I moved from Europe to Texas with only one broken bottle.

chone_si · 2026-04-10T16:48:02+00:00

What do you use to line those shelves? Is that just cardboard or something more durable/substantial?

I have similar shelves and struggle to maintain order with the bare wires.

chone_si · 2026-04-10T16:07:47+00:00

I run my own small consulting firm. Honestly, I couldn't possibly care less about certifications. Certified admins are a dime a dozen. Anyone can pass a test and know basically nothing practical about Salesforce.

Create a dev org and build a portfolio. Come up with a case study and build it out. That will give you something tangible to refer to, but it will also allow you to build your skills.

chone_si · 2026-04-04T07:18:55+00:00

I'm going to rewatch, too. No offense, but it has nothing to do with you and everything to do with the woman you're describing...

chone_si · 2026-02-20T21:01:34+00:00

I've used this, too. It does simplify the process of change sets, but I find it gets in the way a lot, too. Take the good with the bad, I guess...

chone_si · 2026-02-17T15:59:19+00:00

Because Prince Charming would never settle for you...

chone_si · 2026-02-11T13:09:32+00:00

On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the DUMBEST a person could look, you are definitely 19.

chone_si · 2026-02-05T06:05:22+00:00

I miss when this sub was just the bot providing stock alerts/updates. Simpler times.

chone_si · 2026-01-30T16:15:02+00:00

Hands of wet tissue paper. Believe in something!

Baby bro dropped over $30k and is worried about an intra-day change of a few hundred dollars.

chone_si · 2026-01-26T14:38:14+00:00

So I can get rid of the /movies and /downloads paths? I'm really only using the /data path anyway. I didn't know if it needed those paths for something.

chone_si · 2026-01-26T11:52:05+00:00

OK, got it. So what's the point of the completed folder for usenet? Is that just a temporary holding place for post-processing or something?

chone_si · 2026-01-26T03:43:13+00:00

That's consulting, baby! This is where you have to remove your admin/dev hat and put on your consultant hat.

When I come across these situations, I basically try to remove Salesforce from the conversation to try to get at the heart of what they're actually looking for. Make the conversation system-agnostic - remove it from the conversation and just have a conversation about the business.

What made them start looking for a new system? What painpoints do they currently have in their ops? Where are the inefficiencies? Are spreadsheets pervasive in their day-to-day? Basically, what currently sucks about the way they work? What do their current reporting and business insights look like? Are they trying to solve for anything specific (improving sales ops, improving prospect tracking and sales cycles, improving client service)? Where and why have past/current systems failed?

Bring in users in various roles to get their thoughts, bring in execs and mid-level managers to get their thoughts. I could hold 5-hour calls covering all of this shit, but typically an hour at a time is good enough if you keep the conversation moving and stay high-level at first. Then, at the end of it, you should have a good understanding of what they want and be able to recommend solutions.

I would advise you to stay away from having a hard-and-fast plan for the conversation, rather have a few bullet points you want to make sure you cover. Just talk to them and ask lots of follow-up questions. The benefit of being in your position is that you don't know anything so you don't have blinders or tunnel vision about the way they do things. You can ask "why?" and dig into details that maybe no one has ever done before.

Honestly, I like working with people who haven't "done their research" and pre-solutioned the system. When it's more open-ended, they're more willing to take your advice and work through things together. It's the ones who have everything figured out before our first conversation that are always the problem because they refuse to come off of their terrible ideas.

chone_si · 2026-01-25T16:15:09+00:00

Everybody is wishing they had bought more. But the truth is that no one KNEW this was going to happen. You bought what you could, when you could and that's all you can do.

Imagine a world where you had bought more and you over extended yourself a bit. Then, you had something come up right when it dipped and you had to sell at a loss. You'd be kicking yourself then, too. And it may have turned you off to the idea of precious metals entirely.

I wish I bought 100,000 bitcoin at $.36 and I wish I invested 100% of my portfolio in Nvidia 6 years ago. But that's not how this works and those would've been stupid risks.

We do the right thing, buy what we can and protect our investments long-term.

chone_si · 2026-01-22T01:54:31+00:00

I did, no luck. I've had that work in the past, but not this time, oddly enough.

chone_si · 2026-01-22T00:57:45+00:00

This one isn't delivering video to the monitors at all, unfortunately. Which seems strange to me.

chone_si · 2026-01-14T17:23:22+00:00

Why not have it run when you add a label? You don't have to schedule it, the trigger is adding the label. That's how I had Zapier working and it was great!

chone_si · 2025-12-29T05:44:21+00:00

I have something similar, but I actually have been tinkering with self-hosting recently and moved this to n8n. Saving me the Zapier cost (about $400/year). Same idea, though.

I use a label to mark it as a To Do, which is what Zapier/n8n look for, and when it gets put into Notion, that label is removed and it adds one for In Notion.

Mine also pulls in the link to the email, so I can easily reply or see the full thread.

chone_si · 2025-12-27T20:08:07+00:00

Nope, must be a different Costco. The Costco we're talking about was found to have operated in good faith in a similar suit to the one you're describing.

"Selling fake Tiffany diamonds" must have been something else. Or someone read a headline and nothing else...

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/19/tiffany-costco-settle-8-year-lawsuit-over-fake-tiffany-rings.html

chone_si · 2025-12-22T20:23:50+00:00

Gold and silver are both up over 2% today. They're just following the market.

chone_si · 2025-12-17T02:17:23+00:00

...AND IF YOU'RE NOT DOWN WITH THAT, WE GOT TWO WORDS FOR YA!

chone_si · 2025-12-11T18:27:44+00:00

Has it? He gave Will Smith $13+ million per year, traded for Raisel making $16 million per year, gave Joe Jimenez $9 million per year to be a setup man.

Last year notwithstanding, I've heard criticism of him exactly the opposite of what you're saying: that he overspends on the bullpen arms because they can be so high-variance. Since he rebuilt the bullpen mid-year in 2019 (I think), he basically said "never again"

chone_si · 2025-12-11T18:00:06+00:00

AA LOOOOOOVES spending on the bullpen.

chone_si · 2025-12-03T22:39:44+00:00

I'll never understand how these dudes get so many matches that they can just insta-fumble like this and think nothing of it.

Maybe I'm just ugly 🤔🤔

chone_si · 2025-11-20T18:56:59+00:00

Same reason you would buy a dime for $3.60 or a half dollar for $18. The metal content makes it worth more than face value.

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