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It doesn't count as a loss until you official say "this is actually a loss (impairment/write down)".

Because why would you buy a business for more than it is worth?

It's a 60 day window for another employer to file. So you need to have another job lined up with the new employer submitting paperwork within 60 days.

Highly recommend it.

It's time to walk the line between targeted curative and preventative therapies that reduce or mitigate severe suffering and the dystopian gattica world where companies can reject you based on genomics.

As per usual, we'll do it in that beautifully painful messy human way.

what's updawg?

people buy github stars now sometimes because it can be used as one input for fundraising.

While I agree aesthetically, the cost is about twice as much to install them on buildings.

Turtledove's alternative history books are quite good. In The Balance was especially fun.

Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds

Wireless - Charles Stross

Stories of your life and others - Ted Chiang

Moonrise - Ben Bova

Last Plane to Heaven - Jay Lake

Best of Greg Egan - Greg Egan

That's how networks work. Ask and you might receive.

elaborate on how relational databases suck?

My mother had lyme disease, which kicked off several years of auto-immune issues. Low energy and near-depression for years. No joke.

if you don't I will?

And the best discussions of jokes are critical and prompt!

Hierarchies (folders) and tags are the only way to organize things.

I'm concerned about Metabase because of this. Amazing project, but the cloud offering doesn't seem to be enough.

Makes sense. Any style of in person event that you've especially liked?

What measures to rehabilitate the scene have you found most effective?

How is the interface to the data and existing product better with large language models?

You do what you're good at which you got good at by doing.

"The apartment-house tenant must have the freedom to lean out of his window and as far as his arms can reach transform the exterior of his dwelling space. And he must be allowed to take a long brush and as far as his arms can reach paint everything pink, so that from far away, from the street, everyone can see: there lives a man who distinguishes himself from his neighbours, the pent-up livestock! He must also be allowed to cut up the walls and make all kinds of changes, even if this disturbs the architectural harmony of a so-called masterwork, and he must be able to fill his room with mud or children's modelling clay.

But the lease prohibits this!" - Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Automation doesn't need AI: Heroku 2 (whatever that will be named) will make it trivial to deploy things.

Cheap SSDs slow down when they run out of the faster cache memory!

You can also find that information on page 23 of their quarterly filing with the SEC [0]

0 - https://otp.tools.investis.com/clients/us/accenture2/SEC/sec...

At this point, almost half of their revenue (7.5/16B in Q1 2023 from the 10-Q filing) is for their outsourcing / "managed services" business.

They expect half of the reduction to be in their non-billable corporate area.

It's also fascinating to realize that their REVENUE per employee is ~85K USD.

Figure out what type of data engineering work you want to do and build 3 end to end versions of that on AWS and you should be good to go with your experiences.

Float positioning was too responsive.

What a great experience!

The short term planning horizon of many leaders appears to be trending towards zero.

Which means they're no longer leaders, even if they retain their position.

It's definitely easy to spend all your money, but with a little budgeting it's not harder to buffer more.

Maybe I've read too much FIRE financial independence content though.