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by ahi 3y ago
This is bait, but I'll bite. From what I've seen, the common denominator is misconfiguration. We can all do it, but it seems especially concentrated in organizations with limited IT human resources largely dependent upon contracte
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by ahi 3y ago
On his 1938 Austin Cambridge which can barely hit 50mph "It's great to drive, there's always a clear road ahead but behind a sea of traffic." I was expecting to hate the kid, but he has me in stitches.
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by ahi 3y ago
Well into the 2000s it was routine to find unredacted SSNs in public Federal bankruptcy filings. Likewise, the old Congressional Records contain thousands of SSNs of newly promoted military officers. Librarians have spent a lot of time trac
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by ahi 3y ago
I recently attended a 90 minute marathon of those old cartoons. At least those 90 minutes absolutely hold up. Quite a few of them had themes that sailed right over your (and my) head when we watched them as kids. e.g. What's Opera, Doc
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by ahi 3y ago
Because they can't do the same job as the seniors. An org will crumble if it can't maintain institutional knowledge.
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by ahi 3y ago
Worse, definitely worse.
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by ahi 3y ago
It gets much much more complicated than that. There are never ending discussions about FRBR: Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. https://www.ifla.org/references/best-practice-for-national-b... * Work is
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by ahi 3y ago
You would be surprised. University of Michigan Publishing, one of the largest and wealthiest of the publics only has a staff of ~30, some of whom are shared with other departments. The university's annual contribution is well under $2
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by ahi 3y ago
It's a massive coordination problem. Few universities have the resources, even if central admin had a clue. Even UC Berkeley's fight with Elsevier was a huge undertaking: https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/03&#x2F
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by ahi 3y ago
Yes, and it's a death spiral since the university presses could, in theory, provide some competition. Can't/Won't invest in alternatives => lower competition for the parasites => higher subscription costs => les
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by ahi 3y ago
University expenditures on libraries have been stagnant at best for decades. This includes those "various learning platforms and knowledge hubs." The digitization of collections and repurposing of facilities is driven by cost cutt
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by ahi 3y ago
Not a huge need, really just Alaska and the Great Lakes. For geostrategic purposes, our friends to the north have something like 20 including a couple heavies.
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by ahi 3y ago
All I can think of is some poor dev trying and failing to explain to the mbas why this can't be done with any precision. Two parallel lines that cross...
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by ahi 3y ago
One of my favorite blacksmithing channels is https://www.youtube.com/c/TimothyDyck . Interesting work and so very Canadian.
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by ahi 3y ago
The passive aggressive fix for this is to meet in the conference room and put him on the big screen. In the before times I worked on teams with just 1 or 2 remote and this practice was (unintentionally) awful for them.
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by ahi 3y ago
Large alumni donations can and often do increase the cost of education of all the other students. They frequently lead to large capital investments that then have uncovered operational costs. I used to work for one of the wealthiest univers
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by ahi 3y ago
They're selling to Wall Street. Just another hype cycle.
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by ahi 3y ago
They're exporting 70% of their water in the form of agricultural products. That's really the only problem that needs fixing.
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by ahi 3y ago
It's worse than that. The ranch owner was essentially trying to lay claim to BLM property. If he is the only one with access, he has effectively stolen it from everyone else
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by ahi 3y ago
What bill? Our government already spends more per capita than the OECD median
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by ahi 3y ago
From personal experience, just stick the youngest on the floor
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by ahi 3y ago
It's amusing how these stories always include the breathless account of the genius hackers. It boiled down to a few thousand lines of code in a dll. There's only so much genius you can get into a few thousand lines of code. In rea
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by ahi 4y ago
I get that sense from most healthcare startups. The problem with healthcare is all the grifting. Let's add another grifter!
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by ahi 4y ago
As a divorced parent with self-employed income my taxes can get complex. Years ago I screwed up, forgot a smaller 1099(?), IRS sent me a bill for what I owed + 8%. I stopped stressing since. I make best effort but a couple percent doesn&#x2
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by ahi 4y ago
Not enough money in it either. Highly competitive people arent exactly known for their social maturity, but other sports/comps have entourages and $ to keep them in line. This read like the minutes of an academic department meeting.
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by ahi 4y ago
They are not legally allowed to automate this. These cases MUST be reviewed by qualified medical personnel.
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by ahi 4y ago
This one drives me nuts. We aren't running this web app on a pentium 2. Code complexity is vastly more important than the complexity of running this algo when the N is 12.
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by ahi 4y ago
I got laid off in November (not faang). I was going to wait until the right position came around, but as the lay offs kept coming in January I jumped on the first non-terrible opportunity. If the music stops I don't want to be without
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by ahi 4y ago
99% of all gym goers are so far from maxing out that the answer is always "more". Unless I'm waiting for the rack you're using, in which case 3RM with 30 second rests are best.
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by ahi 4y ago
This isn't about safety and doesn't need to be for it to be perfectly reasonable reaction. There are 2 daily flights from the US to Ghana; this one from JFK and a United flight from Dulles. In comparison, there are more than 15 fl

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