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901.
by floren 4y ago
From Wikipedia: > Also in 1958, Rexall employee Joe Coulombe was asked to test the launch of Pronto Markets, a store brand to compete against 7-Eleven. After running six Pronto Markets in the Los Angeles area, Rexall asked Coulombe to cl
902.
by floren 4y ago
As I understand it you can give instructions and probably even build tools to do the benchmarking, it's just that when the Splunk customer runs those tools, they are forbidden to share the results with you or anyone else.
903.
by floren 4y ago
It's Gravwell (gravwell.io). Depending on exactly what you're doing in Splunk, it could be a pretty easy transition, and we've even started writing tools to migrate data out of Splunk and into Gravwell. We've got a free
904.
by floren 4y ago
You can add Splunk to the list of companies with a similar clause. As a Splunk competitor it makes sales a bit harder initially (we can show our product's numbers, but nothing to compare them against), but if you can convince customers
905.
by floren 4y ago
Often, the surname is enough.
906.
by floren 4y ago
It's the cookies and crackers and frozen food and hot sauce and candy and coffee aisle, of course! Next one over is the soap and pasta and canned goods and spices and dog food and olive oil.
907.
by floren 4y ago
What type of onions are the UK "onions"? I'd assume white onions because they're attractive and versatile?
908.
by floren 4y ago
> Shoppers will be more connected with a mobile app when it comes to their grocery store experience, and those apps have the potential to steer you toward an optimal diet that saves money and improves health. Apps silently tacking $0.10&
909.
by floren 4y ago
I couldn't even find plain white sugar the last time I looked. They have small bags of "raw" sugar, which is fine for putting in coffee, but not good enough for many baking needs.
910.
by floren 4y ago
Trader Joe's originated as a spin-off of the Rexall drugstore chain, so you're closer than you think.
911.
by floren 4y ago
I'm not convinced that the value is better. Most of the stuff at TJ's is reasonable quality, but the prices are often lower only because there's less product in the package. I'd have to sit down and compare unit prices
912.
by floren 4y ago
It's a worthwhile experiment but the first thing that came to my mind was: oh, everybody exchange cards in the locker room and give each other good reviews--it's anonymous, after all.
913.
by floren 4y ago
There are water taxis, but I think they only go along the SF waterline, between say Fisherman's Wharf and the baseball stadium. There are ferries, but they only go from a very few points in SF to a very few points in Alameda, Oakland,
914.
by floren 4y ago
But surely if we just vote in the same people for another 30 years or so, they'll get around to solving these problems!
915.
by floren 4y ago
Even worse, the blob of suburbia is spread out in a ring around a giant body of water, and it's almost certain that the place you want to go is on the other side. So now it's 1+ hours on trains (assuming they even run near your de
916.
by floren 4y ago
> I voted for Shellenberger for Governor of CA. Felt right. Same, but note that this was only the primary... it's entirely possible we'll end up with Newsom and some other random Democrat on the actual ballot.
917.
by floren 4y ago
I was attempting sarcasm, because as you say, Obama loved that surveillance shit.
918.
by floren 4y ago
> The analogy to terrorism is interesting because, during the Bush-era War on Terror, there was a sense of literally anything being justified in the name of stopping terrorism. The US government was secretly spying on its own citizens. Y
919.
by floren 4y ago
It's disgusting as hell so yes, I wouldn't be surprised to see it in the next few years. Maybe when you start your new job, you have to pay them a $10k deposit, which will "vest" back to you over the next four years; qui
920.
by floren 4y ago
I don't know. Googling, I was able to come up with some examples, but I've never seen them in real life despite growing up in a farming community. My speculation: you only harvest in dry weather (so traction differences don't
921.
by floren 4y ago
I've seen some mighty big combine harvesters, but I've never seen one on tracks. Tractors on tracks, yes.
922.
by floren 4y ago
Layoffs start from the most-recently-hired employee and work back by seniority.
923.
by floren 4y ago
I think about farming a lot these days, especially when I'm reading about startups on HN. Our culture has spent decades putting down agriculture as the lowest work, worse than waiting tables or running a cash register. Hell, I grew up
924.
by floren 4y ago
I have heard that for a birth (since you have some advance notice), you can go in to the hospital, sit down, and say "I will be having a baby here, and I will pay in cash, in full. Let's hammer out some costs" and maybe actua
925.
by floren 4y ago
The sickest part is the "billed to insurance" value. You get a medical bill that looks like this: Cost: $1000 Paid by patient: $200 Billed to insurance: $800 Paid by insurance: $150 Remaining to be paid: $0 I get statements that l
926.
by floren 4y ago
Can't you just use a credit card? Every time any HN discussion veers toward alternative smartphone OSes, for instance, people come out of the woodwork to talk about how they just couldn't possibly access their bank without an Andr
927.
by floren 4y ago
Regarding default ps output: remember how people were using Unix in the old days. Logged in via a text terminal on a multiuser system, 99% the only processes you care about are those associated with the current terminal, and that's wha
928.
by floren 4y ago
We've settled on RFC5424 syslog messages with structured data elements ( https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5424#section-6.3 ). You get a message, plus a bunch of key-value pairs of additional info: <1
929.
by floren 4y ago
I finally picked up a frozen bag of the famed IKEA meatballs about a year ago. As a Swedish meatball enthusiast, I was excited to try them, but honestly they were pretty disgusting--spongy, weird texture, bad flavor. Are the ones served in
930.
by floren 4y ago
I recently went to a restaurant where the straws were literally straw (or some similar plant stem). They looked nice, held up fine, and had the pleasant taste I associate with wheat straw.

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