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by dmckeon 4y ago
When LL Bean started, 90% of his boots were returned, and the purchases refunded - which gave Bean the opportunity to analyze how the boots had failed, redesign them, and send new boots to his dissatisfied customers. Apparent MVP failure
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by dmckeon 4y ago
Recently overhauled my rsyslog setup to do timestamps in rfc3339 format. Almost as good as keeping a chain saw chain nicely sharpened, and not replaced backwards!
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by dmckeon 4y ago
Hello, this is Fidelity customer service, and to confirm this, we will send a text message with a code to the phone number you registered with us. For security, please confirm you are our customer by responding with the code. Narrator: No,
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by dmckeon 4y ago
> patches became somewhat slower after update. Could this be a form of assisted obsolescence, in which a user who has owned a device for a few years is being subliminally urged to buy a new model?
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by dmckeon 4y ago
Reading these comments strongly reminds me of the early confusion and moral panic of about 1981-1982, when reports of something called GrID began. The conflation of infection vectors, susceptible populations, and behaviors helped cause yea
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by dmckeon 4y ago
I have no issue with online reservations or contractors, but do have an issue with the incentive of application fees: to enter a lottery for a reservation, every applicant pays a fee, whether they get a reservation or not. After the lotter
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by dmckeon 4y ago
Of the water used in California, 80% is used by agriculture. Asking people to stop watering lawns is merely a way to appease the public by suggesting that everyone is doing as much as they can to ease a drought, and an attempt to shift res
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by dmckeon 5y ago
Had we three microphones, the back rows would have heard thee.
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by dmckeon 5y ago
Loved the use of these lyrics in the opening scenes of the remake of "Flight of the Phoenix" (the 2004 version with Dennis Quaid, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377062/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ql... )
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by dmckeon 5y ago
> removing Toto-brand bidet seats from its California offices after discovering they were out of compliance with the state’s code for commercial buildings. Coming soon, RTO Googlers lobbying for building code changes. Let's hope an
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by dmckeon 5y ago
> Our prospective customers tell us things like "we can't sign up until you support X number of features," and my boss and the founder believe that our number 1 indication of success is the downward trend of X. I’m reading
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by dmckeon 5y ago
A wounded combatant who could benefit from medevac is no longer a (edit: combat) asset to their fellow combatants, but is someone who may need one or more other people to try to keep them alive, or more people to carry them to a safer locat
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by dmckeon 5y ago
Fascinating story of how the “fog of war” can obscure the facts, whether intended or not. Capa presumably had Life magazine as a client or employer, they sent him to get photos of the landing, on a tight deadline. Capa went, got photos,
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Money and Payments: The U.S. Dollar in the Age of Digital Transformation(federalreserve.gov)
1 points by dmckeon 5y ago|0 comments
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by dmckeon 5y ago
In caves, things like this would be called helictites. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helictite
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by dmckeon 5y ago
The content is useful, and familiar to any experienced Unix/Linux user, but formatting that content as a table with many heavily folded lines nearly ruins the content for any really new user.
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by dmckeon 5y ago
Driven by high winds into dense housing - those elements remind me of a 2017 fire that burned over 2,500 homes in Santa Rosa, California: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubbs_Fire
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by dmckeon 5y ago
> Google says I’ve helped 90 000 people find the eye clinic in the last six months Presumably the clinic is not seeing 500 patients/customers per day, xor is a very large facility that thus should be findable.
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A Box of Cash, a Secret Donor and a Big Lift for Some NYC Students(nytimes.com)
5 points by dmckeon 5y ago|0 comments
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by dmckeon 5y ago
> huge manatee Eye-roll. So, trans-ocean shipping to start, perhaps not to the USA or only to coastal USA locations, like the SST/Concorde. Medium to low density cargos, time-sensitive, perhaps high-value. What is too heavy to sh
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by dmckeon 5y ago
I would be happy with a brief persistence of street names at a larger scale when zooming in. IOW, when zooming, street names to persist at the larger, zoomed in size for 400..800 ms or so, then shrinking to the typical size. Don’t know if
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by dmckeon 5y ago
Apparently Californians get a double whammy on cat thefts - a generic replacement cat converter for most states costs about $500, but the exact same replacement cat that is certified by CARB (California Air Resources Board) runs about $2k.
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by dmckeon 5y ago
The term “organic” with reference to foods, has become a victim of its own success - at one time it was a meaningful description of how a food or food component was grown, but it is now merely marketing puffery due to redefinition and allo
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by dmckeon 5y ago
Emergency services in the US have gone from 80:20 fire:medical to 80:20 medical:fire over the last 70 years or so. We retain the framework of firefighting, but devote those valuable and important resources to using custom built fire trucks
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by dmckeon 5y ago
More like a month, at 42 gallons per barrel.
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by dmckeon 5y ago
> I found myself with an offer to appear in, and be photographed for, a Sunday Times article about blogging. So, the “boss discovered”? In any case, this seems like another facet of the impression of privacy and solitude at the keyboard
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by dmckeon 5y ago
Make it 10 to 20 blind funds, each with one very broad theoretical goal: “if the country does well, the fund does well” and with different managers, management styles, investment strategies. The funds do not disclose their specific holdings
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The Last Glimpses of California's Vanishing Hippie Utopias(gq.com)
29 points by dmckeon 5y ago|3 comments
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by dmckeon 5y ago
> Once he obtained all the necessary permits to swim in the river—an ordeal in itself as he’d be swimming through 360 communes, each of which required its own approval process That says so much about life in France - the fierce independ
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by dmckeon 5y ago
Subsidized, but not fully sponsored. I live about a mile outside the edge of the 2021 CZU fire, and our insurance costs about tripled, even with the CA FAIR plan. We’ve followed the CalFire “defensible space” guidelines and covered vents

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