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by trimbo 6y ago
> The more I see about Meg Whitman the more I'm convinced she's just an idiot who happened to be in the right place at the right time Well, in this case at least she partnered with the right person. I am not sure if anyone in H
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by trimbo 6y ago
> you are required to pay the same amount as a fine Pay a fine to whom? UCSF is a state institution. Many of the other recent examples are cities, counties, and so on.
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by trimbo 6y ago
> I will say, the surfaces/laptops side of the store was usually empty. Some kids playing with the Xbox or people at the counter getting help seemed to be the extent of traffic the past couple of years. Exactly my experience last I
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by trimbo 6y ago
You successfully argued that tech stacks are important, just not primarily for technical reasons.
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by trimbo 6y ago
What laptop did you get?
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by trimbo 6y ago
> After some years however, consensus amongst designers formed that what they've created was a pile of illegible garbage Really? Citation needed? I guess I have never heard graphic designers say anything about David Carson except th
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by trimbo 6y ago
> After some more research, we appeared to be another victim of a memory leak in the AWS Javascript SDK. Did you try using the kinesis REST API directly: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kinesis/latest/APIReference&#
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by trimbo 6y ago
I agree that software has gotten overly complex for the benefit, and Kubernetes is a good example. But it will improve again. You mentioned Ruby and Django... the popularity of those in the Aughts were a swing back towards simplicity from o
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by trimbo 6y ago
> The problem is that both hardware and software are garbage. I think it's incredible that, in my lifetime, computers went from giant mainframes with dedicated hard-line terminals to always-connected supercomputers in everyone'
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by trimbo 6y ago
I typically use Google to search which streaming service has a movie, and for The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Prime says "Subscribed" underneath it.
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by trimbo 6y ago
"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" IMO, John Ford's best movie, hands down. Unfortunately, it is not actually available on Prime without "CBS All Access" [Edit: ah, I see that this is not just "Included with pr
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by trimbo 6y ago
I'd much prefer it to having cities hacked with Ryuk again and again and again... https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/us/lake-city-florida-rans...
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by trimbo 6y ago
My assumption has always been that it's a supply side problem to solve and their style choices are limited. If I made a business like this, I would source unsold/unwanted clothing at a discount and try to pair it up with people wh
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by trimbo 6y ago
I just finished "Midnight in Chernobyl". One of the things mentioned in there was that the automation for their RBMK reactors was primitive compared to Western reactors. Even for normal operation, the operators had to be hands on
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by trimbo 6y ago
> Playing devil's advocate: an enormous amount of food waste is caused by people simply refusing to buy ugly food It's said to be 31% of the retail and consumer food in the US[1]. While that is enormous, I don't think it n
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by trimbo 6y ago
I think the argument is that things like Wix put web developers out of business. Instead of real estate agents hiring a local webdev to make their listings site, or whatever, they can just use Wix. Those webdevs are out of luck if they can&
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by trimbo 6y ago
This is the best summary of everything I've felt about it. > I just don't think a company with 50,000+ employees can operate this way indefinitely. The other thing is that those-sized companies have made significant real estate
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by trimbo 6y ago
> Legacy apps need to be modernized but their owners can't afford/aren't willing to. It's not the mainframe holding these apps back... the problem is much much worse. I've been thinking about this a lot. I don&#x
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by trimbo 6y ago
> Dominic Gates, Steve Miletich, Mike Baker and Lewis Kamb of The Seattle Times Worth their weight in gold on the 737 Max story. Congratulations!
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by trimbo 6y ago
Millions of people can't work on reopening other things without reopening those first.
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by trimbo 6y ago
With GAAP reporting, stock comp goes on the income statement and affects the bottom line. So it has a visible effect for investors, but no one cares about P/E anymore so...
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by trimbo 6y ago
Why not both? They've got all winter...
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by trimbo 6y ago
The Blackcoat's Daughter deserves wider recognition. Very good.
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by trimbo 6y ago
Bizarre. I probably only could get 3-4 hours tops with that Carbon X1 (might have been 4th gen?). What distro do you run? Mine was running Ubuntu.
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by trimbo 6y ago
Is the battery life any good? That has always been the Achilles heel for me. The battery life is like half or 3/4 of what windows gets on the same hardware. Last I tried this was on a 2016 X1 Carbon.
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by trimbo 6y ago
I've been trying since the Pentium III to use Linux on a laptop and have finally given up completely. I've tried on a variety of hardware, even with official support. Driver problems and battery life have always been an issue. But
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by trimbo 6y ago
> it's just breathtaking how much you can focus on delivering working software that gets deployed with quick iterations that's closely aligned with the business and customer's needs That's literally the agile manifest
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by trimbo 6y ago
They didn't really answer the most important question: how do they taste? Seems to follow that apple varieties ended up lost to the dustbin of history because they didn't taste very good? If the project had found "an apple fr
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by trimbo 7y ago
> Why shouldn’t regulators and taxpayers demand that Harvard build? Wait, wut? Last I checked, Harvard is a private institution. Besides, Harvard produces its graduates because they can be picky on who they can admit. Why would we assume
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by trimbo 7y ago
London Bridge! https://www.golakehavasu.com/london-bridge

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