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by kjs3 2y ago
Analogous, having been on the wrong end of the same negotiation with Wallmart, our pre-meeting preparation consisted almost entirely of "how much of a haircut can they impose on us before we just close shop?". I can't imagin
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by kjs3 2y ago
Be careful what you wish for. The level of collusion that would allow 'all' the major publishers to neuter Amazon would very quickly be redirected to all the other retail channels.
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by kjs3 2y ago
Exactly. Expect Rep. Ogles to beat the fact he "supported Trump" like a drum whenever he's pandering to his constituents. Anyone who points out the obvious "that'll never fly" will be ruthlessly excoriated as
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by kjs3 2y ago
The Reddis/Valkey thing has been a source of some annoyance in my world, but thank my stars there are adults in charge on both sides and there's not some manbaby threatening to burn his side down if he doesn't get his way and
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by kjs3 2y ago
What value did you think posting this AI generated pablum was going to bring to the discussion?
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by kjs3 2y ago
Someone found a bunch of GT730 chips that fell behind the couch and said YOLO?
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by kjs3 2y ago
We have yellow jackets in the SE US. They are as persistent as they are aggressive. The "yellow jacket in the Coke can" is almost a cliche it happens so often. I once ran over a nest with a lawn mower at my family's lake h
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by kjs3 2y ago
When I was in college, I got a job in the campus DC for the same reason. Best job ever for an undergraduate student.
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by kjs3 2y ago
Manufacturing is always about 25 years behind the times. I made good scratch in the '00s helping manufactures with their DEC PDP-11 and DG Novas (from the 70s).
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by kjs3 2y ago
Squirrels are a real bitch.
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by kjs3 2y ago
I don't think that's it. I think Microsoft wanted a way to migrate already Microsoft workloads to something they could more aggressively bill by the GB or second or user or whatever revenue extraction metric you're down with
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by kjs3 2y ago
Al Shugart started Shugart Associates and pretty much created the 5 1/4" floppy market. He sold to Xerox. He later started Shugart Technology and was promptly threatened with a lawsuit because he literally had sold his right
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by kjs3 2y ago
A classic. "Glenn Gary, Glenn Ross" and "Boiler Room" are a great sales themed movie night.
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by kjs3 2y ago
Pretty much this or something like it, at least in my experience the last 30+ years. Sales seems to attract folks who are highly 'coin operated'. The large majority (yes...always with the exceptions) really, deep down, don't
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by kjs3 2y ago
I get what you mean, but one could argue its a bit hyperbolic (maybe false equivalence?) to draw a line between the economic impact of small biz/single proprietor and the economy writ large. That said...thank gawd there's still ro
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by kjs3 2y ago
A crucial point that is lost on this venture capital-funded forum: scummy garbage makes money. I don't think you quite understand how VC works.
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by kjs3 2y ago
Ah, I misunderstood your point. And while the PDP-11 was byte addressable, the doco often talked about memory size in words. Carry on.
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by kjs3 2y ago
Tell us you have no idea how an operating theater works without telling us. Or you're a PI attorney looking to invent a case. There is an anesthesiologist present when general is given. And, had you actually read for comprehension b
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by kjs3 2y ago
You mean 32k words , not 32k bytes , right[1]? And AFAIK by V5 or V6, Unix could use split instruction and data if the MMU supported it giving a bit more headroom. But, yeah, memory was very tight, and a lot of very clever tricks were u
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by kjs3 2y ago
Unfortunately, I just went there, entered in my location, and got a '5 day forecast' starting on Sun (it's Mon, mid-day). And since the days don't have a date on them, I have no idea what I'm looking at.
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by kjs3 2y ago
Fully ROM/Flash PC-ish systems are/were pretty common in the embedded and industrial control space. Usually the boards emulate one or more floppy drives. I've got a half dozen variations, including PROM, Flash and battery b
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by kjs3 2y ago
This isn't about cost reduction. It's about eliminating any assistance for people who want to continue to use old versions of the software. Adobe is in the cloud/subscription business now, and it wants to make life for peop
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by kjs3 2y ago
My brother built his company (IT services in the manufacturing sector) on the back of Microsoft starting in the mid 90s. He's done extremely well and continues to work on interesting stuff (these days cloud, complex databases, CRM, et
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by kjs3 2y ago
I get the distinct feeling it's been a long time since IBM wrote PL/I compilers considering anyone but IBM. So 'correct' here might be 'what IBM needs'. YMMV.
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by kjs3 2y ago
In the US (YMMV) there's a distinction in advertising between exaggeration for effect, like "this expensive cream will make you beautiful ", and straight up falsification like "we can detect all guns everywhere" wh
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by kjs3 2y ago
Agreed. This sort of handwavy genuflect to some idealized One True Rust Way instead of addressing (seemingly) valid complaints in a direct manor is perhaps the biggest thing pushing me away from interest in rust.
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by kjs3 2y ago
I went to the Cittie of York first time I was in the City (many, many years ago) and remember thinking "this platonic ideal of the cosy, perfect English pub I've been told about my whole life...it's fucking real ". Goo
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by kjs3 2y ago
Fortran (FORmula TRANslation) was intended for a very peculiar subset of 'non-programmers': mathematicians, engineers and the like. It ends up being a pretty good impedance match for people who are use to dealing with terse forms
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by kjs3 2y ago
If you have to go to 1977 or prior to slag a language, there are tons of languages that will disappoint you.
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by kjs3 2y ago
This encapsulates every conversation I have ever had with someone who tried Perl 6: Tried it, was blown away with [some aspect of it], never found anything practical to do with it, never used it again.

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