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by partdavid 3y ago
I work at one of these "larger firms". You might be surprised at how much even basic things like security response or considerations are valued at "larger firms", or inconsistently applied (in part because of their siz
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by partdavid 3y ago
This actually has a similar purpose to an idea I had for basically creating a "your own backoffice" distribution of software (a little more turnkey, but with the same idea of tying it to a particular low-cost cloud provider). I lo
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by partdavid 3y ago
Is there a better story for authenticating this than manually generating and storing a long-lived API key in my mutt configuration?
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by partdavid 3y ago
My work has solved this problem by making everyone have the crappy huge laptop. 7000+ employees, everyone gets to choose from a menu of one.
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by partdavid 3y ago
The article is written as some kind of victory lap over misinformation but as far as I can tell, the only information provided is that: - A man was struck by a Muni bus - A paramedic on the scene claimed that a Cruise AV delayed transportat
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by partdavid 3y ago
And when they don't, what? The workhouse?
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by partdavid 3y ago
Yes, there's nasally administered flu vaccines, and Covid as well, I believe. For a long time jet injectors were used for vaccination, which is an injector, but not a needle (but have a risk of cross-contamination). Looks like there&#x
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by partdavid 3y ago
Or they've learned through their experience they simply don't like the kind of person who insists on learning the one song they like, and can't teach them well, so it's a good filter. But hey, not every teacher is for ev
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by partdavid 3y ago
Actually, teachers are human beings and they're allowed to have preferences, likes and dislikes. It's okay that not every teacher is for every student 100% of the time. Something can be a bad student/teacher fit without it be
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by partdavid 3y ago
So many times I've had people regurgitate this blog post[1], or KISS, or some other general piece of advice to "keep things simple" and it just means they want to influence the shell game of managing complexity so the complex
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by partdavid 3y ago
That must have been a fast mosquito!
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by partdavid 3y ago
A passenger didn't activate it (although passengers have in other aircraft), it was the restraint harness tether that got wrapped underneath it.
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by partdavid 3y ago
For me, the aspect of that accident that never gets enough attention is the partial failure of the floats. I think everyone understands that asking people who have never drilled a helicopter water escape to take special actions in an emerge
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by partdavid 3y ago
> No, nor is it deception just because they only asked your dad Did you think you were replying to OP? I'm not OP, my dad is not involved.
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by partdavid 3y ago
Yes, you're right, it's not possible for "a company" to commit fraud and still be a company, right? If the world worked like that, you would expect to find many examples of companies committing fraud. And you'd neve
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by partdavid 3y ago
How do you know this? Where is the record? If Netflix is going to charge me money, they need to prove that I incurred the charge. They could do this by making a record of the date, device and profile that renewed. But they can't. In my
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by partdavid 3y ago
I had more or less the exact same thing. I certainly didn't like the idea that my "authorized users" (who are in my home) could simply click on a show to watch it, or even "renew" without giving a password and resta
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by partdavid 3y ago
That's okay. Another senior DBA lived on a boat, so I took my DBAs over to his boat and we spent the afternoon, then went for a walk in the tony seaside town at which his boat was moored. We went to an art gallery. One of the pieces wa
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by partdavid 3y ago
I de-emphasize lists of languages and technologies but there's a reason to put them there, and that's for searching and indexing. When I'm looking at a resume I want to see concise and accurate descriptions of accomplishments
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by partdavid 3y ago
There's a really tiny niche case where someone might notice or, if you point it out, be impressed or amused and have some say in the hiring process, but these will be weird rare situations that you can't predict anyway. I think
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by partdavid 3y ago
They won't--it's nonsense. It's something you can point out if you get a screen or interview. But in my experience (and I like LaTeX and the notion of programming with neat markups for documents a lot) it just makes it hard t
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by partdavid 4y ago
"Idiot box" is an immediately-accessible slang term for television for me, but maybe the usage is a little old.
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by partdavid 4y ago
Why? Macintosh is a kind of apple. Apples are fruits. Quarantine is a public health protocol. Surely we need to make it "Operating system for Cupertino (California)-based 'Apple Computer Inc.' computers version 13 changes app
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by partdavid 4y ago
ChatGPT will out and out make up products that don't exist, pricing that isn't based on anything, and reviews and evaluations that never happened. Similarly, it will rely on programming behaviors and even libraries and functions t
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by partdavid 4y ago
I see that GCP support is "coming soon"--even just a quota comparison would be really nice, as these are numerous and a big pain there. Any ETA on when there might be something for GCP?
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by partdavid 4y ago
Absolutely agree--not a fan of hyperbole in that.
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by partdavid 4y ago
This is a whole class of problem, it seems to me. A semi-automated approach can seem fine when there's an executive function over the top of it, exercised by someone who has not just the knowledge, but current and honed knowledge
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by partdavid 4y ago
My last experience with this phone support, with errors in my account, was extremely time-consuming and unsatisfying. This was some years ago so I can't say whether it's better or mine was an isolated experience. But it was one of
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by partdavid 4y ago
On the whole, rST for sure has the right stuff. Having a document model and a nice standard extensible mechanism for syntax really helps. It's been my favorite. But even when writing my last paper I used Markdown (+pandoc) because I ha
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by partdavid 4y ago
I agree with you on points 2 and 3 (I don't think a standup covers the same kind of thing as a 1:1 anyway, and as you point out, you're not interrupting people. But to be fair on the first point, you were replying directly to some

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