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by doubloon 3y ago
i think there are some situations where this is a brilliant and perfect answer and none other answer will be better. in a lot of cases, a job that restricts you from using industry standard web automation tools like puppeteer or playwright
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by doubloon 3y ago
so they cut a bunch of people and abandoned the desktop, https://www.techradar.com/news/what-happened-at-canonical then tried to 'self checkout' the app store "One of the goals is to automate the whole
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by doubloon 3y ago
yeah i have never really seen someone breakdown the axioms of floating point mathematics, like how do you define addition in a system that is not closed under "normal" addition.
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by doubloon 3y ago
violence typically does not solve issues of rounding
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by doubloon 3y ago
money systems work with whatever tool is convenient to the operations staff which these days is typically Microsoft Excel and Visual Basic, neither of which come with a built in Decimal type. this will typically get transmuted through multi
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by doubloon 3y ago
i think it is our educational system that is weird. we teach students from arithmetic to differential equations assuming they are working with Real Numbers and never really talking about what that means or what a Field is. Then we present c
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by doubloon 3y ago
this is the type of thing i would say before i actually got an EV. now that i have an EV and no place at home to charge it (like tens of millions of other Americans) and have to use public infrastructure... its crap. its just utter crap. ye
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by doubloon 3y ago
Get a temp office job, watch what tools they use, learn those and work your way in. (Not a guarantee but worked for me) Oh. And never ever ever give up. We are all below average at something that is why humans work in teams
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by doubloon 3y ago
Its simple. They are testing to see if you can do a web search for the expected answers to weird jargon questions from the upper class, which is actually a great prep for a lot of jobs… finding the magic nonsense words to say to people of h
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by doubloon 3y ago
Buy actual art from actual artists and put it in your walls
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by doubloon 3y ago
Because Edwin Black wrote a book about it right around the time Silicon Valley kept lecturing people how it could do no wrong and would save the world. Also because someone could have written a similar book about how IBM helped Stalin and t
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by doubloon 3y ago
in the past twenty years the plains states like kansas and oklahoma began having earthquakes due to injection of petroleum wastewater into the ground. The government had to stop them because private industry literally does not care what get
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by doubloon 3y ago
the reason their economy, birth rates, and military go into the toilet is because of their shitty rulers stole the money and spent it on whores and cocaine instead of education and infrastructure, not because they lost territory or sovereig
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by doubloon 3y ago
i could learn more about a person by how they interact with the janitor than in hours of interviews and tests.
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by doubloon 3y ago
and much of rural america is increasingly depopulated. not only would nobody notice, there is nobody there to notice.
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by doubloon 3y ago
love this but.... how will you compete with Microsoft Power Automate?
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by doubloon 3y ago
When steve jobs died people were leaving post its and mementos at my local apple stote… which were promptly removed. Corporations are completely sociopathic
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by doubloon 3y ago
drive somewhere nearby and go short hiking. low risk, high reward. so many apps nowdays that list trails and difficulty.
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by doubloon 3y ago
"no CFO would punish a finance person for disobeying an order to bypass a process intended to prevent financial fraud." CFO are often involved in fraud. it is part of finance industry training to be wary of dealing with other fina
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by doubloon 3y ago
This might be because the US video news you likely encountered was Cable News ( CNN, Fox , MSNBC ), which evolved under a different legal tradition than US printed news or US over-the-air broadcast radio and TV news. Sort of like how facebo
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by doubloon 3y ago
Citi is one of the major foundations of the entire industry, how much of a "yes but" is involved before its standard practice. shitty UI is extremely common inside financial companies because fixing it would cost money.
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by doubloon 3y ago
every process has exceptions. and there is no process stronger than the manager firing an employee for disobeying an order.
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by doubloon 3y ago
i actually work at a financial institution and you should not trust your bank, you should review your statements and complain if you find errors. which you will.
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by doubloon 3y ago
pretty awesome. i really feel like Geometric Algebra, specifically the concepts of wedge product and bivectors, could save everyone a lot of time if it was put into the curriculum. because people keep "rediscovering" it all the ti
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by doubloon 3y ago
there was a time on linux when you could cat /proc/kcore > /dev/video or something like that, some kind of old framebuffer device.
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by doubloon 3y ago
i will see your rando cron box and raise you Excel VBA macros run on Windows Task Scheduler on a spare machine in a cubicle.
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by doubloon 3y ago
Elon is not a doctor. Elon has no accreditation whatsoever in the medical field, other than calling rescue divers pedophiles. Nueralink has perpetrated fraud in their monkey trials in minecraft in my opinion These people are not Competent i
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by doubloon 3y ago
yeah or they are a vulnerable population that incompetent pseudo scientists will target as guinea pigs with promises of false hope.
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by doubloon 3y ago
Why would we presume that without any evidence whatsoever?
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by doubloon 3y ago
well i am reminded of the artificial 3d-printed tracheas this doctor implanted in Russia, it took an ocean of whistleblowers and documentaries and journalist, all of whom were threatened and attacked with legal abuse, before anything was do

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