition of fraud.
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by Spooky23 3mo ago
Old Apple was definitely like that, I worked with them as a customer and all of the tech people i was directly exposed to were “weirdos” (in the best expression of the word) from a background perspective, a lot of musicians by training in p
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by Spooky23 3mo ago
lol no. They were designed initially so that law and medical students wouldn’t be able to skip out on loans as was common early on. There are the paths out: repayment, death and fleeing the country.
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by Spooky23 3mo ago
Remember people marry later if at all so you break the cohort developments of growing up and adulting. I helped lead my local little league. It’s different than it used to be - it’s pretty typical to have tball parents in their 40s. A group
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by Spooky23 3mo ago
The deregulation stuff isn’t about nimby. It’s making nimby 10x worse by making it hyper local. That means poor people who are poorly organized get boned. State regulations tended to help with that. I live in upstate NY, the rebuild of the
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I don’t live in a red state so we have a bizarrely low minimum.

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