davengh

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by davengh 4y ago
500 (pay) channels and nothing on...
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by davengh 5y ago
That unemployment pay is more attractive than working says a lot about prevailing wages. If unemployment covers rent and working does not, why in the hell would any rational person want to work? And why should employers think they shouldn&#
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by davengh 6y ago
In the U.S., a very short step since the courts have already held that e-mail service providers' copies of messages don't get the same protection as personal copies. I don't see how Alexa or any of the other "Hey, Spy&qu
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by davengh 7y ago
>> And the 20-year-old systems are slowly dissapearing There's still COBOL code out there running core business systems that's older than I am, and I'm closer to 60 than I am to 50.
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by davengh 7y ago
One of my tasks for Y2K prep was to modify an in-house-developed record-based "database" to accommodate a the century change. Originally developed in the '60s the year had originally been a single digit because everyone thoug
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by davengh 7y ago
When 5MB disk storage system is the size of a small car and costs $50k, you fight for bytes. Or if your data is stored on magnetic tapes and reading in a dataset can be costed by the kilobyte, takes minutes per megabyte, and requires a mill
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by davengh 7y ago
We've been forced to deal with the TLS issue by our software product's customers. Some of our technically-minded folks have been raising the issue for a while but new features are sexy and sell, and fixing not-yet-broken code does
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by davengh 7y ago
I've seen these precluding secondary employment with competitive entities, but it seems there'd be little competition between Fred's and Alice's businesses (based on name alone).
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by davengh 7y ago
Your definition of "wretched existence" might be very different from the folks seeking union representation.
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by davengh 7y ago
The details will always have to be looked at by the inheritors - it's more important to not say something wrong or contradictory IMO. When I've had to do something like this in the past I circle through it, documenting the high-l
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by davengh 7y ago
Because sometimes he "wrong" action is the right thing to do. No automated system can anticipate everything. Think the NASCAR "drive at the wreck in front of you" - by the time you get there it will have moved. Especia
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by davengh 7y ago
We offer escrow of our source as an option for our customers who have concerns or policies about mission-critical software. The escrow includes instructions about tooling needed & versions (Visual Studio and others), any third-party (T
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by davengh 7y ago
If he did decide at some point to buy a subscription, the simplest way to enable it is to send a signal to the sleeping-but-live tracker. Else he'd have to go to a dealer for some "factory authorized" service. That might n
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by davengh 7y ago
At a certain point, it is incumbent on the buyer to do some research and understand something about what they're buying. The availability of these systems is not a secret. We just put up a Ring doorbell on our house. I know that makin
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by davengh 7y ago
We've agreed on a system of law . Actual justice is frequently only an accidental byproduct.
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by davengh 7y ago
> There are intersections here where 3 or 4 cars will continue to turn on a red signal - it's insane. Sounds like targeted enforcement at those intersections is called for.
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by davengh 7y ago
I think they're referring to the reported costs of social programs used by WalMart and Amazon workers because they average pay is so low. https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/rep
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by davengh 7y ago
Arthur C Clarke's Third Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." My in-laws are firmly in the "computers are magic" camp. Say what you like about they should learn etc, but they&#
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by davengh 7y ago
Firefighting risk is a general environmental risk - fighting a fire puts you in an area with fire byproducts. (not to mention the PPE firefighters usually wear) Vaping cuts out the environment part & introduces the combustion byproducts
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by davengh 7y ago
So... in the U.S. we have 0.5/3?
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by davengh 7y ago
Reading the comments in this thread and others, it seems to me that a lot of people want to argue about how many canaries have to die before the threat to the miners is taken seriously. That any of the Schengen information made it to the US
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by davengh 7y ago
When I interview candidates for the company I work for I describe a key part of our system in general terms (20 possible elements, at least one active but any combination, items are single/set/hierarchy) then ask them to talk me t
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by davengh 7y ago
>> save a local river bait fish A few or more of those and we have real loss in biodiversity. Maybe your "local river" can sustain that for a bit - but overall they are all important.
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by davengh 8y ago
I worked at the state courts in California for a while. The "Penalty Assessment" fee amused/enraged me; at the time IIRC it was $17.50 per $10 of statutory fine. So the effective cost of a $100 statutory fine was $100 + $175
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by davengh 8y ago
They're currently admitting to losing passport #s, but what else - like credit card info which they aren't supposed to keep in any case - might have been compromised?
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by davengh 8y ago
Yet. That we know of.
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by davengh 11y ago
I'm something more than twice your age, and have felt the same way you do now. I've spent countless hours "keeping up" - lost a marriage in part due to this - and there is always stuff I don't know and am curious