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by yardie 3y ago
Considering most rentals require a first, last, and deposit there is no theft. There is only failure to meet the terms of the lease.
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by yardie 3y ago
Plenty of jobs will pay you the state/federal minimum wage on a 1099. And if that is the case you aren't a contractor because a real contractor knows there is running costs to dba that aren't factored into those low pay rates
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by yardie 3y ago
Longterm Mac OS users have used tools like Onyx[0] to configure hidden system and finder settings. It's probably one of my first downloads after an OS upgrade. [0] https://titanium-software.fr/en/onyx.html
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by yardie 3y ago
I get a little chuckle when I'm in the airport Xray line and the Clear agent is trying to get the attention of the TSA agent. But he/she ignores them and waves over a family of 7 instead. LOL.
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by yardie 3y ago
Honestly, I don't give a shit how Disney or private ski resorts stratify there services. I do have a problem with a government mandated safety processes keeping that same logic. If lawmakers are going to make it suck then it should suc
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by yardie 3y ago
That's only at the federal level. State and local law enforcement are free to carry on as usual.
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by yardie 3y ago
I've got a few colleagues around the industry. Layoffs are super common, but so are the hiring sprints. And they generally use the same tech as any industry with a few exceptions. A lot of them never bought into the cloud because they
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by yardie 3y ago
The south was truly demobilized, and Lincoln, not with his own faults, was trying to make some amends. Unfortunately, he was assassinated. And due to how the rules were written then the VP, his successor, was his political opponent. Who rol
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by yardie 3y ago
This depends on what you want to do in your career. If you want to pursue a career in working in startups and early-stage tech companies, then working for a YC is better for you. A senior developer in TX is making way more than 50k. And wor
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by yardie 3y ago
> The data is a salable asset, the law requires them to preserve it so that it can be sold and the money returned to creditors. This would depend on the terms you agreed to at the time you signed the account and submitted your data. I&#x
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by yardie 3y ago
I moved most of my domains from Namecheap to Cloudflare. I've never had a problem with domain names. But their renewal system is a little aggressive. They send a renewal email 60 days before. At 30 days it automatically renews. So I ha
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by yardie 3y ago
Remote work is ... a bargaining tool for people who prefer to work remotely, and it doesn't matter what socioeconomic class you're in. CRE funds are so determined to get employees back into the office (while their asset class impl
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by yardie 3y ago
> have to pay a fortune to park The free market is telling you something.
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by yardie 3y ago
Oddly enough, the ADA laws were written in a way to use the free market. The government can't force you to be ADA compliant. Instead, it relies on lawyers and their disabled clients to sue you into compliance. An entire cottage industr
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by yardie 3y ago
Messing around with hardware and the software that runs on it is how you really learn how computers and software work. The original Mac SE and Mac IIs came withe a hardware debugger you could enter anytime with a literal button on the front
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by yardie 3y ago
Long time Mac user here. The Hackintosh is what allowed me continue to use MacOS after Apple finished the PowerPC era. Because they also dramatically raised prices on the Pro workstations. It was now out of my budget even though the price o
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by yardie 3y ago
Industrial robots have a training mode where the motors and clutches are disengaged so the operator can position this multi-ton robot through the movements it wants it to make. I thought that was really cool to watch them being programmed t
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by yardie 3y ago
They certainly did a wonderful hatchet job to Bombardier. Effectively forced them out of the market to the point they had to sell the entire line to Airbus as the A220.
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by yardie 3y ago
The US Govt has hardly honored any of their Native American agreements. I find it acceptable to extract money from a belligerent government in any way possible.
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by yardie 3y ago
One of the things I miss by reading this post is how empowered CSRs were back in those days. Today, everything is scripted and highly metricized. Going through the customer service line today will get you the run around and lot of toothless
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by yardie 3y ago
I live in condo with a parking garage. A Sierra parked directly across from a RAM and basically blocked all the cars above the 3rd floor in the garage. While I believe it is workable to keep such a large truck in the city I also doubt it is
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by yardie 3y ago
> Why does tech often end up being the field where people think everyone working there needs to be obssessed with? I think most people in tech have severe imposter syndrome. If they are constantly working in or on something they feel the
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by yardie 3y ago
And they were exceptionally rare. But here are 2 films from different eras with somewhat similar themes: 1985: The Breakfast Club, 1h37m 2023: The Holdovers, 2h13m
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by yardie 3y ago
> many scenes are shot over and over to get a good take. No, many scenes are done correctly on the first take. Because film, film development, the equipment to edit film, and the staff cost real money. And you don't see if it was a
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by yardie 3y ago
I rip my physical media into my digital library and I know right away when I’m dealing with a film transfer, compression goes to shit. All the grain and noise inherent to film doesn’t compress well. So I imagine all these AI upscaled film w
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by yardie 3y ago
I provision servers for a living and usually the only times they get physically touched are when we rack them and the 2nd and last time is when we unrack them. Occasionally, one will have a hardware replacement. But for the most part a serv
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by yardie 3y ago
Tesla is intentionally obtuse about their numbers. But the Corolla still reigns supreme at +700k. They combine the total sales of 3+Y against the Corolla. https://www.autoweek.com/news/industry-news/a44600661/
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by yardie 3y ago
I feel the bigger goal is the viability of the network effect (clustering) of electric cars. When Tesla was the only electric car company most buyers thought it was neat but didn't really consider it. A lot of buyers want their next ve
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by yardie 3y ago
You're talking of the nautical mile. It's used globally in the marine industry. The nm is 1.1miles or 1.85km. And it's based on 1 arcminute of the circumference of the Earth.
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by yardie 3y ago
Sedans have a sloped rear window. In theory, laminar airflow is sufficient to clear any debris from it. SUV/CUV have a nearly vertical rear window. This creates a pocket vortex where dust and water stick to the glass and there is no ai

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