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by anotheruser13 3y ago
Almost makes me long for the days of Earl Scheib's "I'll paint any car any color, no ups and no extras".
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by anotheruser13 3y ago
Personally, I despise cutesy error messages that try to make the program sound more human. "Oops, we're sorry this happened! Would you like a nice cup of hot cocoa while we try and figure out what happened? Or should I read you Go
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by anotheruser13 3y ago
30 years ago, when I was a grad student, Oracle was just a relational database rather than the bloated, unwieldy mess it is today Disclaimer: n=1.
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by anotheruser13 3y ago
It may not have all the required bands. International phones never worked well on T-Mobile US. Source: Used to work in tech support there
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by anotheruser13 3y ago
There were no PCs when I was in high school. We had classes in BASIC running on a time shared DEC PDP11. I got in trouble for running $TALK, which was like a very primitive chat app. Good times... Didn't get to see any kind of PC until
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by anotheruser13 3y ago
If it was Terminal 1, it would have been United; Old Terminal 3 would have been Delta. Source: lived in Chicago many years and flew a lot in and out of ORD.
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by anotheruser13 3y ago
Sorry, Schneier
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by anotheruser13 3y ago
And Bruce Schneider has proven you can forge boarding passes
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by anotheruser13 3y ago
I believe IKEBUS is self-driving. https://chikatoku.enjoytokyo.jp/en/spot/willer_ikebukuro.htm...
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by anotheruser13 3y ago
I still miss Compaq Proliant servers (pre-Fiorina, of course)
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by anotheruser13 3y ago
https://www.pbs.org/weta/faceofrussia/reference/cyrillic.htm...
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by anotheruser13 3y ago
Reminds me of this incident: https://www.npr.org/2019/01/29/689663720/a-robot-named-tappy... The article refers to T-Mobile US, which is majority owned by Deutsche Telekom.
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by anotheruser13 3y ago
And all the private equity firms that created some of these monsters.
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by anotheruser13 3y ago
In my city, there are quite a few office buildings started or built during the pandemic. They are "see throughs" because there are no tenants and it's probably not likely there will be anytime soon.
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by anotheruser13 3y ago
I was a participant in their research project, which was run somewhat like a BBS. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place_(company) says ""Better Place filed for bankruptcy in Israel in May 2013. The com
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by anotheruser13 3y ago
My mom bought Green Giant broccoli and cauliflower in a gluey pseudo-cheese sauce. It was as disgusting as it sounds. I didn't like broccoli and cauliflower until I had them raw. Of course, YMMV :)
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by anotheruser13 3y ago
Bing used to use Google Search around the time it first came out https://www.businessinsider.com/bing-is-cribbing-from-google...
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by anotheruser13 3y ago
Quite a few Japanese malls and department stores have very intricate clocks.
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by anotheruser13 3y ago
https://archive.ph/2024.02.22-191816/https://www.nytimes.com...
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by anotheruser13 3y ago
Interesting piece about the rise of influencers https://blakeir.com/onlyfans-and-the-evolution-of-the-influe...
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by anotheruser13 3y ago
As a Chicago native, I can attest. However, most of us eat "tavern style" pizza, which is thin crust.
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by anotheruser13 3y ago
In 1945, President Truman proposed a national healthcare plan to Congress. In his plan, he outlined five main goals: Address the lack of trained healthcare professionals in all communities. Grow public health services. Increase funding to m
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by anotheruser13 3y ago
TSA is more like what Graeber would call a bullshit job.
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by anotheruser13 3y ago
And Aldi cashiers will lend you a quarter if you don't have one.
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by anotheruser13 3y ago
In Chicago, shopping carts used to be commonly found in Osco Drugs, mostly because they were attached to Jewel Food stores. A few Dominick's groceries had Walgreens drugstores attached, but there weren't many of those.
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by anotheruser13 3y ago
Part of the reason independent pharmacies have declined is due to pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). For example, Aetna owns CVS and they force you to go there.
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by anotheruser13 3y ago
The Chicago Transit Authority had a number of stainless steel railcars built by the Budd Company. Never saw any rust on those. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2600-series_(CTA)
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by anotheruser13 3y ago
In a past life, I worked for Time Inc. The SI swimsuit issue was a big driver for subscriptions, especially when the premium was an SI swimsuit calendar. The football phone, not so much.
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by anotheruser13 3y ago
They may be cheap, but they're not good quality. I've found Teva, Mylan, and Sandoz to be effective. A lot of the weird stuff from India that CVS uses just doesn't work. I'm stuck with using CVS as they own Aetna.
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by anotheruser13 3y ago
If you don't have a quarter, just ask the cashier and they'll lend you one!

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