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by briHass 9mo ago
Wasn't that basically what Soylent was? With a ground up multivitamin and some oil drizzled in?
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by briHass 9mo ago
This seems like more of a rant about non-replaceable batteries (of any type.) When I buy things like flashlights/headlamps and other battery knickknacks, I ensure it uses a 18650 or some other standard lithium formfactor.
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by briHass 9mo ago
M365 (the business plans) are an insane value, with zero competition. Remote management of devices, zero-touch provisioning of new hardware, full security suite, etc. There's nothing OSS or commercial that even comes close, especially
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by briHass 9mo ago
Tool manufacturers include all kinds of annoying safety devices to attempt to prevent injury, or at least to give them some cover in a lawsuit. Table saw blade guards and riving knives are an ironic example here: I've yet to hear a sto
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by briHass 9mo ago
If you want a laugh, ask the LLM to draw the schematic of a basic circuit (like towards the end of a Forrest Mims III book.) I've been 50/50 with vibe circuits recently. Gemini 2.5 gave me some really wrong designs of an advanced
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by briHass 9mo ago
Solar doesn't make sense for me financially (yet), due to location and PoCo rates, but I'd be tempted to be my own contractor and sub out the tasks. Any roofer could do the panel install, and would do a far better job than a solar
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by briHass 9mo ago
This sounds similar to how in C#/.NET there are (at least) 3 methods to reading XML: XmlDocument, XPathDocument, or XmlReader. The first 2 are in-memory object models that must parse the entire document to build up an object hierarchy,
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by briHass 9mo ago
More importantly, you have your data in a structured format that can be easily inspected at any stage of the pipeline using a familiar tool: SQL. I've been using this pattern (scripts or code that execute commands against DuckDB) to pr
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by briHass 9mo ago
Labor for anything is expensive in the US. Parts/materials costs in contractor quotes are often padded so they aren't completely overshadowed by the labor portion. In any job where there's specialized knowledge or license res
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by briHass 9mo ago
Azure has a service ('Artifact Signing') which is $10/month for signing Windows executables (not Windows Store apps, which don't need it.) That's pretty reasonable, considering it is built in to all the major code s
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by briHass 9mo ago
TPM keys are great for things like SSH keys or Passkeys, which surprisingly works well even in Windows. The private key is safe from any exfiltration, and usage only requires a short PIN instead of a long passphrase. The TPM ensures you&#x2
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by briHass 9mo ago
Insurance, if it covers it, will cover it at CVS, no doctor needed. Many insurances do. I asked if the pharmacist could check last time I was at CVS, and it did. I'm turning 46 before I can sneak in the 3rd dose, but 2 doses seems to b
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by briHass 9mo ago
Nothing wrong with Windows Server Core, which has zero UI. Managed totally with Powershell, which once you get used to it, is an excellent shell/scripting language.
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by briHass 10mo ago
The water boiling one doesn't make any sense. One of those devices (stove or kettle) transfers more heat per unit of time into the water. Just use that device for the full amount of water. An induction range would remove the need for t
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by briHass 10mo ago
This is the reason I manage SQL Server on a VM in Azure instead of their PaaS offering. The fully managed SQL has terrible performance unless you drop many thousands a month. The VM I built is closer to 700 a month. Running on IaaS also giv
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by briHass 10mo ago
'Double-bagging it' was what we called it in my day.
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by briHass 10mo ago
Maybe if everything you use is public-cloud-deployed. Self-hosted runners help bridge the gap with on-prem servers, since you can pop a runner VM inside your infra and give it the connectivity/permissions to do deployments. This announ
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by briHass 10mo ago
Paid certs are valid for 1-year from the $$ CAs. LE certs are only good for ~3-4 months before they have to be reissued. If there's no easy way to do an automated ACME setup to handle the renewal, being able to defer that for a year is
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by briHass 11mo ago
Yes, typically the local government require a HOA-like structure for all new housing developments. In addition to supporting adherence to environmental regs, they also form the collective financial entity that pays for maintenance of develo
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by briHass 11mo ago
Honestly, .NET should be the default choice for any non-trivial backend or non-GUI application. I assume the legacy (outdated/inaccurate) perception of MSFT's stewardship is the only reason anyone reaches for something else. AOT i
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by briHass 1y ago
About the only thing I've seen that qualifies is the no-car, metal gates to walking/camping trails in State Parks (PA, anyway.) The key-lock is surrounded by a 1/2" steel can, with only the bottom open and some distance
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by briHass 1y ago
What is the Hetzner equivalent for those in Windows Server land? I looked around for some VPS/DS providers that specialize in Windows, and they all seem somewhat shady with websites that look like early 2000s e-commerce.
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by briHass 1y ago
The line should be what is illegal, which, at least in the US, is fairly permissive. The legal process already did all the hard work of reaching consensus/compromise on where that line is, so just use that. At least with the legal syst
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by briHass 1y ago
Then, the ad-adverse users will just use software that downloads the video and reprocesses the file to remove the ads. Ytdlp already does this with SponserBlock integration, and I imagine detecting ads is something AI would be pretty good a
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by briHass 1y ago
Especially the 'backend' languages that do all the heavy lifting for domain-specific software. Just in my vertical of choice, financial software, there are literally billions of lines of Java and .NET code powering critical system
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by briHass 1y ago
I worry more about aging parents/relatives, many of whom aren't exactly tech-savvy to begin with. Many of these scams are becoming increasingly sophisticated, at the same time that being able to perform verification in meat-space
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by briHass 1y ago
The stuff on the shelf, sure, but you can always go 'prosumer-grade' like Ubiquiti or Mikrotik for hardware that actually receives timely updates and has competently written firmware.
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by briHass 1y ago
Also, KeepassXC and OG KeePass with a plugin can auto-open another vault from an entry in the primary vault. This works well if you have the more secure vault open a less secure vault, or in my case open a shared vault used for common passw
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by briHass 1y ago
Security is always the excuse, but it's a local device connected to Wifi. Add a setting to the existing menus that is opt in to turn on the new API. Beyond that, there's what, like 4 or 5 parameters that are useful to set, and a f
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by briHass 1y ago
Given how modern browsers are increasingly hostile to long-lived, self-signed certs, I've resigned to paying the .com tax every year for a real domain. There's so many ACME clients now (e.g. HomeAssistant has a plugin), that it&#x

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