Spooky23

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by Spooky23 3d ago
That’s the key. These companies respond with this, “Oh my goodness, how could this have happened” bullshit. The stuff happens because instead of having actual controls, which require actual engineering, actual thought and deliberate action,
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by Spooky23 4d ago
This type of thing always strikes me. I remember as a kid thinking that it was weird in Star Wars that people are living in the desert with draft animals and primitive conditions, while there are literal interstellar spaceships. But… at the
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by Spooky23 5d ago
There are exceptions usually for extraordinary events. In New York there’s a concept of doing various things “in the furtherance of justice”. Judges have broad discretion to dismiss or reduce tickets. Often it so happens that those reductio
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by Spooky23 5d ago
I think reality is that “lowercase p” politics just lowered the heat on Bin Laden from an attention point of view. They did a reorg, and Richard Clarke, who was the terrorism and Bin Laden “guy” was in effect demoted and lost access to the
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by Spooky23 7d ago
I’m having your post read out loud and am listening with my Apple Hifi.
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by Spooky23 9d ago
She cosplayed Steve Jobs with the sweater, had obviously studied the west coast CEO bullshit trope stuff, and everything and used her earnest attractive nature to dupe a bunch of well known old men to endorse her. Being female was a part of
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by Spooky23 9d ago
They walked a fine line. You can find complicity in the holocaust everywhere. The United States strictly enforced immigration quotas and turned away entire refugee ships. Legislation to address the issue and provide an exception failed in t
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by Spooky23 10d ago
For dudes, you just pay. They boost you and give you a bonus boost when you first start. The tinder strategy is simple. Sign up, make profile, swipe, stop, come back in a week. Then upgrade with in app purchase, hustle to get 2-3 contacts,
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by Spooky23 10d ago
The data isn’t the valuable aspect of those examples. The metadata is! We have a bunch of family photos that were preserved for a few generations. It sucks, many of them we know who they are, the most are lost to time and the death of memor
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by Spooky23 13d ago
Stupid in those that lack imagination. I happened to be in Plattsburgh the day of this flight, on my way to a fishing trip on the lake. They used that facility for the long former SAC base runway, but I think it’s also appropriate given the
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by Spooky23 15d ago
> You're talking about trips within New York City (Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island are part of New York City) or out of New York City. People of Long Island, which is not part of NYC, go to great lengths to avoid tolls to the ma
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by Spooky23 15d ago
> I don't care about the revenue or what it's spent on. I care that people internalize the costs of their own decisions. Cool, you're demonstrating that you have no understanding of the issue. > River crossings into NYC
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by Spooky23 15d ago
Not really. It's just a tolling overlay that changes the deal and perpetuates bad engineering. Just as traffic grows to fill a road, budgets grow to spend revenue. The positivity of it varies dramatically based on the type of jurisdict
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by Spooky23 19d ago
The nearest Tesla store is 150 miles away. No. There’s an easier solution: don’t buy Tesla.
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by Spooky23 19d ago
They get promoted for fucking with them. We were in the middle of a big fight with Microsoft support over a product defect. They literally updated the product docs in realtime and revised the sizing guidance for the product to be about 5% u
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by Spooky23 20d ago
I see your point but disagree. Engineering is about constraints. Time, materials, labor, scope. The “evil” of premature optimization is that it’s a misapplication of priority. If I have an acute medical problem that needs attention, it’s no
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by Spooky23 20d ago
I’m terribly sorry. I lost my wife to metastatic melanoma. It’s hard as in 2013, the treatment was “get your affairs in order”. In 2023 her chances were 60/40 due to immunotherapy. Unfortunately she ended up on the wrong side of those
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by Spooky23 21d ago
This was my perspective for a long time. The issue is the Macbook Pro screen is awesome, and the display story for desktop computers is pretty grim.
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by Spooky23 21d ago
In my area, Costco is $15/35, BJ's is $19.49/35. Target is $8.99 normally, but the go on sale for 3/$20. (That's like one every 4-6 weeks, where it used to alternate between Coke and Pepsi bottler products weekly) S
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by Spooky23 22d ago
The average Costco ticket is $150 out the door. The retail margin is 11%, or $16.50. Say you fill the car with 15 gallons, and they lose $0.25/gallon. That’s $3.75. If 1/3 of the gas station customers go in the store, they’re maki
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by Spooky23 22d ago
I love that podcast and that episode, but I think they got a little Costco fever. The hot dogs, gas, and chicken are almost certainly loss leaders. In my store they are selling a case of Coke $4 under everyone, which is certainly not making
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by Spooky23 22d ago
In small restaurants, that’s just a tax grift for the owner. The “smarter” ones underreport income, the dumb ones steal the sales tax and the hammer eventually drops. Over time, they’re probably paying a lot more than 3% for shrink, Due to
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by Spooky23 22d ago
Drinkers order more. Every cocktail is $2-3 for the waiter nowadays.
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by Spooky23 23d ago
My favorite was a place in Chinatown with a curtain for privacy. Outside a couple of guys where killing a seemingly limitless collection of lives chickens.
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by Spooky23 23d ago
You gotta remember that people with money have money. Money doesn’t make you smart, gives you the ability to hire the smartest people. But, to paraphrase the Prussian general 2 x 2, the most dangerous person in power is a man who is both st
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by Spooky23 24d ago
You can’t be loyal to these things. I ditched ChatGPT during the peak Claude hype after Christmas. I feel like Claude has shittified a bit and ChatGPT is good and fast. Gemini remains mediocre, although it seems Google AI energy is directed
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by Spooky23 24d ago
If you had enough systems under control in an area, you could probably create a brown out or some other type of scenario by turning off 1000 houses on the right day.
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by Spooky23 24d ago
That is both true and not quite true at the same time. The notion of the Yeoman farm family supporting itself off its land is mostly a myth. Like everything else. it’s been capitalized and farms have consolidated over time. There were lots
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by Spooky23 25d ago
Don’t bike shed. Tax and spend Trump is making your gas more expensive and allowing you Latin American burgers to out American farmers out of business.
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by Spooky23 25d ago
Sure there is, they are conspiring to break a variety of federal laws and continue to do so. I continue to get ads to join WhatsApp “investor groups” supposedly endorsed by Warren Buffet. I got one the other day that is run by Charlie Munge

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