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by yardie 5y ago
Surprisingly, I had managed to avoid any sort of layoff, firing for most of my career except that whole dotbomb era. Then COVID came and I had my first RIF, ever. I was told weeks in advance so I could prepare my documentation and handoff.
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by yardie 5y ago
The old cars (40s and 50s) in Cuba for example are literally held together with ducktape, adobo, and chicken wire. If they even have an engine it's whatever they could find: lawn mower, motorcyle, or tractor engine. The cars from the 5
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by yardie 5y ago
Most CFL bulbs for the home were total garbage. The colors were limited and the light was harsh. CFLs in the E26 bulb format ran too hot and the bulb electronic ballasts either smoked out or occasionally caught on fire. My country, France,
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by yardie 5y ago
Does Brazil still have a 100% tariffs on foreign made electronics? And the US charges almost none to highly favoured nations ie. China. So $429 iPhone in the US will be over $800 after duties in Brazil. And this is not set by Apple but the
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by yardie 5y ago
It doesn't seem like anyone wants to truly be in the server market. With so much going on in the cloud there really is a shrinking audience who need Mac specific server hardware on-prem or colo'd
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by yardie 5y ago
The Mac Studio looks like a chunky Mac Mini. There I said it. Not sure how modular it is with no internal slots.
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by yardie 5y ago
Around that time I was shipped out to do a video presentation with 3 laptops. 2 of them were cued up with Powerpoint and synchronized to play at the same time. If one went down I could switchover seamlessly. I also had a cold backup laptop
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by yardie 5y ago
The Apple (80s-90s) that we know of became a powerhouse under John Sculley. It was no longer a garage startup and was now a billion dollar company and had to be run like a billion dollar company. Even in his bio Jobs admittedly brought in S
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by yardie 5y ago
With so much of their military tied up in the boondoggle on their western front I guess now would be the perfect time to pounce on disputed territory. Knowing your enemy distracted.
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by yardie 5y ago
President Biden has been sounding the alarm for a month, "Russia is preparing to invade Ukraine". Literally none of the EU nor NATO members did much until they literally started driving the tanks in. Russia was trying to convince
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by yardie 5y ago
Most of the retention issues is about retirement. The generation of Boomers are retiring or retiring early. Many civil jobs you can retire at age 55 or 20 years of service. So you have a very large generation of boomers hitting retirement a
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by yardie 5y ago
Isn't everyone facing major hiring and retention issues? And haven't the police been funded enough? We've had police reform bill after police reform bill since the 90s LA Riots and possibly before and it always comes with mor
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by yardie 5y ago
I new they were building a new cosmodrome I hadn't heard much about it. Most of their launches are still from Baikonor, but I could be mistaken.
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by yardie 5y ago
The Russian space program isn't even in Russia. Baikonur Cosmodrome is in Kazakhstan. So you can see these countries hold a very high strategic value to Russia. The ghosts of the Soviet Union are still haunting us to this day.
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by yardie 5y ago
Sidewalks went out of fashion because developers thought they took away property sq footage. So a 5000sqft SFH lot became 4800 sqft. But then homeowners realized if kids don’t have sidewalks they’ll play in the streets. If they could get aw
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by yardie 5y ago
> every $BIG_CORP out there has on their roadmap a long-term plan to either drastically reduce their spend on Oracle products, or more often, eliminate it entirely. You can believe this if you want. But $BIGCORP does not have the same li
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by yardie 5y ago
Probably not. The majority of the tenants in my building are young professionals and empty nesters. Families with children come through but are gone after a year. Once you're on that track it's very hard to go back to city living.
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by yardie 5y ago
From what I heard, from an architect friend, the difference in price between a builder and custom home is 10% premium. Because whatever economy of scale saved by the build is taken up in profit. To the buyer prices are just about the same.
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by yardie 5y ago
I worked at a company where there were lots of managers, directors, and coordinators. And just as many people under them. When I reached the top of my band I had to hire someone. Not because there was more work that needed to be delegated b
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by yardie 5y ago
The mom and pop Chinese, Thai, Korean, have always delivered for free in my south Florida city. I’ve also passed by the restaurant and it was tiny. Like 1 table, 2 chairs. Whatever they weren’t spending on dining floor space was used for de
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by yardie 5y ago
I'm impressed that surface mount components existed in the 1970s and in consumer electronics that early. I've taken apart VCRs and game consoles from the 80s and they were DIP mounted and through-hole circuit boards for all of the
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by yardie 5y ago
Bought my MBA 13 days ago. I have 24 hours to decide if I want to return it for a full refund or not...
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by yardie 5y ago
While crossing the Atlantic ocean there were only a few domains whitelisted for our Iridium Go satellite modem. Email, obviously. Predictwind, for weather, and Hacker News. Bandwidth maxed at 2400bps (yes, really) and HN was the only news s
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by yardie 5y ago
So you find a SRE to manage your enormously complex, responsive site.
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by yardie 5y ago
I'm curious to find out as well. I feel most websites can run on a single instance with decent caching. But owners want reliability and that adds complexity, cost, and technical debt.
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by yardie 5y ago
I've got an older Roomba that uses the IR towers for no go zones. Its also only 3 years old. Spending $500 every few years to get a new feature doesn't seem cost effective.
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by yardie 5y ago
I have a 2015 MBP that I would have probably used indefinitely. I'm reluctant to get v1 of any Apple hardware for historical experiences. Unfortunately, my hand has been forced and the screen finally died. The cost of replacement is ov
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by yardie 5y ago
Armed people show up and saying my land is now their land I probably wouldn't be friendly either. The point is the west wasn't unsettled. But US History books would have you believe otherwise.
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by yardie 5y ago
The west was already settled. The "settlers" weren't interested in befriending or communicating with the indigenous population. In fact they were down right hostile towards them.
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by yardie 5y ago
I feel like you have to design your lifestyle with a Roomba in mind. For example, we have a hard floors in a single story flat. Perfect for a Roomba. But we also have a few area rugs with tassels on the ends. It would get snagged on the tas

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