jimt1234

17 ms·

421.
by jimt1234 2y ago
And now there's this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43509169
422.
by jimt1234 2y ago
Is it corruption if it's done publicly and no one gives a fuck? ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
423.
by jimt1234 2y ago
I respectfully reject the first premise, specifically "spied on". The FBI wasn't spying . They were investigating communications between many Republicans, including the Trump Campaign, and known Russian intelligence operativ
424.
by jimt1234 2y ago
Updated Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to intelligence that which is adequately explained by stupidity
425.
by jimt1234 2y ago
And Hillary sat in front of Congress for 11 hours.
426.
by jimt1234 2y ago
The ends justify the means is now openly accepted, even celebrated.
427.
by jimt1234 2y ago
> It's honestly amazing how Apple managed to dodge anti-trust in the United States. What's amazing to me is how much things have changed since the Microsoft antitrust saga: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uni
428.
by jimt1234 2y ago
> Amazon has launched a “bureaucracy tipline” ... Sounds like Jassy has gone full Elon. I'm guessing a chainsaw for the next earnings report.
429.
by jimt1234 2y ago
I was in my late-20s when the bubble burst. There was a palpable sense of "the sky is falling". A lot of not-so-technical people quit (or were let go from) tech jobs to become real estate agents. One person that really helped me t
430.
by jimt1234 2y ago
I started my career in '95, too, and yeah, as difficult as it is to believe now, Microsoft's monopoly wasn't yet assured. The OS market was pretty much locked up (OS/2 Warp???), but as I recall, Wordperfect was the big o
431.
by jimt1234 2y ago
Here's one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40972590 That whole situation was so strange to me. I was in my mid-20s at the time, trying to make sense of the "adult world". Then they tell me something is
432.
by jimt1234 2y ago
Because customers love AI! /s
433.
by jimt1234 2y ago
I drive a 30-year-old Nissan pickup truck for this exact reason. Not sure why, but I get a small sense of joy knowing that the corporate overlords aren't "watching" me drive. Of course they're "watching" me on
434.
by jimt1234 2y ago
I loved my Sonos soundbar. It sounded amazing. But it required me to use their terrible app. That's why I got rid of it (the app was REALLY bad!) - luckily, before they started bricking customers' devices.
435.
by jimt1234 2y ago
Many devices these days are required to be connected to the internet, which is bizarre, but here we are.
436.
by jimt1234 2y ago
I worked for a PBM in the late-90s. I wish I would've sold crack cocaine and guns to children. I would've felt better about myself. ... Hyperbole, indeed, but wow, that company, and PBM industry, was shady as fuck.
437.
by jimt1234 2y ago
I can't speak for all providers, but I can say that, in many cases they're getting squeezed by the insurance companies, too. My girlfriend is a provider of services for young people with disabilities. The insurance companies fully
438.
by jimt1234 2y ago
I often wonder about nostalgia related to computers/computing. It's strange because, even though I spent countless hours on my Commodore 64 as a teenager, and it had a major influence on my life (it basically introduced me to prog
439.
by jimt1234 2y ago
At first I only had a tape drive. But I was later given a 1541 disk drive. I thought life couldn't get any better than a single floppy disk drive. LOL
440.
by jimt1234 2y ago
I used to enjoy playing around with audio programs like Soundtracker/Protracker. Those programs were the first time I was blown away by what a computer could do.
441.
by jimt1234 2y ago
Congrats to Microsoft for Windows 1. But I still think Amiga/AmigaOS was superior. However, when Microsoft released Windows 3, you could start to see where the puck was going. So I skated toward the puck, like everyone else. Sorry Comm
442.
by jimt1234 2y ago
I grew up in Middle America Suburbia, with big yards, cul-de-sacs and strict zoning laws. I thought it was normal that, for anything you wanted to buy, you had to get in a car and drive to it. I was told it was because of zoning laws, and i
443.
by jimt1234 2y ago
> Data alone is not enough to sway these people. True. And, they have their own data that says workers love RTO. My company sends out employee surveys every six months. They claim that employees who work-from-the-office have higher workp
444.
by jimt1234 2y ago
Reminds me of when Trump bragged about the TV ratings for the White House press briefings during Covid, saying the ratings were on par with "The Bachelor" and "Monday Night Football". Ugh. https://www.reuters.
445.
by jimt1234 2y ago
This is what made Mike Pence the perfect VP for Trump at the time - he was never gonna steal the spotlight from Trump. However, Trump is focused almost entirely on loyalty now - the one thing that Mike Pence lacked in the end.
446.
by jimt1234 2y ago
I worked as a sysadmin during a major outage a few years ago. A bug completely destroyed a table in one of the customer databases; we had to restore/rebuild the table. It took hours. We reported it to our leadership; they handled the c
447.
by jimt1234 2y ago
Her community is not guard-gated, but it's extremely snooty/snobby. A number of years ago, before the weekly gate-code changes, the HOA started doing annual code changes on Halloween. Why Halloween, you might ask? Because the se
448.
by jimt1234 2y ago
My girlfriend lives in an upscale, gated community. Her HOA has done the exact opposite. They change the gate code weekly as way to "protect" themselves from this situation. However, it's kinda had the opposite effect - tailg
449.
by jimt1234 2y ago
> ...an investment that could improve life for billions of people. This is the problem I have with startups/tech that intend to revolutionize farming: it's rarely to improve life for people, but rather to increase profits. Perh
450.
by jimt1234 2y ago
> Almost as astonishingly, revenues at the division have actually fallen from the 2021 high of $2.3bn, to $2.1bn in 2024... Not sure why this is astonishing. It was new back in 2021. People tried, mostly hated it, and moved on. Honestly

More ›