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by cfeduke 3y ago
I grew up in a small city in upstate NY where a lot of eastern Europeans immigrated in the early 20th century up until the second war. Going to my friends' houses in the 80s - it was normal for the extended family to all live under one
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by cfeduke 3y ago
For several undergraduate courses, especially the preconditional courses for more advanced courses, there exist CLEP exams. I took a handful of these and got full credit while in the military - at the time they were $99 for each test, and m
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by cfeduke 3y ago
> I sat around and played videogames (namely PC) 16 hours a day and became pretty good at computers. I feel like this was the normal track for my Internet friends and I in the 90s. We've sold two startups pursuing the dream of makin
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by cfeduke 3y ago
The best is the slide that explains what you should do in said YouTube video: Creating Your Own YouTube Video • Any Video Will Do • PowerPoint Put to Music • Picture of Your Building • Hire a Professional Get that picture of
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by cfeduke 3y ago
I feel this, working on a small team moving things to microservices. My primary problem is observability. It's become a huge chore figuring what, exactly, is going wrong in production when something goes wrong. It's not enough to
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by cfeduke 3y ago
Not exactly what you're looking for, but for anyone interested in Alaska I would recommend checking Peter Santenello's Alaska series on YouTube. It's people and culture focused on everyday life. You'll get a little bit o
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by cfeduke 3y ago
As I type a message in Discord, a pop up appears next to my cursor with some disabled Emoticons, prompting me to pony up my credit card and upgrade to Nitro... so I can include these in my message. This is the forum replacement. Right. :\
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by cfeduke 3y ago
> Every time I hear "content creator" I perceive it as Styrofoam. Filler used to convey a product. This is so good. Perfect. I love it.
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by cfeduke 3y ago
After reading this I determined I don't talk about the robot nearly as much as I should or could be.
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by cfeduke 3y ago
> What's the incentive for donating your time in such a role? Name on the cover? Name in the book as the technical reviewer, and a copy of the physical book if it goes to print.
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by cfeduke 3y ago
I practice this - DND, no interruptions, etc. - all of the time, with only my wife able to get through via a direct phone call for an emergency. However, when my friends gather for gaming every Friday night at our club - they do not practic
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by cfeduke 3y ago
You don't, but you are also statistically unlikely to spend money (or, perhaps spend very little) at where ever you're trying to park so everyone concerned would prefer you move along to make room for a paying customer please. :)
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by cfeduke 3y ago
My best guess here is promotion material or some sort of internal campaign with an associated bonus for nabbing policy violators.
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by cfeduke 3y ago
I used Influx Enterprise at a previous startup. Support was so bad after our first year we switched back to the OSS Influx and added HAProxy with manual replication and round robin load balanced. Was so much smoother, wish we had done that
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by cfeduke 3y ago
> You can’t be more wrong? Snowflake also stores in s3 or elsewhere Snowflake stores data in S3 in Snowflake's various AWS accounts. Egress fees are necessary when performing anything outside of Snowflake. Databricks operates on dat
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by cfeduke 3y ago
> Databricks are not on-premises either. Usually, no. But in some cases, yes.
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by cfeduke 3y ago
> You can be ordered to take chemicals or medications which have not been FDA approved, and you can be put in jail for refusing. It's sort of like that and not at the same time. Under the UCMJ, refusing a lawful order can put you
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by cfeduke 3y ago
Is this state of the art in terms of fast, incorrect answers? An incorrect answer is often less valuable than no answer at all! The OpenAI strategy here then seems like a no brainer.
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by cfeduke 3y ago
It's this definition of raid: "quickly and illicitly take something from (a place)" (versus the law enforcement version, where illicit is used instead to describe the goods which are taken by the police).
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by cfeduke 3y ago
> I would like an example from within the last, say, 75 years. Regardless, you didn't even cite an example. From Wikipedia[0]: "In 2020, Matthew Dolloff, an unlicensed security guard contracted through Pinkerton, shot and kille
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by cfeduke 3y ago
A side effect of the credit system in the United States is that it "entrenches and reinforces inequality by dictating a consumer's access to future opportunities."[0] This primarily affects minorities, though anyone in povert
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by cfeduke 3y ago
Google has done the same thing to Nest Secure. I removed an ADT system from my office because the monthly monitoring from ADT was $39.99 - the ADT system came with the office. I installed the Nest Secure cameras and system myself, even runn
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by cfeduke 3y ago
Though its a current trend, these high stack running shoes have been around for over a decade. My running group has oscillated between this style of shoe (Hoka), NB, Brooks, and minimalist shoes. I've ran over 1,000 miles in all the ma
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by cfeduke 3y ago
Hokas, not sure if there are any copycat competitors in the space, there probably are.
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by cfeduke 3y ago
In the late 80s and early 90s the way I got punk was at local stores that sold vinyl - usually punk rock only, or in the 90s both punk and ska. It was inconvenient because as a teen I'd want to listen to my music on cassette with a Wal
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by cfeduke 3y ago
I came to this thread to say the military bases I was stationed on in the 90s had Hobby Shops where you could get free help from other [probably uncertified DIYers] mechanics and it was the way you did car maintenance if you were enlisted.
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by cfeduke 3y ago
Though this is usually how it goes - big successful companies begin to bend towards regulatory capture after having their period of upstart growth and disruption. They make as much money as possible for shareholders on their cash cow and it
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by cfeduke 3y ago
> There’s no dent By the time there is a dent, it's too late.
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by cfeduke 3y ago
Most likely. I worked at a political company (eww) that used this data up to two years after it was generated. The historical data is more useful for political markets for advertising issues than near real time since campaign targeting usua
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by cfeduke 4y ago
It's less about rural population and more about smaller metro populations. Places where there aren't bike lanes - where people on mopeds are really risking their lives trying to go twelve miles. The rural population quote of 17% a

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