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by ajford 2y ago
Ok, who funds it? National Science Foundation doesn't allocate nearly enough money as it is, let alone enough to replace the tens to hundreds of active telescopes producing scientific data every night. And those telescopes are already
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by ajford 3y ago
Exactly. Musk makes a passable "hype man" that would do great on a sales pitch. But it's the same story as every sales team where he promises so much that isn't feasible to deliver on the timelines he promises.
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by ajford 3y ago
Yep. Current employer is doing the same. Team member goes into the office 3 days a week, and all our calls are now very noisy with other people in the background. There's only two of us in this location so all our team meetings are vid
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by ajford 3y ago
I took it that this fine isn't enough to change anything, and will likely just be added to the overhead that gets snuck into these opaque service charges. 10k isn't even a slap on the wrist. More like picking a piece of lint off t
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by ajford 3y ago
Or it's for playing modern games on hardware from this decade. The Switch is now 7 years old, and was dated hardware from the outset. Plenty of people use Yuzu to play Switch games on hardware that can actually support modern resolutio
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by ajford 3y ago
Sure, but it's also profoundly annoying to spend your workday deploying and maintaining services, then come home and have to do the same. I ran Jellyfin some years back, when I was evaluating Plex/Emby/Jellyfin after switchin
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by ajford 3y ago
The FedEx driver for my route misdelivers constantly. I get deliveries for my house number but three streets away (1234 Foo St. instead of 1234 Bar Dr.) just about every couple of weeks. I've spoken to the driver and to customer suppor
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by ajford 3y ago
Do I get a breakdown of what went into each item's price on the display sticker? Because we get that now on most (if not all) grocery stores and retailers. I can see what items in my grocery receipt were charged which of the various lo
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by ajford 3y ago
Yeah, I figured the intercom call was to get you thinking that they're watching closely, even though they're usually too busy with other customers to really be watching someone on the chance they drive off.
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by ajford 3y ago
That was normal in Texas ~15-20yrs ago. But in the intervening time, I've seen that become less common. I've run into places that won't let you pay after and will instead just ask you to prepay (full transaction) and come bac
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by ajford 3y ago
Just a personal anecdote, but miss-timing your button-press sometimes results in a car-wash being added to your pump charge. I was trying to hit skip or cancel or something (this was in the Before Times, barely remember what it was asking)
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by ajford 3y ago
Wasn't a priority. It was an active scientific facility, so the priority was on producing science. The site was chosen for being remote and shielded from the outside by hills/mountains, so it really is a long winding road to the e
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by ajford 3y ago
Yep. Parking for visitors (and staff) was an absolute nightmare the entire time I worked there. I can only imagine how much worse it'll be if the revamp the visitor center. There's almost no space on-site for more parking without
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by ajford 3y ago
Gotta say your comment is either from the point of view of a subject matter expert who's forgotten what it's like for newbies or hobbyists, or someone who's just condescending. PCB design is complex, but the kind of boards a
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by ajford 3y ago
More cases of a particular party poisoning the well when they can't win any other way. How many supposedly credible whistleblowers is the GOP up to now?
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by ajford 3y ago
I feel like so many posts that look down on flat-packed/budget furniture overlook the fact that so many people are in a position where "buy it for life" isn't a desired feature. We're seeing job markets where loyalt
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by ajford 3y ago
Two years or so in, I'm hooked. I've already decided that if I return to office I'll need one for each location (not interested in carrying one back and forth). I've used an "ergonomic" "split layout"
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by ajford 3y ago
It demonstrates the level of control the firmware can have over LEDs. Cheap boards might have a single color setting or only be able to set blocks of keys (i.e. alpha vs modifier keys). No one says you have to use unicorn vomit colors or a
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by ajford 3y ago
Then disable it. It's a preference option that can be used to express yourself or even indicate things in your layer configuration. I switch backlight colors based on layout. The default typing layer is in my favorite shade of blue, th
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by ajford 3y ago
I thought this was going to be a barrier for me as well, but after using a Moonlander (one of ZSA's other keyboards) for over a year now, it's not as bad. I have a layer that has F1-10 in place of 1-0, then F11 and F12 are on over
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by ajford 3y ago
Yeah, that's because they're designed to absorb the damage into internal stress and deformation to dissipate the force of the crash. That force and momentum has to go somewhere and it's better to absorb it into the car seat a
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by ajford 3y ago
Exactly. I dropped out of the torrent scene for probably around 5 years when Netflix had a huge back-catalog and it just wasn't worth the hassle to manage torrents and a media server. Then the Netflix catalog shrunk to originals, there
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by ajford 3y ago
If you happen to have existing coax cable runs in your house, you might look into MOCA. It's used by some modern cable tv boxes and similar devices to route ethernet packets over the existing coax cable. It can be used on the same coax
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by ajford 3y ago
So as a Texan I'm on the fence here. I wasn't directly involved (as a student and TA), but spent a fair while in academia, and was rather close personal friends with a number of adjunct professors, tenure-track profs, post-docs, a
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by ajford 4y ago
Agreed! I also would love to see the flip-side and have congressional reps wear logos like in NASCAR. Let's be real fucking clear how many are solidly in the pocket of their corporate "donors".
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by ajford 4y ago
Sure. But then can we label SpaceX and Tesla as State-Financed? They are both sucking down way more money from the US Gov't than NPR is. https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-list-government-su... https:/&#x2
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by ajford 4y ago
It sure doesn't seem like a mistake. Twitter itself used to make the distinction between state-funded (without editorial control) and state-affiliated (where the state has editorial control) on their own Help Center [1]. They removed t
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by ajford 4y ago
CPB indirectly funds NPR. Direct funding from CPB is ~1%, the rest comes from member dues of local broadcast stations that get their own funding. NPR doesn't control where the member stations get their funding from, and the US Gov&#x27
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by ajford 4y ago
Given how many congressman NRA owns, it's more like the government is NRA-affiliated... NRA gets to run the show while the public pays the price.
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by ajford 4y ago
Conversely, only the e-golf and Fiat are unavailable within 50 miles of my location in Central Texas. All others have 4-10 vehicles available in my area. The e-golf and fiat are available delivered if I was really dead-set on those. None of

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