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Just a note on vacancy targets, I worked for a MF REIT (~33k units) and pre-YieldStar their average target occupancy was around 97% for properties. After YieldStar was implemented the average dropped to more like 95%. As far as I'm aware, the other large managers also targeted the mid-to-high 90s.

> The way I remember it NLMs were pretty stable.

I think this depends on what NLMs you were running. An old job had a NetWare 3.12 server running btrieve/pervasive and it ABENDed enough that I learned how to use the debugger to get the console back and dismount volumes to avoid triggering VREPAIR on restart.

This article presents a very odd version of what happened. Simon Clarke was the lawyer that actually stopped the Post Office prosecutions as soon as he got involved.

In this case he went to the judge and said he was aware of the existence of a report that needed to be disclosed, but it could not be given to anyone (including Simon Clarke) until the report had been presented to parliament. The judge granted the exemption for 8 weeks, after which the report was provided to the defense.

If you're serious, Southwest only uses Boeing 737s.

A former HP employee told me that a creating named subdomain required a VP-level signoff, while those "license plate" style subdomains could be provisioned by almost anybody via a self-service tool. So if there isn't a real reason for a nice URL, people tend to create license plate subdomains.

Correct, and even YieldStar has a customer-set vacancy and lease expiration targets that it works towards. RealPage trains the customers to accept a little more vacancy to gain higher lease pricing.

I worked for a company that started using YieldStar back in 2006 and at least back then there was no contractual requirement to use the recommended prices. RealPage did heavily push the idea that you needed to work within YieldStar at all times. If a manager disagreed with a recommended price, our in-house revenue management would work with the manager to see if there is a configuration error in YieldStar (wrong amenities, wrong unit type, wrong target vacancy, etc). If there isn't a configuration error, then the recommended price would usually stand.

It doesn't do quite the same thing. You're correct that pre-YieldStar, properties would call their comps once or twice a month to get their local competitors prices. YieldStar pricing is mostly based on leases that have been signed, not what prices are being advertised. RealPage's YieldStar gets a daily feed of actual leasing activity from all RealPage's clients. If clients use RealPage's leasing software the transfer happens automatically in the background, otherwise RealPage helps set up a daily extract & transfer of leasing data to YieldStar.

Someone has already stitched together the ATC/plane radio traffic[1], it sounds like the pilots on the plane initially had no idea. Oakland departure had to tell the pilots that people on the ground saw something falling off the plane.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeGo79nRMwU

It's an anonymous comment posted here: https://leehamnews.com/2024/01/15/unplanned-removal-installa... . It was posted before any official information was released and seems to track with information that was subsequently released.

It's around the same time, I think. Windows 2000 & Active Directory were released in February 2000; MS training materials would have been released around the same time. I found at least one book[1] published in the year 2000 that discussed using .local as a private TLD.

[1] https://www.uv.es/martineu/ad/bibliaAD.pdf

> Winmodem.

Memories! An old job bulk-bought a ton of cheap "home" PCs (Compaq Presario) to use as Citrix desktop clients; the included modem was a winmodem. We discovered the CPU in the PCs couldn't reliably run the Citrix software and maintain a modem connection at the same time. We ended up having to buy external modems (and later network cards) for all the presarios.

Thankfully we learned from the experience and stuck purchasing from the "business" product lines after that.

I think the scammers are starting to get wise. I've seen over 50 different accounts running the same ad copy for some car solar defrosting gadget. There's just too many ads for any single one to get a published note and if one does they can delete the individual post.

"Revenue Management"

It's only universal at the large chains. I started using an independent pharmacy because the local CVS was obviously overworked / understaffed.

I might pay $8 to not see all the blue-check shit floating to the top of replies, but I'm not going to pay $8 to join the shit.

SeatGuru shows their 737-700 is 143 seats and their 737-800 and 737 MAX 8 are both 175 seats.

Good 'ol OCS/Lync/S4B

Different person, but during a deploy the pipeline checks some the APM metrics (error rate, new errors, latency) to determine if it should roll back the deploy. A previous company would do a canary deployment (like 2 out of 60 instances), wait 20 minutes and only proceed to a full deploy if the canary instances had similar error & latency rates.

I used to work for a large property management company that used YieldStar, the initial approval went through an in-house team and final approval happened by on-site staff. Smaller companies that couldn't justify an in-house team would use YieldStar for the initial review/approval.

The complaint sounds a lot worse than that!

> Unbeknownst to Carta, Talton repeatedly abused his position of trust and confidence as CTO to secretly record multiple Carta executives, Board members and others in an attempt to harm Carta, including by feeding such information to former employees who were threatening to assert claims against Carta (and/or who were already litigating against Carta), and to circumvent and undermine the very information technology infrastructure and security systems he was charged with safeguarding in order to conceal his own illicit conduct.

From page 2, here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.59...

I found it here[1] on the SF court website. It looks like they didn't pay December rent, due on the 1st. They gave them 5 days notice on the 16th and by the 29th they still hadn't paid.

[1] https://webapps.sftc.org/ci/CaseInfo.dll?SessionID=333998CD0...

> special 'Admin key sequence'

R Shift + L Shift + Alt + Esc would trigger the debugger. I would use that to get the console back after btrieve/pervasive.sql ABENDed to unmount volumes before restarting, otherwise NetWare would spend an hour or two running VREPAIR.

> The first link’s response was written by a baseball team.

Written by the team's general counsel, not ball players.

Because going forward the only thing the verified badge will be verifying is that twitter was able to charge your credit card $8 within the last month.

I think the answer is probably commercial, Trump generated a lot of 'buzz' about twitter before he was banned.

> I mean, what you say is all interesting and stuff, but you created this account today

Their profile says it was created in August 2011.

Yup, at a previous company I managed the IT department and reported to the CFO. In a 1:1 meeting he said "I want employees I can yell at and not be worried that they'll quit". He was referring to accounting staff when he said it, but it was the final straw that got me looking for other opportunities. I gave notice a few weeks later.

Yup! A previous company starting using Concur (with a shitty, minimal effort setup) around 2011. It would push employees to book a train + bus to go from LA to Palo Alto because it was some % cheaper than a Southwest flight. Thankfully we still had p-cards and accounts payable didn't have a spine, so our department ended up ignoring Concur and booking travel directly on the carrier sites.

My experience has been the opposite, that customers are automatically opt-ed in if their bank participates in an updater program. Like this Bank FAQ[1] mentions.

[1] https://www.ussfcu.org/_/kcms-doc/1362/48854/Visa-Account-Up...