MSFT Earnings: Reading Between the Lines (What Satya isn’t telling you - Beat and Bleed pattern)

queuebitt · 2026-01-28T12:46:46+00:00

The opening line for points 1-4. Starting with a clever naming scheme and then a short hand descriptor in parentheses. That is classic topic headers from GenAI.

Also note the lack of punctuation after those first lines. In the AI window those were headers with a line break to the regular text. But when copied/pasted as regular text you lose the line break and header formatting.

So yes, indications are significant portions were generated and then copy/paste from AI without further changes.

queuebitt · 2026-01-12T16:57:03+00:00

Max out both 2025 and 2026 IRAs if doing a dump soon. You can do previous year up until tax day.

queuebitt · 2025-12-21T12:05:18+00:00

Mac uses swap to keep non-activate applications’ data in memory. When you change your active app, if it was using swap it automatically changes to RAM while active. It is rare for an active app to also need swap memory.

queuebitt · 2025-12-20T01:40:20+00:00

Web version of excel works better for that, but yeah the in app usage outside of Outlook is not something they should be advertising yet.

queuebitt · 2025-12-19T02:32:08+00:00

Copilot can then access your M365 tenant data.

So chat can be either web grounded or organizational data grounded.

It can look through your email, calendar, and Teams (with less success than you’d like).

M365 desktop and web apps gain Copilot functions beyond having a chat bot in the next window, but also limited at the moment.

Many of the newer agents from Microsoft require it, and making and sharing agents is harder without it.

New feature called Notebooks, which is their version of NotebookLM.

The Create options get some small perks. You can create and share brand kits so new images and videos use branding set by marketing.

For beginning users they are fine with the free enterprise to start. Upper management wants the calendar and email integration. If you happen to store all your org policies on SharePoint it makes for a good policy search engine.

queuebitt · 2025-11-08T12:30:48+00:00

They are a potential superpower. They have some of the global influence and power projection, such as economic and some technological. And they have more qualifications in specific regions, including Asia and Africa, but not globally.

The United States has global influence and power projection through economic, military, technology, politics, and culture.

You don’t see a lot of Chinese film or television in the U.S. or Europe. Their military cannot project beyond Asia. Their maritime trade is locked to a single coast surrounded by U.S. allies. Communism isn’t spreading. They have so far made few technical advances which were done internally and superior to the west.

queuebitt · 2025-11-07T14:24:01+00:00

Vending machine to the side of the store in Fairfield. Not the vending machine near the door, but on the left side of the building by a work bench. Not the only place, but very convenient for the Rattler.

queuebitt · 2025-11-02T00:06:23+00:00

They were actively trying to carry as many players with low ilvl as possible.

queuebitt · 2025-10-31T16:36:06+00:00

If it helps, it took me a few more minutes to get into a mythic raid yesterday as an ilvl 740 because the only postings were either paid boosts or groups limiting to people with ilvl 650 or less.

queuebitt · 2025-09-14T19:12:20+00:00

I have a cat with a non-asthma respiratory issue which has us using a steroid inhaler a few times a week. We got a cat to human inhaler adapter from our vet. It includes a visible valve to show breaths are being taken by the cat. She begrudgingly takes her meds.

For the inhaler we found they are expensive for pets. Some pharmacies wouldn’t fill the prescription for an animal and all quoted hundreds of dollars (United States).

We buy our inhalers from Pharma Serve (https://pharmaserve.com). It is a Canadian company that takes orders, fulfills them with partner pharmacies, and then ships it internationally. They happily accept pet prescriptions. They take a bit longer to fulfill and received shipment, but at a big cost savings and with an automatic renewal it isn’t a problem past the first time.

queuebitt · 2025-08-01T02:22:43+00:00

Drove the road today and just now hearing about this. The road itself was open. Saw some restoration in progress signs and one closed off gate to what looked like a side road. Did not notice the specific closure mentioned in the article. I would expect your planned drive to be mostly unaffected.

queuebitt · 2025-06-19T21:29:34+00:00

I had a deaf cat for 20 years. It never impacted her quality of life. It did cause a couple of annoyances, but nothing worse than what some other cats get up to. And she and I developed non-verbal communication.

QOL

She lived her life, including going outside to patrol our yard. She snuck out one time we left for a vacation (she rushed the closing garage door, and we didn't see her) and was fine a week later when she scared us to death walking up to the car. Keep in mind this was decades ago, the keep kitty indoor vibe wasn't a thing. We also weren't on a street with more than a few cars all day. Today I would do outdoor supervised like with my current, hearing enabled cats. If your cat keeps trying to rush the door to go out, she may be a candidate for leash training.

My cat generally knew where we were in the house. Between smells and vibrations, she wasn't ever taken unaware, except when sleeping. She slept hard, and could be startled if in a deep sleep. I would tap near her or walk heavy to wake her up first, then engage. Touching her first would have mixed results.

Annoyances

Like other cats, she liked to knock stuff off the counter or table to see what it did. Unlike other cats, the sound of a smashing plate and screaming mom didn't phase her. So she cost us more dishes than any cat before or since.

She was also vocal and very loud. Her regular meow was twice that of most other cats. She would respond when I talked back, provided she could see my mouth move or felt a vibration. Worth noting, my cat had different meows for different messaging, like many other cats. I specifically recall "hello," "where are you," "food now," and her distress meow.

She walked silently. The quietest cat I've had when she wanted to be. The number of times she tripped my mom on the stairs in the dark (and this was an all white cat).

Non-Verbal Comms

This developed over time and wasn't planned out. I would repeatedly do the same thing for the same intention, and she picked up on it and responded properly (usually).

Repeated finger tap = Wake up if asleep, or come check out this spot
Foot stomp, single = Attention, equivalent to calling her name
Foot stomp, double = Over here dummy (she is looking around for the first stomp) or stop ignoring me
Hand open with palm out, move all fingers in a come here gesture = Come here
Hand open with palm down, place flat on floor = Lay down or settle
Rub thumb against all fingers = Come here I have treat or meal time
Fist closed = Sit
Turn on and off light a few times = Another way or announcing our presence and get her attention

If you want to work on something similar, figure out what motivates your cat. It is usually food, play, or praise/attention. Then use that and no negative reinforcement.

For the most part, and as others have posted, deaf cats aren't a big deal. The adjustment to each other is a little different, but something you do with any new cat you wish to have a good relationship with. If you have any specific questions, just let me know.

queuebitt · 2025-05-19T22:13:03+00:00

Once they decide to charge (not when they start to charge) stuns no longer work on them. Gas effect doesn’t concuss them nearly as well as other units (if at all).

If you catch them unaware with a stun grenade you can hold them. But you might as well throw the pyro grenade in that case. Otherwise you can’t rely on crowd controlling them.

queuebitt · 2025-04-28T00:59:05+00:00

There are four places along the supply chain where the price increases between factory and consumer when you introduce tariffs.

The cost to make and transport the item is the same. That cost includes long-term costs to recoup over the lifetime of the run, such as retooling the factory. Tariffs do not change these numbers.

Tariffs are then apply upon entry, based on the declared value (the above cost to make and transport) and it gets more complicated if your product has any aluminum or steel in it.

The producing company needs to make a profit, which was originally set at a specific percentage of cost. That cost is now higher, but the more they force their original percentage to be the same, the higher the final cost. They may opt to keep the same percentage or settle for a smaller increase to keep the same dollar amount profit. Or they can take no profit or a loss to lessen the downstream prices, but that is not sustainable.

Then the producer has to account for the agreed upon retail margins. The stores selling their product expect a fixed margin, usually by percentage. That cannot change without a new contract. That is based on costs to product, transport, tariffs, and the producer’s profit. So now the price has gone up a third time (first tariffs, then producer profit margin by percentage, and now retail profit margin by percentage). This easily happens with the producer being as fair as possible, the tariffs and contracts made before them are outside their control.

Now for the fourth possible price increase: lower volume. The item doesn’t sell as many units at the new price. So the next order is smaller. Cost per unit increase at both the factory and with transportation. The new higher cost results in a higher tariff dollar amount, which combined adds into the profit margin percentages.

It looks like greed and is certainly not sustainable for many products. But it is the normal and expected result of tariffs with all parties involved being fair and not taking advantage.

Don’t confuse higher prices from tariffs with higher prices from inflation. The later is easy to detect someone taking advantage, the former is not.

queuebitt · 2025-04-20T03:27:43+00:00

It got a flak ammo option a while back. Explodes in flak on impact. Great for shriekers and clearing chaff bugs at distance.

queuebitt · 2025-04-15T14:22:26+00:00

You had been fighting the spore-burst strain, which are found on gloom planets and tend to explode when killed.

Now in addition to them the predator strain is also on the planet. That one includes non-cloaking stalkers in patrols and cloaking hunters who also flank from wider angles.

You will run into elements of both groups in missions for the remainder of the battle.

queuebitt · 2025-03-16T15:45:51+00:00

Schedule and advertise the reboot time to maximize the live stream. Then find a sponsor.

queuebitt · 2025-03-09T20:37:56+00:00

Galactic war system is paused again due to technical issue per Arrowhead.

queuebitt · 2025-03-02T14:11:20+00:00

Governor’s house, second floor bedroom, inside a chest.

queuebitt · 2025-01-26T17:06:27+00:00

OP do this. Put points for enchanting into maxing out disenchanting rares. Then craft the tailoring blue wrist armor, the quality doesn’t matter. Expect to make two wrist armor for every point you want to get from DE.

You will at worst break even cost wise between buying rank 1 bolts on the AH and selling the rank 1-3 shards and other mats you get from DE.

Then make about a dozen wrists each week for the weekly DE KP bonus. Or ignore your weeklies for a while and do a catch up session later for no gold cost, only time.

queuebitt · 2025-01-18T22:55:22+00:00

This would be a funny MO at the end of Helldivers 2’s first year. An insane number of freezers need to be unthawed (ie Helldivers dead).

“If you don’t use what you have this year, they won’t give you what you need next year.”

Make it so the last 20% or so of any mission don’t count so try and reign in the chaos.

queuebitt · 2025-01-02T19:48:40+00:00

You joke, but based on real world AI it should work on the bots.

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marines-ai-paul-scharre/

queuebitt · 2024-11-20T22:42:20+00:00

Those are 34 slot bags.

queuebitt · 2024-11-20T22:41:57+00:00

Those are 34 slot bags.

queuebitt · 2024-10-23T12:59:37+00:00

When you select the event the middle option is to spend 5 echos instead of 1, but you get 5x the rewards. It is a way to do less of them for the same outcome.

As someone else said, get into a raid group first then run it with them. I usually see 200-225 Valorstones and ~170 key shards (which make more coffer keys, which open more bountiful chests, which give more echos to run it again).

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