ghaff

22 ms·

691.
by ghaff 9mo ago
They were pretty good for the budget. (As someone else noted at least a lot were done on Amigas.) I really liked Babylon 5 at the time but there's a lot about it you need to overlook. I recommended it to someone and they told me it was
692.
by ghaff 9mo ago
The em-dash meme, if it's actually a thing, I find really annoying. That's the style in a lot of places and for a lot of people with or without spaces on either side. It was house style a a few different places I worked over about
693.
by ghaff 9mo ago
In my observation, some cities that have "OK" public transit, people can make-do without cars if they Uber, Zipcar, traditional rentals, walk, and use transit. I also observe that it involves a lot of juggling and probably not reg
694.
by ghaff 9mo ago
I think there is probably a healthy subset of people on here who take Uber etc. all the time. I, on the other hand, maybe take it a half-dozen times a year (plus some private cars to the airport). I'd love a really good driver assistiv
695.
by ghaff 9mo ago
It's been a while since I looked it up but I understand the human is about 50% of taxi operating costs. That's not trivial of course but it's also not dwarfing vehicle costs.
696.
by ghaff 9mo ago
Going wholesale generator prep takes a lot of effort and money. Never gone quite that far. I did have a major outage in, I think, 1998. Ice storm was bigger in Canada than where I live in Massachusetts although still ended up with power bei
697.
by ghaff 9mo ago
Live in ex-urban MA and it’s not common but have had a couple of multi-day power outages in both winter and summer over the decades I’ve lived here. Don’t remember the details of the summer outage but the winter one was a massive ice storm.
698.
by ghaff 9mo ago
I also find my SMS/iMessage increasingly polluted by companies that have probably discovered that their emails are filtered automatically or otherwise and no one responds to them any longer.
699.
by ghaff 9mo ago
Eh. I've been on a bunch of hiring committees. It hasn't been personality or looks. But a combination of things that we probably didn't all agree on and that may not have been able to fully articulate in a short message.
700.
by ghaff 9mo ago
I sort of hate the "enshitification" term that gets thrown around way too lazily. But, for a variety of reasons, people are tending to deal with larger corporations for the most part and--hey--if I get some money on the side becau
701.
by ghaff 9mo ago
You've always had some proportion of con artists/grifters of course but anecdotally it does seem that there is a higher proportion of people in the US who will, if not flagrantly steal, will do things like this especially against
702.
by ghaff 9mo ago
I assume Santana Row is still doing OK as well although that's not really a classic mall. And a lot of Vegas malls seem healthy though it's been a few years--even if I sort of half joke I couldn't afford to buy anything at a
703.
by ghaff 9mo ago
It's very popular on here to attack PE--which I'm not going to especially defend. But it's also the case that PE also tends to come in when a company is already troubled in some manner. One answer I guess, is just go out of b
704.
by ghaff 9mo ago
I think that's increasingly true. A lot of people want to game the system and you mostly don't want to place the burden of what's reasonable on a low-paid customer service worker. So you set reasonable and (mostly firm) time
705.
by ghaff 9mo ago
In the US, my observation is that some relatively-highend shopping malls are reasonably successful in some cities. But, near me, there's basically a dead mall that used to have Sears, Macys, and Penny as anchor tenants. All gone. I do
706.
by ghaff 9mo ago
A number of outdoor sports retailers that used to have no-questions-asked return policies and internal repair departments have dropped them. I have known people who basically had a practice of indefinitely returning worn out clothing for re
707.
by ghaff 9mo ago
The more or less inevitable trend of "outdoor stores/brands" is to become increasingly sort of "outdoorsy casual" stores of some sort with--maybe--some camping/hiking gear at some level.
708.
by ghaff 9mo ago
I expect that's almost vanishingly rare. But, yes, that probably puts you in the very rich category.
709.
by ghaff 9mo ago
I have custom hiking boots but they're very heavy. I have plastics for winter that are both very heavy and not very comfortable relatively. I rarely wear either.
710.
by ghaff 9mo ago
In this day and age, how often do you actually need to have your car serviced? And there is no shortage of places that will do it for you in a few hours. Similarly, if money were no real object within reason, I'm not sure what I would
711.
by ghaff 9mo ago
It's fair that's probably the difference. You don't have a full-time personal assistant/butler/whatever you want to call it. But you personally outsource a lot of individual tasks that you don't really want to
712.
by ghaff 9mo ago
A lot of it is probably more part-time but, yes, people who are some definition of rich spend more money on people to do more work for them (cleaning, landscaping, accounting, etc.) Doesn't mean they don't do any of those things--
713.
by ghaff 9mo ago
I don't have much involvement with graphic design but I agree that the impact on journalism and adjacent is pretty awful. Not sure how much is AI per se but certainly the economics have been pretty unfavorable. I'm not convinced i
714.
by ghaff 9mo ago
I'm unconvinced of the AI impact outside of the tech sector. But there's certainly a lot of uncertainty generally. Probably more senior people with reputations are in a better position but likely tougher for people with no records
715.
by ghaff 9mo ago
PaaS has always been this thing that isn't pure infrastructure or pure hosted software that you use as-is. Salesforce has something over 100K attendees of partners and users to its annual conference. It's always been this in-betwe
716.
by ghaff 9mo ago
As corporations grow, they also increasingly need some level of process which can increasingly look a lot like bureaucracy.
717.
by ghaff 9mo ago
The Heroku style of PaaS just isn't very interesting to most large businesses that actually pay for things. The world basically moved on to Kubernetes-based products (see Google and Red Hat)--or just shutdown like a lot of Cloud Foundr
718.
by ghaff 9mo ago
My understanding is that not registering to vote isn't automatically an opt-out but IANAL.
719.
by ghaff 9mo ago
Well, and for grand juries in particular, you're told that (more or less) this will be your life for six months. I certainly opted out as best I could.
720.
by ghaff 9mo ago
Because everything about real estate is insane if you peel back the covers. I've just been going through this and I couldn't tell you how many pages of documents I've had to go through. And this isn't even a new purchase

More ›