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by mdip 3y ago
A related problem just hit me this weekend. I had removed a failed/bulged Lithium Ion battery from a week ago and placed it with my others to be taken during the one time a year that garbage collection allows us to bring the toxic stu
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by mdip 3y ago
> Yes, *technically* it is illegal. Oh how many phrases start "Yes, technically " in my life. The law is an interesting beast. I know nothing about the law in India as it relates to FM band transmitters but I suspect
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by mdip 3y ago
... I've always been amazed how often "Was that wrong?" works. I guess I shouldn't be. Even letting them know you were fully aware you were breaking the law, most people would see its intended purpose -- to bring a li
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by mdip 4y ago
Fascinating -- I think the comments on the HN post are almost as good. I think everyone mostly agrees that AI is coming for a lot of jobs. There's disagreement about how many, how it will impact society and the like. The pace of tec
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by mdip 4y ago
I'm seeing a lot of negative comments about this post. I was a little underwhelmed, but I think that was mostly the fault of the title setting higher expectations than the author intended to deliver. That's on me, though. The t
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by mdip 4y ago
Excellent write-up. I love these kinds of "I had this problem, these things on hand and an idea for how to solve it" followed by the story of every barrier and how it was overcome. It's becoming more and more rare with peop
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by mdip 4y ago
While I tend to agree with the author that there are far too many "certified/designed for" logos that are meaningless, I have always purchased devices that are certified/designed for Teams/Skype for Business/Ly
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by mdip 4y ago
> What is the advantage of lacing It's a "pros/cons" thing to me. The big disadvantage is that it's far more time-consuming. The advantages are mostly aesthetic. For example, I have a 7.2.2 home theater
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by mdip 4y ago
You are correct and I should have clarified a few points. Especially given the time (my memory is hazy but I want to say this would have been just before Y2K) -- almost all of the business and management network was ... token-ring[0]. I do
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by mdip 4y ago
If I care about what it looks like and want to precisely arrange my cables, I always lace. It's time-consuming, finger-aching work, though and I'm not as good at it as I was when I was younger[0]. In my late teens, I worked at a
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by mdip 4y ago
This reminded me of a Mr Wizard's World episode I watched in the 80s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdz_8AjIgfA In it he demos the UI of a word processor of that era on a green screen monitor. As I had a CGA screen&
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by mdip 4y ago
Thanks for that, it brought me back to my teens. In the Renegade BBS system, for like one minor version or so, you could authenticate to any account, including SysOp, by hitting Enter instead of providing a password. Of course, in Renegade
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by mdip 4y ago
... as it relates to "if I saw something like this on someone's profile, should I automatically disqualify them for hiring" ... absent any other information, "Never ascribe to malice ..." I didn't dig out the g
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by mdip 4y ago
> There's a subset of users who are hungry for high quality applications and games. You're right on, here, and it points to a few problems and opportunities. I'm that subset of users yet I have an incredibly hard
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by mdip 4y ago
That's so sad. I had this pain with my kids a few months ago while "looking to kill some time" in the Android world. I don't play a lot of phone games and was dismayed at the crap that was out there. I like to introdu
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by mdip 4y ago
Hopeless. That's a tough word. It feels like a loop: The mere fact that I feel hopeless makes me feel worthless which makes me feel hopeless. I've never struggled to find work but I've had two tragedies in my life that feel
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by mdip 4y ago
It's pretty common throughout the US, but there's a section of Ohio that I recall driving through which has several cities named for European and Asian countries. I had a girlfriend early in college who's grandmother lived d
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by mdip 4y ago
> Yet there are companies out there rejecting me for job descriptions which are only 50% of my skill set because I couldn’t code this obscure hard algorithms problem in 45 mins. Ohhhh, screw that. Maybe I've just been lucky
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by mdip 4y ago
What a great read -- I think this individual managed to summarize a mess of things I've been thinking for a while. The "False Negative" problem was one I made a dent in at a former employer. I was accidentally thrown into in
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by mdip 4y ago
I'm curious how the mass layoffs play out when the large tech outfits find themselves needing to fill difficult positions. My expectation , unfortunately, is that for the biggest players it won't be much more than "we have t
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by mdip 4y ago
I figured this was coming at some point. Believe it or not[0], I don't share my password with people beyond my immediate family. My immediate family is likely to run smack into one of those edge cases. I share custody with my childr
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by mdip 4y ago
Like others, I am similarly perplexed as to who would believe something like this who isn't extremely inexperienced[0] with regard to how many businesses operate[1]. I have reviewed resumes for decades and a few gaps in employment du
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by mdip 4y ago
Before piling on too much more, here ... ... Cloudflare has a lot of customers[0]. They have to balance the cost of providing (a lot of) human support against the cost they can reasonably charge for their products. It's a balancing
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by mdip 4y ago
The fact that you just post your e-mail address and invite your (likely many) customers here to reach out to you would probably surprise me from another company. I've been doing this long enough that just about every major vendor I&#x2
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by mdip 4y ago
There are a lot of comments against your advice here so I'm going to speak up in agreement. (1) Cover letters are very rare. Out of the last ten interviews, I've received two. (2) It's the one place you can reveal some o
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by mdip 4y ago
Oh, do I remember these days. I spent 17 years at a global multi-national telecom through two mergers and a bankruptcy (and a half). We were a large organization (between 5,500 and 22,000 depending on the year). During much of that time,
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by mdip 4y ago
Which means if one were to require monitoring and status pages to be connected, one of two things happen (for each monitored component): (1) The monitoring system would be altered to ignore tests that return false positives (at the expense
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by mdip 4y ago
Strange choice of headline given the content, but I'm guessing they went link-bait-y to drive clicks. Nonetheless, I don't know that any of this is unexpected. They're doing about as well as I would have thought they would.
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by mdip 4y ago
The "not very expensive" ones are also not very fire-proof, unfortunately. A family friend learned this the hard way when a sizeable amount of cash went up in flames and his $300 Sentry safe was a melted mess, the contents forever
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by mdip 4y ago
> Banks increasingly regard safe deposit boxes as more of a headache than they’re worth. They’re expensive to build, complicated to maintain and not very lucrative. I think this article answers the question as to "why&quot

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