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by eitally 8mo ago
I don't really think so. That was a ship that sailed ten years ago and nearly every sysadmin who is still proficient with managing on-prem stacks has adapted to also learn how to manage VPCs in an arbitrary cloud. It's not like
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by eitally 8mo ago
They actually are abundantly available and many are looking for work. The volume of "enterprise IT" sysadmin labor dwarfs that of the population of "big tech" employees and cloud architects.
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by eitally 8mo ago
I predict the fallout from this is companies being nickel & dimed to death by a million smaller subscriptions (rather than just cutting a huge check to Workday, ServiceNow, SAP, Oracle or similar). There is such a glut of AI ISV startu
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by eitally 8mo ago
There was a one-time appropriation change that wasn't part of the standard budget creation process. https://edsource.org/2026/newsoms-last-budget-as-governor-wo... Essentially, the AI economy has massively increas
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by eitally 8mo ago
To me this makes no sense at all. The visual (or computational) ID check takes a second. Why is a manual entry of someone's name/DOB something that takes 5-15 minutes? This is a process control issue, not a technical problem.
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by eitally 8mo ago
Let's be more precise. The TSA has created extra work for themselves, and are charging us for it, whether it's legally required or not (because they pretend that it is).
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by eitally 8mo ago
Historically (I'm 48), professionals have cared about their jobs, generally speaking, and often do make serious attempts to logically derive sociological benefits from their personal efforts. There's been a seismic shift over t
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by eitally 9mo ago
There are exceptions to what I'm about to say, but it is largely the rule. The thing a lot of people who haven't lived it don't seem to recognize is that enterprise software is usually buggy and brittle, and that's both
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by eitally 9mo ago
I spent a lot of time working in Brazil between 2004-2015 and in the first five years or so of that, it was very similar to what you describe (though not the onsite weaponry in offices). Most expats lived in secure walled compounds and exe
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by eitally 9mo ago
I live in a fairly arid place (Bay Area) where it rains in winter but gets quite dry and dusty in the summer. I've had rooftop solar since 2016 and have noticed that generation decreases by as much as 8-10% when the panels are covered
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by eitally 9mo ago
It's not as bad as you say. If you search in the Phone app, a single letter search returns contacts with a name field (and then a company field, and then a notes field) starting with that letter. It works reasonably well. The Contact
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by eitally 9mo ago
What you described in the first bit is essentially what the Shop app does (but in clear partnership with the retailers).
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by eitally 9mo ago
Personally, I've found that running clubs attract diverse groups and tend toward activities that create ample opportunities for smalltalk and meeting people with shared interests outside of the sport. This doesn't hold true for m
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by eitally 10mo ago
Business & back office employee salaries are standard but not impressive. Similarly, stock grants are better than most places but not wildly high unless you're in specific engineering & research functions. This is the same at
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by eitally 10mo ago
I spent 15 years writing literal industrial software (manufacturing, test, and quality systems for a global high-tech manufacturing company, parts of which operated in regulated industries). One of the things that happened around 2010, when
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by eitally 10mo ago
Causing the dollar to devalue is a part of the strategy.
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by eitally 10mo ago
Because the instruction from most pediatricians is to send kids with persistent (not responsive to acetaminophen and/or ice bath) fever above 104F to the ER, especially after hours. Very, very rarely will you find a pediatrician avail
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by eitally 10mo ago
Southwest Montana is full of California (and other) tech refugees with money. They've moved to a place they perceive they need a truck to happily live in, but aren't willing to buy a gas guzzler.
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by eitally 10mo ago
I drive a 2017 F150 with the back commonly filled with either sports equipment or outdoors gear, or photography equipment. I would like to additionally have a city car but am not willing to spend the money (or consume another parking space
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by eitally 10mo ago
No, not really. The way this worked is that if they detected personal information on a "dark web" (per their definition -- I have no idea what this actually meant) site, they would show you a report that told you which PII was li
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by eitally 10mo ago
Personally (as parent of two high schoolers) I think leaving texting unmanaged is wild. We block social media apps (Snap, IG, etc) and also regular media (YT, Netflix, Disney+, Tubi, etc). Social media because of toxic content and regular
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by eitally 10mo ago
My current employer offers three tiers of licensing with clearly articulated prices & benefits (the lowest of which is free), but also offers a "Custom - let's talk" option because the reality is that sometimes customer s
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by eitally 10mo ago
I think you're correct, but another piece of this is that students (especially in HS, but probably also in MS) have realized they can accomplish most assigned tasks in a fraction of the time using online resources (whether copies of ol
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by eitally 10mo ago
At some point, I wonder if any of the big guys have considered becoming grid operators. The vision Google had for community fiber (Google Fiber, which mostly fizzled out due to regulatory hurdles) could be somewhat paralleled with the idea
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by eitally 11mo ago
Fwiw, I have a masters in operations research as a focus area within an industrial engineering degree, and spent 15 years working in manufacturing systems with a focus on test automation & quality. Traditional SPC/SQC analysis is,
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by eitally 11mo ago
You're making a ridiculously overconfident statement. * Show me a discrete manufacturing company using AI models for statistical process control or quality reporting * Show me a pharmaceutical company using AI models for safety data an
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by eitally 11mo ago
That's a slippery slope, a really slippery slope, especially when it comes to still images. I don't believe video is any different -- intent does matter.
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by eitally 11mo ago
I'm oldish, but when I was in college in the late 90s we typed a huge volume of homework (I was a history & religious studies double major as an undergrad), but the vast majority of our exams were blue books. There were exceptions
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by eitally 11mo ago
I've been very happy with Blip. My use case is to share processed photos from my MacBook to my Pixel to use for Social sharing. It's super-fast, especially when the devices are on the same LAN.
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by eitally 11mo ago
I disagree. They're the one place that can get away without investing in frontier model research and still win in the enterprise. Google is only place that serves the enterprise (Workspace for productivity, Cloud for IT, Devices for e

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