Johnny555

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by Johnny555 6mo ago
Bars are dying and are on thin margins so they have to do short pours, but if I just talk to a bartender, he'll give me plenty of free beer?
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by Johnny555 6mo ago
No one likes feeling like they got less than they paid for, but without regulation, how do you know that you got less than you paid for unless you're going to carry around a measuring glass yourself? If the places that were shorting
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by Johnny555 7mo ago
The problem with buying a $2000 iPhone as a status symbol is that no one knows whether you bought the $1100 256GB model or the $2000 1TB model unless you tell them. But someone that cares about watches knows whether you paid $5000 or $50000
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by Johnny555 7mo ago
The requirement came from the investment house - they wanted data in the format they were accustomed to. What was driving that requirement at the investment house doesn't matter, when the company that owns over 50% of your company wan
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by Johnny555 7mo ago
Their initial need for Office was some soft of forecasting model that they needed to update for a large investor. That was a big spreadsheet that ran on Office for OSX if I remember correctly. After that, I don't know what specifically
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by Johnny555 7mo ago
The problem is that Google only covers "most of it", so even if it covers 99% of use cases, for that cases where it doesn't, companies still need MS Office. I worked for a startup that was all OSX desktops and Google Docs. Th
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by Johnny555 7mo ago
>For baby 10M+1 are they going to tell a Swiss woman that she can’t have a baby? This wouldn't happen because it's not actually a population control measure, it's an immigration control measure - when the population gets a
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by Johnny555 7mo ago
I stand by what I said -- If you don't control the software stack, you have no control over whether or not your footage is available to the cloud provider (or law enforcement) no matter what the provider says. As I said in my post, you
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by Johnny555 7mo ago
Having an Alexa or Google Home doesn't seem any worse (or even less worse) than carrying a phone around everywhere I go. If you're worried that the device can be hacked to listen to you full-time (or that the provider is lying abo
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by Johnny555 7mo ago
This should be a wakeup call for users of all cloud connected cameras that once they send their video to the cloud provider, they have no real control over how it's used. Ring does support end to end encryption (which disables mos
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by Johnny555 7mo ago
Don't they already have some sci-fi laser/EW gizmos to take care of those Isn't that the problem? Someone (but apparently DHS, not the military though there were military staff present, maybe?) had one of those sci-fi laser
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by Johnny555 7mo ago
It always amazes me how people can read a blog post like this one that has a clear description of the problem with a log excerpts demonstrating the problem, and then people will confidently make up a completely different scenario that was n
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by Johnny555 7mo ago
Then there's no real infection risk if they'll continue to let people drive out of the area, including let people drive a 4 or 5 hours to another airport to make their trip. Closing the El Paso airspace will reduce the number of p
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by Johnny555 7mo ago
>People drive too much That doesn't seem like a good argument for instituting a quarantine by blocking air travel but not ground travel. And why block everything including police, cargo and medivac flights for a quarantine?
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by Johnny555 7mo ago
If it's just routine testing, then why couldn't they have announced it earlier to allow companies to plan and/or fly their planes out of the affected area?
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by Johnny555 7mo ago
The problem with this is that you don't know what future conflicts will be. You spend years training yourself to use your own "jq" alias and then you find yourself needing to use the "jq" program and you have to rem
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by Johnny555 7mo ago
It's a much different service that Costplus Costplus manufactures and sells drugs at a small markup over manufacturing cost. TrumpRX appears to be more of a central clearinghouse where drug makers can offer discounts to consumers. And
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by Johnny555 8mo ago
Yeah, most of the AITA subreddit posts seem to be made-up AI generated, as well as some of the replies. Soon AI agents will take over reddit posts and replies completely, freeing humans from that task... so I guess it's true that AI ca
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by Johnny555 8mo ago
But as inexperienced coders started turning up in greater numbers, it also started to poison the training data. I think all general AI agents are running into that problem - as AI becomes more prevalent and people accept and propagate wro
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by Johnny555 9mo ago
Does anyone know what the server is? I don't see it on their site. I'm curious why supply chain issues got in the way and why they couldn't just configure a Dell Poweredge and get delivery in a couple weeks. I'm assuming
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by Johnny555 9mo ago
Yeah, so many places ask for phone number that don't really need it that I assume the phone number is a unique identifier used to combine individual's data across websites. Most of the time I use a made-up 555 number or if it nee
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by Johnny555 10mo ago
>What's the benefit of working remote from your team but next to random, noisy people? People have been asking that since companies started phasing out WFH after the pandemic. I left my last company when they made me go to the offic
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by Johnny555 10mo ago
I think there's an impossibly thin line between making glass that's easy to break through on purpose, but hard for a high speed head to break through in an accident.
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by Johnny555 10mo ago
A ceramic glass breaker isn't going to be any better than the metal tools on laminated glass, breaking the glass is only half the battle, you've still got to get through the intact glass pane held in place by the plastic laminate.
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by Johnny555 10mo ago
>For me, that means topping up with a supplement. The UK government advises everyone in the country to take a 10-microgram vitamin D supplement over autumn and winter My last blood test showed I was slightly deficient in vitamin D - my d
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by Johnny555 10mo ago
Oh I remember those days. In our case, it was because we had so much website data that we couldn't keep it all in cache, so when the site became busy enough, performance fell off a cliff as we became disk I/O bound. We had maxed o
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by Johnny555 10mo ago
>On route, train operators punch the code into a control panel at the back of the display, and the LCD blocks light on specific segments of the grid to build each letter I always thought those were mechanical displays with little mechani
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by Johnny555 10mo ago
Even in a desert, people still use umbrellas for protection from the rain: https://lasvegassun.com/news/2016/jan/19/fast-moving-storm-b... And the rain still causes problems, even (or maybe especially in
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by Johnny555 10mo ago
That continues the analogy -- it doesn't rain often in the desert, but almost all deserts receive rain. And since it rains so rarely, you're certainly not going to find an umbrella during the rainstorm. So again, if staying dry in
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by Johnny555 10mo ago
I thought that's why it's a good analogy - DDoS protection doesn't apply retroactively to prior attacks (or even current attacks, it's hard to apply DDoS protection while your site is down due to DDoS). If you want prote

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