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by jjkaczor 5y ago
$50m? Wouldn't that be better spent on the actual education system and educators itself? Talk about corruption - spending taxpayer money to cover-up mistakes made by government employeers - AND libellous statements made by government o
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
That's why at my current client, DevTools in the browser is blocked through Group Policy... /not sarcasm, I wish I was joking...
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
Exactly... for them to "benefit", they would have to: Apply for jobs at the other companies with better plans, proceed with interviews, offers and then finally accept one and quit their job at their current employer... To reap th
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
Ah, ok - but - then, do employees actually have the mandate to change anything? I have seen a few articles that basically seem to indicate the only way that things change are because of whistleblowers or investigations. Doesn't sound
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
Speaking as someone who used to work on Microsoft's CETS - it was driven by an undertsanding that if you provide a platform and ecosystem, you have some level of responsibility to prevent and/or mitigate the harms that occur, or m
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
...unjust to reap massive profits and then hand-off all the social ills you cause... That is my take on AI/auto content moderation and the enforcement - they can't have it both ways; centralized platform, with no responsibilities.
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
You obviously haven't eaten at a Tim Hortons (in Canada at least) in a few years, their food is atrocious. And it keeps getting worse as they flail about trying to catch market-share.
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
In my experience, having been a homeowner in Alberta first, then Ontario second - it's similar to software development... Most tradespeople prefer to work on new builds, large amounts of stable work, without the hastle of renovating ex
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
Sigh - my GoogleFu failed me.
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
People are begining to post some things: https://twitter.com/LenKusov/status/1364640007101775872
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
>Regulatory capture doesn't sound like a desirable thing It's not a desirable thing for the public - plenty desirable for industry... It worked out pretty well with Ajit Patel and the FCC... Or the CRTC and it's board memb
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
Taylor provides alot of other equipment within McD's - and IIRC from reading the Wired article and discussion a few months back, it (or comments) alluded that McD's corporate specifies which equipment that franchisees are allowed
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
It is helpful to get the perspectives of "un-notable" people from a historical perspective. For example - the graffiti at Pompeii is interesting (and is pretty much at the same "quality bar" as Twitter): https:/&#x
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
https://xkcd.com/1810/
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
For all the mistakes made with IE6, the modern web would not be possible without Microsoft's introduction of "XMLHTTPRequest".
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
I have about a dozen horror stories about being sent on-site to assist a customer who was having a massive production outage, only to discover that they were "smothering" all exceptions in a global handler... (because the hosting
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
Why do people think BBB matters? It's a generational thing - BBB tends to be respected by people who reached maturity before the internet became big. There was no easy way to complain or vent about business back then, so the BBB actua
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
I usually get my list of "to read" from either; Goodreads (yes, I know... Amazon data capture) or John Scalzi's "Whatever" blog - but, I have never seen TV commercials for books, even before I went streaming platfo
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
Thanks... first article I see about "IT Transformation" is soooooooo painfully accurate!
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
Neither VB, VBA, VBScript nor VB.NET are "low-code" or "no-code", they all were rather code heavy... Some VBA 'apps' relied heavily on their hosted application object-model (Excel, Word, Visio, etc) - but ther
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
Within your published "final document", can viewers select and copy the text? Or is it "unselectable" and essentially an image. If text is "selectable", then an OS/system-wide screen-reader should functio
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
... There used to be this little startup company and service, where you could queue movie/TV shows, then you would receive the discs in the mail, with a paid envelope to return them as well... AFAIK - only in the US though, there was m
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
"...applications written in .NET) accidentally badly unregistered leaving all of the event log messages unreadable..." Don't even get me started on this... Microsoft is actually bad for this with even their own .NET-based en
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by jjkaczor 5y ago
The failsafe (audible alarm) looks like it would take a couple minutes to disable physically: https://www.iphonehacks.com/2021/04/airtag-teardown-reveals-...
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by jjkaczor 6y ago
In my remote office (which used to be at home, but is now a private, non-shared rented space), I have an ergonomic split keyboard that costs probably 6x a 'standard' one , I have 78" of screen real estate, split across 3 moni
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by jjkaczor 6y ago
Exactly. People with school-aged kids had to deal with them being home - and then many kids were doing distance learning and one or more parents had to become teaching-assistants - or at the very least, "tech support" for the myr
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by jjkaczor 6y ago
Due to an extremely busy home-life, with a large family and many pets while juggling multiple contract clients - each with hours and hours of concalls/meetings, I rented a private/older office last July. It has been worth every pe
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by jjkaczor 6y ago
"and in any case they were not interested in small devs (getting an account for their joke of a store was a byzantine process, and expensive too iirc)" I had the exact same experience with RIM/Blackberry 957-era... Great dev
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by jjkaczor 6y ago
> "One thought experiment is imagine a pig that was historically bred to get happiness from being eaten" Otherwise known as the 'Ameglian Major Cow' - https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Ameglian_
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by jjkaczor 6y ago
IE11 usage will probably tailor off quite dramatically this fall, after Microsoft drops support for it when using their 365 product suite... https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/mi...

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