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by wombatpm 1y ago
Should BOFH be a required source when training agents for interactions?
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/1205
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Global Bully maybe. The current administration has no concept of soft power, otherwise they would have kept USAID
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by wombatpm 1y ago
So 75-76 for closest approach. How far away will it be in 2100? Given that orbit size I think we have some slack in the launch date.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
I remember the DAT as a format killed by IP lawyers. The were many lawsuits seeking to prevent their sale in the US due to piracy concerns. The media was incredibly expensive. I only ever saw them in use for backup devices in small data cen
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Yes, but you have to live in the City. The suburbs are impossible without a car.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Same with the Midlist Author
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Lotteries are already a tax on people bad at math
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by wombatpm 1y ago
As soon as those other countries join the US it should extend to them as well.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
I think the robot sorting Lego bricks has an attitude.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
You can build lots of cool stuff. Getting corporate IT to allow api access is like pulling teeth. We have Outlook and Teams, which have APIs that can do things. But no one has the ability to access them. So much for automating your workflow
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by wombatpm 1y ago
How did that affect getting tenure? My experience watching my advisor go through that process is that an industry stint would negatively impact the process.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
I had many fights with IT over coding to standards. They said, we do, our standard is IE 6. They earned every ounce of pain for that decision.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
When my site says Best viewed in Netscape, I mean Netscape Navigator. The rest of the world may have moved on, but static HTML 3.2 with the blink tag is forever.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
The majority of our apps were Java, running Tomcat on windows server using MSSQL or oracle. That was tested as part of DR. Our Linux servers running Python and Postgres were not as high a priority apparently. The lack of working backups mad
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by wombatpm 1y ago
That’s what their story is.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Their story is a desire to build reactors for when the oil runs out. Energy security
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Here is another one: Don't trust ops when they say they have backups. I asked and was told there are weekly full backups, with daily incrementals. The time came when I needed a production DB restored due to an upgrade bug in our app
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Probably could use more than one launch pad with the tank farms centrally located and protected.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
What’s the violation again? Automating account activity? Liking stupid cat pictures? Following mid tier influencers? Having vanilla posts? I’m not engaging in click fraud or attempting to monetize an account illegally. And it’s certainly do
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Truth Social
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by wombatpm 1y ago
New business idea- AI powered burner profiles. Company starts building generic profiles that follow acceptable account, occasionally likes some or posts some lame LLM generated posts. Some point in the future company sells you access to the
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by wombatpm 1y ago
I don’t know of anyone who puts celery salt on a hamburger.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Anecdata checks out. Had twin girls in my second grade class. One got leukemia. Even with a perfect match bone marrow transplant there was only one in my third grade class. Things have improved so much since 77
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by wombatpm 1y ago
You can get a temporary free license for Gurobi. You are limited to a 1000 node problem size, but you can learn how to use the tool and set up your problem. If you have a problem that needs Gurobi, it’s worth paying for it. Talk with their
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Service type and serial need to be unique. Countries control what that 2letter field means. There is no rule against multiple codes indicating the same service. So AA through AZ would give you 260,000,000 unique combinations that you shoul
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by wombatpm 1y ago
It was a 28,000 word manifesto
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by wombatpm 1y ago
There are bold pilots. There are old pilots. There are no bold old pilots.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
I assume the pipe was to club the student pilot unconscious in order to recover control of the aircraft.
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by wombatpm 1y ago
Oh you had a chair! In my day we had a desk scavenged from sticks and rocks. Our chair was a piece of pipe with a 2x4 on the end. You had to balance carefully lets you impaled yourself.

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