tilwidnk

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by tilwidnk 3y ago
Same here, Slack is one in a long line if similar chat apps we've used over the years, on premises and remote.
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by tilwidnk 3y ago
It's behind a paywall, why post a link to an article that can't be read? Also, I wonder if the recent crash that killed a Nigerian Bank CEO and his family is related to this? https://www.msn.com/en-us/money&#x
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Ralph Fiennes argues against trigger warnings in the theater(foxnews.com)
1 points by tilwidnk 3y ago|5 comments
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by tilwidnk 3y ago
What the eff is wrong with the human population under age 30 or so?
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by tilwidnk 3y ago
https://www.thisoldhouse.com/heating-cooling/reviews/heat-pu... "Heat pumps use refrigerant to condition the air in your home by adding or removing heat through thermal exchange." "Air conditioning
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by tilwidnk 3y ago
We've owned three homes, our first one had a heat pump. In Virginia. It generally sucked. It wasn't as good as real A/C in the summer and wasn't as good as gas or electric heat in the winter. I hope to never end up in a
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by tilwidnk 3y ago
> Streaming became popular because it was easier than piracy We never stole (cute word pirated) anything. We became cordcutters (OTA and streaming) because we felt we weren't using but maybe $20 of the $180 monthly we were paying to
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by tilwidnk 3y ago
I want Thunderbird to look like Thunderbird, not Outlook. There's nothing superior about Outlook. When Microsoft made the ridiculous decision to stuck the search text box in the Title Bar, it was clear they have no clue any more what t
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by tilwidnk 3y ago
It's "a public API", not "an public API", because of the consonant rule. I really worry that there are people out there who will anxiously mangle their company's data thinking what is being called AI, which doe
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Spreadsheet Templates, Calculators, and Calendars(vertex42.com)
2 points by tilwidnk 3y ago|0 comments
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Navy NEETS, what Technicians had to learn back in the day(archive.org)
3 points by tilwidnk 3y ago|1 comments
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by tilwidnk 3y ago
Note, that's technicians, not engineers, technicians and that's just one manual.
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by tilwidnk 3y ago
It's OK, the Gates family will protect them.
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by tilwidnk 3y ago
> Can you explain this more? Why are you so tied to ipv4? For me, IPv4 doesn't break the privacy barrier, IPv6 blasts a huge hole straight into each and every household, office and IoT device on the planet. No, privacy fixes put int
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Tell HN: Browser domain name should be a bigger font
8 points by tilwidnk 3y ago|5 comments
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by tilwidnk 3y ago
> Copyright is not a real thing. It's a fiction. Now, I don't have a college degree, but with my 60+ years life experience I can say, yes, copyright is a real thing, it protects people who create, from assholes and AI.
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by tilwidnk 3y ago
Yep, I agree with all of that. Half of a billion dollars though, one contract, one bidder, that was only one of several awarded that day with many awarded every day of the year (with various amounts/bids), just saying, so many contract
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by tilwidnk 3y ago
This blows my mind, one contract, came in at half a billion dollars and there was only one bid!?!? Maybe that last comma was supposed to be a decimal place?
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Half billion contract, 1 bid(defense.gov)
2 points by tilwidnk 3y ago|3 comments
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by tilwidnk 3y ago
Agreed, Scrum is a death march. Kanban is the way.