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xzzy posted:There's an idea being floated around by the Colorado governor where property taxes get calculated based on land value not the building. One of the common arguments against it is that they'll end up tearing out parking garages from downtown areas and putting in dense buildings. jaegerx posted:That was the only part I loved about nyc. No truck. Just public transportation The Fool posted:ban cars from cities Hell yeah Hell yeah Hell yeah Hell yeah
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xzzy posted:There's an idea being floated around by the Colorado governor where property taxes get calculated based on land value not the building. One of the common arguments against it is that they'll end up tearing out parking garages from downtown areas and putting in dense buildings. Good idea, if there's decent mass transit...?
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Hughmoris posted:I think this is it. I can only imagine the obscene number of unqualified applicants that a remote-only 'Easy Apply' position attracts. This is awesome and I don't know why you wouldn't want to integrate this with your HR suite.
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Wibla posted:Good idea, if there's decent mass transit...? Given a few years of parking lot taxes and there will be
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tokin opposition posted:Given a few years of parking lot taxes and there will be https://www.npr.org/2023/05/09/1175035781/how-parking-explains-everything Just listened to this on the weekend. Long story short, yes. Make people pay for parking.
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Living in EU where parking has been taxed for decades I can tell you it doesn’t change poo poo. It only makes it less acessible for poor people.
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LochNessMonster posted:Living in EU where parking has been taxed for decades I can tell you it doesn’t change poo poo. It only makes it less acessible for poor people. This. Charge for the parking (private company, of course), but don't invest in the public transport either because that's communism. Can't afford to get to work? Tough. No you can't have a remote job. They're for people who can afford electric cars but don't actually do any work
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Dog_Meat posted:This. Don’t forget those electric cars are subsidized and give significant tax benefits to those who need them the least. Most people can’t afford an electric car after all.
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Jan 30, 2024 12:26
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NPR Journalizard posted:https://www.npr.org/2023/05/09/1175035781/how-parking-explains-everything It costs $14 a day to park near my new job. I'm pretty sure that doesn't change anything other than screw over poor people.
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Umbreon posted:It costs $14 a day to park near my new job. I'm pretty sure that doesn't change anything other than screw over poor people. About $30 a day at a place I worked almost a decade ago. The company had a big rear end private parking lot mostly empty and didn’t allow contractors to park there. My (then) boss just expensed my parking costs to the client. The nearest parking space was still a 10 minute walk on top of an already lovely commute. Sucked big time if it rained.
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LochNessMonster posted:Living in EU where parking has been taxed for decades I can tell you it doesn’t change poo poo. It only makes it less acessible for poor people. This, and in my experience at least, the price of public transport is rising relative to wages, but routes are fewer and times less frequent. Edit: and it's not because of low taxes, hahaha, nope.. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 13:59 on Jan 30, 2024 |
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I’d happily not have two cars, but I live in one of the least walkable cities in the US, which naturally has a more or less non-existent public transportation system outside of a half-assed bus system. And it’s nearly all single family homes, most of which are so close together that it doesn’t even make sense to have them as single family units (because neighbors can hear through walls as if it were an apartment anyways). Woo
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So we are trying to shop around for different cellular services for roughly 40 iPads and 40 cellular backups. I got my first quote and it’s a little higher than I expected at $35 per iPad with 10g data and $60 unlimited for the cellular backup. Am I wrong and that’s decent? Still waiting to hear back from other providers. I get we are nothing when it comes to business contracts but I swear getting somebody in sales to talk to you is one of the most challenging parts of my job. Did all the small business reps get laid off?
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Small business only makes line go up smol
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You know what boat means? Bust Out Another Thousand
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Sorry, I already own a house. Thousand doesn't even make me flinch.
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Sorry, I haven't updated that phrase to factor in inflation.
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Well guess we can't change anything since it could conceivably inconvenience someone How's y'all's IBM 360s doing?
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Broadcom is going to absolutely murder vmware by exploding prices, particularly on secondary offerings. I knew on-prem VDI was going the way of the dodo anyways, but having Citrix get acquired (and I'm sure soon to be stripped for parts) and with Broadcom openly saying they're gonna do the same with Horizon the future isn't so bright for on-prem VDI stuff. We have a specific use case that requires these dumb things to live on premises for the applications (factory floor stuff with very low latency requirements and ability to run in full isolation from the internet) with GPU acceleration, but that's becoming increasingly incredibly expensive. I think we're just going to have to go back to thick machines and figure something out with Autopilot to image the stupid things or something else to manage the fleet of them. Most of these horrible applications are anathema to containerization so there would be huge changes to just make the plunge and put the core apps into k8s and k3s. Just very cool all around. I know OpenShift can support fake "conventional" vms inside of k8s. Mulling that over since we are leveraging that ability to run containerized workloads inside of VMWare as well so if we have to scrap it, I will either have to find something else that can do both or end up having to have two sets of things. A bare metal k8s setup for the modern apps, and conventional vm hypervisor for the rest, which will also suck.
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Our on prem vmware group is in a panic about it and have been grilling us on our vm deployment (which is now proxmox) to get a feel for stability and migration feasibility. The GPU requirement is tougher, for our users that need that stuff we point them at our OKD install (where maintaining gpu access still sucks but at least it works). I'd think long and hard about giving RedHat money, their overlords are IBM now and they're gonna increasingly turn the screws.
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Is a Cisco catalyst 2960 a good switch to learn basic networking on? I found one in the biomed backshop and I figure with all my free time I can set up a small network or something
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Hed posted:Didn't see a good thread for this since it looks like this one is focused on careers but I didn't see anything IT A/V or other on here so figured this might have a good reach? Resurrecting this... I have a board room that's an actual circle. People sit around a circular table. Right now, we have an owl perched (heh) in the middle, and my CEO wants something better. Issues with Owl are primarily either "too sensitive" or "not sensitive enough" depending, and the video quality not being great. The model we have is I think about 4 years old. Requirement: Remote attendee able to see EVERYONE even if they're not speaking (Owl "strip" at the top of the feed satisfies this requirement) Is there anything else out there that can meet this requirement and is also better?
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Dans Macabre posted:Resurrecting this... You forgot to say what kind of conferencing suite do you use. Microsoft has specialized cameras for teams to be deployed in round rooms for instance. https://www.yealink.com/en/product-detail/smartvision60 SlowBloke fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Jan 30, 2024 |
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My old job had this polycom thing that would sit in the middle of the table and the camera had a bunch of mirrors to give a 360 view it worked surprisingly well
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Hotel Kpro posted:Is a Cisco catalyst 2960 a good switch to learn basic networking on? I found one in the biomed backshop and I figure with all my free time I can set up a small network or something Basic networking as in VLANs, port security, etc? Old as hell, but that'll do just fine. Hunt around for a second one and you can play with port channels, spanning tree, all that fun stuff.
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xzzy posted:Our on prem vmware group is in a panic about it and have been grilling us on our vm deployment (which is now proxmox) to get a feel for stability and migration feasibility. Thank you that's actually something to look into. I haven't played with publishing GPUs into OKD and it doesn't seem any less terrible than the stuff we have to do to make it work in VMWare Horizon already.
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Cenodoxus posted:Basic networking as in VLANs, port security, etc? Old as hell, but that'll do just fine. Hunt around for a second one and you can play with port channels, spanning tree, all that fun stuff. It’s sitting on a 3Com 1100, although I could track down the local IT guy and see what he’s got laying around. Also need to see if one of these old rear end HP Compaq’s still work to set up a personal LAN, don’t think they’d be happy if I tried running off my networked laptop
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Save yourself the effort and just pick up Boson NetSim or GNS or something. Way easier and effecient in the long run.
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Dans Macabre posted:Resurrecting this... I presume the displays are under the desk opposite if people are arranged in a circle? The Yealink camera mentioned earlier is the only Teams-certified device that I am aware of but it seems designed for smaller rooms than what you describe.
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Welp the dual 27 inch setup was nice while it lasted but the monitors we were purchasing are discontinued and the replacement model is almost twice as much. ($230 to $400) Back to 24s we go.
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SlowBloke posted:You forgot to say what kind of conferencing suite do you use. Microsoft has specialized cameras for teams to be deployed in round rooms for instance. It must work with teams and zoom. I will look at this!!
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Cyks posted:Welp the dual 27 inch setup was nice while it lasted but the monitors we were purchasing are discontinued and the replacement model is almost twice as much. ($230 to $400) Doesn't have DisplayPort MST but it's cheap https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/accessories-and-software/monitors/office/62d0gar1us I'm not sure why you don't seem to have this available but it should hit your budget and is much better https://www.lenovo.com/gb/en/p/accessories-and-software/monitors/office/63a3gzr1uk Thanks Ants fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Jan 30, 2024 |
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Cyks posted:Welp the dual 27 inch setup was nice while it lasted but the monitors we were purchasing are discontinued and the replacement model is almost twice as much. ($230 to $400) Go ultra wide.
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i really hate trying to diagnose network issues, remotely, when my support tool keeps disconnecting, Made a poor user plug directly into the router except she unplugged the modem because she didn't have a second ethernet cable and yes, I did check DNS first.
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Bad ASIC on a Cisco holy gently caress was that a nightmare to track down.
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I was stung by that on a FortiGate a couple months back, there's a chip that desolders itself and lifts off the board and the symptom is a ton of packet loss in one direction on an interface. I would have preferred the thing to just die.
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how do you gently caress up a chip in such a way it gets hot enough to desolder itself????? goddamn
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tokin opposition posted:how do you gently caress up a chip in such a way it gets hot enough to desolder itself????? goddamn 
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tokin opposition posted:how do you gently caress up a chip in such a way it gets hot enough to desolder itself????? goddamn I had a machine that was doing something weird. c.1998 using Filemaker extensively seemed t make sense; it was a strange time. Our HR manager would open up the employee database and the last 4 digits of the social security number was only 3 digits. If she signed in on a different machine it was fine. If someone else signed in on her machine they also got 3 digits. Nothing else was wrong with the machine. After exhausting anything software or OS related I opened the machine up to check that the RAM was seated right. And there it was, a little blob of thermal paste had run out from under the heatsink and got onto one of the pins. I looked up the CPU diagram (Motorola 68LC040) and sure enough it was the FPU pinout. One of the reason using Filemaker made sense was that Claris had some extremely competent programmers. It was fast as hell crunching reports off of huge (for a machine with a 68LC040) databases. It wasn't doing conventional string manipulation, just flopping bytes and words around, they were doing some spooky floating point magic under the hood. I gave her a new machine and everyone was happy, except the CFO because the bad machine was out of warranty,
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