VLM

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by VLM 5y ago
Does anyone ever build anything in the big east/west coast cities anymore? Or even the east/west coast states anymore?
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by VLM 5y ago
Calls it "smart home" describes exclusively "cloud home" along with cloud home problems. Meanwhile I've got homeassistant in a docker container and zwave and everything just works.
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by VLM 5y ago
There's a classic Charles Stross short story where, to spoil the story, some old men apparently "randomly" playing a board game to pass the time, are performing combinatorial magick to fight a demonically possessed ... well d
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by VLM 5y ago
I think we'll evolve 'better' sociopaths. Dozens of emergency text messages at 2am, conference calls with 30 people on them only 5 involved in the problem, weird demands for screen sharing, strangely scheduled video conferen
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by VLM 5y ago
At my last W-2 job they made me come into the office four days a week even though I had a remote work job. I supported specialized internal application software for three departments spaced roughly 500, 1000, and 2000 miles away from me.
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by VLM 5y ago
My house is vastly nicer than any workplace I've ever visited. Admittedly I was never a servant at a castle or museum or something cool like that. There is some confusion between covid lockdown vs WFH. I live in a recreational state
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by VLM 5y ago
Idea: Surf what's busy. Legacy brick and mortar retailers from October to January. Mail order would probably find your specific skills very interesting. Lawyers and tax guys need a paperwork-focused professional to help out from Feb t
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by VLM 5y ago
Speaking of institutional work, there's also hospitals which are by definition usually located near people, and schools. The local private liberal arts college down the road from me pays $8.75/hr for all work-study jobs, so about
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by VLM 5y ago
You can specify 144 dB of dynamic range but in practice: 1) Loudness war means pro sound engineers will mix everything to be full scale all the time so music has 0 dB of dynamic range ideally 2) Almost no one owns equipment capable of rende
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by VLM 5y ago
Do you mean vernacular term JST as in any little plastic PCB connector including all kinds of gray market fake clones or genuine JST components from JST the company? Its a single supplier. JST is single company in Japan. I'm sure the
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by VLM 5y ago
IoT are OK with high risk and move very fast with startup mentality. You have qty zero of CPU model XYZ in stock and qty essentially-infinite of CPU model ABC in stock? Our new product, which will have zero support after shipping, will sh
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by VLM 5y ago
I would also toss out the concept that what moderns call "speed" is actually latency. Latency of even a 300 baud modem is essentially instant, in some cases faster than modern heavily buffered cable modem services. Hit enter and
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by VLM 5y ago
My dad got a 300 baud modem in '84. I believe that was hand-me down for me by '86 when he got a 1200 autodialing modem? I wasted a lot of time on Compuserv on his computer. Either way I started mid 80s. I got serious and inves
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by VLM 5y ago
> one of the larger us BBS systems was execpc Around 1990 they started a parallel "less serious" service called execpc chat, or something like that (had a few names) and I played online trivia on exec chat for MANY hours. For
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by VLM 5y ago
What we have instead is identity politics, which is pretty toxic when mixed with democracy. Eventually we'll have to get rid of one or the other, and its not looking good for democracy at this point.
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by VLM 5y ago
Yeah, exactly, its always possible to fail someone if ANYTHING is outsourced. Keep on digging digging digging. For example Amazon is PCIDSS level 1 and more than willing to provide docs to prove it, so if you need pcidss 1 or less, that &
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by VLM 5y ago
The problem with businessmen trying to make a metaverse is its got uncreative people trying to make tools for creative people, and trying to engineer unscalable and impractical cargo cult solutions. The uncreative part is best seen in how b
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by VLM 5y ago
Second Life was big into online gambling. There was a side dish of turn of the century real estate hucksterism. Buy because everyone else is buying. Buy high sell low as retail always does LOL. And pr0n as you mention. Also 3d modelers an
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by VLM 5y ago
The entire topic is a virtue signalers paradise. Insert unscientific outrage in the vending machine, get free karma. No need to know anything about the specific topic or the environment or chemistry or aviation or statistics to get that s
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by VLM 5y ago
> after removing lead from virtually every other source Not even remotely the case. Removed from new paint sales, with measurable positive results in the population. Removed from motorgas for car use, with measurable positive results in
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by VLM 5y ago
Actually no, not for policy decisions. Guaranteed kids will have levels medically too high is a policy problem. Immediately downwind of the interstate in the 70s was apparently a very bad place for kids to be, and policy fixed that (more o
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by VLM 5y ago
> Parachutes have a minimum altitude. If you have the money, zero/zero ballistic parachutes have been a reliable thing for more than half a century. For ultralight sized aircraft, they cost about 1/5 the cost of a new airframe.
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by VLM 5y ago
Depends a lot on use case. I have some experience with visual inspection of aerial optical fiber. You can rent a very large and expensive helicopter to fly uncomfortably close to swaying fiber and power lines, or fly this thing up and down
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by VLM 5y ago
The milestones switch from journal articles to corporate press releases at some point. They miss the vibrant and interesting marketplace technology transitions. I can think of several marketplace transitions that were never journal articles
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by VLM 5y ago
> The future of cities is being a place to live The striking part of the linked story is they didn't ask anyone why they don't want to live there, or why they moved away, etc. Just "tax rates always go up and after redeve
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by VLM 5y ago
Its a cost of corruption but its marketed as a commodity industry wide cost of production. So enormous herds of cattle in the desert in CA owned by extremely politically connected ranchers will get enormous subsidies resulting in all this &
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by VLM 5y ago
Doesn't work, see the CA experience.
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by VLM 5y ago
That's a micro scale analysis. The article is all about the macro scale. If one gas well in the North Sea runs out, you're correct someone drills another well. When ALL the gas wells in the North Sea run out, thats how you get a
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by VLM 5y ago
The way to fight people who advise to use FB less or just don't login and scroll all day long, is to reframe the problem as an extremist binary choice, either use FB three hours per day every day or go to huge effort to delete everythi
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by VLM 5y ago
> and all of them will be mutually incompatible, with own programming languages and data formats All of them will be 100% compatible with SaaS over the internet offerings, no end user will notice.

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