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Missing this one on Bainbridge Island, outside of Seattle: https://nwhickoryplayers.org/2015/08/ccs/ Believe it is only open for residents in that area

Maybe should be called “iq-string” for Interview Question string.

This implies that the input process did a check when it imported the data from somewhere else. GIEMGO garbage in even more garbage out

Scammers attract scammers?

I recommend the book “Unwinding Anxiety” by Judson Brewer for further reading. Another book of his “Hunger Habits” is really good.

Most of these entries are Naticks where the two crosses are proper nouns. That’s really unpleasant as it usually means there’s no way to figure out the cross unless you know the tw…

I’ve heard of that for civil engineering firms but the amount of damages is capped at the yearly contract amount. Which in this case is probably a lot less than what these companie…

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I cannot upvote this enough. They continuously squeeze suppliers either on a bill or to make more faster. Accidents are bound to happen.

“Back in July 2025, six years before Apple introduced Siri, Susan Bennett made some recordings.” The author is from the future?

You inherit some code. Is that string a username or a phone number? Who knows. Someone accidentally swapped two parameter values. Now the phone number is a username and you’ve got …

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MSFT today: $373. Yeah I would say 10x growth vs 4x isn’t comparable.

Use “aws s3api list-objects-v2” https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/s3api/

“ChatGPT summarize last weeks events” “I’m sorry, I can’t do that Dave. Not cuz I’m deciding not to do it but because I can’t for the life of me figure this shit out. Like what was…

Slight twist on that here: most employees are in Seattle and WA state law doesn’t mandate paying out unused vacation time. Most (good) employers do that when employees quit but the…

Curious I wanted to see who are the top players in this market and the hype around Convoy and found https://www.ttnews.com/logistics/freightbrokerage/2022 CH is the highest with $1…

I’m envisioning carnival barkers trying to get other teams to use up their -15 seats as if they don’t sell out they have to pay the company a rental fee.

Just have those machines randomly ask one another for the time. Because of the Wisdom of Crowds the time will eventually be right. / sarcasm

So kind of like breaking one of two compasses before going out to sea. Makes perfect sense.

Similar rebooking: less than 24 hours before a flight from Seattle to Naples via Paris Air France says “lol flight canceled good luck as we aren’t rebooking you” Had to scramble as…

What does a software engineer do? They type on a keyboard.

Mentally impaired humans sounds like the US Congress, so we are living it in a way. So imagine that world but with garbage coming out 100x faster as it can tailor political talking…

> Who knows how many of us reading this would never have existed if nukes hadn't been invented. You can't make the argument 'the Manhattan project, we blow the planet up, the end".…

That puts a new spin on a “brittle unit test”