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by quesera 2y ago
PE machinations aside, Sears and Kmart were dead for a long time before they closed the last stores. Their failures are free market successes, because the free market is all about vendors serving customers. Vendors that fail to do so, are
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by quesera 2y ago
I did not work at Sears, but from the retail customer side, Sears was dead for a decade or two before it died. You might be able to imagine pivots that could have brought the company back to life, but none of them were guaranteed, or, from
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by quesera 2y ago
Unanimous consensus is an impossible goal. Overwhelming agreement among experts is as gold as standards get. But FWIW, I don't think anyone believes that climate change is a quick duration species-existential event. Massive slow-roll g
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by quesera 2y ago
Forgive my naivete, but do we really have the precision measurements and kT payload calibration needed to alter an asteroid's trajectory and speed to the point that we can target specific (even very large) country landmasses as the Ear
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by quesera 2y ago
I would never say that "free markets solve all problems". But I would strongly argue that the failure of Sears is an example of free market success .
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by quesera 2y ago
I see how the separation of "persisted active buffers" from "saved files" is important, but FWIW I have vim configured to (for a specific note-taking FileType) write the buffer out on 60 seconds of inactivity. Not the sa
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by quesera 2y ago
I assumed it was a joke. But yeah, absurdity:10 does not mean insincere!
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by quesera 2y ago
Oh I'm very familiar. It's still ambiguous and unnecessary in this context.
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by quesera 2y ago
I would vote for: "California AG to AI Corps: Practically Everything You’re Doing Might Be Illegal"
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by quesera 2y ago
CA isn't an acronym, it's a postal abbreviation. Internationally, it conflicts with Canada.
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by quesera 2y ago
Cali is a big city in Colombia. Only LL Cool J can call California "Cali" without derision.
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by quesera 2y ago
I wish I had a better understanding of the bimodal distribution of customer satisfaction with Amazon. I know high volume customers who have 99.5% success with Amazon orders, and others who would say "pretty much everything I buy is use
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by quesera 2y ago
You should not be downvoted. I think people are misunderstanding your comment. But I am confused about another part. Why would you prefer (clearly marked) "refurbished" HDDs for 20% less than new, if you expect them to last 5 year
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by quesera 2y ago
Amazon sells both "new" and "refurbished" HDDs. They are clearly marked in the description, but this is often awkwardly-conveniently after the truncation point for search results listings, so you need to be vigilant. I
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by quesera 2y ago
Article is about reports from German customers (this is clear in the orignal title, but not the current HN title), and mostly with 16TB Exos HDDs. FWIW, I just bought a bunch of Seagate HDDs (US vendor) and my warranty periods line up with
826.
by quesera 2y ago
Also true of those old "lockbox" key lockers that real estate agents use to "protect" the keys to your house. This made me uncomfortable when I was selling a house, so naturally I wrote some code to generate a string of
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by quesera 2y ago
I don't agree that there's a fundamental difference between conversation-based and document-based. Or more correctly, I would argue that both email and messaging protocols are both, and it's just a matter of UI differences. .
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by quesera 2y ago
You're a new user, and you've made two comments on this story, adding no context, but promoting the same service. Is this a legit recommendation? Are you shilling? Are you associated? Help us out.
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by quesera 2y ago
> why then do people flock to UI and delivery latency. I think both are fixable but the latter is more difficult.
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by quesera 2y ago
> programming languages will likely go away altogether As we know them, certainly. I haven't seen discussions about this (links welcome!), but I find it fascinating. What would a PL look like, if it was not designed to be written
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by quesera 2y ago
> Success Engineer Yikes. I still haven't gotten over "Customer Success Agent". I am so not ready for Success Engineering. AI, take me away.
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by quesera 2y ago
> This test snippet simply repeats the same four-letter word in a paragraph many times using all of various possible meanings simultaneously This sounds like fun. How does it do with an arbitrary quantity of "buffalo"s?
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by quesera 2y ago
Insanity. Absolutely. Maybe. Clearly there's a need for some kind of bad-url blocker. You don't want compromised accounts (or clueless people) sharing nefarious links to trusted friends. And clearly blocking distrowatch etc is biz
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by quesera 2y ago
We are obligated to have an external auditor run PCI DSS penetration testing and network segmentation testing every year. Their second request (after a network diagram) is always to create an EC2 instance running Kali. Which, honestly, conf
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by quesera 2y ago
If you ever forget to put your phone in Airplane Mode when flying (and you survive the flight!), you will notice that the battery is surprisingly depleted. I think it has to do with the phone constantly renegotiating with cell towers along
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by quesera 2y ago
> east cost vs west coast More likely population density/growth in the region. Most of the US was all Bell System at the time. If the area was urban, or growing quickly (adding new phone subscribers), they'd get the newer ele
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by quesera 2y ago
You might be able to hush the beep by holding down the UPS ON button. Works on all APC UPSes that I've tried, at least.
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by quesera 2y ago
> The only way to win this war is to deescalate But there is absolutely no way that will happen, so the pragmatic question is which horse to bet on.
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by quesera 2y ago
> I see that Larry Ellison is a billionaire It's more instructive to think of Larry Ellison as the lawnmower in the billionaire salad.
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by quesera 2y ago
Agreed, but irrelevant to the thread at hand. The accent of the caller is not a useful signal. The very fact that they called you is a pretty good indication that you do not want to talk to them. 99% strength.

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