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by blantonl 2y ago
No even in the same ballpark. Houston is literally built on top of a swamp. The humidity is oppressive .
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by blantonl 2y ago
This wasn't a "grid issue." It is a last-mile issue. It's specifically an issue with the sheer amount of above ground power lines and population density. There is no easy fix, preparation, or practically anything else th
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by blantonl 2y ago
you are a monster.
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by blantonl 2y ago
Subscriptions should be able to be paid by invoices - you receive an invoice before next billing period and if you don't pay, account is locked This is exactly what I do with my business (RadioReference/Broadcastify). If you ha
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by blantonl 2y ago
There is no way that behavioral psychologists aren't on staff at all of the major US airlines. Everything in the airlines is a massive study in consumer and employee psychology - from cockpit resource management between captains and f
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by blantonl 2y ago
The United States military has legacy UHF satcom satellites that are essentially bent-pipes that operate on UHF frequencies. There is an entire subculture of South American and European pirates that uses these transponders for everything f
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by blantonl 2y ago
There are such things as tracks where you can drive your super car on the weekend and take advantage of the capabilities.
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by blantonl 2y ago
Definitely not always how Rolex worked. Just 10-15 years ago you could walk in and purchase a stainless steel sport Rolex watch for a good discount brand new at authorized distributors.
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by blantonl 2y ago
I bought a new car this weekend and some of the symptoms of this were: * dealer didn't have a good handle on what was available in stock on the lot * anything related to a title for a tradein was massively hampered. * appears USAA&#x27
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by blantonl 2y ago
On the watch side, there is some nuance here. Rolex stainless steel models are highly desirable, but they really don't appreciate in value. They simply sell on the secondary market for a >50% markup because they are still less expe
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by blantonl 2y ago
It surfaces which websites use stronger tactics to track you, and which allow consumer friendly opt-outs. The problem is I didn't see a single web site that I visited where this was apparent. It was a mess of opt-in pop-ups and set
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by blantonl 2y ago
to also be fair, I just recently returned from Europe and I was shocked at how maddeningly frustrating it was to simply use the Web. Between shockingly obtrusive GDPR consent forms and outright blocks on Websites from EU consumers, it was
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by blantonl 2y ago
Facts, devoid of context, released with the specific intent to harm someone, should not be something someone executes on - argues the paper anyway.
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by blantonl 2y ago
I think what this paper attempts to argue, distilled to its simplest form, is that revenge is not justified. The act of tearing someone down purposefully, either with facts or non-truths, is almost always an act of revenge. Someone felt wr
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by blantonl 2y ago
It’s funny, I think a lot of us who didn’t come through high-level academia or post-graduate education activities have this perspective that those in higher education are amazing figures, above reproach, who do amazing works in society. As
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by blantonl 2y ago
Carrot? Stick?
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by blantonl 2y ago
ENTERPRISE'Y
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by blantonl 2y ago
This is literally enterprise software in a nutshell. If you've ever wondered what the "Enterprise Application Server v21.5™ now with AI, Chatbots, LDAP, Active Directory Integration, Orchestration, and Web 3.0" experience lo
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by blantonl 2y ago
Consolidation of information resources is a feature of AI models. A model trained on commits, a resume and past experience, along with answers to technical questions. That's a feature of an AI model
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by blantonl 2y ago
It’s a comment on enterprise software’s development pace
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by blantonl 2y ago
they are then able to build a walled garden around it. Really what it boils down to is you are completely outmatched on the sales and marketing side. The decision makers have already worked with the sales exec and that relationship has b
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by blantonl 2y ago
define a standard resume file format This right here is a 8 year project that would cost 1.2 billion dollars. And it would fail miserably before it got out of the requirements analysis phase.
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by blantonl 2y ago
That's called "the channel" in enterprise software speak
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by blantonl 2y ago
decision makers don't really care about their workers and only seek to check boxes Decision makers are simply a cog in the sales and marketing machine. 92.4517% of enterprise software decisions are driven by the relationship between
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by blantonl 2y ago
Enterprise software is a pig dressed up with lipstick from an army of sales and marketing drones. Never underestimate the power of sales quotas, rolex watches, conferences, booth babes, president's club trips, expense accounts, and pe
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by blantonl 2y ago
Websphere also resides down low in the sweatshop of evil.
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by blantonl 2y ago
I'm not sure why this was downvoted. The author is correct. Given that space communications and the militarization of space is becoming more and more prevalent, we are on the cusp of seeing some military actions in space that could ren
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by blantonl 2y ago
Given that this individual talks about all kinds of treatments he's tried for what happened to him yet no discussion of a medical diagnosis, I'm going to go out on a limb (no pun intended) and just posit that the vast majority of
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by blantonl 2y ago
reproduce something No one is developing a 5 server cluster with 200+ 4g modems to observe publicly available information. They are using said cluster to deliberately work around blocks, rate limits, and restrictions on scrapers who are
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by blantonl 2y ago
I don't think you understand. If I decide as the owner of a site, that I don't want you scraping my business and I block you, then I am in that position. I'm automatically in that position because I can implement the blocks

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