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by wcfields 2y ago
Like, you can cheat at Solitaire, but why?
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by wcfields 2y ago
It’s “legal” because of the lack of supply in critical medications so the FDA gives a variance to allow compound pharmacies to produce/sell critical medications until supply issues are resolved.
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by wcfields 2y ago
Yeah, I’d love to use AMD cpus for my Plex/Homelab/VM/unraid system but when you’re building one for home use, every watt matters and an Nvidia GPU, while nice, is hard to justify just for transcodes. I feel like my Dad sayin
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by wcfields 2y ago
I agree, I never really cared about QSV as an Intel feature until I started doing Livestreams, using Plex/Jellyfin/Emby, and virtualizing/homelab work.
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by wcfields 2y ago
From all the news and such I've seen about this is missing the longer-term impact of the system. Yes, in the near-term it will take up the needed capacity that the Panama canal cannot meet currently due to bottlenecks and price increas
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by wcfields 2y ago
You can buy anonymized user data of searches by zip codes. You can get it fairly targeted if you clean room it against other data sets (set top boxes for instance). I used to work for a media agency’s analytics dept and we got feeds from G,
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by wcfields 2y ago
I can imagine the SDNY attorney general gets the 30u30 list each year like its other office’s March Madness brackets.
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by wcfields 2y ago
Reposting this to counter the narrative that they don't sell your information: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40636844#40642672 First-hand account from me that this is not factual at all. I worked at a major medi
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by wcfields 2y ago
My experience in the EU with Amex: Good coverage in London, UK but not as much as the US only fancy restaurants in France/Spain some small biz places in Venice, Italy but probably only because of the Venice Biennale was sponsored by Am
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by wcfields 2y ago
> None of the tech companies are selling your data to advertisers. First-hand account from me that this is not factual at all. I worked at a major media buyer agency “big 5” in advanced analytics; we were a team of 5-10 data scientists.
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by wcfields 2y ago
If you scratch the surface of any of the peptide forums/discord Reta has been known and like Sema and Tirz is made (pirated, i guess would be the right word) in pharma labs from China, sold direct or through a US repackager since the f
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by wcfields 2y ago
Hey HAMs: You thought the noise floor was bad now, wait a few years when huge RFI vehicles are roaming all over the place.
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by wcfields 3y ago
AI Announcements from my 2nd favorite defense contractor.
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by wcfields 3y ago
Same, but it’s been tanking the past year with the huge amount of bloat Amazon keeps shoveling onto it. As a side note, my Insignia TV (best buy store brand) with fire tv built in is basically unusable. Echoing a previous comment I made too
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by wcfields 3y ago
Midwest especially; growing up a one day drive across the entire width of Illinois and Indiana to see relatives was a common occurrence for the holidays and our summer family trip.
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by wcfields 3y ago
How will I know what B1FF is up to? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIFF_(Usenet)
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by wcfields 3y ago
I'm 90% satisfied with mine: * 500/500 for $60, can go up 5gbps symmetrical if I wanted * While not advertised as static, I've had the same IPv4 IP since I checked a year ago * No significant downtime * The provided router ha
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by wcfields 3y ago
I got laid off in Jan 2023 and they only gave me the 2 weeks, but was able to at least negotiate that my end date fell on on Feb 1 so I could at least have healthcare until the end of the month. "I don't recall saying good luck&qu
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by wcfields 3y ago
My inspiration has been this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMZ8mawceuk (Building a Linux Packet Node) and inspired me to buy a used Kenwood TM-D700 to operate a packet node station. I think something like that coup
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by wcfields 3y ago
Internet gateway traffic most likely. Me, personally, I would like to see the bands filled to capacity and it be common/everyday that ordinary people use 2m/70cm data modes for things besides DX’ing.
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by wcfields 3y ago
The "OS" on the commercial TVs is more or less for digital signage purposes only. Samsung is kind of the defacto in the market, but I've worked with some new Panasonics that are just as nice. As far as the OS: It doesn't
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by wcfields 3y ago
Welcome to the world of "clean rooms", often used with tricky consumer data like this [1]. I recently was a Tech PM for a large ad/marketing agency and we utilized them for effectiveness of movie goers for a large studio. Ess
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by wcfields 3y ago
> - India and China fucking hate each other and engage in frequent deadly border skirmishes One insane fact I recently learned is that they do not use modern weapons, like guns, for fear of things getting out of hand. Only medieval clubs
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by wcfields 3y ago
On the side of my portable battery, and on the AC adapters, I wrap a few times of Gaff Tape [1] so I always have at least 6ft+ available when traveling to cover up the blinking status LEDs of smoke/CO2 detectors in hotels. [1] https:&
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MP3 Scene, a historical record of the early MP3 warez scene(mp3scene.info)
4 points by wcfields 3y ago|1 comments
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by wcfields 3y ago
ModernMBA has a video [1] that hypothesizes that food delivery in general will never be a profitable business. I'd say that it's pretty apt, that it's all running on VC money for market share. There's a reason that befor
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by wcfields 3y ago
In the dot-com boom Flooz (meant to be an "online giftcard currency") was giving out $20 in free credit and through that I bought a single cigar at age 16.
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Disney’s ‘metaverse chief’ departs shortly after division shutdown(campaignasia.com)
13 points by wcfields 3y ago|0 comments
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by wcfields 3y ago
Sounds like a budget car sold in SE Asia / Latin America in the base trim level. "Can't decide between a Nissan March, Jpeg SX, or the Honda Jazz EX"
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by wcfields 3y ago
Manually putting pre-scanned extras with fluid arm, leg, and mouth movements would be very difficult. (I mean they do that with CGI shots of crowds, but imagine a close-up shot in a restaurant, all the background is pre-scans). With AI it c

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