bradknowles

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   by bradknowles 5y ago

   Whereas we paid about eight times that last year, and our house isn’t valued as high. EDIT: and we’ve owned this house since 2008.
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   by bradknowles 5y ago

   I think Apple’s campus here is already bigger than anything they’ve got anywhere else, short of the giant UFO in Cupertino, and they’re still planning on expanding. Amazon is here, and again they have a number of buildings in the Domain are
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   by bradknowles 5y ago

   And one million dollars has never meant less than it does today.
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   by bradknowles 5y ago

   For me, it’s usually thinking about how my favorite RPG characters would deal with something that I saw or experienced that day. Since one of them is a large tiger-size cat that is also a dimension-hopping traveler and one of the most power
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   by bradknowles 5y ago

   Hmm. Yes, you are most likely correct. I should have used the term “non enforceable”. Thanks for the correction!
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   by bradknowles 5y ago

   Ego, Greenworks, and Ryobi also have backpack model battery powered leaf blowers. You might want to check out one of those. Yes, you’ll need to swap out batteries more often than you would have to refuel your gas-powered leaf blower, but as
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   by bradknowles 5y ago

   I loved my Etys, too. But they were very fragile. I’ve ended up switching to Shure IEMs, but I use the Etymotic triple-flange silicone ear tips. I’ve tried everything else I can find, and nothing else works as well to keep them in my ears.
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   by bradknowles 5y ago

   TLDR: Starts right off with Huawei and being a Chinese state sponsored company whose sole purpose is to make 5G wireless technology dirt cheap and thus make everyone vulnerable to whatever the Chinese might want to do with your 5G networks.
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   by bradknowles 5y ago

   It is a bit of a slow burn. But with these books, Vernor Vinge has now become one of my favorite authors, up there with Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, David Drake, Robert Heinlein, Larry Niven,
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    by bradknowles 5y ago

    I like the idea, but I think it needs to be expanded to all US corporations. The page at https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?location... says that the total US GDP for 2020 was almost $21T dollars. Spe
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    by bradknowles 5y ago

    If you’re using them in 1U servers, then those machines should be data less, and treated like cattle, not pets. Keep the data on one or more file servers on the network, which has/have lots of built-in redundancy and other backup and D
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    by bradknowles 5y ago

    Your right to smoke a cigarette ends where it becomes second hand smoke that would enter my lungs.
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    by bradknowles 5y ago

    Not so much. Sure, they don’t have the calories, but the human body still responds to them the same way it would to a sugared drink — it produces insulin. But if there wasn’t any sugar in the drink, then you don’t actually need that insulin
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    by bradknowles 5y ago

    Human bodies don’t actually work that way, regardless of whatever you might think from your personal anecdotal experience. Claiming that this is a simple problem simply proves how willfully ignorant you are of the myriad of problems encount
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    by bradknowles 5y ago

    If you think it’s so easy, then I suggest maybe you should go lose a few hundred pounds from your current weight, and come back and report to us on how that went. We can wait.
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    by bradknowles 5y ago

    In the US, it depends on what state you’re in. In California, for example, non-competes are illegal. So, companies sign or verbally negotiate mutual non-poaching agreements, like Apple and Google did a while back. In other states, nothing p
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    by bradknowles 5y ago

    I want to see Babylon 5: The Next Generation. Use everything he’s learned, etc… but pick up the story a hundred or three years in the future. What are the new challenges they face? What secret things did the Shadows leave behind that we are
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    by bradknowles 5y ago

    There are decent ad blockers available for iOS. But they have to be integrated into the OS and not the browser. Frankly, I don’t want a fully functional Firefox or Chrome to be available on iOS, because those browsers are essentially an OS
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    by bradknowles 5y ago

    > Why is write once run anywhere such a bad idea? Hint: look up “lowest common denominator”. Because that’s all you’ll get, you follow that model to the conclusion. You won’t be able to write anything or do anything that is not supported
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    by bradknowles 5y ago

    This is another reason why I don’t trust my ISP and I would use a VPN to a site outside of the country. Good luck getting that browsing history then.
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    by bradknowles 5y ago

    As a T2, I would encourage you to be careful about the almonds, kale, and other items that are high in Oxalate. Trust me, you really don’t want to develop kidney stones. Been there, done that, twice. Had to go to the ER each time. Not fun.
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    by bradknowles 5y ago

    Hmm. Okay, I did some more testing tonight, and it looks like they do now have more connection modes, including one optimized for streaming, one optimized for raw speed, and one optimized for reliability. I was able to get some higher speed
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    by bradknowles 5y ago

    Oh, and Speedify has (or had, maybe they’ve changed this), an effective speed limit that they also implement. I think it’s about 200 mbps. If you’re getting that speed or better over Wi-Fi or Ethernet or whatever your primary network provid
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    by bradknowles 5y ago

    I’ve looked at Speedify. In fact, I signed up for service with them on my iPad and iPhone as soon as I heard about their service years ago. It doesn’t really get you any higher speed (at least, not on download), what it gets you is a more r
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    by bradknowles 5y ago

    I’ve looked extensively at Peplink devices. They aren’t exactly crystal clear as to which devices actually support SpeedFusion and which ones don’t. And they have multiple additional features which are not supported on all devices that do a
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    by bradknowles 5y ago

    A true free market is where someone can hold a gun to your head and make you pay them whatever they want, and you gladly do so because you got rid of all the police who could stop them. In a true free market, the guy with the biggest gun an
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    by bradknowles 5y ago

    I use a VPN because my ISP (AT&T) is well-known for doing Deep Packet Inspection, throttling content from sites they don’t like (like Netflix), inserting their own ads into streams, and various other nefarious behaviors. If they’re will
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    by bradknowles 5y ago

    Uh, no. The Texas grid is not winterized now. They’ve pledged to start work thinking about doing something, sometime soon, maybe. That’s about as far as they’ve gotten.
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    by bradknowles 5y ago

    If these are averages, then they are most likely skewed by outliers. I want to know the median values, and various interesting percentiles, like 5th, 25th, 75th, 95th, 98th, 99th, etc….
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    by bradknowles 5y ago

    You’re giving your fingerprints, retina scans, and maybe also face scan information, to an untrusted company that could easily be broken into, just like all the others. You think having your credit card details compromised is bad? At least