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by jimt1234 4y ago
Everything will be AI-generated? Most vocals these days aren't really "human" anyway. Almost all vocals these days are digitally filtered (Autotuned), some singers/songs more than others. So, yeah, that's the last
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by jimt1234 4y ago
I recently watched a short video interview with an old music exec that claimed music production is dead. Now that virtually all music production is digital, and has been reduced to algorithms, new music will be created with near-zero time a
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by jimt1234 4y ago
Back in the 90s I worked in the corporate offices of a well-known fitness chain (they're open 24 hours , even though they're really not). I was approached about a promotion to a management position. I asked who I would be managin
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by jimt1234 4y ago
AWS will do anything to get your data into their cloud. I realized this a few years ago when Snowmobile was released: https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile
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by jimt1234 4y ago
The first time I watched the news outside the US blew me away. The reporters talked about incidents, gave some facts, interviewed a few locals, then moved on. Then they did it again. And again. I felt like something was missing; I kept wait
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by jimt1234 4y ago
Rush Limbaugh once said that the whole point of his show was to "make the listener feel good." And doing so was the real reason for its success. He elaborated, saying his show wasn't meant to challenge the listener, but rathe
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by jimt1234 4y ago
Managing my money. For much of my career, or just my adult life, I never did anything related to money management. I just worked and saved. That's it. A little context: Growing up, no one ever talked about managing their money. No one
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by jimt1234 4y ago
IMHO, the larger goal of "drip pricing" is breaking down the association between products and their price, so that, ultimately, the price of a product isn't what consumers are willing to pay, but how much money a company deci
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by jimt1234 4y ago
Satellite connectivity for mobile devices. I think it's all still pretty immature, but the potential for both good and bad is incredible. https://www.emergingtechbrew.com/stories/2023/01/12/some-an
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by jimt1234 4y ago
YES! ^^^ My favorite job, years ago, involved co-workers that I actually enjoyed spending time with. I looked forward to going into the office. I enjoyed staying late. The bosses/managers were generally jerks, but my co-workers were gr
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by jimt1234 4y ago
My best friend from high school did 20 years in prison. He was one of the first people sentenced under Missouri's "3 strikes" sentencing guidelines. He got out a few years ago. He told me, for him, rock bottom was when he hea
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by jimt1234 4y ago
My grandpa used to tell me about hand-cranks to start an engine[1] and maintaining a car prior to antifreeze (had to drain all the water from the radiator in the winter). [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6pLp4tlIw0
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by jimt1234 4y ago
I love Bitwarden. I've been a customer for years. Great product. Great team. However, I recently quit for this exact reason (evil VC influence), and migrated all of my secrets to KeePass. Yes, a slight inconvenience to manually sync ac
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by jimt1234 4y ago
My first car didn't even have a battery. I drove it for 2 years, always being careful to park on a hill so I could "pop it". So yeah, leave out the useless 12-volt battery, too. /s LOL
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by jimt1234 4y ago
The problem with a free dating site is that it'll quickly become polluted with fake accounts - scammers and people promoting their OnlyFans page. At least that's my experience.
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by jimt1234 4y ago
It's all about the snowpack, and this makes me happy: https://cdec.water.ca.gov/snowapp/sweq.action
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by jimt1234 4y ago
The whole free-annual-credit-report-via-the-web-thing worked great in the beginning. I used it for years. Then, it went to shit. First, it was the barrage of ads for free credit monitoring or whatever. Then, it just stopped working altogeth
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by jimt1234 4y ago
Those are powerlifting exercises. In fact, that's the exact order of events in most powerlifting competitions. I competed in powerlifting in my 20s; my life revolved around squat/bench/deadlift. I enjoyed it, but yeah, he&#x2
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by jimt1234 4y ago
I always thought Alexa was just a play to get more data, especially data about apps/services outside Amazon's ecosystem. Every time you tell Alexa to play a song (on Spotify) or turn up the temperature (on the smart thermostat), A
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by jimt1234 4y ago
Hey! You got a year of free credit monitoring. Show some gratitude. Sheesh. </sarcasm>
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by jimt1234 4y ago
I can't wait until some junior dev pushes a change to the system and shuts down all 2026+ vehicles, sorta like a nationwide "carmageddon" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_405_(California)#%2...
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by jimt1234 4y ago
I was working a tech conference, probably around 2001, with about a hundred PCs networked together. A colleague of mine intended to send a simple "net send" message to only my workstation, just as a joke. He messed up the syntax a
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by jimt1234 4y ago
I'm probably giving Elon too much credit, but I think his Twitter takeover and subsequent offensive behavior is a part of a concerted effort to improve Tesla's brand in red states, specifically Trump Country. The Tweets that many
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by jimt1234 4y ago
Can't we just "put these issues behind us"? Sheesh. </sarcasm>
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I used to be a Wells Fargo customer, just before all the news of shady "operating practices". One day I was trying to login to their online banking web site, but my password wasn't working and the reset functionality also was
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by jimt1234 4y ago
Not sure if there's any criminal case here, but there should be . Fines, even "substantial fines", never seem to work. When executives start getting perp-walked then things will change.
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Good: At least Florida didn't take the path of Missouri, my home state. [1] Bad: More "complimentary credit monitoring". Ugh. [1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkpmj7/this-is-the-hacking-i...
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by jimt1234 4y ago
The FBI suits interviewed myself and all my colleagues independently. It felt like an interrogation, like I was the accused. They even made me sign a form, basically giving them the right to investigate me. Oh, and they also told us not to
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by jimt1234 4y ago
I worked at a computer rental shop in the mid-90s (renting computers was a thing back then). Customers used to leave files on the returned computers all the time. My colleagues and I used to look at them sometimes. It was almost always bori
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by jimt1234 4y ago
3 bucks! Nice! Congrats on the find!

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