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by base3 3y ago
From Uber to "Uber of dog walking".
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by base3 3y ago
Paying MDs to do physicals is as wasteful as paying engineers to install software updates.
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by base3 4y ago
In the 1990s, I received mail addressed to <my name> CB3 9AJ
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by base3 4y ago
I did reputation scrubs for recovering alcoholics who couldn't get jobs because of pre-rehab pictures and social media posts. I was a volunteer. I still think I did the right thing.
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by base3 4y ago
Do you really believe anyone has the time to weigh individual performance when told to lay off 10,000 employees? I've been on both sides of layoffs. I've seen functions, groups, orgs, and offices eliminated. Individual low perfor
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by base3 4y ago
Can you suggest a few such agencies?
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by base3 4y ago
She lived near me. Now I regret never knocking on her door. This tenderly brutal remembrance reminds me that "obituary" comes from Latin "obiit", which means "s/he went away". Goodbye, Nikkie, we could hav
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by base3 4y ago
Amanita tortellini
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by base3 4y ago
You're right. Failed attempt at humor.
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by base3 4y ago
Building a universe one brick at a time, on a foundation of indisputable facts, Knuth is the methodological successor of Euclid and Aquinas.
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by base3 4y ago
Definitely alooma. It even uses alooma's semantics for naming variables and staging tables.
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by base3 4y ago
All true. But still a work of genius getting those gyro stabilisers into a consumer device.
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by base3 4y ago
This sounds like the pitch I got from a friend who drank the Theranos kool-aid.
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by base3 4y ago
I interviewed at ring before they were absorbed by Amazon. The hiring manager tried to close the deal with an inspiring story about using ring cameras to scare "gang bangers" who got too close to his girlfriend. I walked out. I&#x
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by base3 5y ago
Young, handsome, hungry.
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by base3 5y ago
When a friend was doxxed, I helped him get the problematic material excluded from current Internet Archive results. It was easier than I had anticipated. The volunteers who helped me were intelligent and humane. Keep in mind that at its cor
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by base3 5y ago
Positronic brains!
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by base3 5y ago
Yes yes yes. Work does not love you back. Scale your love. Allocate it in appropriate increments. Sell your attention _dearly_. And remember you have a life outside of work.
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by base3 5y ago
My neighbor gets regular deliveries of live roaches, which he feeds to pet lizards. They come by US mail from a roach farm in Arkansas. Some farmer must be laughing his way to the bank every time he ships roaches to Los Angeles.
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by base3 5y ago
This was the first compiler I paid for as a grad student circa 1986. It was wonderfully useful, well documented. Tech support always responded to my letters and emails. And they sent me updates for years. I loved Aztec C.
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by base3 5y ago
If they'll sell our QuickBooks data they'll sell our TurboTax data too.
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by base3 5y ago
Many people falsely assume that anything leaked from a lab was made in a lab.
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by base3 5y ago
Tips are kept by employers in many industries. Restaurants. Hotels. Spas. My solution is to always tip in cash to the person who provides a service. Never on a card.
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by base3 5y ago
Remarkable. Thank you!
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by base3 5y ago
Me too! I use AWS all day at work, so I should be able to find the service that charges my personal account 64 cents per month... :shrug: I'm glad that student got help.
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by base3 6y ago
Sad waste of resources.
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by base3 6y ago
I worked in adtech. I built a simple ML system that detected signals of fraud on our network. When I reported my findings execs told me the group that was facilitating the fraud was our only profitable division. Soon after, our company went
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by base3 6y ago
Ave atque vale. https://www.npr.org/2020/12/28/950886281/reginald-foster-wor...
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by base3 6y ago
Puff piece with no technical details. This reads like a press release.
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by base3 6y ago
When I was hired by Microsoft in 2001, I crossed out and changed language in the documents I was required to sign. Nobody said a word. I suspect nobody looked at the originals.

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