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by sjm-lbm 5y ago
I suspect that IBM would see both of those as competitors, which honestly makes it more embarrassing. They can't ask for help from people that know email at this scale because they are too busy trying to tell the F500 that they know cl
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by sjm-lbm 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_GE36 - the Wikipeida article about GE's attempt to commericalize something similar in the late 80s/early 90s seems to infer that there is some options that meet
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by sjm-lbm 5y ago
I'd assume a nontrivial number of customers are calling because automated methods to reschedule aren't giving them the options that they want, and they assume (probably incorrectly) that they will do better when talking to a human
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by sjm-lbm 5y ago
The hilarious part of this, to me, is that it feels like this thread is just copying the (now-famous) HN thread announcing Dropbox. As a technical user, I get why people are concerned. As someone that's seen this movie before, I tend t
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by sjm-lbm 5y ago
Assuming you're actually asking, the appeal of the Thermapen for chefs is how fast it is - $10 thermometers are as (or more) accurate, but they'll take several seconds to stabilize on showing a certain temperature. Thermapens are
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by sjm-lbm 6y ago
Pretty much correct. The Pratt engine was in service six or so months before the GE engine (and a year or so before the RR), and United was the 777 launch customer. The only thing is that the newest 777 variants (777-200LR and -300ER) only
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by sjm-lbm 6y ago
Yeah, and people have already been calling for that to be regulated. If anything, people are openly calling for a specific type of regulation before the event itself has even stopped - which is probabally too soon, even if it does look like
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by sjm-lbm 6y ago
They have a little device (IIRC they call it "cloud key" or something like that) that runs that interface pretty well. Much better than setting that UI up on a device yourself.
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by sjm-lbm 6y ago
I get emails from LE when my certs are about to expire. I'm honestly not sure how they do it (based on the email address, I'm guessing that they pulled the email they are using from WHOIS), but it's not something I went out o
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by sjm-lbm 6y ago
For what it's worth, your suggestion is very similar to the way that electricity is sold where I live - I pay separate prices for electricity generation (where I can choose) and electricity delivery (where I cannot choose). I'm no
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by sjm-lbm 6y ago
Over the course of my life, I feel like I've read the "Voyager is going to go out of communication range/Voyager has gone out of communication range/Wait, no, they figured something out" series of stories several ti
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by sjm-lbm 6y ago
Corporations also get a lot of benefits that individuals or unstructured associations don't - mainly things like liability protection - so it's not like it would be unreasonable to have corresponding limitations on what they are a
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by sjm-lbm 6y ago
Wouldn't the fires of the past (ie, the fires that these birds would have evolved to survive) have been larger? I've always assumed that, while fires of the past would have been more rare, they would have bigger if allowed to grow
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by sjm-lbm 6y ago
I fly, follow the news, and assume I'll probably fly one one at some point because there's not enough alternative options. It's not what I want, but if they have a fix proven out by a lot of successful flight time and a MAX f
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by sjm-lbm 6y ago
Sibling comment got it, but I was thinking about the MAX 200/737-8200, which is a variant of the -8 that has more exit doors and therefore can have a higher seating density. Totally agree that the model numbers are confusing, though (o
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by sjm-lbm 6y ago
your listing of 737's isn't quite correct: 737-600s, 737-700s, 737-800s and 737-900s are part of the 737NG/Next Generation series that debuted in 1998. They are still flying and are safe. 737-8s are part of the 737MAX series
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by sjm-lbm 6y ago
What's funny about this is that it used be be true - Whatsapp started on Softlayer, and didn't move away until Facebook bought them. If IBM had even just kept pace and stayed behind AWS with Softlayer after they acquired them, t
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by sjm-lbm 6y ago
Your'e exactly right - at least one large state university (UT Austin) has explicitly set a student dying a scenario that would cause them to close: https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/17/ut-austin-reo
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by sjm-lbm 6y ago
Oh, the ending wasn't super interesting. I was telling the customer that I wasn't going to process the return, they asked to get a manager - and when I obliged, the manager sided with the customer and chided me a little after they
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by sjm-lbm 6y ago
At least they were doing something about it. In my younger days working retail at CompUSA, I once pointed out that a customer was attempting to return a cheaper video card in a better video card's box. I got in trouble (not much troubl
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by sjm-lbm 6y ago
I feel like the point is "you never know when an apparently crazy idea will turn into something reasonable, so you should always stick with someone until the end of their pitch and/or point." Admittedly, I'm not sure tha
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by sjm-lbm 6y ago
Fair. I think that the "sick with Covid == stay at home" link is strong enough in my brain I'm just assuming you'd want to stay home with even the vaccine, but that's not something really based in scientific fact.
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by sjm-lbm 6y ago
I feel like the psychological element goes the other way, at least for me. In January, this would have felt like a terrible deal. Right now, it feels like you're telling me that - should I socially isolate for a few weeks a year after
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by sjm-lbm 6y ago
Yeah, they acquired Onica which was/is a decently sized AWS prof services company. Not sure how much they were doing before then.
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by sjm-lbm 6y ago
I know it's not the most important thing, but I feel that 747s are easily the prettiest passenger airplane in the sky right now. Going to miss the variety they provided at the airport.
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by sjm-lbm 6y ago
> probably know more about the flaws in the MAX The thing is, we do know a lot about those flaws and the only way to really fix those flaws is with a clean-sheet redesign. The MAX would have flown again, for sure, pre-COVID. However, d
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by sjm-lbm 6y ago
If that was enough, though, they'd just do that now. They control the OS without making laptop silicon.
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by sjm-lbm 6y ago
Same. My interpretation is a little different, though: I think that a lot of my emotional struggle with procrastination is some fear of creating something less than perfect (or, for that matter, at least less than what I'm capable of).
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by sjm-lbm 6y ago
It was also preferred (by most people, at least) to Windows Vista, the product that usually shipped on PCs after it. It was an almost undeniable local maximum in Windows releases from the consumer side, which does make some of the fond memo
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by sjm-lbm 6y ago
Interestingly, Morris also made a similar documentary on Rumsfeld: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unknown_Known It's (IMHO) not as good as The Fog of War, but it's still very much worth a watch.

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