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by pimlottc 2y ago
Taxis are a perfect example— as long as you tar the existing system as the enemy, you can get people to tolerate your bad behavior. “Those guys suck, we’re on your side!” Works for presidents, too.
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by pimlottc 2y ago
Headline is a bit butchered, it should read “was fired”: > JPMorgan employee questioned Dimon's RTO mandate, was fired, then told he could stay
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by pimlottc 2y ago
> Nping mean NB Ping What does NB Ping mean?
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by pimlottc 2y ago
I don’t mean this as a slight, but this has to be written by a post-millennial. As a late gen-Xer, nothing about these letterforms were unusual or “ugly” to me as they were practically ubiquitous. They were just as common and valid as stan
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by pimlottc 2y ago
I assume it’s to localize the currency and some of the text
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by pimlottc 2y ago
They probably simply read “native american citizens” as referring to Natives Americans. There’s no need to cast aspirations.
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by pimlottc 2y ago
Obviously this is just for fun, but I am a bit disturbed about similar projects that try to gain some meaningful insights out of vast public data sets without the slightest attention paid to the quality of the data used. It doesn’t matter h
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by pimlottc 2y ago
Or maybe that was a factor in why the name change was successful? There can be more than one reason for a name.
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by pimlottc 2y ago
What does this mean for Chicago? Certainly seems like a loss for them. Does this reflect any broader trends about Chicago’s position as a financial hub?
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by pimlottc 2y ago
Must be a bass shell user
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by pimlottc 2y ago
I kind of like how the retro Zoom has separate windows for each participant. It’s pretty frustrating how little control Zoom (not to mention Meet or Teams) gives you over the layout.
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by pimlottc 2y ago
That’s covered in the article. There’s even a photo.
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by pimlottc 2y ago
What are the “2 issues”? Why do they need to “restore” their “stranglehold” when every president for the past 100+ years has been either a Democrat or a Republican?
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by pimlottc 2y ago
I have no idea what this means.
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by pimlottc 2y ago
> - The FAA has strict hiring requirements. You have to be mentally and physically capable, and by their own admission less than 10% of applicants are qualified for the job. https://www.faa.gov/air-traffic-controller-qual
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by pimlottc 2y ago
Yes, and give them meaningful titles too. I think sometimes "men" means "performance of male profiles" and at other times it means "behavior of male users"? It's not really clear. This data looks interest
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by pimlottc 2y ago
Just guessing here, but does it have anything to do with the fact that 9 is the same as 6 rotated?
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by pimlottc 2y ago
Plenty of people like reading about other people…
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by pimlottc 2y ago
They’re olde tyme flipbookes
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by pimlottc 2y ago
You know that someone brought that up internally and so they added the sparkles to totally clear that up.
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by pimlottc 2y ago
> No doubt the recipient will also be using some form of AI summarization that strips away all that added "polish" - making the whole exercise entirely redundant! Not entirely, there’s still the energy usage and stock price inc
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by pimlottc 2y ago
What is that supposed to mean?
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by pimlottc 2y ago
> Flagle Explorer stands at the forefront of educational gaming, offering an immersive flag guessing experience that transforms how you learn about world geography. Dial back the puffery a bit, sheesh. This must be AI generated, no one
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by pimlottc 2y ago
*quiet
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by pimlottc 2y ago
Because the good times are over, the free money is gone, and it's back to business as usual.
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by pimlottc 2y ago
TRV = Thermostatic Radiator Valve (I had to look that up)
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by pimlottc 2y ago
Look at it from the vendor’s perspective. Most people still want to be able to access and control their home from outside their home network, which generally means going through a hosted server, so why go to the extra trouble of implementi
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by pimlottc 2y ago
> With total mind control AI could ming packaged by silicon valley Sorry, what did you mean to say here?
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by pimlottc 2y ago
Part of me was really hoping this was going to be for the Hugo interactive fiction game engine [0] 0: https://www.ifwiki.org/Hugo
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by pimlottc 2y ago
The first section on the homepage doesn’t give me a good sense of what the application does. The references to Wireshark suggest it has something to do with network traffic but that doesn’t seem to be the case. It also talks about cloud but

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