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  • I was gonna charge the guy 500 dollars to rename thirty thousand images to match the directory names. Since the guy had switched cameras several times it would have involved more than one simple script but I wasn’t being paid for the script. I was being paid to do the job. Except my bash prompt scared the guy. The truth of it is he used me to leverage the company that specialized in data recovery into lowering their price down to a still absurd but much smaller amount.
    Its not the first time I’ve seen it but when they do something like that to me they burn a bridge.

    A related scam is charging absurd amount to convert and catalog microfiche to images or PDF’s. Granted a machine to do this quickly and efficiently is in the 10 to 20 grand range. The process is boring and repetitious and in no way worth the amount some companies want to charge.









  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldtoReddit@lemmy.worldHey Reddit, how's it going? Reddit:
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    23 days ago

    The thing about the puritans were that they had harsh rules that existed to try to keep their flock from sinning. They failed as such things always fail.
    A good example of a common practice from the time was that part of the pay of a young man working on another mans farm was the bed of their eldest daughter at night. It made identifying the father of the child easier.

    This one practice alone made the puritans a lot more rational than this current cancer on society.