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idunno246
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idunno246
6y ago
Overdrive is great, I get most of my books this way now through the library. it does work with kindles as well, bounces through the amazon store where they give you a time limited kindle book. I definitely hate feeling stuck in amazon with
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idunno246
6y ago
It's not so much the total cost, but the fact that there's so much nickel and diming. When Trace Analytics came out they tried getting us to turn it on, and its like...we're already paying for APM and you want to charge us m
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idunno246
6y ago
Yea, specifically with Citibank’s external transfers interface. You can write yourself a check for the full amount, but then you’re limited by ally’s edeposit limit or mailing it. Or if ally can do an ach pull that’d work too.
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idunno246
6y ago
My reaction to this was it’s their laptop, and wfh doesn’t really change that. I don’t even care about network sniffing, but man camera and mic access seems iffy. At least camera I can physically block. I do think there’s a difference betw
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idunno246
6y ago
My sister was on a respirator for three days pre-covid. Came out refusing food and drink for weeks, hated us, thought the nurses were trying to inject bleach in her ivs. It’s rough, totally feel for what you went through Did a bunch of res
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idunno246
6y ago
for the US regions, california is already ~25% more expensive, so this just reduces the difference
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idunno246
6y ago
I own my own modem. I tell my mom to rent Comcast’s router and modem. It’s like you said, it’s just not worth having to support it when things go wrong. Comcast is so fast to just say come in and get a new one if anything is odd, it rules o
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idunno246
6y ago
more like lose money on most but make up for it later. bots are just an unfortunate fact you have to amortize into your costs. Let's say you see 75% bot traffic. You make $10 per actual user. If youre spending $2 per action with 4 a
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idunno246
6y ago
One of the big problems is the reports are bad. Like some person just shotgunning the output of an automated script to every company in there without really understanding. Or we get a lot of “I can squat an s3 bucket with the company name i
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idunno246
7y ago
true, i dont know for sure, but i used to work in the space and it's how everyone i knew thought about courier compensation. theres only so many dollars a customer will pay for delivery[during normal times, its probably less elastic n
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idunno246
7y ago
even if they technically do, i can almost guarantee you the product managers are looking at the total income per hour going to these workers inclusive of tips, and tuning their base pay or whatever they call their contribution to hit a spec
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idunno246
7y ago
I believe the last couple larger outages were a networking config push that was bad, wouldn’t be surprised to see the same thing again
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idunno246
7y ago
yea, i was trying to keep things simplified, but it has to proxy through something behind the vpc endpoint. could also say its not technically ssh
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idunno246
7y ago
os login is probably a little closer to ec2 instance connect because you still need ssh inbound access right? whereas aws provides a bastion here
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idunno246
7y ago
A db that backs lots of time based graphs. They generally hit some pathological cases for general dbs. Frequent write of small data, most recent time is very hot so sharding is tricky, queries generally pull lots of little bits of data in
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idunno246
7y ago
ive never seen it for sales either, but ive seen it for recruiting. get everyone in a room, give them a linkedin search, and tell them to add people to a spreadsheet for sourcers to reach out to. i always nope out of those, they cant real
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idunno246
7y ago
In a competitor app, I’m guessing it’s the same for Uber, bikers got paid more per mile because it was assumed to take longer. Also, bikers dont need proof of car insurance
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idunno246
7y ago
It's even worse than just putting pressure on the employee. my manager has a number of days he thinks is reasonable, his manager has another, and his manager has yet another - and at one point a minimum was higher than another's m
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idunno246
7y ago
The recipe thing, there's two different people that read these. People coming in from search only care about the recipe, and in that situation the story is mildly annoying. But even if I don't read it, I do find it at least a mi
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idunno246
7y ago
This was a while ago, maybe even before i families, but our boss refused to use ebs at the time because of the ebs failure a couple years before that. What changed his mind was a instance termination that took way to long to recover from, a
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idunno246
7y ago
We did the same, self hosted to Rds was so much easier. I didn’t think it had a proxy though, and the new proxy is still just MySQL, so still needs pgbouncer?
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idunno246
7y ago
Roku TVs are one of the higher rated smart tv platforms, so is there a difference between plugging in a roku device or just using a roku tv?
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idunno246
7y ago
Every Bay Area company I’ve worked for(except 1) does not have QA. It’s expected by the time the dev merges it it’s been appropriately tested and can go straight to prod, so no need to wait. Fewer, smaller releases is generally better when
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idunno246
7y ago
I don’t see how that data is all that valuable. There’s the inherent network effect of needing to install it to send/receive money from a friend who did. But a surprising number of people will pay for instant transfer(almost all of tha
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idunno246
7y ago
This is https://slackhq.com/new-slack-features-invites-message-forma... right? Isn’t there an option to turn this off with the show formatting button? edit: oh nm i only noticed the ui, not that it totally broke typing
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idunno246
7y ago
It’s storage cache they put in your isp so if you and your neighbor watch the same thing, it only goes the first hop from your house to the isp instead of all the way to Netflix, which is much cheaper for the isp. This is a fairly common th
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idunno246
7y ago
It mentions partnerships with a discount and rev share generates a lot of sales, so probably even lower than that But it was also twelve months of side project time, not full time
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idunno246
7y ago
They’ve been sending notices for months they may be shutting off power. The fear they seem to be trying to generate, it almost seems like they’re gonna try to ransom power, raising rates or get bailed out.
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idunno246
7y ago
There’s a video that I really like, talking about the same research that knowledge based jobs, bonuses decrease performance. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc&feature=player_emb...
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idunno246
7y ago
looks like this is 2014-2015 tax years, which is well before prop c. square's already announced an oakland expansion though
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