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by jimt1234 3y ago
I was forced to manage someone out years ago. It was awful. My bosses didn't like this one guy, and honestly, he wasn't the best employee, but just they told me to stop giving work to him. Nothing. No work at all. He would come to
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by jimt1234 3y ago
I took computer programming classes at my local community college as a freshman in high school. I learned COBOL! It was a great experience. I encourage any parents to persuade their children to take a class or two at the local community c
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by jimt1234 3y ago
I recently discovered how completely arbitrary healthcare pricing is. I got services from an out-of-network clinic, and ended up receiving a very large bill. I called my health insurer, and the conversation went like this: - What's up
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by jimt1234 3y ago
Wolfenstein was cool, but these 3 words sum up my experience: "...overshadowed by Doom..."
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by jimt1234 4y ago
The name I remember was Neil Bush, who escaped any real consequences, and it was just a coincidence that his dad was George W. Bush, Vice President, and later the President of the United States.
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by jimt1234 4y ago
This felt like A Christmas Story, "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdA__2tKoIU
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by jimt1234 4y ago
Do "Point/Counterpoint"-style shows still exist? I haven't watched cable news for a long time, but my understanding is that all the debate-style shows are gone because people don't really want the opposing view, peo
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by jimt1234 4y ago
As I recall, Space Invaders was the first hit video game. It's really what introduced us kids to video games. However, it was pretty quickly replaced by Asteroids, which was much more exciting. There were a handful of other games, but
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by jimt1234 4y ago
Around 10 years ago, when cloud storage services got going, I copied all my stuff to Google Drive, thinking this was gonna solve all my problems. Well, 10 years later, in 2023, I've finally finished copying all my stuff back down to my
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by jimt1234 4y ago
Wow! Never heard about that. The narrative is usually: Some rando, low-level employee went rogue. As soon as BigCorp was made aware of the situation, the rando was terminated and law enforcement was notified. BigCorp conducted an internal
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by jimt1234 4y ago
Please be aware of leaking AWS credentials in any log output, especially Jenkins console output. That's usually protected by some layer of auth, but if I get some chump's account info, and something is leaking AWS creds to Jenki
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by jimt1234 4y ago
Give me the original Tesla Roadster - a bunch of batteries, cool looking, and four wheels. That's it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKDqhWwzzgo
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by jimt1234 4y ago
I still own a 2000 Nissan with a cassette deck. I just wish it had a manual transmission, too.
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by jimt1234 4y ago
Didn't this happen at Google a few years ago? I recall something about a guy that was accessing his ex's Google data, like email, chats, contacts, and so on.
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by jimt1234 4y ago
My YouTube recommendations list is constantly polluted with Joe Rogan, even though I've never watched a single video of his. One theory is it's because my friends/family watch a bunch of his videos, and the algorithm basicall
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by jimt1234 4y ago
Please explain. Genuinely interested. Thanks.
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by jimt1234 4y ago
I've heard two differing explanations of this (all the cameras having no effect), one of them from a cop: 1. The police can't do anything with your home surveillance videos mainly because of the trustworthiness of the evidence, mo
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by jimt1234 4y ago
I'm gonna respectfully disagree. Sort of. Does Turbotax and H&R Block lobby to protect their businesses? Yes, of course. However, that lobbying is basically meaningless compared to the political pressure from the real beneficiaries
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by jimt1234 4y ago
My friend moved from Taiwan to the US in 7th grade, and she felt the same way. She was totally bored, but enjoyed suddenly becoming the smartest kid in her math class. She was, at best, an average student in Taiwan.
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by jimt1234 4y ago
This situation was actually a lot worse back in the late-90s, when the consumer internet first got rolling. I recall conversations with my local ISP and my credit card company that were just bonkers.
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by jimt1234 4y ago
The San Diego market is up? Anyone know why? Everyone I know in San Diego is WFH now. I thought we'd be closer to the San Francisco market.
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by jimt1234 4y ago
My older Nissan Frontier has a fuse for the fuel injection. I pull that out if I ever park any place sketchy.
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by jimt1234 4y ago
> Do you think this is just how we're wired? I think the way the news is reported says more about us than it does about the organizations that do the reporting. If we didn't want all the negativity, we would reject it, an
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by jimt1234 4y ago
It really should be, as social engineering is still, and probably always will be, the most vulnerable attack vector.
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by jimt1234 4y ago
Same. I wish this was the default (don't post pics of me without my consent), but unfortunately it's not. People just expect that everyone wants to be blasted all over social media, and they get butt-hurt when I ask them to remove
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by jimt1234 4y ago
Honestly, the script/hack/automation I'm still most proud of is from around 1983, when I was 12 years old, for my Commodore 64. Back then, all computer communications were over the phone line, and in my house, we only had one
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by jimt1234 4y ago
More/stricter regulation is definitely needed...on drag shows! /s
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by jimt1234 4y ago
Repercussions? That's their jobs!
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by jimt1234 4y ago
Why do we have to tell the people what they need to hear? Why can't we just tell them what they wanna hear? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWenPDBtMw4
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by jimt1234 4y ago
> [Larkin] still doesn’t understand how a judge could have signed off on a warrant asking for footage from a camera inside his home... > Privacy advocates point out that the police don’t have unfettered authority in demanding footage:

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