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by quesera 2y ago
Low-margin businesses always have bad support, and there's nothing you can do about it. High-margin businesses usually have passable or good support. If your vendor of choice does not, you have chosen the wrong vendor and should switch
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by quesera 2y ago
The best indication not to bother answering is that they called you. Doesn't matter how familiar their accent sounds. They are not calling for your benefit. No need to get xenophobic about it.
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by quesera 2y ago
> The initiator of the call had to hang up for something like 8 seconds Sorry, correcting myself: If the initiator of the call hung up, the call would be ended immediately. If only the receiver hung up, the call would remain "li
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by quesera 2y ago
Support quality is a function of cost, which is a function of customer value. Low-margin businesses will hire low-cost support on whatever continent it's available.
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by quesera 2y ago
I think this was in crossbar switches. The initiator of the call had to hang up for something like 8 seconds. This was useful if they called you and you answered in the kitchen, but wanted to run to another room to talk. Not that I think it
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by quesera 2y ago
> The industry of Indian scam call centers was not invented by crazy racists. Nor was the industry of Indian legitimate call centers. You cannot glean any useful signal of legitimacy from the caller's accent. That's the WTF.
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by quesera 2y ago
Never underestimate adolescents who are not distracted by ordinary teen drama. They exist, and have truly enviable amounts of time for projects. Also, don't overestimate compilers (or kernels). They can be much simpler than they migh
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by quesera 2y ago
> I guess I'll have to try my hand at 3D printing bigger stuff. An attractive 5U deskside enclosure sounds like a woodworking project to me. I might be blinkered though!
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by quesera 2y ago
To be fair (however painfully), a healthy percentage of those people believed they were there to save democracy. We all believe things that are poorly-supported by facts, possibly serving an agenda we don't understand, and are clearl
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by quesera 2y ago
Wouldn't such a network filter also trigger on random (in the sense of unpredictable to the reader) pages here on HN though? Or Reddit, etc? I've never lived under such a regime, but all of the trigger words I can imagine at OP&#x
851.
by quesera 2y ago
Good point. I have never suffered such indignity, but I forget my privilege.
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by quesera 2y ago
> there are laws governing how certain text is handled Is that true?? In the US? My instinctive metric[0] for NSFW is: Could a casual passerby see something that falls into a class of designated offensivenesses (e.g. sex of any kind, b
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by quesera 2y ago
Serious question: Is my browser blocking image content or something? Or is there general consensus that plain body-font sized text is also an NSFW concern?
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by quesera 2y ago
Interpreting Animats' question as concern for the user population, I think it's a valid one. The new administration in the US is openly hostile, and a lot of damage could be done to peoples' lives if, say, the community was h
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by quesera 2y ago
Wow, thanks for that link! I've been wishing for something exactly like this. Mozilla Foundation's "Privacy Not Included" product review site https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded&#x2F
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by quesera 2y ago
> topics I'd rather not think about have started to come in. I'm not an HN doomer, but I will say that I have distinctly noticed, in the last week or two, that some topics that would normally be flagged out have been allowed
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by quesera 2y ago
I sympathize completely.
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by quesera 2y ago
> Fresh eggs, hell yes--they smell and look weird You cannot reliably detect salmonella on a fresh egg with any human sense. At least not prior to consumption.
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by quesera 2y ago
'twas surely a joke.
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by quesera 2y ago
This is great. I also enjoy the "randomly and undebuggably hang until timeout" (25mins?) which is annoying and incomprehensible and costs money. Rerunning the same jobs always passes.
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by quesera 2y ago
Fair point, but it doesn't point directly toward "intentional derogatory perversion by the US government". Also keep in mind that the official name is not in English. And what is the standard process for nations to produce &q
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by quesera 2y ago
Almost exactly 13 years, in fact! The overflow happens at 2038-01-19T03:14:08Z.
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by quesera 2y ago
> awk grep ping biff ip yum du curl sed Not to offend anyone, but ip yum and curl are neologisms introduced in later translations. Wars have been fought over this disagreement!
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by quesera 2y ago
> Preserved ancient shipwrecks See also "bog people". But the results of such extreme anomalies do not extrapolate reliably to the general case.
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by quesera 2y ago
Airy ice cream is also lighter. Beware pints that weigh less than expected. At a minimum, it indicates a ton of air whipped into the mix. But it's also a decent proxy for low-quality ingredients or garbage fillers. In the grocery store
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by quesera 2y ago
I have seen scoops of cheap ice cream, accidentally dropped onto pavement on a hot sunny day in the Southern US, maintain their scoop-like shape for hours. Cheap ice cream is not ice cream. Do not eat.
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by quesera 2y ago
Also "decimate" which used to mean "kill 1/10th of the soldiers", but now apparently means "destroy (almost) entirely". :)
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by quesera 2y ago
I see no reason to believe your version. In English, adjectives before the noun are the usual form.
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by quesera 2y ago
> anyone else using it? We're looking for a new home, with Pivotal Tracker shutting down on April 30th (101 days left!). I had not heard of Height before. On first glance, it looks like a genuinely modern project management servic
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by quesera 2y ago
> If someone insists on using CCP, here's my speculation, it usually means they have been heavily influenced by anti-communist propaganda and narratives from the U.S. government, or they are deliberately using the incorrect name to

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