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721.
by to11mtm 4y ago
> They have obscenely low limits which adversely affects your credit score as relatively small purchases can end up using a substantial portion of the available credit. Balance vs total credit (available credit) is a very important facto
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by to11mtm 4y ago
My issue is the cadences are difficult to work with. Microsoft's general-ish LTS for .NET is 2 years. We also only seem to get a new release every 2 years. It's hard to handle breaking changes between two versions quickly.
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by to11mtm 4y ago
You may have gotten particularly lucky. I say particularly, because Core2->Core3.1 was a fairly painful change for some. I'd say the 66% worst case is 'you also have to add some compat flags and stories to properly resolve the
724.
by to11mtm 4y ago
Yeah it's probably still true. It's also true of other DBs; There is usually a certain amount of overhead per-row on the page, or per-row. So yeah, you have to either shrink to a size acceptable within padding, or pick a more appr
725.
by to11mtm 4y ago
Cash buyers are -not- complete idiots, but there was (and still is) some portion of people who think that prices will at best plateau, and thus it's better to 'get in' early still. > A year ago I was surprised if a house l
726.
by to11mtm 4y ago
I get it till I don't. What I get: In-store activations and upgrades are time consuming in many cases. I think every time I've gone to a TMO store to upgrade a phone for myself or a family member, at least one other person/gr
727.
by to11mtm 4y ago
Bingo
728.
by to11mtm 4y ago
> I mean honestly you sound like a pretty difficult person to work with. I wonder if this, rather than job hopping, is what’s limiting your upward mobility. It’s important to be able to learn how to work with things that aren’t perfect,
729.
by to11mtm 4y ago
...hmm. > Yes, but after you have spent 3+ years in your current job. Ehhhh... I've seen plenty of colleagues leave after less than that and get raises. I tend to -prefer- to stay somewhere (despite being considered an excellent int
730.
by to11mtm 4y ago
> it was the very first strike ... 'very first strike' sounds a bit too loaded in the context of Hiroshima/Nagasaki and WW2 as a whole. It may have been a rash action, perhaps a 'first nuclear strike'. 'very
731.
by to11mtm 4y ago
Yep. There's also the slightly more twisted version of this, where companies have special 'leadership' training programs and the employees on teams get 'hand picked' by their managers or the org. It tends to lead to
732.
by to11mtm 4y ago
I'd say the 'increasingly' isn't simply because of the loss of DB competency. I worked at a shop that for years was an 'always oracle' even though every license renewal visit left management paranoid and deje
733.
by to11mtm 4y ago
You don't even have to go that far TBH. I've seen a pattern with some companies where people are afraid to leave, for lack of a better way of putting it, "It's hell but if I leave it will be even more hell for my friends
734.
by to11mtm 4y ago
This was a huge thing for me. Both small receptacle trash bags, as well as when I lived with dogs, grabbing poop during walks. Bonus points as un-torn bags meant I didn't even need a disposable glove to pick things up.
735.
by to11mtm 4y ago
One thing that somewhat comes to mind is their 'Just say yes' policy. It tends to make it difficult for baristas to deal with customers that harass them, I know when credit card -> gift card conversion fraud was a big problem i
736.
by to11mtm 4y ago
> I suspect it’s hard to actually consistently make 500$/day breaking into peoples homes IMO the cheapening of technology has made a difference with this. When my (then not yet) ex-wife was burglarized, Just her laptop and a camera
737.
by to11mtm 4y ago
> But using weak and/or compromised passwords is a bad idea in exactly the same way that it's a bad idea to leave your front door unlocked. I'd argue it's not quite the same... using weak passwords is more like using
738.
by to11mtm 4y ago
> Toyota does have the most fun to drive hybrid motors though, that is subjective of course. I can buy that; My Ford Hybrid (drivetrain AFAIR is/was cross licensed from Toyota) has been way more enjoyable to drive than I expected.
739.
by to11mtm 4y ago
> I'd rather simply understand how my ORM generates queries, Depending on the ORM this may be be far from trivial. Despite being a C# dev rather than a DBA I can say that I have a better understanding at least one DBMS's query
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by to11mtm 4y ago
> Confession: something about ORMs has never clicked with me.. none of them ever seem simpler than SQL. I tend to agree, I'm more partial towards Micro-ORMs, ideally with a 'natural' DSL; something that is a good blend of
741.
by to11mtm 4y ago
IIRC (It's been a while since I've worked with their teams) Customer Success was handled by the 'integration support' at Docusign. If I -also- recall, When I did an Auth0 integration (a few years before that) I worked wi
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by to11mtm 4y ago
> Another issue with electricity pricing design is charging commercial and industrial customers big fees based on their peak electricity use. This can disincentivize employers from installing chargers, especially once half or more of th
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by to11mtm 4y ago
Yup. -JUST- on the housing side you had Inflated assessments (A lot of places got in trouble for this in the aftermath,) a tendency to do ARMs and being unprepared for an interest spike, NINJA loans, and the general expectation by too many
744.
by to11mtm 4y ago
This is weird because in my whole experience with EDI... I'd almost rather grab the SOAP. - In one case, a Bank's EDI Check format did not follow the spec. Long story short they decided to (either leave out or repurpose) the leftm
745.
by to11mtm 4y ago
If I got anything out of this article it's that we need an 'Open' CPAP design.
746.
by to11mtm 4y ago
> It’s easier to just hire people to learn the SAP workflow and then hire external auditors to make sure the accounting policies are properly being followed. I have a family member who has had enough professional success with SAP; when I
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by to11mtm 4y ago
> Subaru, for example, requires dealers to sell cars at MSRP I'm glad they do that now. I know one dealer local to me tried to pull a markup on me... 10 years ago (when it was easy to find another dealer that was able to give me i
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by to11mtm 4y ago
I mean, USUALLY sure. There are exceptions to some extent and I've been lucky in this regard [0], but in general I'd say the problem is people just don't care. I -do- tend to shop on overall depreciation/resale value and
749.
by to11mtm 4y ago
> If someone is new to .NET, all they need to care about is .NET 6 and later, so it doesn't matter much. That is an optimistic viewpoint in some ways; Lots of shops still have FW projects around, possibly ones older than they shoul
750.
by to11mtm 4y ago
> Also source generators don't compose, so any source generation that we would want to use would need to take advantage of the JSON source generator This is the biggest challenge I see, there are times where either Expression.Compil

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