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by cbanek 4y ago
There's some great stuff in here I won't go over, but it's mostly performance theater. Management, and people, love to talk, but especially management. I'm always amazed how some people would rather have a whole day of
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by cbanek 4y ago
> You can try using some BS of your own; Don't you worry about Planet Express, let me worry about blank.
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by cbanek 4y ago
I'm seriously tempted to try this just on a throwaway just to give it a shot. Sounds like it could be hilarious.
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by cbanek 4y ago
No, checklists are great. They are great because while exercising your brain is good, sometimes you don't really care about exercising your brain, you just care about getting it right. For example, trying to restart an engine on a pl
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by cbanek 4y ago
I can see this easily happening for a number of reasons. I can see pretty well, but learned late in life that I needed glasses and was getting a lot of migraines from the lack of them. And if there's one thing that activates my stres
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by cbanek 4y ago
> I’ve also seen instances of people mortgaging their house and using their life's saving to buy monkey pictures Really? Really? I really want to meet these people. I feel like it will be the new beanie baby documentary (there&#x27
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by cbanek 4y ago
This, and also borrowing risk. It's more likely the a person will not pay the mortgage than a bank. More risk means higher rate to offset for the risk of default. But also, basically the banks can push you around because they have t
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by cbanek 4y ago
I've been thinking about this recently in terms of end of life type stuff. By the time I die (hopefully), access to digital accounts will be a major part of end of life care. Being able to deactivate accounts, set up things, or notif
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by cbanek 4y ago
This reminds me of when Microsoft stopped offering the free towel service. In the buildings with large bike racks, there were locker rooms with showers. Normally they would have a free towel service so you didn't have to bring your o
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by cbanek 4y ago
As someone with multiple mental health diagnoses, I wonder if this is why I get so sleepy when depressed. I just want to sleep all day. Is this my body maybe unconsciously knowing it's time to process some emotions?
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by cbanek 4y ago
I love this question. I experience this too. I don't know why it happens, but it makes me think of my therapist asking me to journal things. Writing my feelings out helps to really get them out of my head. I feel like that's a
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by cbanek 4y ago
Honestly, yes. Code is a liability, not an asset. Over time it decreases in value, it is forgotten, misunderstood, and everything will change around it. Many times I've been happy to replace a custom system with an off the shelf one,
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by cbanek 4y ago
As Tobias said in Arrested Development: "NINJA please!"
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by cbanek 4y ago
At least for Korean eSports players (which there are quite a few), one of the hurdles is mandatory military service. Many times people leave the scene and just never get back into it, or at least not at the level they were previous to thei
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by cbanek 5y ago
The Angry Video Game Nerd's videos about the Wisdom Tree games are too good not to mention here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkNvQYiM6bw
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by cbanek 5y ago
> Getting advanced machines to destroy themselves through intentionally bad settings doesn't seem very difficult. This is how Stuxnet worked on destroying the Iranian centrifuges for the nuclear program.
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by cbanek 5y ago
You mean like the random checkpoints set up by border patrol in the southwest where they stop all the freeway traffic? Been around for years.
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by cbanek 5y ago
Came here looking for this. <3
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by cbanek 5y ago
I'll never forget the compiler bug we found once. We had a precompiled header file that was over 65,536 lines, and for some reason, it would just stop reading after that many lines. Of course we had some interesting compiler errors,
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by cbanek 5y ago
I think this is actually done at least on ATMs. I have read it's a good way to get the pin number for a card, as you might be able to see someone typing it in. Some of the skimmers I want to say even had a camera aimed at the keypad?
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by cbanek 5y ago
It goes from God, to Jerry, to you, to the cleaners!
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by cbanek 5y ago
While it can make you feel very special to get a gift bag containing a bunch of things, and getting that "Oooo, I get to open it" I'd rather just have a table with the swag on it. Take what you want. Some people like pens (
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by cbanek 5y ago
I feel like just how people say always get a lawyer when you get some legal paperwork like a cease and desist - I say get a CPA when exercising options. Many times you can book them for a one time appointment, it'll probably run you s
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by cbanek 5y ago
Mr. Burns doesn't like this at all!
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by cbanek 5y ago
Ah yes, how could this fail you ask? A friend of mine would use the carpool lanes on the 520 bridge in Seattle, where there's a pretty strictly enforced 3+ carpool lane (so that the bus can jump the traffic), she would routinely get pu
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by cbanek 5y ago
Can you please mark which roles you think will be remote? They aren't listed, and I'm interested in some of your positions, but the last time I applied, I was told that it was onsite (after a decent delay).
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by cbanek 5y ago
No, although based on physical things that people can see, I'm not sure it really matters anyway, even if I was toeing the company line. I don't bother trying to improve companies anymore, the best way to improve it is to have th
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by cbanek 5y ago
As someone who doesn't jive with those politics, but I have to think though that they missed a real opportunity to just share the source. That'd be "the truth", that'd prove that social media companies aren't
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by cbanek 5y ago
And of course, the CDC's hilarity toolbox: Back Orifice. Being able to eject all the CD-ROM drives in a computer lab together was really worth it.
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by cbanek 5y ago
While this is the largest space telescope it's not the largest telescope - for example the Vera Rubin Observatory optics (also shipped by boat down to Chile) are quite a bit larger (about 8.5 meters in diameter), even larger than the s

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