"If they already use it, why should I buy it?"

It sounds like a trivial question to answer, but it just exposes the level of detachment that exists between who makes the purchase decisions and its users in SME context.

Because you want to control who uses it (offboard separated employees, onboard new employees automatically), integrate into your auth systems to make it easier for employees to access, get an SLA if something goes wrong, connect to your data auditing systems, etc, etc. Companies have a lot of needs outside of just the core functionality of a product.

You might want to understand the politics and business dynamics before you go too far down that route. You could just end up getting your product blocked and/or replaced with a competitor instead.

Exactly, you're selling inconvenience. Management usually has to work hard all day long to annoy the employees under them.

"Don't you want them to use it more securely, and with enterprise AI features?"

Wait - it’s not secure now? We’ll be banning it immediately!

"No, it's more secure! We have encryption, which means intermediaries can't snoop, but don't you want to be able to monitor what data goes out?"

etc. There's a laundry list of features enterprises care about, better spelled out in the sibling post.

"Well we have Bob from purchasing on the phone and he says we have to put this out for a bid first. And Alice from compliance wants to know, do you have [insert esoteric certification]?"

You really have to know who you are talking to and their motivations before you know what the right sales angle is.

I knew at one point some engineers who added RFC2549 to see if the salespeople were just being yesmen. A few years later I had similar problems with HSM salesman lying about Java support in their products so I can sympathize. Buying a product you cannot use without extreme effort is the pits.

One of them put in a bid to Cisco and got a reply back saying something like they were working on it but having some issues with the birds.

Somehow I knew what RFC2549 was without knowing what it was.

I used to be able to recite it from memory, but it’s starting to get mixed in my head with others, like 1918 which is the NAT RFC, and thus serious.

Can you explain the second part of your automation?

Basically generates links of Google queries to find each job in the company's own website. That helps me find the most recent, unpublished related and non-walled.

Job boards are filled with old posts they repost for the looks, and that makes about 20% or less of the actual job market. After contacting companies I've even got way more recent offers from their HR, that they might not publish, meaning what's published online could be 50% of the actual job market, with lots of timed offers.

So I ask the script to throw a few random and play the job lottery :D

I will pay for news when people competent on the different matters will be writing them.

I warmly recommend to go see the TV documentary about this guy they made some time ago, when I saw the videogame I immediately recognised him.

Servant leaders die very fast when your own reports undermine your efforts at being one.

A bad boss doesn't undermine it, bad reports yes. It would be an otherwise ideal way of working.

Fascinating, but I have photo-sensitivity and continuous blinking would give me an headache.

But I used to reproduce a similar behaviour with music (repetitive)

I didn't like the blinking at first, so I made it pulse instead (smoother) but was never to the point of headaches. that said, sound should work if you can keep a headset ; )

I am not asking why some people might not be able to take a cold shower (which is different than just being "unhealthy"), I am asking why the studies are "fundamentally flawed" because of that. Like obviously the studies can't include those people, but does that somehow negate the results for the people that do participate? It seems like any given study would have some % of people who cannot participate.

In the documentary about Wim Hof (by Vice think), he was friends with a guy with terminal cancer who said doing the cold plunges made the cancer bearable and changed his life.

Often people who have made their identity about a thing make claims about the thing like this

I mean he wasn’t claiming it cured him. He was just some philosophy professor who was suffering existential terror as one does at the end of life. And he said that doing cold plunges helped him, an avowed atheist, face death’s door with courage. I feel like that’s something that should at least give us pause, similar to how psilocybin seems to have a similar effect.

What is that "My identity is the thing I'm obsessed with", called?

Honest question folks. Like Sublimation or reverse sublimation?

Disagreed, it sounds like you haven't tried.

Starfield companions would've frown upon this solution.

More seriously though: 10 years is a long time, this is super interesting but one would wonder if in such time other limiting dengue factors might've arose.

I'm pretty sure this would be their preferred solution. They all get angry at you (and chastise you for not "trusting the science" because in the 23rd century, ecology is not considered science anymore?) for wanting to reintroduce the predator instead of spreading a microbe.

Very cringy. I am sure there are a lot good things Apple is doing on the matter, but that segment was super cringe-worthy in its delivery. And needlessly long.

edit: I don't mind the loud virtue signaling, I just think its delivery was incredibly bad. Opinion.

Or homebridge.

Anyway as soon as you configure the phillips hue lights through homekit you never have to use their app ever.

HomeKit still controls some Best Buy switches that had their cloud shut down years ago, which is nice and a reason local control is the way to go.