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by bityard 7mo ago
What? No way. Yes, a lot of airline pilots were former military, but I know several people who are airline pilots and did not come from "very rich" families. Flying is not in any way some kind of high-status luxurious job. It can
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by bityard 7mo ago
Yes, but even if the US didn't release the specifications of the F35, other countries around the world would rapidly figure out most of the capabilities anyway from photos, videos, and casual observation. (In other words, they'd k
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by bityard 7mo ago
This isn't a new weapon, this is a test platform for various ideas, none of which are new or secret. Also, there are not many groundbreaking advancements left in military aviation. Most are just fairly incremental engineering or manufa
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by bityard 7mo ago
The trend is "less is more". For the past decade, UX designers have fetishized flat, monochrome, low-contrast designs with zero visual cues or opportunities for feature discovery. From what I'm to gather, their idea of a perf
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by bityard 7mo ago
Recordable blu-ray discs have a reported lifespan of hundreds of years if left untouched, but the high-capacity ones (128GB) are not especially cheap right now and I assume the writing process is slow. The drives themselves may not be easy
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by bityard 8mo ago
It's a bit ironic (in the Alanis Morrisette sense) because NetData was built by a small community on Reddit to be small, lightweight, easy to deploy, open source, etc. Now it looks like any other commercial enterprise monitoring produc
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by bityard 8mo ago
You have it backwards, sir, :-) are the emoticons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons
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by bityard 8mo ago
The wikipedia entry for emoji is missing this entirely, but "smileys" were quite popular in various instant messaging apps (AOLIM, ICQ) and web forums. I was fairly sure they go back as far the mid or late 90's but I can&#x27
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by bityard 8mo ago
If that wikipedia article is right, then balcony solar is not legal where I live (in the US). Here, we require a hard-wired, permanently installed automatic transfer switch that disconnects the solar generation from the grid when the mains
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by bityard 8mo ago
Yes. But also, lay users are not nearly as dumb/incompetent as UX designers allege when they rationalize removing features to "simplify things."
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by bityard 8mo ago
> Why ZephyrOS? They say right here: https://libre.solar/software/
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by bityard 8mo ago
They are pretty clearly targeting DIYers and enthusiasts who like tinkering with off-grid solar. Grid-connected is an entirely different ball game. You will not see any open source projects there, or at least not any that anyone will want t
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by bityard 8mo ago
This is for DIYers and enthusiasts, not someone looking for an off-the-shelf box. (Also, Amazon is where most people get their solar equipment these days and you would be amazed how much of it is not UL certified either.)
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by bityard 8mo ago
Yes, and? This project isn't being marketd to people who call up a company to white-glove the whole-home installation end-to-end. This is for DIYers who have enough knowledge to tinker with self-designed solar projects but not the EE d
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by bityard 8mo ago
Great article, but I recommend reading it in your browser's Reader Mode if available. The scrolling-magazine-article format made it quite difficult for me to navigate.
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by bityard 8mo ago
As a ham radio operator and a radio enthusiast in general, I love shortwave radio and wish it would make a comeback. However, I would be even happier if we as humans figured out how to co-exist peacefully enough with one another to make it
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by bityard 8mo ago
Location: Ann Arbor, MI Remote: YES Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Linux, Open Source, Python, Storage, Git, CI/CD, Ansible, Virtualization (and now getting into self-hosted AI) Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/i
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by bityard 8mo ago
Well, you don't know her, or me, so I don't think you're qualified to offer specific advice.
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by bityard 8mo ago
My step-mother (who didn't come into my life until around the time I got married. She is actually a pretty nice person overall, she is just... shall we say, opinionated, and could be somewhat racist once the conversation turned to poli
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by bityard 8mo ago
I look at it like this: Yes, AI can write code. It can write it much faster than I can. Sometimes it can also write it better than I can. But: programming languages, libraries, and abstractions are not going away. It is still possible (and
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by bityard 8mo ago
Hadn't seen that one before, very fun! Did not know anyone can beatbox and flute at the same time. TIL
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by bityard 8mo ago
You might also enjoy Beardyman, if you haven't run across him yet. Does techno and other genres with nothing but his own voice and a shedload of ipads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYVUlx7BhhI
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by bityard 8mo ago
Boasting about being a spammer. Wow. Flagged.
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by bityard 8mo ago
The invention of electric power tools did not put all carpenters out of work, only the ones who refused to adapt to them.
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by bityard 8mo ago
Probably taken already, better use YAGOT-NG (Next Generation) just to be safe.
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by bityard 8mo ago
There is definitely something wrong with your setup. I can run an amd64 container on my Macbook Pro M3 in well under a second: [~]$ podman pull --arch=amd64 debian:13 Resolved "debian" as an alias (/etc/contain
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by bityard 8mo ago
I can't speak to docker, but the Podman desktop UI on MacOS doesn't really offer any functionality that the CLI doesn't. It's more like a status dashboard than anything else. I personally never look at it. I don't s
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by bityard 8mo ago
I have always used double-dashes instead of emdashes, and it annoys me when software "auto-corrects" them into emdashes. Moreso since emdashes became an AI tell. I also see AIs use emdashes in places where parentheses, colons, or
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by bityard 8mo ago
Count yourself lucky! I took a new job in another city just as the bubble hit and had a 3 hour round-trip commute for a year and a half due to that mess. We literally couldn't afford to sell our house because we were underwater on the
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by bityard 8mo ago
If making increasingly immoral decisions is all it takes to be a billionaire... then man, I have truly been wasting my life's potential

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