saltwaterlee.bsky.social
Husband, (Grand)Father, former Tech nerd @Microsoft, world travel enthusiast, scuba diver, photographer, plant based eater, brewed beverage fan.
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I miss when I would drop off my program deck in the afternoon and get it back with results the next morning. And hopefully not drop it on my way to turn it in.
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Which part of about a third of the US population are you referring to? Or is this for all of them?
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Absolutely, I get the tech reference :-).
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You could just stop with ‘Maybe he’s just confused’ without any qualifiers 😊
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Wow, so nobody was stupid enough to buy the product, so HP buys the company. Makes total sense...
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This is what happens when you tell every Microsoft employee that if you aren’t working on AI based features you will not be getting top performance ratings.
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The only time I felt even marginally more than 1x was when either helping someone else on my team to get past a roadblock, or getting help from someone myself to get past one. Sometimes 1 + 1 =2.x
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How does this help their quest to reduce government spending? Hmmm…
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News like this and I’m no longer proud to be a veteran. The military (Air Force) I served in was the most inclusive place I’ve ever worked, and to do this demeans the entire military and what we served to promote and protect. Every military member and veteran should be protesting this.
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It’s not black history, it’s American history.
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I don’t think they can as easily as they think. And it’s because there is fundamentally a problem with factory farming. It may yield cheaper prices, but the unnatural concentration of animals has consequences, and a virus like bird flu will take advantage of this and be harder to control.
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You would think they have to realize that they can spot all the crazy crap they want, blame the previous administration’s policies, whatever. But they have to actually do better, I.e. bring prices down.
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What do I do?
Well, you could consider hiring a software engineer.
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Stackoverflow was already doing this with so many who would cut and paste without a clue. AI kicks this into high gear.
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Fingernail?
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Not seeing ads is on the web version, I don’t know about in the apps, I deleted them long ago.
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A way to deprive X from ad revenue is to put anyone you still want to read content from in a list. Lists don’t seem have ads. I did this with a last few people/orgs that haven’t yet moved somewhere else. Now I read their content from the list only.
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But on the bright side, we have nowhere to go but up from here.
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And the saddest part is a significant number of Americans even if given that fact wouldn’t care if it meant they could save a few bucks a month filling up their vehicles.
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Though now you need to create twice as many nickels and $5 notes, which cost more to make than the original dime and $10 bills. Bottom line is that getting rid of Pennie’s is sales tax neutral, the tax is calculated on the total spend, the rounding is on the total tendered, not on the tax remitted.
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It’s ironic that when someone says something like this they are showing what THEY would do if in the situation in question because this is their personal world view.
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Are there really more aircraft events happening, or is it that the media and algorithms are ranking them higher now that everyone is interested in them? Does anyone know?
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Reading the news about the MuskRats pretending to be software engineers is enough to get me offline for the day.
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I’m confused, unless I heard wrong you said that gas stoves don’t emit co2 when being used? I thought the results of burning natural gas was heat, co2, and water vapor?
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I’m stocked and ready for this:
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Check out Mondragon which is an entity that likely embodies many of the ideals that you are describing.
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Sometimes having less resources forces innovation, where having more just lets you follow the sloppy path that everyone else is on.
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No worries, and I understand the frustration. There are many times that I’ve found where something I bought seems to have become disposable due to lack of future support. Threw out a bunch of VR/AR gear last week because it’s no longer supported and so is pretty useless. What a waste…
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I’m not trying to be a Microsoft apologist, just trying to convey there is a reason that this is the way things are. As well as show that this isn’t an outlier in this industry, even Apple, which has higher cost products doesn’t support their systems forever.
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By buying it you agreed to the idea that this was going to e good for a few years. If enough people would be willing to continue to pay for long term support costs, then it’s likely that it would be provided, as capitalism tends to try to fill any needs.
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While I empathize with your situation, to call it unethical to me may be a stretch. It would be unethical if they had always supported products forever and decided now to not do that, but this is the same support cycle that was in place when you bought Windows. It didn’t change.
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Unfortunately this is the way the industry works. Upgrades are part of the business model. Nobody in the tech industry supports older products for very long. Some do longer than others, but overall it’s an industry of continuous upgrades.
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Nobody will brick your device, they just won’t be providing updates after that date. I worked there for over 20 years (ducks and runs), so unless things have changed in the past few months then I’m pretty familiar with the support policies.
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Industry analysts look at everything as a possible way to reduce headcount since in the vast majority of professional fields that is the highest cost item. Look at almost every product sold in tech, and the vast majority in the covers are all about “efficiency”. Which means “lower headcount”.
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I think that LLM based AI may change the tasks an engineer does, but I haven’t seen any evidence yet of an LLM being able to really replace engineers. LLMs are great at demos, and building things that have already been created and published multiple times. Doing anything unique no so much.
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Yeah with all the issues with milk and egg prices it’s never been a better time to be vegan.
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Benefits went down after the ACA gave an excuse to make changes. Up until then benefits were top notch. Not blaming the ACA, but it did give air cover to cut back on benefits.
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I have so many great memories of doing .net early adopter work back in the early 2000s as a Microsoft consultant. It was so much fun to work with taking different customer needs and working with them to build out a solution.
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And it doesn't have to be organic to be healthy.
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American food if you are talking about restaurants in general is low quality, big portions, and high calorie food. Many other countries want higher quality and recognize they don't need some huge burger with three meat patties and four slices of processed cheese and a quarter pound of bacon on it.
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I find Europe isn't better just due to regulation, it's because their consumers won't accept crap food. They value quality over quantity more than we tend to in the US. US is big plate of low quality; vs Europe is a smaller plate of higher quality. We need to change our mindset and buying habits.
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Visit locally owned restaurants that buy real ingredients and actually make food from scratch. They are out there and usually need everyone’s support. My favorite local place has a great menu, and it’s all scratch cooked in their kitchen. Nothing processed or premade coming in the back door.
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Yes, fiber is definitely your friend.
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I've never understood why my health care insurance covers both acupuncture and chiropractic care, but won't go anywhere near anything "experimental", i.e. discovered anytime in the past decade. And they pretend it's because the new treatment is "not yet proven by science". Really...
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First rule is that when someone claims to know everything, they typically know nothing. Real experts in anything are the first to say they don't know everything.
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Wait until the new tariffs kick in and watch everything go up again. Companies like to have air cover for their price hikes, and this will provide the best they've had since "supply chain issues due to the pandemic" 😀.
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And the reason she couldn't afford apples is she just got done at the pharmacy where her drugs cost 5x what they do in the EU?
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No offense taken. Weighs on my mind as well, for many reasons. I spent my first almost six decades of life not really looking at where my food came from, then when I looked at it, I wasn't happy with what I saw, so adjusted my own path to meet what I could live with.