Hilift

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by Hilift 10mo ago
2023: "A Party in Cannes Announces a New Hollywood Power Player". Something like ~300 attendees, probably $10 million. Zaslav and Graydon Carter co-hosted. There were rumored to be thousands of bottles of Dom champagne, which is p
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by Hilift 10mo ago
You have minimal to zero leverage of the native Windows debugging, logging, or instrumentation. At best an opaque box with one knob and hopefully it doesn't fail or you will be roaming the countryside learning how to perform correlated
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by Hilift 10mo ago
No. The UK refuses to accept reality, which is a poverty rate 12% higher than the US, and families with three or more children poverty rate of 47%. The cost of benefits and other costly boondoggles compete with these failed public works ven
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by Hilift 10mo ago
Mobile is such a second class operating system platform. I look forward to doing everything with Meta eyewear that also corrects vision impairments.
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by Hilift 10mo ago
This seems like it should be an easy task for an AI to implement. For example, the question "what is the most helpful rated negative review of the book 'Original Sin' by Jake Tapper?" There are obvious and prominent &quo
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by Hilift 11mo ago
The typically tier 2 carriers are the main ideal perfect market for eSIMs. If you want to do everything online, you really can't if it relies on a physical something. I would estimate 90% of the market is for mint mobile and consumer c
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by Hilift 11mo ago
Most of the funds lost to SBF were recovered. And CPZ has a pardon. Crypto has evaporated about $2 trillion in assets since then.
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by Hilift 11mo ago
"Multiple Active Result Sets=true;"
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by Hilift 11mo ago
Ironically, the GitHub Desktop Windows app is quite nice.
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by Hilift 11mo ago
It is a setting in connection string in the client app.config, "MultipleActiveResultSets=true;".
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by Hilift 11mo ago
Multiple Active Result Sets (MARS). During large query responses or bulk loads, "full" packets cause an additional packet to be sent over the wire with about five bytes to hold the MARS "wrapper". The net result is one f
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by Hilift 11mo ago
> The direct cost is the easy part I don't think it is easy. I see most organizations struggle with the fact that everything is throttled in the cloud. CPU, storage, network. Tenants often discover large amounts of activity they wer
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by Hilift 11mo ago
> Near 100 per cent probability of continuing to function against multi-megaton weapons (i.e., underground location). That of course wasn't possible, only a best effort. There was also the pseudo belief that ICBM missiles could be i
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by Hilift 11mo ago
This month, London police discovered and intercepted a shipment of 1,000 stolen iPhones destined for ... China. "46 people were arrested, including two men who were detained in London last month on suspicion of handling stolen goods af
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by Hilift 11mo ago
"fail to secure"? Do you really think that with all of the years of iPhone device and account takeovers, from a text message requiring no reading or interaction, Apple with their maximum controlled walled garden aren't facili
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by Hilift 11mo ago
I would take that further and say that residential solar without batteries has been proven to be a bad solution. Solar with batteries allows utilities and consumers to schedule when power can be sent to the grid. California utilities consid
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by Hilift 11mo ago
No details? I say we assume it was an expired certificate outage.
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by Hilift 11mo ago
You don't owe anything. You're spending someone else's money!
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by Hilift 11mo ago
Are you serious? California has an $180 billion annual obligation just for Medicaid (Cal-Aid). Los Angeles borrowed $1 billion to fund DWP operations this year, and borrowed $3 billion to borrow another $3 billion to fund a $6 billion renov
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by Hilift 11mo ago
> 90% of medias in France belongs to a few wealthy families that are friends with him. That isn't a problem if the electorate aren't easily influenced.
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by Hilift 11mo ago
Countries providing much of the foreign aid are sometimes in denial of poverty in their own country. The UK is projecting 22% in 2024/25 to 23% in 2029/30. Bangladeshi and Pakistani households are 53% and 47%. Families with three
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by Hilift 11mo ago
Even with redundancy, the response time between NYC and Amazon East in Ashburn is something like 10 ms. The impedance mismatch and dropped packets and increased latency would doom most organizations craplications.
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by Hilift 11mo ago
Possible, but considering that US Ozempic revenue is $10 billion per year between only Medicaid and Medicare, that would attract customs attention. The US market was projected to increase to $58 billion by 2035.
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by Hilift 11mo ago
I sense an incoming report supporting the space hail theory.
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by Hilift 11mo ago
Spying was a profession 400 years ago due to the intense rivalry of France and England. Vast sums and amounts of time were spent on various schemes. Probably for revenge for losing western Europe in the 100 years war. Religion seems to hav
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by Hilift 1y ago
*Medicaid, not Medicare. And the actual amount is $85 billion, due to Medicaid is available to nearly anyone, and it is only a coincidence it is the reason for the government shutdown.
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by Hilift 1y ago
> I don't think people understand how the economics of these apps (and websites) work That is unfortunate, due to Mark Zuckerberg has redefined the successful business model. META is on track to clear $80 billion per year in net pro
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by Hilift 1y ago
I'm predicting there will be a startup to focus on large scale forensic identification of archived samples of various things. Particularly items that may have been important enough to save in a freezer for 70 or 80 years. The refinemen
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by Hilift 1y ago
AI really is good at finding new viruses, due to simple DNA sequences look like noise to humans. But then you may have created a different problem.
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by Hilift 1y ago
"The Butlerian Jihad was a cataclysmic, millennia-long holy war that completely eradicated artificial intelligence, computers, and sentient robots from human civilization. Taking place over 10,000 years before the events of the origina

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