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10,239karma·2,402submissions·April 5, 2019
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Aesthetics - boring, flat, blah. Burn out - most will pass right over it, spend 10 minutes asking about the details, despite the answers in the chart.
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I have to make presentations on my teams status to boards and alike. No matter how cool solution my team uses and presents, it will be rejected. It will be rejected, because only static reports in two…
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I know that in the US has CAN-SPAM Act, GDPR in the EU, and CASL in Canada. I do not believe this would be part of it. Are there any other legal recourse that could be done in small claims court/…
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I was in the same exact boat. I just could not digest it. I found AI (combo Grok & ChatPPT 4o) to be the best resource for this. It was able to break it down to digestible chunks, then pull it t…
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I am so confused. File systems or filesystems? I do not recall anything in my AT&T days referred to as "filesystems". when I read the article I was expecting mentions of CP/M, Fil…
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I used to write code with pencil on grid paper as it was faster to re-write than in the systems themselves.
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> We know that the subconscious mind is processing information (i.e. “thinking”) all the time, even while we sleep. The evidence for this kind of “sleep learning” is incontrovertible and summarize…
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I think the author might have missed the `usenet` era. Over the years it was running, I have had very good discourses in com.* and sci. , without the debate, must-win aspect. I distinctly recall dis…
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> Your best hope is being the person running the pencil machine. Or, see what is coming and hop on that cart for the short lives we have. Pencils. There is a hobby primitive survival, bushcraft, …
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"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." - King Solomon Litter, palanquin, and sedan chair carriers were fired. Oarsmen were …
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>There’s two lies we tell ourselves: If I write it, they will come. They won’t. There are billions of blog posts out there. The internet is an infinite void, and your blog is a whisper in a hurric…
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Can I make the significance my choice? To me a news site curates news that impacts me directly or things I can do something about. This could be in a scale too. 10 is water main is broken on my stree…