mjcl

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by mjcl 2mo ago
Do you include spreading lies on twitter about Paul Pelosi as part of "what it takes?"
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by mjcl 2mo ago
They can sell the software business to broadcom.
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by mjcl 4mo ago
Really? This isn't the first time their automation took down a big customer (UniSuper in 2024) by accident. In that case the automation actually deleted the resources and GCP had to recover them.
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by mjcl 4mo ago
Even libraries can only license digital content for a limited period of time/loans before being forced to purchase new licenses. See https://www.spokanelibrary.org/the-true-cost-of-ebooks-and-a...
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by mjcl 5mo ago
Vendors are less likely to try and screw you over if they know they can't ban you for a chargeback.
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by mjcl 5mo ago
I can believe that, the "eBay stalking scandal" article on Wikipedia is insane.
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by mjcl 5mo ago
At least AWS will send people out to your office to tell you which services you aren't using but could.
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by mjcl 5mo ago
Comcast actually implemented IPv6 10-15 years ago so that they could unify the management of all of their cable modems. Prior to that they had many regional networks using with modems assigned management IPs in overlapping private IPv4 rang
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by mjcl 6mo ago
United had a "chairman's flight" between NY and a SC airport that was created so the chairman of the Port Authority of NY/NJ could fly to his vacation home on the weekends.
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by mjcl 6mo ago
I think there is some benefit to resigning because you can see the DOJ is already suffering in court from sub-par lawyering. Every departure of a competent DOJ lawyer puts even more pressure on the remaining ones and there's only 24 ho
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by mjcl 7mo ago
Not quite, they built Slack as an internal communication tool while building the game Glitch (RIP) and after the game failed they decided to productize Slack.
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by mjcl 8mo ago
> machines will achieve human level output at some point Would you care to put some sort of time scale to "at some point?" Are we talking about months, years, decades, centuries?
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by mjcl 10mo ago
Fun fact: For now, adding a boolean search term like -blahblahblah will skip the AI result and just show web results.
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by mjcl 11mo ago
Fun Guideline story: I worked for a company that went bankrupt and used guideline for 401k. The first day the website allowed me I withdrew the balance for rollover. Apparently this should not have been possible before the bankruptcy was fi
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by mjcl 11mo ago
Not even, in cases where the company couldn't recover funds from misdirected payments they ate the loss. Though obviously I think that's a good thing.
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by mjcl 11mo ago
Not even corner cases. I worked for a fintech that launched a dda-ish product that had 16 digit account numbers, issued sequentially, with no check digits. At launch there didn't seem to be a CS process for dealing with pretty obvious
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by mjcl 1y ago
I think the high-density data centers that are being built to support the hyperscalers are more analogous to the dark fiber overbuild. When you lit that fiber in 2015, you (presumably) were not using a line card bought back in 1998.
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by mjcl 1y ago
So this will force datacenters that employ "reliability theater" to either actually be reliable or give up the facade and take repeated outages? Ok!
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by mjcl 1y ago
Maybe the "wagyu" chili with a big 'ol squirt of nacho cheeze sauce?
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by mjcl 1y ago
Google was kind enough to give the AI overview a stable CSS class name (to date), so this userscript has been effective at hiding it for me: window.addEventListener('load', function() { var things = this.document.getElementsByCl
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by mjcl 1y ago
Democrats see government differently than Republicans.
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by mjcl 1y ago
And it was an antitrust action that unlocked a lot of that value. The consent decree required Bell Labs to license its patents (e.g. transistors) for reasonable royalties. The same consent decree also forbid AT&T from entering new indus
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by mjcl 1y ago
One funny aspect is that Javice had an employment contract with JPM that stated JPM would pay for legal defense related to her official duties. Her lawyer argued that means JPM has to pay for her civil and criminal defense lawyers, and the
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by mjcl 2y ago
They have figured it out, the client is paying for it.
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by mjcl 2y ago
Good news! Bluesky does default to chronological, but also provides other options.
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by mjcl 2y ago
Then I'd suggest their tagline of "Democracy dies in darkness" is pretty self-important and misleading.
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by mjcl 2y ago
> local weather manipulation What do you mean by this?
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by mjcl 2y ago
There's some videos on the AT&T Tech Channel on YouTube that show inside the CO, like this one for the "Speedy cutover service": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saRir95iIWk
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by mjcl 2y ago
Compliance was important because the product (RealPage's AIRM nee YieldStar) works by holding prices higher for longer than the average manager would. The RealPage pricing software is eye-watering expensive and can only be justified if
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by mjcl 2y ago
I worked for a public REIT that started using YieldStar when I worked there. Once they changed to YieldStar, all pricing came out of YieldStar. Rental quotes for prospects were only generated from YieldStar. Any deviation from the YS price

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