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by VLM 4y ago
"people yell at their TVs" That era ended a long time ago; nobody on a percentage basis watches legacy media any more, almost everyone clicked off. The microscopic fraction of the population who still watch, actually LIKE the fiv
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by VLM 4y ago
/56 aren't as generous as you'd think as companies "often" use VLANs and people selling network gear have always pushed for microsegmentation (rather than having a VLAN for the entire 3rd floor which would technical
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by VLM 4y ago
Google up the Joel Spolsky 12 questions about software development from about a quarter century ago and the answer to most of the questions was mostly no. No version control means merges were ... problematic at best, so you developed softwa
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by VLM 4y ago
I think we're aggressively agreeing with each other. Using made up numbers, its fine if each F-14 requires twice the maint of a F-18 if a mission pack for a F-14 takes two birds but doing the same mission with F-18 would require at lea
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by VLM 4y ago
I mean with reference to a sophistry technique to shut down discussion. Were the individual example to be computer scientists instead of surgeons, then the definition of a successful computer scientist can be redefined to a suitable outcom
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by VLM 4y ago
I find this discussion fascinating as my only protobuf experience is with IoT devices on bandwidth-limited connections where every byte matters, so hearing JS web frontend people talk about the same protocol to transfer "large chunks o
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by VLM 4y ago
The problem with redefining, such as redefining success, is it eliminates any possibility of a conversation.
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by VLM 4y ago
Also aircraft are not cars. The front line does day to day wartime service, but the "tasks people take cars to auto mechanics to do" like completely tearing down and re-assembling is done by a totally separate depot level service
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by VLM 4y ago
In a serious conflict, within hours either the carrier will be sunk and so maint will be a moot point, or the opfor will no longer have the capability to sink the carrier (at least by air) and again maint will be a moot point. Kind of like
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by VLM 4y ago
The middle class suburban neighborhood beautification model works. None of us work as full time landscapers, we all mow our lawns so all our houses look better as a group. People too antisocial to live in our neighborhood... don't. T
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by VLM 4y ago
Very few locations produce chips, but some things like real estate or food production are hyper-local. So in a geopolitical sense of central economic control, the inflation in this anecdote was exported to China and away from local real es
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by VLM 4y ago
Hillary's email server?
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by VLM 4y ago
If "everyone knows" via the media that there's going to be a toilet paper run on chips and your business depends on shipping product, you'd be a fool not to stock up while there was still stock, instead of going out of b
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by VLM 4y ago
The micropython support is interesting; most activity is on circuitpython but micropython supports older chips (the ESP8266 and the very first OG original ESP32 are two examples of hardware I have on my desk). They both work, its just the o
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by VLM 4y ago
I'm not sure we even have to think about it. Whenever the sophistry is mostly name dropping "deep state" authorities whom all agree its a great idea, its certain to screw over everyone not at the top of the pyramid. Its lik
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by VLM 4y ago
Its a very 1980s Soviet Union vibe. Sure, we have to say we believe all this stuff that nobody believes anymore, yeah.
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by VLM 4y ago
Its not socially acceptable to say in public that you don't know how to text, so SMS 2FA has zero help desk support costs. It is socially acceptable to say you as a revenue generating customer don't know every little detail of TOT
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by VLM 4y ago
I don't know if you'd call it a "good" reason because its a rare skill to have, but for pilots the NDB beacons and VOR beacons usually transmit their ID in morse code, so you're a button press away from being certai
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by VLM 4y ago
Some infinitely more likely survival situations involve tooting on a horn or blinking a flashlight. Survival situations are one of those power law distributions where the odds of one person being in a survival situation at some point in the
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by VLM 4y ago
From what I've read elsewhere the previous testing stage was using COTS hololens hardware which is not weatherproof or GI proof, and this was the first test of the production hardware, or at least the first version of the future produc
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by VLM 4y ago
They're $29K per headset delivered. The other $150K per headset is the usual program costs. It's an ultra-high-risk project because there are huge gains to putting EVERYTHING electronic for a soldier in one headset. The GPS, the
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by VLM 4y ago
I always felt nervous about resizing a filesystem that has a swap file on it. Never had a kernel panic but would swapoff the file just in case. If I created a swap partition in LVM I can force it and move it around to the best location WRT
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by VLM 4y ago
Reddit's admins are even worse people.
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by VLM 4y ago
If you don't control people on a high carb diet, there is a massive swing in blood sugar and insulin levels every two hours or so as they binge eat. Enormous amounts of willpower can push thru that, or a low carb diet destroys the appe
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by VLM 4y ago
Does anyone have any financials on this? I get that if your heart is set on having a heat pump you need a heat pump, and that's the end of all financial consideration. But how does, say, $10K of heat pump compare to $10K of insulation
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by VLM 4y ago
meat producer subsidies already don't exist.
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by VLM 4y ago
That is the exact target the commute time "morning radio show" used to have, but the radio became too lame to listen to, so now there's podcasts capturing the same market. Back when I had a commute, I found it a million times
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by VLM 4y ago
LOL no need for elaborate MITM efforts if both endpoints are completely closed source and totally powned and corrupted. Of course that reads backwards just as well, no need to implement complicated "end to end encryption" if both
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by VLM 4y ago
If you make a location unlivable, people won't live there in the future. Conversely if there's a place that people visit for vacations, people will live there in the future.
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by VLM 4y ago
The way they've done it for decades where I live, is party A and party B serve the same master on all substantial issues, so pick a "hot button" social issue that neither side will ever do anything about and have A and B take

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