cosmie

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by cosmie 6y ago
I could definitely see that. Your $70k+ worth of travel estimate would have cost Chase $100k+, as airlines charge credit card companies about 2¢ for every point transferred[1]. [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/advisor&#
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by cosmie 6y ago
I'm happy your experience (excepting the account closure) was positive! :) I've got several Chase accounts myself, and glad to know they're not horribly hostile to such disclosures. The original comment I replied to asked wha
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by cosmie 6y ago
If Chase had an official responsible disclosure policy at the time, I'd agree. But he mentioned his actions pre-dating Chase having any such thing. That is a far less solid footing, and one where talking to a lawyer can drastically imp
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by cosmie 6y ago
As I mentioned in a sibling post, that's a legal defense in the event such a drastic reaction occurs. Not a foolproof preventative measure to ensure it doesn't. Involving your lawyer isn't a foolproof preventative measure eit
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by cosmie 6y ago
He mentioned having permission, but not by whom nor any assurances that said permission was appropriately disseminated to all relevant parties internally or appropriate lines of communication established to someone with the authority to exp
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by cosmie 6y ago
Superficially speaking, he defrauded a US bank of $70k ($5k of which he transferred to his bank account). Yes, he disclosed exactly how he did it to the bank. Yes, he returned it all. Yes, he had no intent to keep it. And yes, he still defr
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by cosmie 6y ago
Logistically and operationally speaking, it'd be incredibly difficult to gate it to a single state. People move in/out of state, people split time living between multiple states, students may temporarily move states for the school
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by cosmie 6y ago
To add, although not quite the same as running a full server closet, I've also repurposed an old laptop as an always-on server and run a handful of web services for both professional and personal purposes from my home connection: - Som
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"in house" doesn't necessarily mean in a residential home; it refers to "on premise" more generally. A previous company of mine did the same thing - they converted a maintenance closet into a server closet. Even wit
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by cosmie 6y ago
Pretty much. What's curious is just how universally true it tends to be, though. A personal hunch of mine is that it's also one of the implicit strengths of technical people starting companies. Software engineering teaches you to
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by cosmie 6y ago
> It's always amusing to me how people who only work in one area of the company (ie. engineers, designers, sales, etc.) think they are the only ones doing "real" work. Everybody else is doing bullshit and wasting money. Wi
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by cosmie 6y ago
Also for those who didn't know, and are just getting started with them: They're incredibly handy for a variety of reasons, but can also have unexpected performance impacts. For example, here are functionally equivalent queries wri
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by cosmie 6y ago
My pleasure! Feel free to reach out if there's anything else you have questions about (email in profile). The biggest thing to realize is that you can control that particular calculated metric in the first place. At which point, you
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by cosmie 6y ago
It's not time based; it's how you configure the events to send. GA events have an optional field called "non-interaction", which defaults to false if not present[1]. Pageviews are considered interactive hits. GA's t
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by cosmie 6y ago
While I've had similar issues, I never particularly attributed them to the GERD stuff directly. Most of those symptoms ended up getting indirectly treated while addressing other issues. Feel free to reach out if you want to talk furthe
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by cosmie 6y ago
I did initially, but haven't explored it in a while. One of the fun aspects of Barrett's is that, in order to develop it, the issue has to have been present and untreated for quite a while. And the erosive effects by that point ar
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by cosmie 6y ago
As others have said, you just sort of live with it and it more or less becomes routine/normal. At 19, I was diagnosed with Barrett's Esophagus, which is when you've had heartburn so much that the lining of your esophagus star
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by cosmie 6y ago
Yea, discoverability is a pain. Although importing data from a CSV file has migrated from their obtuse "Text Import Wizard" to PowerQuery in the most recent versions of Excel, so more people will be stumbling on it. And also yes,
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by cosmie 6y ago
School administrators have to sign up for the program, but T-Mobile offers free hotspots to eligible kids[1]. Although actual internet service is only half the battle. Chromebooks (used by my kid's school and issued/recommended by
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by cosmie 6y ago
> Does M-code serve as a replacement for (the abysmal) VBA? Sort of depends. M (and PowerQuery in general) is fundamentally about data processing. If you were only dropping into VBA for ETL purposes, then chances are you can use PowerQue
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by cosmie 6y ago
Join performance is a bit of a hairy topic. If you're pulling data from an external source that supports query folding[1] such as a database, it'll try to push those joins to the original source. If you're pulling in data fro
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by cosmie 6y ago
Very true, and that's why I prefaced my comment with "only helpful to an extent". In some cases, data validation[1] on the cells directly can help. Particularly if the data is going to be manually entered by the end user, rat
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by cosmie 6y ago
Excel has similar capabilities (since Excel 2010) in the form of PowerQuery[1]. It can pull in 3rd party data sources (including custom HTTP calls if you want to reach out to an API), has data types, can both process and store substantially
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by cosmie 6y ago
Technically you do have column types already[1], although only available via the data model[2] (another wholly underutilized feature set). Although it only helps to an extent, since it doesn't prevent bad data from being input into a t
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by cosmie 6y ago
My 6S (Plus) is plenty snappy on iOS 14. Although I did swap the battery out under the free replacement program a few years ago. If general system sluggishness is your primary impetus to upgrade an older iPhone, I'd highly recommend a
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by cosmie 6y ago
Same with credit cards. The banks/issuers get the benefit of advertising "no liability" to consumers for fraudulent transactions, yet ensure they're able to contractually shift as much of the cost onto the merchants that
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by cosmie 6y ago
Poor documentation can be as much an asset as a liability, depending on your perspective. - The more comprehensive your documentation, the easier it is for your competition to get a complete read on your product and it's capabilities.
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by cosmie 6y ago
My pleasure! Feel free to reach out, you have any questions (email in profile). I'm not an expert on it, but I am a technical person currently working on the business side of the IT fence. And I frequently do (data-engineering heavy) c
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by cosmie 6y ago
Excel has an entire ETL engine called PowerQuery tucked up under the hood. Originally part of SQL Server Analysis Services, it got strapped into Excel about a decade ago, and more recently tons of other products[1]. The Web[2] connector is
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by cosmie 6y ago
The parent's referring to consignment inventory[1], not payment terms. The model isn't common for general consumer goods retail, but it's a fairly common practice once you get into more specialty and high-priced inventory. [1

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