otherotherchris

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by otherotherchris 5y ago
It's called the bullwhip effect. Everyone at every level in the supply chain is buying six months of buffer stock. Then when normality resumes, everyone will consume their buffer stock while cancelling orders, leading to layoffs, idlin
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by otherotherchris 5y ago
From personal experience the final search query is when the user realizes that none of the results contain useful information, or your actual keywords, and rage quits. The user then asks someone in the office or goes and spends an hour at a
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by otherotherchris 5y ago
Google strikes out the least common (and therefore most important) keywords in my queries. Google replaces specific jargon with common words that are similar in meaning to laymen. Google returns pages which do not contain any of the keyword
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by otherotherchris 5y ago
Getting on the internet in the mid to late 90's required a fair bit of intelligence to set up a modem and drivers, "kids what the hell is UART", configure DUN settings, download and maintain browsers, etc. I blame the iMac G3
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by otherotherchris 5y ago
In addition to the site:reddit.com trick, I find prefacing every keyword in intext:keyword prevents most forms of substitution (but disappointingly not stemming) and ensures what you search for is actually on the page. Any other way of usin
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by otherotherchris 5y ago
You've probably already google-fu'ed this, but its ~4mm crushed granite used as a concrete-sand substitute where granite/gneiss sand isn't available. Most construction materials businesses sell locally by word of mouth,
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by otherotherchris 5y ago
I can never be sure that Google and Bing (including DDG) are actually searching for what I tell them to, even after putting all my keywords in quotes, using intext:"keyword", or using "verbatim" mode. I strongly suspect
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by otherotherchris 5y ago
Down to the Salton Sea, it's surface sits 65m below the Gulf of California. You dig a 200m wide canal and massive network of locks, all you've done is build a half trillion dollar shortcut from the Colorado River to the Coachella
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by otherotherchris 5y ago
Hyperscale and large corporate buyers aren't dumb enough to fall for this. Gimme everything enabled or I'll buy a neoverse or AMD thanks. And I'd reckon at retail that sub-brand and product confusion leads to most customers b
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by otherotherchris 5y ago
Most trawlers are owned by small businesses. They have very little lobbying power compared to the massive multinational agricultural conglomerates that control pork and poultry. JBS in particular is enormous, it owns almost a third of globa
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by otherotherchris 5y ago
The media narrative against Amazon is not entirely accurate, they pay well above median for logistics roles and have better conditions. I reckon behind closed doors that the major complaint against them in the publishing industry is that th
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by otherotherchris 5y ago
Shellfish aren't a massive industry so no one with political power cares to obstruct these laws. Cattle and sheep are usually treated well because cortisol reduces weight gain. Pigs not so much...
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by otherotherchris 5y ago
In 99.999% of cases "The Government" has multiple primary keys to choose from. IMEI, bluetooth mac, wifi mac, LNPR, credit card payment records, etc. Facebook data merely verifies an identity against that key.
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by otherotherchris 5y ago
I like to think that the NRO has an AMAZING space telescope with the wrong set of sensors that they can’t use. Whoops.