doctor_radium

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by doctor_radium 1y ago
I'm more a syadmin type than a developer, but still get hit with online "testing" requests sometimes: a couple SQL tests for some support position, a couple psychological tests, etc. These are now a hard line for me. Why? May
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by doctor_radium 1y ago
"Since 2023, I and a couple of other key members of the Film is Fabulous! team have been aware of a large collection of films, thousands of films, that have become vulnerable. That collection contains some very important material inclu
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by doctor_radium 1y ago
> They were deaf to all arguments. Why? Insurance mandated crowdstrike. Still. Even now. Your comment got me wondering if MBA's in say, risk management or underwriting also share some of the blame?
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by doctor_radium 1y ago
I've begun wondering recently to what degree the American Psychiatric Association adding "the pursuit of money at all costs" to their book "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" would be both accura
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by doctor_radium 1y ago
You're right. And I'm surprised. There are states and cities that mandate a cash option, but most don't, including my own. I now side with the OP. There was a time I carried $50 around at all times to avoid being tracked by m
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by doctor_radium 1y ago
Maybe the plaintiff is fishing, but this is the reason I never abandoned my Covid mask after the pandemic. You want to string up cameras like Christmas lights? I can wear a mask! What ticks me off more is WalMart and some grocery stores put
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by doctor_radium 1y ago
I believe some Kohls, TJ Maxx, HomeGoods, and Dollar General stores do it.
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by doctor_radium 1y ago
> NONE of the working self-checkouts accepted cash so I just walked out with empty hands. I'm pretty sure this is illegal. All businesses need to accept cash somewhere, somehow. I am curious what would happen if you forced the issue
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by doctor_radium 1y ago
Not my bug, but many years ago, I was trying to automate the Windows screen grabbing program SnagIt via VBS and the COM port, and this one command just wouldn't work, no matter what I tried. Out of frustration, I loaded the executable
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by doctor_radium 1y ago
Speaking as a person over 40 who has been job-hunting and has encountered Workday roughly 10 times, what I don't understand is whether the "AI-based applicant screening tools, which include personality and cognitive tests" ci
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by doctor_radium 1y ago
Shrug. I thought most HR people already are bots, and it's been this way for roughly the last 20 years.
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by doctor_radium 1y ago
I use the Consent-O-Matic addon to auto-process cookie consent popups. (I believe that's how it works.) uBlock Origin could then be used to handle the sites that lie or don't offer a choice at all.
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by doctor_radium 1y ago
Does Bloomberg regularly do this...turn news articles into obnoxious, PowerPoint-like animations? Disabling JavaScript didn't help, so reader mode to the rescue. Bloomberg: stick to your core competency and stop being cute.
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
I was living Amiga daily during the OS 3.9 days, and have no reason to think it didn't come from the Commodore source. Back then I got the feeling it was called "3.9" because the various powers assumed it would be the last re
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
Kudos to the coder and the poster. I'm involved in a browser project that runs on OpenSSL, and figured I'd have to dig through WireShark myself at some point to figure this stuff out. Well, I may still need to, but now have many p
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
Lots of agricultural exports . "U.S. agricultural exports have grown steadily over the past 25 years—reaching $174 billion in 2023, up from $57.3 billion in 1998." https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/international
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
I don't have a subscription, but will still visit the library sometimes to skim the odd article. CR's problem is...what? They still tailor content to a magazine article size (online content is updated more, but not necessarily dee
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
403 error.
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
I'd have to pull the drive to have a good look, but my memory is that the circuit board resembles the inside of a 1960's era transistor radio. Will hope you're right.
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
I'm a bit surprised there was no mention of semiconductors (mostly capacitors?) going bad on 1990's hard drives. I want to rescue the Fast SCSI2 drive on my old Amiga at some point and never thought the problem might be inside. If
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
Edit: Dayton, not Columbus. And as it's slightly on topic, a brief humorous story. At least one of the two annual Timonium shows was sponsored by the local Ham Radio (amateur radio) club. This was common because (I suppose) the radio c
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
I am currently using a stock, no frills 2023 Moto G 5G and surprisingly, I can turn off Play Services.
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
Good luck with the swapfest! Back in the day I loved to visit these kinds of shows in the Timmonium, Maryland area. Went to Gaithersburg once, too. If you were motivated to dig through cardboard boxes of cables and miscellaneous stuff, you
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
406 "Not acceptable" error.
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
You can't have the user download something and then try to pretend they didn't download it. If it's that sensitive, it's gotta be server side.
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
What's the chance that 1) Cloudflare wins its lawsuit against LaLiga. 2) LaLiga appeals to Cloudflare to block these individual, infringing sites. 3) Cloudflare does nothing.
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
I was in a full service restaurant a few months ago, and they were steering everybody to scan a QR code for their menus. Had eaten there several times before and this was new. I demanded a physical menu, even though the waiter said it might
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
> And at the bakery chain Greggs, you can collect loyalty “stamps” for free food and drink and get “exclusive app-only gifts”. You currently get a free hot drink just for downloading the app. > McDonald’s is running a high-profile pro
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
You're getting downvoted, but here in a populated but not very interesting part of Pennsylvania there must be 15 different banks or credit unions with brick & mortar offices within 10 miles. I lament that not everyone has this degr
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by doctor_radium 2y ago
I was going to say something similar. Annoy the visitor enough so they eventually get angry and leave. Does AGI assume the computer will also have emotions, or just that it's intelligent?

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