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by muttled 4y ago
Reminds me of a time I had to call into support for one of the internet services from AT&T on behalf of a client. I had a cold and my voice was a bit nasally. It routed me through about 10 minutes of automated systems, then after three
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by muttled 4y ago
I have a lot of luck texting people "is anything fun going on this weekend?"
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by muttled 4y ago
Reminds me of a story of a printer I installed for a customer (could have been Lexmark? It was a very cheap printer). It came with an unpowered USB hub which I thought was odd. The printer was not printing right. I happened to read the inst
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by muttled 4y ago
I know it's framing things from a human perspective, but I've always considered if we put a bunch of objects far out into the universe that we'd probably accidentally ram the satellite equivalent of a 737 MAX or something int
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by muttled 4y ago
They're ready to launch their test satellite in the next few weeks and are already building the capabilities for the next satellites in the constellation. I'm watching them carefully as it looks like they're going to be able
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by muttled 4y ago
Clean-shaven faces were pretty prevalent despite being technically against the bible (source: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Trimming-Facial-Hair )
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by muttled 4y ago
Anecdotally, I'd be way fatter if I was the last person on Earth. When all the Doritos were left, unattended.
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by muttled 4y ago
Another option, if all your equipment can fit in the depth of what's basically a switch rack, is to use a wall rack: https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Bracket-Equipment-Mounti... Most audio and networking equipment c
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by muttled 4y ago
To add to the HDMI-over-CAT5 instead of long-run HDMI, I wanted to offer an anecdote: we tried doing HDMI with extenders at a previous MSP shop. We had random de-syncs. We were probably far past the 50ft spec for how long to run an HDMI cab
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by muttled 4y ago
I always think it'd be cool to have a server rack in my apartment until I powered up a server in my apartment and it far eclipsed the noise produced by the air conditioning from anywhere in the living space.
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by muttled 4y ago
Can't wait for my machine to come to a crawl as I walk up to some machine the size of a city and find out it's actually mining crypto
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by muttled 4y ago
My Capital One card has virtual card numbers you can generate and you can kill them whenever you need to (or have them only work once). I use them any time I'm buying something outside the major markets like Amazon.
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by muttled 4y ago
One of the things that would annoy me the most was when the open office was so loud that the executives would close their doors. Because apparently it's hard to work in a loud environment.
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by muttled 4y ago
I ran into this when I was importing about 1TB into a DB while simultaneously reading from it and performing tasks. This was all in a dev environment, but it did come up.
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by muttled 4y ago
It might be due to dynamic IPs. As they rotate around, I could see that service picking up results from a variety of users.
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by muttled 4y ago
I ended up blocking boredpanda.com from my Google news feed as every day there was some variant on "52 times someone did something negative to someone else".
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by muttled 4y ago
I know it's awful that I thought of this, but I half-expected your second sentence to call him a label-ist.
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by muttled 4y ago
As a leftover artifact from growing up not allowed to call long-distance, I frequently think of things like "Is long-distance texting charges a thing? Will I get charged for texting my friend with a Mexico number? Does it matter if she
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by muttled 4y ago
I'll echo the concern about the turboboost really helping at times. Often, you have a single-threaded process running that benefits from a single core running at a higher clock rate for a short period of time and improves the experienc
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by muttled 4y ago
Didn't some of the Theranos customers get inaccurate blood work though before the house of cards fell? I could see that leading to complications.
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by muttled 4y ago
Installing heavy networking/battery equipment in a rack by yourself without extra help. Cheap furniture that leads to repetitive stress injuries. Being woken up repeatedly at night which isn't good for your heart or health. Expose
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by muttled 4y ago
At my last job (horrible MSP), we would get 1-3 calls per night. Not evening. At night. They had no reason to improve the situation as they charged extra for those calls making them very profitable. They would bill the client minimum time w
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by muttled 4y ago
And then we have companies like Space Mobile trying to essentially put cell phone towers in low earth orbit which will (hopefully) enable 4G/5G coverage all over the globe.
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by muttled 4y ago
I wonder if the Ethereum merge (moving away from mining) will cause a drop in that misuse? I know a lot of the abuse are hidden crypto miners. There's going to be so much computing power shifting to the other coins (dropping the ROI) t
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by muttled 4y ago
Roomba already makes bots that carry around pallets in a warehouse so your point makes sense.
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by muttled 4y ago
Most places I've worked at (Windows shops largely) had management tools that worked well on Windows but not as well on other devices. The IT staff was skilled largely in Windows, as well. The biggest argument against other OS options w
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by muttled 4y ago
Facebook is one of those annoying ones. You go in, change your notifications to exactly what you want, and then shortly after Facebook creates a new notification class that's set to default "on". Few rounds of that and it&#x2
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by muttled 4y ago
Most home owners do not want their house to drop in value because there's more housing being built and available. I feel bad for the people who bought in at the top, but they're really pulling the ladder up behind them if their ve
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by muttled 4y ago
I always picture it like a gigantic switchboard of unlabeled knobs. Turn one a little, and something desirable happens. But other things happen, too.
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by muttled 4y ago
Telling someone they won a Toy Yoda in text form just wouldn't work as well

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