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by Fwirt 9mo ago
The problem is with items that have a national market but not a local one. For example - there may be very few local buyers who will pay a decent price for a vintage slide rule, but many on eBay. My general strategy is to list on FBM first
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by Fwirt 9mo ago
My high school computer science teacher (best one I ever had) once told us this anecdote when we were learning sorting algorithms: He was brought in by the state to do some coaching for existing software devs back in the 90s. When he was go
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by Fwirt 9mo ago
Having been a longtime Windows user, an on/off Linux desktop user, and now primarily a Mac user, I really think it's just what you're used to. Each desktop environment has its own strengths and weaknesses, and trying to bend
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by Fwirt 9mo ago
I had a Thinkpad X200T with a Core 2 Duo serving as my home router for a while, eventually I upgraded to a Dell Optiplex that my work was throwing away. Laptop as a router is great because they blow SBCs out of the water while preserving a
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by Fwirt 9mo ago
My honest question is: If you pull shenanigans like this, isn't it actually making Amazon burn through said imaginary money, thus hastening its demise? The cost of delivering a potato has to be on the order of at least a couple dollars
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by Fwirt 9mo ago
Seconded, the Seattle Connections museum is a hidden gem. It really is a living history museum run by volunteers who keep everything working. And so much of it is hands-on, you can make a call from a phone on one end of the building and hea
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by Fwirt 9mo ago
Be willing to accept less pay. Work in the public sector. Government and education jobs tend to be less demanding and pay commensurately. As mentioned by others, nobody gets paid to “chill”, but with fewer responsibilities there can be more
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by Fwirt 10mo ago
Thanks to Lua’s great metaprogramming facilities, and the fact that _G is just a table, another workaround is to add a metamethod to _G that throws an error if you try to declare a global. That way you can still declare globals using rawset
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by Fwirt 10mo ago
The Lua ecosystem is more like the Lisp ecosystem than Python. The language is small enough that there’s a lot of stuff out there that’s just… finished. Hasn’t been updated in 10 years but still works. The LunarModules org tries to gather i
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by Fwirt 10mo ago
It’s still up on his website as well: https://qntm.org/perso
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by Fwirt 10mo ago
No, but watching a novelist at work is boring, and yet people like books that are written by humans because they speak to the condition of the human who wrote it. Let us not forget the old saw from SICP, “Programs must be written for peop
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by Fwirt 10mo ago
I keep mulling over decisions like this, and I think the fundamental clash between the hacker ethos of repairability and the corporate ethos of products with well-defined failure modes comes down to a clash of innate human values with capit
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by Fwirt 11mo ago
Home Assistant is the poster child for an incredible open-source project. There are community plugins for a mind-boggling number of devices, and crazy functionality that seems like magic. (Flash a $5 ESP32 with some pre-built image and you
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by Fwirt 11mo ago
That’s horrible that you legally cannot replace your own water heater. What region mandates that? Where I live I can replace my own water heater, but it’s more cost-effective not to because the most reliable brands will only sell to license
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by Fwirt 11mo ago
On the other hand, I have a friend who worked in retail as a teenager tell me that employees sometimes appreciate carts getting left out, as it means they get to go for a nice leisurely walk outside, away from the toxic work atmosphere, to
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by Fwirt 11mo ago
This is often misunderstood and varies by jurisdiction. Often called "squatter's rights", it is often thought to mean "if I use this land for a long time without anybody noticing it becomes mine", but e.g. in my jur
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by Fwirt 11mo ago
See my other reply, when people count energy costs they fail to take into account the existing sunk cost of producing said resources, and the energy from having to build out new infrastructure to create these “more efficient” datacenters. I
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by Fwirt 11mo ago
Unless you count in the effects of distributed solar and the environmental effects of building said datacenters in the first place. Many homes with solar produce more than they consume, and many homes pay for heat. Instead of new constructi
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by Fwirt 11mo ago
The amount of e-waste in general is truly nauseating. My employer just cleaned 30 years of “junk” out of our in house IT “tech shop” and the number of working but obsolete computers that went out (many simply because they couldn’t support
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by Fwirt 11mo ago
I have been spending hours the past couple weeks "ensmartening" my home with IoT switches and power outlets. Home Assistant is gorgeous and is an absolute feat of engineering and a testament to the power of open source, but messin
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by Fwirt 11mo ago
It’s not as “integrated” into the car, but if you just want CarPlay, there are cheap single-purpose “tablets” that mount to your dashboard and either pair to your car’s Bluetooth or plug into the Aux port and just do CarPlay/Android Au
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by Fwirt 1y ago
My point was more along the lines of the fact that below a certain price point, you can't be sure whether you're paying $3500 for actual build quality and features or marketing. A $500 fridge could last forever, or it could last e
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by Fwirt 1y ago
Drop x Sennheiser HD 58X Jubilee through a Qudelix 5K. Both are great pieces of kit, the Qudelix especially. The onboard parametric EQ combined with AutoEQ is fantastic. However, after running a hearing test and enabling Hearing Assist, the
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by Fwirt 1y ago
When I tried to pair mine out of the box it initiated an "Update to iOS 26!" workflow and wouldn't let me pair until I did. Also, after I updated my iPhone and paired them to my iPad Pro, still on iPadOS 18, they just showed
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by Fwirt 1y ago
Yes, but good luck finding a way to integrate CEC with Home Assistant, or anything else for that matter. Even modern GPUs don't support it. You usually have to buy a USB dongle that MITMs the connection for a disgusting amount of money
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by Fwirt 1y ago
I never thought I would connect my Hisense to the internet, but it turns out that it runs an MQTT broker and responds to WoL packets, so control via Home Assistant was really easy to setup and is much better than the IR blaster I was using
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by Fwirt 1y ago
Samsung appliances have among the worst reputations for ease of repair and lifespan. Sadly most other brands are rebrands of Chinese conglomerates or not much better on the quality chain. But honestly it's also a lottery. We bought a f
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by Fwirt 1y ago
Probably ads for things that you would think of buying when you're standing near the fridge in the kitchen. So not Clash of Clans but La Croix.
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by Fwirt 1y ago
Something interesting occurs to me. Many of the anecdotes about the squealing on flights says the noise goes away when yawning. Yawning lifts the soft palate and equalizes ambient pressure behind the eardrum in the sinuses. Air pressure is
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by Fwirt 1y ago
I just had a thought, it's possible to completely disable ANC in settings, turning them into "dumb" bluetooth headphones. (Enable "Off Listening Mode" in Airpods Settings and the option will become available in Cont

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