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Using your own bike with the Peloton class never appealed to me as you don't get your power numbers, so there is no competing with others in the room. I hear the Wahoo Kikr is grea…

Yep, agreed. If decisions can be made by a human often they'll stick to that, often arguing there is no need for data. In my former space (credit card fraud detection and underwrit…

Curious if there is a correlation with companies that failed to capitalize with the ones who relied on consultants versus really reshaping their own people. I worked for a financia…

I had the Rio 600 before the iPod ( https://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/rio600/ ) . It was definitely a joke, 32MB could barely fit a single CD and that was only af…

If you're streaming messages I guess the good comparison would be protobuf + gRPC?

I think this will always be the case when looking at the base cost of infrastructure itself (price of a compute/GB of storage in the cloud vs on prem) However, the cost of cloud pa…

Maybe they should be, but they definitely aren't in most places. Maybe some hedge funds ban phones but most banks don't. And having worked in several SCIFs for TS material, phones …

I worked at a security startup where installing Slack/email on our personal phones (BYOD policy) was possible via an MDM (but was optional, we weren't forced). I don't know every d…