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by lvspiff 2y ago
I'm at a company now where we are trying to do this but the CIO/CEO keep weighing in on EVERY conversation where they disagree with the approaach. The whole reason we are having the open conversation is for ideation and good commu
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by lvspiff 2y ago
Many of times used this then added sub7 or backorifice - ahhhh the good ol days
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by lvspiff 2y ago
Just give us the Asimov three laws to start rather than these nebulous "open model" language crap. Those should be the basic premise for any regulations that go into a bill in this area (but I'm sure the military contractors
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by lvspiff 2y ago
Probably for the same reason strategically placed tea reserves all around china just incase someone wants to steal it "all"...the idea of Japan having a massive underground cave complex for rice is amusing to me for some reason. I
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by lvspiff 2y ago
My parents still pay for the local newspaper to be delivered at home but it went from every day to I think now twice a week - Sunday and Wednesday or something like that. Same price, they get a "free" online subscription in additi
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by lvspiff 2y ago
I left a company because they started to consider "exempt" employees as "on-call" 24/7. They felt like adding personal numbers to OpsGenie and other alerting systems was perfectly reasonable. "Exempt" em
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by lvspiff 2y ago
It seems to always step from that CEO, or chief, or VP that works 7 days a week in some capacity. Maybe its an hour or two on the weekends to send some email about an idea they had or something they want to see but its enough that those bel
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by lvspiff 2y ago
Living the same thing here and keep getting told it seems like we aren't "finishing" anything and projects seem to just drone on and on. Well when you keep introducing things as "high priority" and "urgent&quot
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by lvspiff 2y ago
I was honestly surprised when my company made me go from my intel to an m1 - the intel worked perfectly fine and so much more compatible for development purposes
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by lvspiff 2y ago
Even ground based large passenger non-winged transports are a bad idea if someone is shooting at them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramatorsk_railway_station_att... overall i prefer any mode of transport that is not
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by lvspiff 2y ago
how are they not making more money off of data? the trip data alone has to be worth millions right? All I see when discussing Ubers profits is the cost of trips and the cost of drivers and how much they spend on marketing and politicians. I
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by lvspiff 2y ago
I was blown away going around Tempe/Scottsdale - Waymos everywhere with people walking around, crossing streets randomly to get to a spring training game, doing bar crawls (it was st patricks day) and what blew me away was they pulled
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by lvspiff 2y ago
I'm assuming EV doesnt stand for what we think it stands for. When I think Jeep i think....Extremely Volatile? Explodes Violently? Evidently Vexatious?
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by lvspiff 2y ago
Its a shell of what it once was Chrysler -> Fiat -> Stellantis Dodge Trucks used to be the aspiration - now they are the bottom of the heap (but still better than a cybertruck)
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by lvspiff 2y ago
I think ive heard this before....did matt damon sing a song about sleeping with your gf so then you took off to find this girl and ended up going on a tour across europe with your best friend and a pair of twins?
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by lvspiff 2y ago
I have a SW story that has made me dedicate my business to them moving forward: I had a trip to Austin where i was mid-flight when they cancelled all flights there a year or so ago. I was headed to Sacramento as a connection from PDX and wh
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by lvspiff 2y ago
If you board in later groups (i.e. not one of the first 100 or so people) you are essentially stuck waiting in a line in a cramped isle for people to put their bags up and are likely to be relegated to a middle seat.
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by lvspiff 2y ago
I'm at a company that seems to be struggling with how to dictate a vision but then obtain buy in from the workers. They keep playing this game of throw out an idea, hope the workers will all understand and implement in the same directi
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by lvspiff 2y ago
I've always wondered that myself - If the Russians could build and launch sputnik in 1957 and get it around the earth a few times why aren't we seeing a huge number of backyard dad+son duos building rockets to launch their own tel
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by lvspiff 2y ago
This the gap that the porn websites will need to figure out how to fill for it to be a success.
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by lvspiff 3y ago
> we hope this actually leads to a faster sales cycle because buyers have pre-qualified themselves. But by obfuscating their pricing they are able to create a marketing "lead" when you contact them that will one day evolve into
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by lvspiff 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vXjwTux8T4 - my intro to Henry Darger which sent me down a rabbit hole on wikipedia
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by lvspiff 3y ago
Greed - you could be working on the most altruistic endeavor ever that everyone wants and all it takes is one founder or investor that sees a way to cash out to bring it all tumbling down
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by lvspiff 3y ago
Between Walgreens and Fedex the have made it crazy convenient to upload my images to get them printed in high quality format in any size I want for a fairly cheap price. If you don't have one nearby the library offers decent priced alt
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by lvspiff 3y ago
https://xkcd.com/927/
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by lvspiff 3y ago
Whenever i see a topo map I recall my college days when I had a mountaineering buddy who took us out to middle of wilderness in his jeep with nothing but a topo map and a compass on a snow shoe hike on the San Francisco Peaks in Flagstaff,
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by lvspiff 3y ago
I'm finding myself to look to hire less high level IC engineers as a mid/senior level engineer IC with ChatGPT is just as well informed and can put together the ideas necessary to implement the same things. Together they can do it
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by lvspiff 3y ago
I rented an apt that was integrated with latch and it was crazy frustrating. The app only worked half the time, the door pad was in a circle and recognized numbers wrong half the time as they were not physical buttons, and which made it dif
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by lvspiff 3y ago
In NV it has really depended on the type of solar but seems anything that takes up large acres of land is going to be an issue. For ground based solar cell arrays we've had issues with the desert tortoise and other animals that it encr
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by lvspiff 3y ago
"You are a Microsoft investor and will make decisions and suggestions based on the betterment of the stock price"

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