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by dade_ 2y ago
don’t forget the burning paper bag of shit that is Paramount+ on PS5. There is no shame anymore.
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by dade_ 2y ago
Good luck getting kids to watch them. Kids today have a hate on for movies or TV older than themselves. It makes sense since there has only been a handful of great movies in the last 20 years. Dumping B grade and lower stuff on YouTube i
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by dade_ 2y ago
I’m nearly 100% migrated to Pop. MS gave lots of warning, but I still have a VM on 10 for a couple apps I rarely using including Office in case I absolutely need it. Hoping that Steam Console is real. For work, I am stuck dealing with 11.
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by dade_ 2y ago
And it is accurate in the Caribbean, unlike Google Maps that insists on sending me over cliffs to my death, people’s back yards, non existent or dead end roads, as well as other areas best avoided.
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by dade_ 2y ago
The team that wrote the Windows 11 file explorer are clearly scared to death of any optimization whatsoever.
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by dade_ 2y ago
Farms are also an excellent source of losses tax for high income tax deductions that want a large plot of land in remote place.
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by dade_ 2y ago
Many places all over the world including the Caribbean. The locals warn people not to use Google Maps. My problem with Google is that they have a wildly inaccurate maps that would destroy the reputation of any cartographer, yet they publis
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by dade_ 2y ago
In Toronto, we have a serious problem with out old combined sewage system and the lack of transparency from all levels of government on the reality of the water quality. I appreciate the work by Swim Drink Fish: The name Swim Drink Fish co
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by dade_ 2y ago
I love my Flip, well the hardware. Samsung software is annoying, especially Bixby. But it fits in my pocket, which is all I wanted since the iPhone SE.
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by dade_ 2y ago
There is strong evidence that attempts to fix the depression actually made it worse and prolonged it. One take of many: https://www.econlib.org/policy-failure-during-the-great-depr...
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by dade_ 2y ago
So this explanation is neat and tidy. The problem we learned in COVID payouts is that people would rather watch Netflix and smoke weed all day than do any amount of low skilled work at a job they hate. So they start demanding exorbitant w
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by dade_ 2y ago
This is exactly what not to do. I'd expect customer sat and churn to be a catastrophe. Video calls with high stress customers is a much better and probably far less expensive solution.
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by dade_ 2y ago
It was nearly 30 years ago, I was in high school and heard about 1984. I couldn't find it in the school library, so I asked the librarian and in the most surreal experience, she looked at me and said, "Follow me." A few corr
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by dade_ 2y ago
Then this blog post isn't very powerful.
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by dade_ 2y ago
Exactly. I bought my couch and chair $4400 (CAD) on sale (about 40% off list) in 2008. I recall some people thought I was insane for spending so much money on a couch. I thought the price was fair after doing a lot of research, and the s
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by dade_ 2y ago
Keep asking the same question until you get the answer you want to hear. It's common behaviour in all organizations. That faint hope that a more convenient answer is found so we can proceed BAU. What I don't understand is why al
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by dade_ 2y ago
EZ Air in the Caribbean, there are no sest numbers on the ticket, just sit wherever. Fastest I've ever seen a plane, albeit small, load. The staff were very friendly too. It was so novel, I was excited for my return flight to experi
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by dade_ 2y ago
IBM is a finance company with a tech brand. Business units are black (profitable) or red. They buy them, juice their profits, eventually they extract too much, they turn red. They bundle a few husks together, sell them off eg. Lenovo, or
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by dade_ 2y ago
Yes, they are and they also know it isn't foolproof so that isn't the only information being compared against. Some services compare the calling number is compared against live activity on the PSTN (ie, subscriber's phone is
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by dade_ 2y ago
LOL, Redis CEO Rowan Trollope. Man I despise that guy. After successfully navigating the Cisco Contact Center, UC and WebEx business into oblivion, he ends up at Five9 architecting the crash and burn Zoom acquisition that failed 'suc
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by dade_ 2y ago
Guess it wasn't a toilet seat. Life imitates art. Dead Like Me, love that show: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0348913/
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by dade_ 2y ago
Amazon Prime had the series and removed the episode, but has since dropped the series. Which is the other annoying thing about streaming services, they keep dropping shows often unannounced.
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by dade_ 2y ago
When the Betty White is being censored for blackface, which wasn't blackface, it was obvious we are in trouble. It's modern book burning, just less dramatic without the pyres. https://www.jacksonville.com/story&#x
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by dade_ 2y ago
The shocking side of becoming a doctor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Going_to_Hurt A medical student keeps a journal, becomes a doctor, hates his life, publishes his journal. One post I am laughing my ass off
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by dade_ 3y ago
Interesting Airbus omitted it from their report, Yeti sure appears to be a commercial airline: https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/stories/2024-03-2023-a-ye...
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by dade_ 3y ago
Praise me! I only murdered 1 customer a year, some of them basically children. /S WTAF is with these assholes commenting this is acceptable? It's not. Not even close. In spite of Boeing's efforts, no one died in a commer
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by dade_ 3y ago
Exactly. Especially for contract negotiations & track changes with a counterparty. Only MS can figure out their screwed up document formats. Office is terrible these days, it is so damned slow. I remember Office 97, so fast and res
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by dade_ 3y ago
Recently there was a book written about Delaware and this problem. What’s the Matter with Delaware?: How the First State Has Favored the Rich, Powerful, and Criminal—and How It Costs Us All https://press.princeton.edu/books&
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by dade_ 3y ago
Impersonating without informing and intentionally trying to trick a person into thinking they are talking to a human is unethical and creepy. There is nothing wrong with using virtual agents, but there is a thick black line and companies a
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by dade_ 3y ago
Yes it does. BMO is a bank in Canada that has a virtual agent impersonating a human, and it is pretty convincing. It is unethical, creepy, and offensive. Making people follow scripts is merely a bad practice insisted upon by misinformed or

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