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by schoolornot 6y ago
Between this and Lyrebird there seem to be a high number of cutting edge TTS solutions being worked on in the private sector. Does anyone know why there haven't been much advancement with the FOSS libraries?
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by schoolornot 6y ago
Do you have any tips for what to do when you're beginning to lose your autonomy to out of touch PMs?
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by schoolornot 6y ago
The choice is to adopt a crap product like Jira and use it to model your existing flows or buy an SAP or NetSuite product and have it govern your business.
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by schoolornot 6y ago
Yes, in my 10 year career I've so far encountered 0 competent "agile coaches" and two solid project managers. What made them solid? Their ability to put forth a minimal amount of effort to understand the work and actively rem
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by schoolornot 6y ago
Struggling to understand the value-add for Facebook here. For a while they were buying businesses for the coveted "screen time" - VR, messaging, etc. Everyone expected that they would monetize or integrate those platforms, and the
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by schoolornot 6y ago
Businesses that participate in this behavior should be forced to sell all or parts of themselves. And I would argue the same should be done for ANY company that needs to borrow money from the government.
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by schoolornot 6y ago
Can someone from Google use a throwaway to explain why the hell their support is garbage. From the Chrome store, to G-Suite, to Pixel Support. It's just awful.
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by schoolornot 6y ago
> it was no big deal. Paid the attorney, had all of my debt wiped out Right here is the problem with the US. Why should all your creditors need to pound sand for your financial mismanagement? I'm okay with deferred payments, restruc
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by schoolornot 6y ago
- nothing wrong with NIH syndrome if you have the means and resources to refine existing ideas and rebuild them with scale in mind - uber is a 50 billion dollar company and they have to de-risk themselves by owning entire stacks, top to bot
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by schoolornot 6y ago
They are entitled to charge whatever they want. They bought/invested/renovated the place.
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by schoolornot 6y ago
As they say, play stupid games, win stupid prizes. It seems that most tenants are over leveraged. I'm weathering this pandemic just fine because I scrapped together a little extra every month and don't live in a posh area with 60%
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by schoolornot 6y ago
Broke my arm and needed surgery. We know that's pricey. Before the surgery, I saw an ortho for 5 minutes. In what world are we living in where a 5 minute appointment should cost $475 and that excludes the few hundred billed by the radi
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by schoolornot 6y ago
The original intent seems OK. Why the hell does this mechanism need the capability to execute arbitrary .exe files and not just load the most basic type of driver required (INF/DLL/etc. whatever Windows calls it)?
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by schoolornot 6y ago
Surprised they took the path of acquiring Keybase and hiring Alex Stamos (ex FB CISO) vs. hiring Moxie Marlinspike and other respectable professionals. Keybase's reputation has become eroded with their recent crypto currency signing no
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by schoolornot 6y ago
Too bad Atlassian can't learn a thing or two from that Sourcehut article.
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by schoolornot 6y ago
I somewhat remember the Caddy team having a history of shady behavior: advertisements in headers, hostility towards contributors, telemetry you have to opt-out of. Has any of this changed or has it become worse?
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by schoolornot 6y ago
I recently wiped my factory-unlocked Samsung S20, enabled debug mode, and ran "pm list packages" over ADB. The results were beyond startling. There were close to 100 packages running under com.samsung and other various namespaces