Simon_O_Rourke

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by Simon_O_Rourke 7d ago
> The motorcyclist fell to the ground to the left side of the Waymo, then another car tried to pass the Waymo and struck the motorcyclist, killing them. That other driver fled the scene. I wonder if they ever caught that guy?
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by Simon_O_Rourke 7d ago
> So would banning alcohol. As in a full on country wide prohibition? Whatever amount of road deaths that would prevent would be offset by idiots dying via drinking industrial spirits.
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by Simon_O_Rourke 7d ago
Of course they do, an 8 bit PC rigged up to an old Nintendo Duck Hunt sensor would drive more safely than some of the morons in my neighborhood. I've ceased to be annoyed at them, and instead just shrug at the idiocy.
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by Simon_O_Rourke 9d ago
Good for them!
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by Simon_O_Rourke 10d ago
Has nine children, lives on a halting site. There is a name for folks like that.
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by Simon_O_Rourke 10d ago
There's a lot of that with this guy... His comment about requiring a low power environment so he discards all laptop power bricks. Dude, unless you're powering things off a hand cranked dynamo a few laptops are not going to melt y
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by Simon_O_Rourke 13d ago
The Russians at it again no doubt. The dastards.
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by Simon_O_Rourke 24d ago
I think it stopped once public bathrooms became used for things other than taking a whizz
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by Simon_O_Rourke 2mo ago
Well said, he got what was coming to him too.
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by Simon_O_Rourke 3mo ago
Nonsense, it'll end up with merely some public head scratching and shrugs, and a "gee whiz monsieur, it sure is a mystery to us too". Interesting that whatever they wanted to do backfired in NYC.
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by Simon_O_Rourke 3mo ago
I would have loved to have had ChatGPT when I had to do a few modules in formal methods, I'd say it would have eaten through the BS I had to wade through
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by Simon_O_Rourke 3mo ago
Another great post by one of the nations best public intellectuals.
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by Simon_O_Rourke 4mo ago
Mediocre sales leaders I've found treat pipeline stagnation as a motivation problem rather than fixing the underlying issues with training, lead qualification, or sales collateral. Previous company had a sales pipeline tanking, and the
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by Simon_O_Rourke 4mo ago
You could fit in most senior directors, consultants and sales VPs into that bucket comfortably.
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by Simon_O_Rourke 4mo ago
I'm just waiting for my current company to have a Sev 1 CritSit so I can document the bejesus out of the root cause and expose our non-technical AI evangelist leadership as the sort of goons most of the senior development staff already
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by Simon_O_Rourke 5mo ago
This is a nothing burger of a story.
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by Simon_O_Rourke 6mo ago
As someone who is being actively "encouraged" to be more collaborative with a few non technical political type managers merely for the appearance of it, this rings true. Collaboration is great if you don't have a clue and can
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by Simon_O_Rourke 9mo ago
Fun times in Caracas. Interested to see what future Mafia film will use this a backdrop.
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by Simon_O_Rourke 9mo ago
> I am amazed that people take Hal Puthoff at his word that he has worked on all these secret projects for decades even though he cannot describe in definitive terms what the actual outcomes of those programs were. This is one hundred pe
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by Simon_O_Rourke 9mo ago
A lot more of Max Hastings than I would care to admit. But boy, can than man write a ripping yarn.
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by Simon_O_Rourke 10mo ago
That's terrible. If the NTSB had flagged this flaw before then someone failed with an inspection regime or maintenance. The NTSB doesn't ever accept the "sometimes bad things happen, shrug" excuse and kudos to the profes
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by Simon_O_Rourke 10mo ago
I presume he's moving on to some Trump appointed position.
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by Simon_O_Rourke 10mo ago
Bush league poetry compared to WB Yeats or John Berryman.
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by Simon_O_Rourke 10mo ago
I would send business that guys way if I could, he seems like good people, unlike the more famous Zuckerberg.
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by Simon_O_Rourke 11mo ago
Great way to 'other' a group of folks who don't tend to stick to an all veggie diet. It wasn't enough just to say you can eat nettles and they're ok, but they had to take a dump on meat eating while they're at
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by Simon_O_Rourke 11mo ago
That'll save them a few million dollars when things are tight.
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by Simon_O_Rourke 11mo ago
CORBA, it got hopelessly complex but it's full potential was never reached as the greed heads took it over.
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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
I respect the honesty that went into that writing.
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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
Beautiful, but definitely not worth invading or sending our troops to take over, if you don't awfully mind Mr. President.
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by Simon_O_Rourke 1y ago
Just don't fall off the side of those platforms. It'd be interesting to see what additional "personal atmospheric floatation" devices would be needed.

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