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My favorite tell is when a write-up starts with a verbose explanation of given knowledge on a subject. Yes, we all know what ‘World Wide Web’ and ‘Internal Combustion Engines’ are.

Get to the f’ing point.

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So many $$$$$$$$$$$$$, no doubt, for a single record in a database.

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Plenty more…

en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_defunct_retailers_of_t…

Also:

en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_defunct_department_sto…

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They’re just trying to learn his dance moves.

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MMT: vox.com/…/modern-monetary-theory-new-moment-expla…

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Just finished a bag of those. Now I need to adjust my timing belt.

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Home Alone.

“Hey, sorry Kevin. Come on, hop in the car.”

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It’s reposted on HBO Max on Sundays without commercials.

I’ve caught the first two episodes. Mimics some of the British version’s games: caption competition, fill in the blanks, etc. It has more of the early Angus Deayton vibe (single host for each show). The host, Roy Wood Jr. is a comedian along with the captains, so it’s more of a 1+2 show, whereas Angus always played the straight man. Also, the whole scoring point count artifice is missing.

So far, has had some funny bits and very timely for an election year. Worth watching, IMO, as long as you don’t compare it to the current version of the British original.

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Was in a ‘modern’ hotel recently. Hardwood floors, fresh paint, and warm embedded light fixtures.

Went to look for a thermostat. Nope. One of these AC/heater units. It was all analog, twisty knobs, faded labels, easily from the 1970s. Two options: regular, and high.

It was fine, but pretty obvious the remo budget had run out.

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Monty Python and the Holy Grail, followed by Life of Brian.

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Dreamforce has always paid San Francisco a ton of money to block off entire streets around Moscone Center. There was no way the city would allow a speck of dirt or homeless people within walking distance of the area. You drift out of the zone, though, and reality comes crashing down.

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The next order number up at the Ottawa kebab shop.

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Good headwind. Airplane with decent STOL. No obstacles. Balanced weight.

Brakes. Flaps full. Max throttle. Rudder center. Wait. Release brakes. V1. Vr. V2. Vy.

Bye.

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Defending the Constitutional right to be a dick.

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I imagine the sequence would be different depending on the amount and range of body hair.

Personally, depends on delta-T to next task.

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What do you get when you mix sophistry ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophist ) and nihilism ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism )?

‘It scared them off’, Kansas City shoppers report less crime thanks to security robot patrolling strip mall (www.kctv5.com)

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - A sight previously thought to be science fiction is very real at a southeast Kansas City shopping center. Instead of a police officer, a security robot has been patrolling sidewalks and shoppers are taking notice....

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Last time, it didn’t go so well for the robot:

theverge.com/…/dc-security-robot-k5-falls-into-wa…

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The problem with Chinese EVs is that they show it’s possible to innovate, keep prices down, and mass produce.

Ford, GM, even Tesla, are spending all their time whining about how it’s just not possible to compete. They point the finger at worker wages, instead of improving engineering and design, materials, manufacturing processes, and not chasing stock-market gains.

Stop making $70K SUVs and start making $20K Taurus and Escort EVs. You did it once. You can do it again.

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Soon:

Cats are majority brown, gray, orange, black, and (gasp) mixed. They’re lying immigrants, decimating the white mice of this land.

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“KnowledgePanel has been at the forefront of conducting online research for more than two decades.”

Online poll = gift-wrapped bullshit.

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The genital folding will continue until morale flexibility improves.

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Asked my buddy who is an L7/Principal at AWS with years of experience if this would affect him. He laughed. Said he had already decided to quit in January. This just clinched it. Said they kept hiring entry-level L4s. Lots more senior people going to leave.

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youtu.be/tANavEbnKsU

Finland edition, where it apparently started. Action starts at 4:20m in. Good, wholesome fun.

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RemindMe! 3y “reply to this thread”.

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Anyone who has played the ‘Risk’ board game has an idea what the next moves should be.

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Tweezers.

When you realize how many wars were averted because of them.

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Good read. Sad ending that all that work ended up nowhere.

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NEW feature: As you drive down the road, Ford cars will automatically take over and drive you to the nearest sponsor location. Hungry? It will take over and swerve into the nearest KFC drive-thru. Next stop, CVS pharmacy, then Office Depot.

Disclaimer: Disabling AutoAd feature requires monthly subscription.

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When this whole ‘training’ trend started a few years ago, there were companies offering image and video labelling services.

It turned out they were mostly sweatshops in low-income countries, where people sat in front of monitors and just dragged boumding boxes around sections of images and picked from an icon menu. Here’s a car, here’s a person, here’s an apple. That sort of thing. You didn’t even need to know how to read or write.

Of course, the quality was questionable, so they needed a second layer of supervisors verifying the choices. But even with that, the cost was way lower than having an engineer or QA person do it. IIRC, there was a bit of hue and cry when stories came out of big tech companies supporting sweatshop conditions.

Sounds like it’s still ongoing.

What books do you consider must reads?

So basically I was unschooled, and the amount of books I’ve read in my life is embarrassingly low. It was never emforced like in a school, and with my family’s religious hangups, I never tried getting into new things because I never knew what would be deemed “offensive”....

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  • Catch 22
  • Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (series)
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NEW, automated children’s bicycle. Guaranteed to teach the little tyke how to ride! *

  • ^Comes with training wheels, and adult monitor standing by at all times.^
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A few jobs ago, everyone hated the tech stack. The people who had come up with it had long left. I talked to everyone, then came up with a plan to transition to a modern stack. Got buy-in from management.

Half the people (and all who had said they hated the status quo) threatened to quit if we made the change.

Fortunately, it was just in time to collect the 1-year retention bonus. Life’s too short. Walked away.

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Let’s hope no single person worked on that thing for the full 8 years under development. Would be crushed.

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arstechnica.com/…/two-weeks-after-launch-sony-sho…

“Team-based shooter eight years in the making had just 25,000 estimated sales.”

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They missed speculation, hearsay, and guesstimation.

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That looks great. A lot of places just plonk the Chashu in there. Toasting it is extra bonus.

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Wait until AGI!

AGI: Yes.

Wait until the sentient robots!

Sentient robots: Yes.

Wait until biological…

Biologics: Glub, glub. Yes.

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Once they get Threads support, their target audience will be the non-Twitter universe. This would make it easier for businesses, governments, journalists, and non-technical folks like influencers and celebrities to switch out. That’s how you get mass adoption.

I just tried it last week. Good start. Lots of promise.

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Hate to be pedantic, but what kind of phone is that in the photo? It has the white, wired headphones, and an actual phone jack.

It says it’s a campaign event on Monday.

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I actually like it when these code helpers guess from one line what the rest should be and suggest it. It’s even more fun when it keeps guessing and the suggestions get progressively more whacky. Then they just start making completely unrelated shit up.

Once you say no, it goes back to the beginning and meekly repeats the very first suggestion, like a scolded puppy.

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Was listening to an interview with NY Governor on imposing cell phone ban in schools. Said if they left it to individual schools or school districts, there would be lots of pressure from parents or individual groups not to do it and the whole thing would fail. And if they made it voluntary, some kids would comply, but there would be social pressure to keep things as-is, due to FOMO.

Instead, the government would pass a uniform, mandatory law and take the heat.

Seems like that’s what will be needed to change everyone to a 4x8 week. Similar dynamic. Do, not ask.

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Came across Openvibe. Mobile client that works across Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, and soon, Threads. Not perfect, but a good start.

May be one way to handle service migration fragmentation.

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