bbarnett

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by bbarnett 6y ago
I really want to vote you down. For some reason, I felt physical pain after reading your comment. :P
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Upper management's job is to manage. Being "convinced" of something, means they did their job, made a judgement and management call, but got it wrong . That's their fault too. It's also the fault of other employee
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Indeed. And whether it's one person, a group of people, or a departmental "culture", is meaningless. The org allows it to happen, CEO downward, through all the ranks. It is entirely the corp/org's fault, and yes,
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Your chat bot is quite intrusive.
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by bbarnett 6y ago
I've drank canned chilli, and I bet if super motivated I could drink a can in a second. Sadly, leap seconds are rare.
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Courts, laws, judges look at the end game. They often do not care about hand waving, distracting red-herring type logic. This is how you get torrent sites taken down, even though they host absolutely nothing. Intent, you see, is key. And
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Yet that's not what's happening. What's happening is, effectively, stalking. Stalking laws exist, even if the person is following another in public. There are limits, you see. Further, as others have eluded to, this is not a
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by bbarnett 6y ago
This is not a binary thing. It is not "the government is corrupt, therefore all is pointless". Instead, there are scenarios such as: - the government is comprised of people, running different departments - those people seem to th
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by bbarnett 6y ago
The US is one of the most democratic nations on Earth. The NSA spies on its own citizens, and won't even tell congress how. https://ca.reuters.com/article/ctech-us-usa-security-congres... The CBP is buying locatio
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by bbarnett 6y ago
I don't even get any part of this conversation. A person needs a pair of pants. Maybe, they don't want to use Amazon, or online services. They go to a store. It's in a mall. Now, they're idiots for some inane, bizarre
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by bbarnett 6y ago
I think one thing which helps is indeed the sun, with SAD. -30C does suck, but... and this is one downside of remote work, if you have to get out daily, drive to work, drive home, you're going to catch sun some of that time. In many pa
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by bbarnett 6y ago
I agree that rural can mean poorer, and that the average demographic might meet those conditions. Two things though. Thing #1. Definitions of 'poor' vary by countries, and my understanding of 'poor' in the US is: * no sa
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Probably, they get more ad revenue from: - you doing a manual search, and being tracked/targeted - them displaying ads as a result - them displaying contextual, higher paying ads I've noticed that some things over the years, many
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Good additional ; agreed!
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by bbarnett 6y ago
I agree with the 'binary' here, but also add "not bracketed". For me, I see: Insignificant < 25% Not insignificant 25%-? Significant > ~75% With: Not Significant < Significant But of course, that's almost c
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by bbarnett 6y ago
You're sadly fighting against the "but... but... it's how people DO it" mentality here. Not to mention, as computing expands, the average capability of people is dropping. Seats need to be filled, and those seats don&#x
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by bbarnett 6y ago
"All those car sales people haul off and give me a massive punch to the old happy sack, but hey, they all do it, so meh." Feel the burn, the passion, the hatred. Join the dark side. Hate. Hate with me. Maybe our collective ha
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by bbarnett 6y ago
You're definitely gaining even more instability than with Chrome. And by that, I mean, insane random changes . Just look at, for example, the recent madness with Firefox on Android. They effectively pushed a beta about 6 weeks ago,
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Yes. Take a tea bag. Use it 10 or 20 times to make tea. Once done, leave it damp to collect mold, dirt, fungus. After, once dried, clean it with bleach in an attempt to kill the mold, fungus, and other such things. Now quickly, with the
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Back to the Future #1, my sartorially inclined friend. ;D (He stayed clear of Lou's the second time around.)
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by bbarnett 6y ago
LargoLasskhyfv added a link with an awesomely detailed PDF. I'll say two things here. First, I'll still say "post film manipulation and processing may have enhanced imagery, and they were constantly modifying this gear from w
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Thanks for this. Especially the PDF link. To anyone reading this: Pages 100 onward, you get to see diagrams of how it was built, and pics of the retrieval system and info on methods. Page 120 onward talks about that return unit in more det
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by bbarnett 6y ago
> Another commenter correctly pointed out that these claims would violate the diffraction limit by more than an order of magnitude, and that's assuming zero atmospheric interference, which is absolutely not the case. Yet this commen
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by bbarnett 6y ago
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nugbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=kFEE... Under 'twenty questions', second column, end of column, under highlights "Big Bird" satellite. Again, you may be right. However there
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by bbarnett 6y ago
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/12/top-s... It was also known by the likes of William Safire that our satellites could "read the license plates on the cars of Kremlin officials.&
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Maybe, but one should bear in mind that prior to the last century, 99.999% of people were serfs, and that included both male and female. Neither could vote, or owned land, or really all that much. That 99.999%, probably add .0009 too, had
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by bbarnett 6y ago
One thing which bothers me is satellite imagery. In the 80s, 30+ years ago, license plates were discernible from orbit. I often wonder, what if you had two distinct lenses, each with separate transmit? EG, both operating at once. Or multi
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Heh, an amusing thought. If you've watched Red Dwarf, the entire reason that Rimmer was brought back as a hologram, was so that Dave would not go insane. And another crew member could have been brought back, but Holly determined that R
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by bbarnett 6y ago
I've been in meetings where people have been upset ; our product only targets 1/2 the planet, how can we convince the other sex to wear/use it? If you break the (mild for some) earring stigma, and even further the dangling ea
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by bbarnett 6y ago
I see one side discussing the wonders of a new product, the other discussing how they'd love to use it in their own way. Why not keep it simple, to get the core point addressed? One side: "Can I make my own earrings and use it wit

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