JTbane

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by JTbane 3y ago
It's more like: 1. Look up which of the five streaming services have the film. 2. Give up as I'm not subscribing for one movie.
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by JTbane 3y ago
Also the build quality of Lenovo laptops have gone down so much it's appalling.
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by JTbane 3y ago
Amtrak would be great if they could minimize delays and keep an average speed at or above 55MPH throughout the ride.
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by JTbane 3y ago
Yep and there are some specific product that rely heavily on prison labor- license plates come to mind.
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by JTbane 3y ago
100% agree. Also, to a young adult, student loans are a nigh-irresistible way to get away from your parents and gain independence, while worrying about the costs later.
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by JTbane 3y ago
I'd take it a step further, virtual aids are largely useless. Taking notes via pen and paper aids in retention.
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by JTbane 3y ago
I absolutely despise 1-on-1s. It's either me complaining about corporate policies that I have no power to change (looking at you, WFH) or some feature is a complete dumpster fire and I get lectured about it.
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by JTbane 3y ago
Maroon V?
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by JTbane 3y ago
>Climate related deaths have declined by 98% over the last century. Wow, HVAC is an amazing technology.
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by JTbane 3y ago
My biggest problem with Elite: Dangerous is the Engineering mechanic, which basically gives you strictly better ship components in exchange for very long and boring MMO-style grinds. If you want to be seriously competitive in PvP, it's
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by JTbane 3y ago
Hydrogen is dead on arrival because steam methane reforming will always be cheaper than electrolysis, it's basically a fossil fuel.
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by JTbane 3y ago
IMHO coal should be banned as an energy source and efforts made to convert existing plants to nuclear.
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by JTbane 3y ago
Unfortunately the agri lobby is huge and powerful, so I don't expect to see water prices increase for them anytime soon.
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by JTbane 3y ago
I'd much rather be struck by an e-bike than a car or truck.
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by JTbane 3y ago
Upvoted because many people don't know this: when driving EVs and hybrids, you're supposed to lightly "ride" the brakes when decelerating to get the optimal regeneration.
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by JTbane 3y ago
This is a perfect example of the swiss-cheese model of accident causation. If any of the following were different there would not have been an issue: the fuel gauge was working, the pilot or co-pilot caught the fueling error, or the aircraf
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by JTbane 3y ago
Unused cycles are wasted cycles. /s
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by JTbane 3y ago
Charter school vouchers are a corrupt way to siphon off public funds.
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by JTbane 3y ago
> Just because some people like to ask you to install their software that way doesn't make it "Linux security best practices" and it doesn't mean you need to follow those directions. It's the de-facto option for
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by JTbane 3y ago
I wouldn't agree to these kinds of devices simply because they are cheap junk that can damage your car. https://www.kiro7.com/news/insurance-tracking-device-blamed-...
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by JTbane 3y ago
Many governments are really trying, in the "freest" part of the world.
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by JTbane 3y ago
b-but muh five nines of reliability...
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by JTbane 3y ago
We use BlackDuck for SBOM at my workplace and let me tell you, the false positives are driving me up a wall. Also, the binary tool seems very primitve (basically just takes a SHA1 hash of all your files and compares them to a database).
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by JTbane 3y ago
Could "Sam" even pull that stuff anymore with PR review processes? I would just comment on every variable name in the PR to "remove sams" or "make clearer".
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by JTbane 3y ago
>I'd rather not give them any more visibility than I have to into my personal finances. This sort of attitude isn't productive, the IRS is not out to get you and they already know how much you make (unless your income is all ca
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by JTbane 3y ago
- Confusing naming conventions It's a Microsoft tradition: see .NET Core, .NET Standard, .NET Desktop, ASP.NET, etc
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by JTbane 3y ago
>How do you protect the store that has all the cryptographic keys in the entire United Kingdom? Also I don't trust any government not to mishandle crypto keys, so backdoored encryption = broken encryption
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by JTbane 4y ago
TBH I'm terrified of the double-whammy effect of researchers becoming less and less competent as AI takes the reins (a la Wall-E) and good science getting drowned out by crap.
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by JTbane 4y ago
Agreed, those are the ecosystems that "just work".
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by JTbane 4y ago
Things I wish cops would actually enforce: -Loud modified exhaust -Ultrabright misaligned headlights -Speeding in neighborhood streets -Tinted license plate covers -Staying in the right lane except to pass all of which combined make driving

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