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by bink 4y ago
Not trying to excuse the behavior but from what I've heard talking to other SaaS vendors... self-hosted is often priced similarly to the SaaS offering because even though the hosting costs are paid by the customer the support costs are
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by bink 4y ago
> Considering they exceeded all analyst expectations for revenue and profits in the last quarter, it's safe to say that some of their effort is working. Didn't the layoffs happen in January (the end of their fiscal quarter) and
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by bink 4y ago
I'm not sure it's fair to say the priciest configs ship sooner. They're really only delivering two trucks right now, the quad motor, large pack versions of the R1T and R1S. The dual motor configs are cheaper but were only int
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by bink 4y ago
I think in cases where there are two large agencies that can be abbreviated to the same acronym people who work for those agencies tend to use names that don't lend themselves to that abbreviation. So in this case it's the Energy
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by bink 4y ago
Isn't this the company whose CISO went to jail for covering up a hack? I wouldn't assume they sold the email addresses.
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by bink 4y ago
I'll leave the judgement about who can and can't be called "hacker" to others. It wasn't something we really worried about.
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by bink 4y ago
Back in the day we used to refer to unskilled hackers as "rodents".
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by bink 4y ago
ebay banned my account recently because I decided to list a vehicle for sale and noticed my address was old (I moved 3 years ago). I updated the address at the time I listed the vehicle and they auto-banned my account. The only way to log b
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by bink 4y ago
You'd prefer to share ownership of a property with an ex-spouse, potentially for years, rather than sell for the market price? I don't think most would agree. There are just as many examples of real estate stagnating or depreciati
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by bink 4y ago
I think your definition of "rich" is more my definition of "ultra wealthy", but even so I don't think the rich want to be landlords. We're still talking feelings rather than data. As far as anecdotes go the new
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by bink 4y ago
I'm always confused when I see the claim that anyone can "wait it out" when it comes to housing. Rich people still get divorced, suffer job losses, trade up, retire, etc. And they're more likely to be able to stomach a d
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by bink 4y ago
> Even after all the mistakes, Zuck is still vastly net positive (from a business perspective). So were many of the employees who were and will be laid off. Isn't business more about "what have you done for me lately"?
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by bink 4y ago
That sounds like a black swan. Rates that are historically unprecedented will soon become the norm. I can't say if you're wrong or not, but I don't think I'd gamble on it.
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by bink 4y ago
Careful. I hear the pigeons use the British Parliamentary style of debate rather than the American style.
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by bink 4y ago
Wouldn't it be easier and cheaper just to enable MFA?
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by bink 4y ago
That's definitely one way to pass the Turing test.
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by bink 4y ago
It is, but having SMS MFA enabled on an account is better than no MFA.
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by bink 4y ago
11% were laid off in Sept.
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by bink 4y ago
What's even more scary to me is that there are several groups out there openly advertising the fact that they have exploits that can compromise all major cell phone brands, undetectably. These groups, some commercial and some governmen
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by bink 4y ago
Teslas aren't the fastest charging EVs anymore and haven't been for some time. Yes, there will be Leafs and Bolts and other slow charging cars, but there will be faster charging cars as well as long as Tesla's newer chargers
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by bink 4y ago
"did then die" is understating it. The Great Dictator was filmed in 1939, long before most of the world knew the true horrors that had and would take place. Chaplin wasn't alone in calling out the dangers, but he was in the m
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by bink 4y ago
Having read a number of GitHub incident reviews I'm really curious how this will impact ChatOps. They're one of the first companies I saw that seemed to use ChatOps for almost everything, including things like updating BGP routing
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by bink 4y ago
So, what does a grue look like?
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by bink 4y ago
Is this GitHub acting independently or is it Microsoft informing them that they needed to lose 10% but they could do it on their own time frame?
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by bink 4y ago
That's a pretty common thing once ICs reach a certain age. I've seen it everywhere I've worked. Sometimes it's because they fear age discrimination but more commonly I've found it caused by the organization not prov
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by bink 4y ago
It's the classic abusive boss trope. "Don't like how I treat you? Go start your own company!"
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by bink 4y ago
I agree. Salesforce, Meta, Alphabet? Those were already giant companies that saw a bump in traffic due to covid. Zoom was a relatively small company that became a cultural phenomenon and no doubt had to onboard a completely unexpected numbe
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by bink 4y ago
I'd argue that bleeding small numbers of people randomly and/or arbitrarily is terrible for morale. Firing those who aren't performing or whose teams aren't contributing is actually good for morale. People know who is an
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by bink 4y ago
I started running a pretty popular forum back in the late 90s and I was shocked when I noticed this behavior. The name of the forum itself was shorter than typing "google" yet most sessions started with someone typing the name of
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by bink 4y ago
I hope so. I found his autobiography a really tough read. I'd love to read something a little more balanced.

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