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There might be pricing pressure, and a lot of people entering the space, but it is more than a nice to have. If you do not have some sort of SIEM solution, you will pay more for or not be insurable for cybersecurity/ransomware insuranc
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Yarn made the same mistake going from 1 to 2 as Angular did. The newer version was so different. Both should have been named something else. At a certain point of incompatibility and divergence it is a different product, and the benefit you
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3y ago
This is also true in Orange County, Florida. I was surprised when I found out via a friend that was a deputy there that the uniformed police working at bars were being paid by the bar, and it was required that they had a certain number of t
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3y ago
The problem is that your profits are made on the fresher items. The marked down items are being sold at cost or at a loss. That conditions customers to shop for marked down items and cannibalizes the fresh sales. I myself used to buy the &q
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3y ago
There are multiple things that are done here. Suppose you had great, immutable backups. They still have many things that can ruin your business 1. Restoring networks, servers, third party services with knowledge that anything you restore co
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3y ago
Well one thing an OTS solution accomplishes is it makes costs and capabilities very clear to product and marketing. When you have an internal team doing something bespoke to your organization it is viewed as much more malleable. If the thir
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3y ago
Great accuracy as tested to a continually changing black box. GPT hits are also expensive and often have unpredictable latency. This would have to be integration tested to detect changes to GPT answers.
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3y ago
I was thinking of this when a friend passed away from pancreatic cancer a couple of weeks ago. One of the reasons pancreatic cancer is so deadly is that it is deeply internal and symptoms of it are not present. This is true with all of the
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3y ago
There are plenty of items that have been replaced with a different one but maintain the previous product's high review volume. Also there are those with a huge number of fake reviews. I look at the 1-2 star reviews. If they are dumb on
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I have shopped online almost exclusively for over 20 years and have started doing the same thing. If I buy a fan at Home Depot, I can be reasonably assured it won't go on fire. They have product buyers that assess the quality and price
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[1] Reminds me of this video where a guy humorously simulates someone coming in to steal his military "Deuce and a half" 6x6. These things have no locks on them because the military doesn't want people to be locked out. But g
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Russia could touch anyone in the US that they really wanted to, and vice versa. There is just this understanding that whatever you do, they are going to know it was you most likely, and something is coming back. So Russia turning a blind ey
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They do when it leaves the law enforcement world and goes to shadowy government agencies as in Colonial pipeline that have a lot more resources and don't have to play by many rules when dealing with hostile foreign based attacks. If Lo
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If you are bowling with a house bowling ball, and not hooking it extensively you would have done just as well on any lane. The lane did not do it for you. The balls used by league bowlers are highly reactive and they generate spin in the oi
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This is absolutely real, and I am impressed they included that. It is called a "walled shot" I used to work as a bowling mechanic when going through college. The lanes in PBA bowling have to have a minimum amount of oil. There sho
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I never knew the scale either. But the book says gasoline has a specific gravity of 0.7. So 100 tons will make roughly 30 tons of buoyancy. The negatively buoyant craft is 50 tons so combined with the air inside that is probably the displac
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Was the pandemic a fad? Yes certain segments did grow wildly during the pandemic due to in person restrictions. That growth is certainly unsustainable. If it weren't for the corresponding stock price explosion and then costs explosion
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Startup layoffs are very much related to the funding environment. I work for a startup that laid off half our staff. There have been very few series C and later this year. So if you are a startup you need to decrease burn now and get to hav
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The lockdowns went on far longer than the "flatten the curve" phase. I think the lessons learned here were: 1. Once something like this escapes its confines and starts spreading as COVID did, it is here to stay and any lockdowns t
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Unfortunately that is the internet now. The results and pages you are getting are poor because people stopped publishing websites. Now most of the internet forums and self curated pages are gone and information is in those silos
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Someone isn't going to design one of these system or has designed some of these systems themselves or during an interview. However for something like YouTube one could say Ok to start simply I would have a frontend form to submit video
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4y ago
There is competitive demand with food supply but that is the point. If we did not have surplus corn produced, the USA would be very vulnerable to food disruptions. Because as we saw during COVID, business supply chains are only optimized to
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I really liked the take home. It is just that if you have someone doing this, you are having that person commit hours of their time to interviewing without the same investment on your end. So if you do not have the means or time to process
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I completed that exercise along with a Nomad one w ELK stack. And submitted it. And never got a response ever besides we will look at it ASAP. (3 months ago.). It was billed as a "2 hour" exercise, but to even get close to that yo
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One use case is to make a decentralized form of micropayments. The "Open web" is at huge risk right now (and is declining in usefulness) due to the incentives given to content providers. You can either make money in a walled garde
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It could be to gradually increase reaction expectations so it would not be surprising if China shot down one of the USA's drones. Or perhaps escalate by using their previously demonstrated ability to blow up satellites. The balloon was
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I don't think it really has anything to do with the economy. It is changing tastes. Craft beer imploded by moving more and more to just silver cans with pretty stickers. All being "Hazy juicy IPAs". Seltzers were a refreshing
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Amazon could deliver more quickly to additional areas but chooses not to due to cost. Now everyone else is pressured for "2 day delivery" and then have to use couriers that can deliver to pretty much everywhere in 2 days and incur
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4y ago
Yes it is called inflation. That 3.5% loan principle and payment has become 2% less valuable most years, and recently it has become 9% less valuable. So if that money was put into buying assets that the OP needed, that would be risk free ga
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I think this is more of sliding the levers to keep the earnings good. There was a massive amount of money dumped into the economy over the last couple of years. Companies produced record earnings, and their stock prices correspondingly incr
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