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by briffle 3y ago
We have some DB servers that occasionally need to do very large batches of transactions. They run all month with a couple of CPU's, and a small amount of ram to make sure they are 'caught up' with production, and before the
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by briffle 3y ago
Oh man, i'm going to have to start looking at Meta just like I do phone and cable companies...
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by briffle 3y ago
I have a 'family' setup in our iphones for my wife and kids. My wife bought some airtags and put them in the cases for our kids expensive musical instruments, her keys, etc. We are configured as a family to share apps, set screen
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by briffle 3y ago
Puerto Rico and Hawaii would both be good candidates for the same reasons.. Heck, just buy half of Larry Ellison's HI island...
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by briffle 3y ago
There are 2 buildings there for Google, serving 3 cloud zones. One of those buildings was google's first datacenter, so used some older ideas. They are actually in the process of building 3 more buildings a ways down the road for more
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by briffle 3y ago
All data in encrypted at rest, and all hard drives are destroyed on site.
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by briffle 3y ago
I have a lineman in the family. The pay is great, the 'hey, there is a storm 4 states away they are sending me to help with, i'll be back home in 2 months' is not so great. But all the overtime you want..
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by briffle 3y ago
And a license, insurance, transportation, a place to sleep, eat, proably storage for all your stuff that doesn't fit in your vehicle, etc.
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by briffle 3y ago
Every time you see an article about "we cant find enough employees" its like they need to also include a second half of that sentance: "to match our requirements, at the wages we want to pay".
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by briffle 3y ago
Of course they don't want to fix it. Those barriers help drive up the value of the people that control those barriers. In my state, its also a huge problem with Nursing and Police Certification. Especially over the last 3 years. If
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by briffle 3y ago
> Sadly I have switched away to 1P, too much effort to move it all back. It seems like a very, very bad thing to store both your passwords, and TOTP codes in the same tool...
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by briffle 3y ago
Meanwhile, On Google Cloud, instead of using a service that uses a rebranded elastic, you just install elastic from your GCP console, and the company that develops it gets revenue. And Mongo, Redis Enterprise, Databriks, neo4j, etc. Their &
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by briffle 3y ago
> Also, which part of "nuclear plants are sensitive to environmental changes" didn't you get? If there's no cooling water, or the water is too hot, the plant can't run. That is completely false. Most Gen4 react
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by briffle 4y ago
When you word it that way, it doesn't sound as impressive.. I've seen many 20k ton objects move large distances.. they are trains :)
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by briffle 4y ago
My grandma had an original "Montgomery Wards" microwave.. they saved up for months to buy it when it came out. Complete with a rotary dial timer. Never serviced, always cooked perfectly. She had to get rid of it around 2006 or s
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by briffle 4y ago
8-12 inches of moving water can float most vehicles away.
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by briffle 4y ago
> As such, whatever forceful mental health treatment you're proposing as a solution to your fear of the homeless, is not going to actually solve your problem. I have a 70 year old family friend that owns a farm, 4th generation of hi
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by briffle 4y ago
One of the two great Portland Hitman murders that did not pan out in the last 15 years: https://www.wweek.com/news/2016/08/17/a-hit-man-came-to-kill...
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by briffle 4y ago
You think that is bad, every doctors office I have ever dealt with over the phone has just asked for my name, and birthdate. Think of all the friends on social media I can impersonate!
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by briffle 4y ago
It could be great if you were a car manufacturer that already had an existing, very large supply chain for lights, dashboard, powered window motors, and other accessories, that were already 12 volt.
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by briffle 4y ago
In the state of WI, when they wanted to single out Milwaukee, but try to not name names, they would write laws, counties with a population >500k must….. Worked great for years, until Madison really started booming…
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by briffle 4y ago
Or, we could go beyond tit-for-tat, and make real laws protecting our citizens and their data. Do people really think TikTok is doing things Facebook, google, etc are not already doing with tracking and algorithms ?
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by briffle 4y ago
> The job I've held for many years is in Seattle's city limits and my family has lived in Seattle for even longer. Curious about what your mortgage payment is, verses someone who buys it at current value. If it’s more than a f
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by briffle 4y ago
I pull mine from Google Photos, with a docker image running a tool: https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync Its not perfect, but as a backup, it works well.
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by briffle 4y ago
Many employees had all their 401k tied up in enron too.. They were heavily encouraged by the employer, and it saw great gains for years. Doesn't mean that they should ignore financial advices and diversify to reduce risk...
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by briffle 4y ago
> so if a payout was started via SVB a few days ago and was going to arrive today (because bank transactions aren't instantaneous) FedNow instant payments are supposed to go live this spring/summer. Feels like it should have b
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by briffle 4y ago
Can you name the 16th and 17th largest banks? Most of us can think of a few big ones, and a handful of local ones.
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by briffle 4y ago
Also compared to EMC storage. I haven't used since 2015, but they were very, very proud of their storage tools.
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by briffle 4y ago
Had a network drop in a VIP office that worked fine for 10 years until we upgraded to gigabit (this was around 2010). Our very, very crappy cable testers (basic continuity testers) all said the line was good. Had a low voltage guy we used t
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by briffle 4y ago
that isn't the problem. the problem is, that in many 'gated' professions (electricians, plumbers, nurses, police officers, etc) the training is required, and usually restricted by the state. And usually, the classes are full,

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