bradknowles

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by bradknowles 2y ago
Money for the plaintiffs should be clawed back from the investors and all the senior management. All the information they collected should be provably destroyed.
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by bradknowles 2y ago
I remember irssi. I haven’t used irc in many, many years, though.
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by bradknowles 2y ago
Once the Robber Oil Barons have lined their pockets with enough money, they will be free to leave Texas for any other location around the world where they can exploit the local population in all the criminal ways, and make themselves even r
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by bradknowles 2y ago
There are good JIRA installations, and bad ones. Good ones are speedy and responsive, even if you have a large amount of data you’re working with, and there are lots of tickets in the system. I was on the team that managed one of the JIRA
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by bradknowles 2y ago
Everything is a web app these days because many developers are incompetent and don’t know how to do anything else. And that’s only going to get worse as Generative AI comes along to “help” people do development.
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by bradknowles 2y ago
Yeah, my wife does that sometimes. Apparently, she’s done it for most of her life, because her family have told me about times when she did it when she was much younger. I think that may just be normal for some people.
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by bradknowles 2y ago
I set mine for an hour or more, before I need to be up. Sometimes two hours. And sometimes even that is not enough.
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by bradknowles 2y ago
I’m curious to know how this compares to other compression tools like brotli, zstd, and xz. I guess I’ll have to include it in my own benchmarking suite I’m developing.
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by bradknowles 2y ago
Sadly, modern production building companies are far beyond just “scandalous” or “fraud” or “incompetence”. The competent and conscientious builder is the rare unicorn these days.
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by bradknowles 2y ago
Agreed. This is your life at risk. This is the lives of others on the plane at risk. Everything else takes a back seat to those priorities.
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by bradknowles 2y ago
When I was growing up, my family always had World Book Encyclopedias. My grandfather was a salesman for them (and later a regional sales manager), so he always made sure we had a relatively recent complete set. I would spend hours and hour
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by bradknowles 2y ago
I don’t buy that the volts and amps will always be proportional. In my experience, the volts are usually pretty fixed, depending on the circumstances. Like 120VAC in most homes in the U.S., but variable amps — 15, 20, 30, 50, 100, etc….
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by bradknowles 2y ago
I know our roof is in pretty bad shape, and will need to be replaced in five to ten years. The house was built in the mid-80s, we bought it in 2008, and I know it’s had at least one or two roof replacements in that time. Most roofs aren’t
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by bradknowles 2y ago
I’m happy to have ways to run my python code that will execute much faster on GPUs, but I don’t want anything that is tied to a particular GPU family. I’ll happily use CUDA if I’m on NVIDIA, but I want something that is also performant on
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by bradknowles 2y ago
Things that are exposed to the weather frequently need to be replaced more often than every 40-50 years. Like roofs. And cables. And anything that is an external attachment to the structure. You might not have to replace the solar panels
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by bradknowles 2y ago
Unfortunately, I think a lot of people don’t really know how much their power costs. They just pay the bill they are sent, maybe even on autopay and they don’t even look at the statements when they come in. So, they don’t know how much the
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by bradknowles 2y ago
It’s the amperage that kills you, not the voltage. 5000VAC at a 1.0 nano amps is not going to be something you can feel, not even as something like static electricity.
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by bradknowles 2y ago
Not nearly as easy to navigate and discover as apps like Stellarium. Now, if they had the database with hundreds of terabytes of objects that NASA has for their OpenUniverse simulation they’re running for the upcoming Roman space telescope
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by bradknowles 2y ago
Nah. Polonium BBs being injected into your calf. They’re so much more fun. /s
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by bradknowles 2y ago
Going into Sears used to drive me nuts. My parents finally accepted that I was actually hearing something that they couldn’t, but it took a while. I don’t know if it was the loss prevention system that was doing it, or what. All I could d
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by bradknowles 2y ago
Haven’t you heard? One dollar == one vote. So, who has all the dollars, and therefore all the votes? If you don’t have any dollars to buy off your entity in Congress, then how are you going to get the laws changed?
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by bradknowles 2y ago
If you have butane or propane heaters, sure. But if you can’t safely get out of the house to go buy the nonexistent butane or propane heaters at the store because all the roads are frozen over and all the stores are closed, then that idea i
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by bradknowles 2y ago
Crime is a factor in many cases, sure. But then so is emergency access/egress. If there is a wildfire near this neighborhood, we only have two ways out, and over 900 homes to evacuate via those two ways. Consider the traffic jams th
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by bradknowles 2y ago
NACK.
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by bradknowles 2y ago
Big trucks are subsidized for the reason that they bring products to market that would otherwise be unable to be economically transported. So, you’d need a separate tariff for the big trucks, but you should tax them based on weight per axle
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by bradknowles 2y ago
This from the same company that insists on auto-deleting all old Slack and e-mail messages, to limit discoverability. And refuses to give you a larger e-mailbox than 4GB, for the same reason. Hmm.
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by bradknowles 2y ago
Like, during the Texas IcePocalypse? If we didn’t have a gas stove and a gas fireplace, my wife and I would have died. There’s no way out of this neighborhood if the roads are all frozen, because we live on one of the steepest hills in Au
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by bradknowles 2y ago
Guido (the creator of Python) worked at Google, the last time I heard anything from him. He wasn’t the only Pythonista there.
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by bradknowles 2y ago
The Chinese company Geely bought Volvo and most of the Polestar hardware is actually from Geely. And Geely is not from Norway.
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by bradknowles 3y ago
What has been a functional revolution with the Apple Vision Pro has been the combination of a super high-res OLED display (higher than anyone has seen before in a head mounted device), plus super-low latency tracking and processing. You op

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