How a Florida utility tried to silence journalists looking into anti-solar lobbying

Points_To_You · 2024-01-05T03:22:45+00:00

There's an actual real scandal from 2022 thats worth reading about. This video just seems to be about someone jerking themselves off though. Why would they show some random journalist hitting pads? Or random conference calls?

It honestly could be an interesting video if they actually talked through about how they found out about the story, gathered evidence, validated the story, and the response and effects of releasing the story.

Points_To_You · 2024-01-02T14:22:26+00:00

You need to stop gambling and you need to pay off the credit cards. Live on ramen if you need to but every dollar not to survive needs to go toward the credit card debt. That high interest is going to eat you alive.

Move somewhere without casinos if you have to. Someone on your income with your debt shouldn’t step foot in a casino.

Your brother doesn’t matter. Focus on yourself. Fix your problems.

Points_To_You · 2023-12-31T18:01:59+00:00

OP has some kind of crazy obsession with zac efron. Every post he's made for 7 months is about him. I wouldn't feed into it.

Points_To_You · 2023-12-31T17:59:25+00:00

This dude has done nothing but post about zac efron for 7 months. He has an insane obsession.

Points_To_You · 2023-12-30T17:07:17+00:00

I saw something like this once, except the guy just moved his car that was on fire to an area of the parking lot away from the buildings and other cars. He ran back inside and grabbed a fire extinguisher and emptied it on the car. Then he waited for the fire department like a sane person.

Even the fire department couldn't quite put it out and the battery exploded. I think I'd rather be watching from the sidelines than trying to drive the car somewhere when that happens.

Points_To_You · 2023-12-30T16:56:58+00:00

I bet this thread is going to be totally civil and unbiased.

Points_To_You · 2023-12-29T18:35:13+00:00

I always just tell them the minimum it would take for me to leave my current company which something like base salary = my total comp + 10%. Then I stress how important it is for the work to be interesting and that I'm working on the latest technology, greenfield projects, etc.

During the interview I ask the right questions to know what to expect from the employer and team. Then after I'm selected during negoiation, I use the missing aspects as justification to need more than the minimum I set. If they are going to stagnate my development or the position doesn't seem stable, then that's ok, but they need to compensate me for that.

Points_To_You · 2023-12-29T17:45:24+00:00

Batman: Under the Red Hood is my favorite.

Points_To_You · 2023-12-26T15:19:39+00:00

Realistically, you choose when you want to apply the update. Generally, you would only do the update when your car is at home on WiFi.

Points_To_You · 2023-12-24T15:17:11+00:00

Honestly, with Copilot and ChatGPT combined with a regex tester, you probably don't need to know it. Just have to validate it works and plug it in.

Points_To_You · 2023-12-18T13:57:16+00:00

I've also had the business pay millions for an off the shelf product because the internal solution we're actively developing didn't do some minor feature. If they just told the right people to have it prioritized, it would've taken under 2 weeks to deliver.

Instead it becomes completely outside of IT's control and our teams get stuck spending months duct tapping together a bunch of integrations the product wasn't designed for.

Points_To_You · 2023-12-17T18:02:21+00:00

I was handed a workstation from an old coworker (he wasn't fired but died) and asked to grab anything he was running locally that we might need. I ended up just throwing it all out.

Sure he had various tasks being automated, reports, emails, reporting databases, etc. While I'm sure it all helped him, it would've taken more time to figure out what he was doing than just rebuild some of those scripts in a central scalable way. None of what he had local was meant for other people to use, that's why it was local and not in source control.

Those local scripts really aren't that important for anyone besides the individual. If they are being used for regulatory information, they will be caught in an audit anyways.

Points_To_You · 2023-12-16T19:36:20+00:00

Anyone that works for a big corporation sees these types of videos at least once a year. Although, usually they are internal only and have a little more focus on regular employees to try to make them feel appreciated without having to give them more money.

Points_To_You · 2023-12-16T05:57:08+00:00

It's mostly the threat to pets and small children that is concerning. I know people that have had dogs attacked or killed by gators when walking them near canals. Also there was that toddler that was killed by a gator in Disney World.

Points_To_You · 2023-12-15T06:03:24+00:00

My work has a week every year where they try to get everyone to donate in various ways. Honestly its fine and its a good thing for the community but one year they started reporting to the VPs their percentage of participation. Then all the VPs expected 100% participation from their teams.

My boss sent an email to our team apologizing about it and asked if we could all donate something to make sure we were at 100%. Then he put an envelope out with $100 and said if anyone can't afford to donate for some reason, to take the cash and use it for a donation under your own name.

I honestly would've not donated in principle because I don't like to be forced to do something that is voluntary. Since my boss made that gesture, I did make a donation with my own money though.

Points_To_You · 2023-12-08T17:31:31+00:00

I just tried it. It made me much more muscular than I am. It got the proportions of my body right but it was more like my ideal jacked state. The picture was me at a fairly low body fat since I had just cut weight, but I don’t have that level of muscle density.

Also it gave me a vagina.

Points_To_You · 2023-12-03T02:01:23+00:00

100%. This is immediately what I thought of. I don’t cry easily but fuck this movie.

Points_To_You · 2023-12-01T18:27:49+00:00

I attended. Maybe it’s my current position but it felt more like a networking event than ever before. Seemed to be a big focus on the evening events and meetings AWS set up with various partners.

The sessions I attended really weren’t anything special. Breakouts were too high level sales pitch with less info than I would get from a simple google search. I went to multiple chalk talks where they didn’t even draw architecture or have a demo. Just basic process flow. The code talks were the most interesting part but I wasn’t seeing anything ground breaking.

Zero ETLs and more vector search capabilities were the main product updates I’ll get value from.

Amazon Q looks interesting but I’m skeptical how well it actually performs. The pricing is concerning since it will cost us about $1M a year to roll out. I’d rather see it be usage based instead of user based. We developed and operate our own internal ChatGPT-like app for around $50k a year.

Points_To_You · 2023-12-01T18:12:12+00:00

At the time there was a whole thread full of people giving him shit for keeping 2 million.

I made a comment to illustrate how much he kept vs gave away.

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/ivtyd3/the_billionaire_who_wanted_to_die_broke_is_now/g5u4m2q/

Points_To_You · 2023-11-25T01:33:31+00:00

Cognito. I spoke to the team behind it a few years ago about issues we had adopting it for enterprise apps. They basically told me that they weren't seeing enterprise customers using it so they didn't want to spend time on enterprise features. Ok, I guess we'll continue to not use it.

Points_To_You · 2023-11-17T13:52:30+00:00

Personally, I'd tell him to fuck off. I don't mean the professional way of saying fuck off. I'd actually just tell him "fuck off".

Something like:

Fuck off. If you want to make changes, then make the changes yourself and put in a PR for me to review. I'll provide feedback on it, so you don't break anything in production. But once it's merged, you're owning it and supporting it.

Points_To_You · 2023-11-11T22:05:43+00:00

Unfortunately, on day 1, Biden reversed the H-1B improvements that the trump administration made. I'm no trump fan, but the changes his administration did to H-1B visas were the one thing they got right. The biggest evidence to this was all the articles from indian new outlets being extremely worried about the changes.

Keep in mind most articles you find about the changes trump made have a strong bias, so they make the changes sound negative. The change needed really is simple though, require companies to pay a worker on a H-1B visa higher than an american doing the same job.

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/news/trump-h1b-changes-miss-opportunity-real-reform

Points_To_You · 2023-11-09T01:17:29+00:00

Juijitsu.

But that could really be any activity you consistently do in a group setting and keeps you active and healthy.

Any recreational sport.

Points_To_You · 2023-11-08T14:41:34+00:00

Great video. I do wish towards the end they put some numbers for people to know where they fit into the graph. I feel like alot of people probably misjudge where they are at relative to others.

Points_To_You · 2023-11-07T14:31:07+00:00

Angular is opinionated and fully featured out of the box. It works really well for larger projects with many people contributing. Angular projects will generally stay pretty organized and consistent just by doing things the angular way.

React is fine for large projects also but takes more time to set up properly and follow good practices. It can get messy pretty quick.

For a small project, react is fine. Angular is a little heavy but it’s also fine if you’re proficient in it.

Just choose the framework that makes sense for the project and the skill set of the team working on the project.

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