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by dpb001 12d ago
Like this? https://www.businessinsider.com/jpmorgan-bought-nickel-recei...
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by dpb001 20d ago
I’m living in peak appification at my gym. It’s one of those 24x7 places and an app is required to unlock the door. I find it amusing that part of the installation process requires me to deny always-on location sharing - why would I need
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by dpb001 1mo ago
I was also in a consulting CE firm working in software, but had moved from an engineering position and had an engineering undergrad degree. I was strongly encouraged to get my PE so the company could advertise it, even though the PE creden
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by dpb001 2mo ago
Exactly. I’ve served on two juries and the experiences left me shaking my head. In one case the judge’s instructions were dismissed by a majority of the jury members with a “yeah, but…”.
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by dpb001 3mo ago
Right. Even the cheaper R2 just released is in a different market segment. There will be some cross-shopping of the Slate with the upcoming new platform Ford EV truck, which Ford is hinting will be $30K. Of course, I remember when Ford h
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by dpb001 4mo ago
It was interesting to read some of the history and this was a fun era to live through for developing database applications where most of what you needed was contained in the database application itself. But I'll disagree that mismanag
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by dpb001 5mo ago
I think the 14 year old nephew has been around for every iteration of technology - there are probably clients now threatening to just have their nephew vibe code the thing you're trying to spec out. Once, when fed up with this during a
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by dpb001 6mo ago
I’m a blue state resident and will not argue the point about overall quality of life. But a quick look at net inflow/outflow rankings by state show there’s already a migration in the red state direction. There are many factors involve
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by dpb001 6mo ago
The union of states arrangement has the side effect of putting the states in competition with each other for things like new/expanding businesses and residents. It's relatively easy to relocate (or even remain in a state while le
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by dpb001 6mo ago
Coincidentally, I just checked in early for an upcoming Air Asia flight (first time on this airline, not China) and see that among other restrictions they require power banks to "be carried on your person or in the seat pocket in front
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by dpb001 6mo ago
I flew Cathay Pacific late January and power banks were prohibited in both checked luggage and overhead bins. Of course the overhead bin restriction would have been difficult to police and enforce. Also prohibited to use them for charging
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by dpb001 7mo ago
I don't doubt your experience, but out of curiosity, what led you to the conclusion that branding is "absolutely necessary"? It seems to me that the presence of a name on black rectangle wouldn't matter to the average c
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by dpb001 7mo ago
My experience (South and NE US) is that walls are painted and ceilings are textured. More labor is required to produce a good finish on a drywall ceiling and knockdown and popcorn finishes arose to reduce construction costs.
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by dpb001 8mo ago
A company I worked for in the mid-80’s used a PC based CAD package with this kind of copy protection. IIRC the cost of the software was about $5K, and engineers using it probably made around 50K/yr. This level of expense required a le
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by dpb001 11mo ago
We just moved from a 70's-era house where I spent some time with a fish tape running cable to a 2025 three story townhouse (drywall already finished when we purchased). For some reason the cable service entry is on the third floor in t
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by dpb001 1y ago
In the early 2000’s there were efforts to provide broadband over power lines (BPL). I think one of the biggest obstacles was the radio frequency interference it generated.
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by dpb001 1y ago
I think John Bolton would disagree with you.
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by dpb001 1y ago
Better yet, serve alcohol and call it Bar/No Bars.
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by dpb001 1y ago
I am old and thankfully out of the getting hired game. I was cleaning out some files (paper!) recently and ran across correspondence from old job searches. As you said, single visit and decision. I was also struck by the number of letter
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by dpb001 1y ago
In the US the quality has varied widely over the few houses I’ve purchased over the years. I’m also skeptical of their aligned interests. In the US most home purchases take place with a real estate agent involved. An inspector that adds fr
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by dpb001 1y ago
High demand in Iran (if it was a 405): https://www.theautopian.com/why-tuner-cars-in-iran-have-rear...
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by dpb001 1y ago
In the US we don’t have a single DMV, but rather 50 separate DMV’s with varying degrees of efficiency and online capabilities. But in my state most routine things no longer require a physical visit. Licensing is pretty tightly controlled
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by dpb001 1y ago
We had the variety that was able to grab onto the edges exposed by the seams in our vertical cedar siding and so had holes at random places in the wall, far away from perching locations. Owl and crow decoys plus reflective discs dangling in
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by dpb001 1y ago
I would tell the interviewee that I want to continue the interview with the other person since their answers indicate they’d be a good fit for the position.
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by dpb001 1y ago
Well, my replacement cycle is > 1 year and I have found that the suppliers on Amazon have a shorter life than that. I've ordered a full set of replacements twice and the last was from a seller named CMYBabee. After about a year th
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by dpb001 1y ago
m255dw owner also. You only have to swap the chips if you want the level reporting functions to work. I’ve used a couple of different third-party cartridges out of the box and just replaced them when empty. But, I have found that the reli
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by dpb001 2y ago
This phrase, and probably a handful of others, are assigned to hotkeys on the PR flack’s workstation to save time in situations like this.
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by dpb001 2y ago
It took only one long solo wait at a crosswalk in Chon Buri to convince me that it was worth paying about 3 USD to travel about 6 blocks. Traffic yielding to a single pedestrian is a quaint notion and as you say a lone farang seems to be a
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by dpb001 2y ago
Yup, it’s been decades - I remember it happening with the carbon copy imprinting devices and it may have been more common in the US rural South where I was working at the time. The squiggles I fingerpaint on checkout screens now are my ver
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by dpb001 2y ago
Same here. Old enough to remember when your signature on a credit card receipt would be given a quick look to compare it to the scrawl on the back of the card. If this was still being done I’d probably fail 50% of the transactions I attemp

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