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No. They break (even the good ones) and they everyone I know who has bought one sits down all day anyway after about 3 months of fad and blogging about it. Get up and go and have a…

If you get these confused and hurt Robert Smith you should be fired. Stop normalising incompetence! Robert Michael Smith - 12/10/1954 Gerard George Smith - 12/10/1954

Too cheap, too expensive and neither necessary or really likely to be any better than anything that we already do. I'll wait both of these out I think.

Bad things should happen at most once. That is the point. To do that you need a culture of improvement which is not evident anywhere I’ve worked in the finance sector.

It’s not a simple mistake. It’s a critically damaging mistake to someone. Any process around such an event requires considerably more competence than what was demonstrated. In this…

Barclays closed my mother’s bank accounts because they thought she had died. It was a “clerical error” ie someone had received a death certificate and processed it with about as mu…

No they are just as bad.

Yeah it’ll be O365 family next. Then O365 business.

Yeah. I keep a backup disk at a friend’s house.

This is pretty standard in corporations these days. My org did the same. The assumption is that if it’s not in confluence or GitHub then it’s not worth keeping this goes in one dri…

Is that the same Microsoft which is throwing money into running environmentally destructive AI workloads as their key business driver?

Slightly but the seller was a vintage book specialist with a physical shop and a good reputation so I was less worried.

Not really. If something stops being convenient for me or a poor ROI I will stop using it. Hence why I now no longer use Amazon or any TV streaming services. I don't have to partic…

The one simple trick to avoid here is to not be "an artist". Unless you make it big the only thing you're getting out of Spotify and Apple is possibly the easy of distributing a li…

The just course of action is both Apple and Spotify destroy their market and we go back to buying mp3s and FLAC files which aren't rent seeking.

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eBay!

Read/use 13 of them. The Phoenix Project is however used as toilet paper. This is a symbolic gesture after working in a very fucked up company who decided the management restructur…

His writing has never been objective. I’m not sure we should assume it is now.

Amazing everyone loves free market capitalism when it comes to taking fees for their SAAS. But when someone else takes a cut after providing the platform which is optional to join …

So against the vendor's advice you sort of shot yourself. Appreciate taking one for the team but I don't see any risk to myself here as I have no intention of using Beeper.

You have to leave it for a couple of hours to consolidate the local SQLite DB and iCloud. The results are not immediate.

This is easily fixed on the mac: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204967 Had the same problem and this fixed it.

Is there a reference for this anywhere / secondary confirmation? Would like to understand risk exposure of relying on iMessage going forward.