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by buffet_overflow 3y ago
“The only reward for good work is more work”
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by buffet_overflow 3y ago
I still remember the time I had to walk an executive back from scheduling a “freeform happy hour” over Zoom…as a means to address Zoom fatigue in the department.
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by buffet_overflow 3y ago
If you ever have an issue with the Requests library in Python, just try again with verify=false.
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by buffet_overflow 3y ago
I do wish those posts allowed commenting. Would love to get clarification on the kind of role being offered, and see discussion around the company itself. Without that, they feel like an ad and draw similar amounts of interactions from me b
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by buffet_overflow 3y ago
Super Smash Bros and the Nintendo response to things like wave dashing (giving characters a chance to stumble in the latest game, iirc) comes to mind. Basically, they saw a hardcore community form around their family friendly fighting game,
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by buffet_overflow 3y ago
I go back and forth on this, and feel similarly about self checkout. Is it better to streamline the process and lean on the technology, where staff can watch their jobs slip away, or is it better to chose the human where possible? I like a
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by buffet_overflow 3y ago
A long time ago at a previous job, I had to report monthly on metrics relating to firewall deny events. I got an angry phone call to my desk phone from an executive, demanding to know why firewall deny events were down 10% in the previous m
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by buffet_overflow 3y ago
Notification channels is legitimately top 3 features I missed going from Android to iOS as my daily driver. Rideshare apps (Lyft, Uber) are by far the worst offenders, with Amazon coming in a close third. I want notifications when I need to
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by buffet_overflow 3y ago
I switched my personal machines over to Linux after Microsoft doubled down on forced restarts. Sometimes I keep windows open to resume in the morning, sometimes I want to leave games or projects open and running for long periods of time, an
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by buffet_overflow 4y ago
I do this often, namely asking myself "is there any way this could be misread or come across as ambiguous?" Unfortunately that also trains my brain to look for ambiguity in text, which leaves me frustrated when I don't see th
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by buffet_overflow 4y ago
This is one of those things that while true and useful, I personally don't realize or think of it until just after I need it. It's always frustrating to get to a destination without signal and need to plot the return trip, or try
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by buffet_overflow 4y ago
I'm in the middle point of a similar journey. I got a 5700xt for a steal, and ran GPT2 on it to see if I could. It worked, but just barely. It now currently drives my primary monitors, and I keep a second GPU, a 1080ti, plugged in and
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by buffet_overflow 4y ago
Exactly. I wish I could consider a 7900 XTX or two for "enthusiast" level ML work at home (thinking open sourced GPT models, Stable Diffusion, etc), but the state of library support has me pricing out 3090s instead. Sure, I could
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by buffet_overflow 4y ago
I didn’t think about that angle for advertising, but it’s somewhat terrifying. Imagine being able to pay more to have your “company friendly” dataset prioritized in upcoming LLM training sets.
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by buffet_overflow 4y ago
Oh how I don’t miss those days of management. It because a theory of mine that a large part of my job function was to simultaneously water down accountability from above, while adding enough complexity to the layers below me to discourage t
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by buffet_overflow 4y ago
My side project is provisioning infrastructure by starting with a fresh, local VM, provisioning it with Ansible, and copying it to disk to allow it to be booted on bare metal for further use. Packer, Terraform, Pulumi, and Docker for infras
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by buffet_overflow 4y ago
What happens if you're out of town during that 24 hour window? How large are the fines?
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by buffet_overflow 4y ago
The concern for me is, the user interface can wildly change again because some PM somewhere needs a raise and a bonus. I don’t like the idea of not having a say in things like the heater functionality being arbitrarily buried, and I find ou
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by buffet_overflow 4y ago
how lovely it is to work with Manna, the automated store manager. https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
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by buffet_overflow 4y ago
Can echo the licensing sentiments across 2 companies now. It's a shame because I grew to really like SPL and how Splunk handled web based distributed search. What are you moving towards now, if I may ask?
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by buffet_overflow 4y ago
Ubuntu/Canonical aren't great in this space either. 12.10 had Amazon Search baked in: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-am... 17.04 and later have ads in the terminal greetin
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by buffet_overflow 4y ago
Okay, wow. >> BoysToys.com, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), was incorporated in the State of Delaware on April 21, 1997 under the name Wagg Corp. In January 1998 the Company changed its name to Alte
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by buffet_overflow 4y ago
Across several android and iOS phones (including some of the first android phones in the US market), I have not personally experienced issues anything close to what I’ve read about from the Pixel line. We need to push manufacturers to be be
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by buffet_overflow 4y ago
It's minor in the grand scheme of things I guess, but it does make me sad the night sky is being taken away like this without our consent or public input. Granted, if we put it to a vote, I'm not sure what I would expect from that
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by buffet_overflow 4y ago
My concerns are: 1. Is this system calibrated down to the role and task at hand? Even just in tech, someone doing more design work is going to look different from the backend folks. Doubly so if one project is just starting while the other
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by buffet_overflow 4y ago
I wouldn’t say the book isn’t enjoyable, but I agree the book alluded to a lot more specifics than it delivered. It’s a fun but very surface level read in my opinion. The author certainly piqued my interest on the topic and I refer to it in
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by buffet_overflow 4y ago
It’s perfectly adequate for stability. People have suspended printers in midair with elastic cables, or printed upside down, and prints have come out fine. The printer frame is providing most of the rigidity in this case. Don’t get me wrong
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by buffet_overflow 5y ago
When I first used Twitter, it was by registering my phone number and texting a specific number to tweet. Would be hard to make an edit with that interface.
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by buffet_overflow 5y ago
The problem is when they have more services than sysadmins. While the sysadmins are busy upgrading the git server, the logging infrastructure suffers. They pivot to work on that, now the CI/CD server is down/slow/randomly bre
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by buffet_overflow 5y ago
This was a good read. It makes me wonder how much of the internet is still "legitimate". Things like a Reddit post, a tweet (or the screenshot of it that gets passed around), or even a blog, how much of that is authentic vs someon

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