chrissnell

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by chrissnell 4mo ago
A hedge against civilization-destroying events. Meteors, global war, disease.
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by chrissnell 4mo ago
My home cluster is built from surplus Dell Optiplex desktops that I got from BYU Surplus and added some RAM (before RAM price went totally bananas) and SSDs to. I spent less than the cost of one of these Pis to acquire all of them together.
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Show HN: Crabby, open source web+API synthetic monitoring(github.com)
1 points by chrissnell 7mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Evan-proxy, better teenager phone management(github.com)
2 points by chrissnell 7mo ago|0 comments
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by chrissnell 2y ago
> There are no school age children currently on Pitcairn. Yeah, I'll pass. Can you imagine how hopeless it must feel for kids here?
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by chrissnell 3y ago
Can we get a "Kubernetes" added to the technologies filter?
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by chrissnell 3y ago
You're 100% wrong about this. My mother is a mentally ill drug addict who has been homeless. We forced her into care when it was clear that she could no longer take care of herself. It took help from Adult Protective Services and lots
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by chrissnell 3y ago
It's partisan but only because of the state of the parties. Democrat-run Austin Texas used to be heaven in the 1970s and 80s. Then radicals took over and somehow got elected and now you have a total sh*tshow.
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by chrissnell 3y ago
Homelessness in the US is not a housing issue. Simply walk through a typical homeless encampment or walk through the Financial District of San Francisco and it will be clear as day: it is a drugs and mental illness issue, and ultimately, a
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by chrissnell 3y ago
I'm willing to bet that I've been to more cities, states, and countries in my time than you have but, whatever, keep it up with the ad hominem quips.
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by chrissnell 3y ago
This became a "right" thing when the Democratic Party--or more succinctly, the people they put on the ballots in liberal cities--have moved so hard to the left that they are unrecognizable to normal classically liberal Americans l
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A variable has been introduced that requires political consideration by users(github.com)
6 points by chrissnell 4y ago|1 comments
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by chrissnell 4y ago
The Post broke the Hunter Biden laptop story and was temporarily deplatformed for it. The DC left called it a fabrication, as did "mainstream" media. Eventually, even the NY Times admitted it was real. Who is the reliable and r
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by chrissnell 4y ago
I did this back in the early 2000s, when Asterisk first became really popular. My plan was to create an Asterisk PBX in my house and hook the payphone to that and be able to use it to receive and make VoIP calls. Unfortunately, the projec
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by chrissnell 4y ago
The bicycle industry is rapidly moving to factory stores. The big brands are buying out their more-successful dealers and turning them into branded stores, locking out any other brands that the dealer sold in the process. For example, Spe
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by chrissnell 4y ago
Imagine being able to play this and then just belting it out when you come across a piano at the mall or in a subway station. I never learned to play piano; as a kid, I learned other instruments instead. This will always be a regret for me
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by chrissnell 4y ago
Tom Lehrer solved this one years ago: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuMLpdnOjY
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by chrissnell 4y ago
For any decent employee, those are refreshed annually with a new grant that has a new four-year runway. If you're a good employee, the grants grow in size.
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by chrissnell 4y ago
Actually, it was the American left (Tipper Gore and friends) who led the censorship movement of the 80s and early 90s. I am in my late 40s and I was quite liberal in my youth and I don't remember any censorship from the right.
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Federal Judge throws out mask mandate for public transport in the US(wsj.com)
10 points by chrissnell 4y ago|3 comments
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by chrissnell 4y ago
Life is short for all of us. Don't put off living . https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MBMp085x5-Q
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by chrissnell 5y ago
Hahaha, I came to say the same thing. It's an obscure line ("I'll wrap your head in with a ratchet!") but anybody who ever heard it will instantly recall this Frank Rizzo classic. I wonder if the Nirvana guys got a chu
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by chrissnell 5y ago
The way I handle this is to run unbound on a server in the public cloud and then tunnel over TLS from my local unbound to the cloud instance. My local clients query a PiHole, which forwards to unbound on localhost:15353, which forwards ev
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by chrissnell 5y ago
Thank you. Getting the government involved in this with simply create more government jobs, more waste, more pensions, and most importantly, homes that cost more. Politicians love to talk regulation that sounds really good to the average p
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by chrissnell 5y ago
That’s honestly only a small part of why I would never want this. More significant, for me, is that this TaxSoftware.gov idea would mean literally thousands more employees on the government payroll, being ineffectual, slow, and bureaucrati
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by chrissnell 5y ago
Point taken. I didn’t consider that.
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by chrissnell 5y ago
And why not? When I lived in Utah, I could easily hit a mountain-top ham radio repeater 20+ miles away with my little 5W handheld radio. A small weather balloon with a sub-1W transmitter can easily be heard at 100K feet altitude by people
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by chrissnell 5y ago
LOL, it's true. The idea of the quick exit is also part of the HN culture and I think that would be very foreign to people like my dad. People who build small but profitable, businesses and run them for the long-term are underappreci
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by chrissnell 5y ago
To a point, yes. I mean, bikes have changed a ton in 51 years and I guarantee you my dad would struggle to work on the newfangled high end high tech stuff, nor would he be the guy that you'd want to professionally fit you to your new
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by chrissnell 5y ago
In a brick-and-mortar business, closing time is when employees (i.e, non-owners) are in a hurry to get the store cleaned up and shut down so that they can go home. They’re tired and they might feel pressured to just get the sale done. Sca

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