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by burningChrome 4mo ago
The crazy thing is these came out in 92' and they didn't stop production until 2013 so you can still find these players. I just found out Sony stopped production of the minidiscs just last year which is crazy. A 20 year run for th
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by burningChrome 4mo ago
Best friend had a masters in Biotech and same thing happened in the mid aughts. All of his funding dried up. He was told repeatedly to leave academia, its not worth it. He had a hard time leaving because he really did love the research they
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by burningChrome 6mo ago
Just to play devils advocate here - but from 2022-2026 did they ever have any large hiring cycles that would replace some or most of these layoffs? Or should I believe none of the layoffs in the last four years have been replaced at all? I
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by burningChrome 6mo ago
Anecdotal evidence that made me smile a bit. Was at my daughter volleyball game a few years back. Sitting in the gym. In walks mom with a baby girl and a boy that looked around 10ish. They sit down. Mom gives the baby the ipad to futz aroun
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by burningChrome 6mo ago
So in prediction markets I've heard a lot of times people will collaborate in order to make certain predictions pay off higher sums by having more people put money on a certain bet. Is it true with these markets the more people bet on
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by burningChrome 6mo ago
I sense your lack of hope and see it in a lot of younger people these days. I grew up in the 80's. College in the late 90's. Start of career in the mid aughts. Went through two dot com busts, and have seen a lot of shit. The one t
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by burningChrome 6mo ago
I did find this, but also the fact there is a huge sharing community. When I was in marketing, most of the people would show up, do their work and go home. Lunch was spent complaining about this new report or some new algo the sales team wa
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by burningChrome 6mo ago
You're also taking away farmland that could be used to produce all kinds of things. Most of the prime solar areas are the same prime areas for agriculture. By creating massive solar farms, you're at the same time, reducing acreage
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by burningChrome 6mo ago
I honestly don't buy this for several reason. In the mid 90's, my affluent suburban high school was in panic mode, afraid that declining enrollment was an impending death spiral. My graduating class only had gasp 750+ students.
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by burningChrome 6mo ago
Also hard to track when the offending employee is a contractor or simply exits stage left to another company. Where he could also offer up his services to make another "blunder" that would grant access to these groups.
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by burningChrome 6mo ago
This is huge and something I've been hearing a lot of rumblings about. I just did some quick research: - ~4.8 million unfilled cybersecurity roles globally as of 2025–2026 - Global workforce ~5.5 million, but ~10.2 million needed to me
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by burningChrome 6mo ago
>>> We just caught our company president, CFO, and head of sales using smuggled Starlink dishes on the roof with wide open wifi because our firewall "broke things". Wait, what?!?! I gotta hear this story. I have so many q
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by burningChrome 6mo ago
>> "it won't hide the fact that this surveillance infrastructure can cause much much more harm then it prevents." " can cause much much more harm." Cars kill way more people than guns per year. Where do you d
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by burningChrome 6mo ago
FYI when cops arrive at a homicide scene, they don't go looking for the FLOCK camera's, they go looking for people who have RING cameras and businesses that have security cameras. Anything that is within sight of the crime scene i
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by burningChrome 6mo ago
Texting is the new email. I have about a half dozen or more email addresses and very few of them get used nowadays. The funny thing is I just moved all my email over to Fairmail and did several other things to try and "degoogle" m
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by burningChrome 6mo ago
On ebay people will create fake purchases in order to get a 100% rating and then scam people since people are being far more judicial about who they're buying from. Just a recent example I had. I was looking for a new camera. Finally s
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by burningChrome 6mo ago
There was also a huge move by farmers towards growing corn and selling for ethanol because E-85 was seen as some future fuel. Many farmers I know went all in and switched from regional crops (this was in ND), such as sugar beets, soybeans,
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by burningChrome 7mo ago
>> willingness to suffer a bit for later rewards. Almost every person I went to college with had this viewpoint. There's also something comforting knowing you and your friends are all doing the same thing. We all were dirt poor i
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by burningChrome 7mo ago
>> Many of these things come with swarms of consultants who implement the software for companies that don't have any internal technical competency, I have some anecdotal evidence for this. I worked at a medium sized family owned
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by burningChrome 7mo ago
>>> relies entirely on the cooperation of the croupier/dealer coupled with inconsistent printing/cutting of the pattern on the rear of the card? AFAIK there wasn't overt cooperation with the dealer. Ivy gave the ca
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by burningChrome 7mo ago
>> Guns are used to inflict harm. Why would the arms producer not be held accountable? Notably by criminals who have never, and will never abide by the copious amounts of federal and state laws that currently regulate how people are a
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by burningChrome 7mo ago
>> you can get it on a ton of other platforms for free, so people don't want to pay for it. What happens when other platforms start trying to get people to pay? I think there's a race to find a revenue stream for this stuff
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by burningChrome 7mo ago
>> Things are getting locked down so much, and so many special permissions are required that now people ask for permissions to systems or procedures preemptively. Currently dealing with this at our current company. People were clamori
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by burningChrome 7mo ago
This is the same thing that happened with the 35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis. The gusset plates after the disaster were examined and found to be only 1/2" thick when the original design called for them to actually be 1" t
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by burningChrome 7mo ago
What would you change?
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by burningChrome 7mo ago
I would also add the Netflix movie "Anon" which came out in 2018: In the near future, humanity lives in a technologically advanced, dystopian society. The government requires that everyone receive an ocular implant that records e
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by burningChrome 7mo ago
Free love was the 60's and 70's followed by the sex, drugs and rock n' roll 80's. Once AIDS and drug addiction hit, the party was over. I think your analogy is still accurate, I'm just wondering when the AIDS, the d
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by burningChrome 7mo ago
I've repeatedly told people you ignore AI at your peril. I had the same experience when I was a front-end dev and all the JS frameworks were getting big. I didn't want to use them, I tried to stay away from them as much as I could
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by burningChrome 7mo ago
I've always been under the impression it was lazy loading the page to increase page loading times for content above the fold? At least this was why I started using it about 8 years ago. Its like anything though. I think people just tho
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by burningChrome 7mo ago
Want something to be terrified of? I work at a massive health care company. They're 100% on the AI bandwagon and are putting AI everywhere they can. Billing, Software, DevOps, everywhere. If you think you can give an Agent some informa

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