danielodievich

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by danielodievich 10mo ago
I am glad my gutters are clean and I am on the hill and the house is reinforced by pin piles. There have been mudslides nearby almost every time this happens. My best wishes go out to folks in beautiful Skagit ...
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by danielodievich 10mo ago
Last week there we had a customer request that landed in our support on a feature that I partially wrote and wrote a pile of public documentation on. Support engineer ran customer query through Claude (trained on our public and internal doc
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by danielodievich 11mo ago
This summer I walked main Newbury street (one of main shopping street in Boston) and parked on it was a sweet, sweet looking brand new McLaren (had to go on their web site to identify from my picture, I think it was an Artura Spider) in a v
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by danielodievich 11mo ago
I drive a little 2002 Mini, those are really low to the ground. The modern hulking trucks and SUVs + with what I call "Bright-Ass Lights" + me getting older with my myopia turned driving at night into constant struggle to not be b
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by danielodievich 11mo ago
I pay attention to what my former country is doing to Ukraine and it is really bad. America's warfighting with drones is very clearly unprepared to what's currently on the cutting edge. Ukraine's strike on strategic aviation
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by danielodievich 11mo ago
surprised pikachu faces all around.
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by danielodievich 11mo ago
In Russian written languages, the quotes for the people speaking are prefixed with em-dash, instead of double-quoted like it would be in typical English book: Instead of "The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many
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by danielodievich 1y ago
Right as COVID lockdowns were starting in early 2020, our gas furnace reached the state of nearly broken and would have been unfixable if it finally broke. We called local HVAC for a quote and they convinced that instead of simply replacing
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by danielodievich 1y ago
Props on the very appropriate username, drone.
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by danielodievich 1y ago
A friend of mine sold their Model S recently because a)Elon and b)their neighborhood where Elon is not popular. They got a Lexus hybrid instead. They were bummed out because they loved the car. They don't tickle me at all - I like his
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by danielodievich 1y ago
Personally, I thought that comment was a nicely sarcastic observation on the nature of humanity. Also quite nicely echoing the sentiments in The Culture books by Ian M. Banks.
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by danielodievich 1y ago
And then rational thinking entities are forced to build temples in honor of that entity? I mean data centers of course...
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by danielodievich 1y ago
Last weekend we had dinner at a friend to celebrate their child's birthday. They work at OCI in a very senior position and were heading out next day to troubleshoot that exact datacenter in Abilene, TX next day, to presumably yell at v
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by danielodievich 1y ago
Gold has always had value to humans because it is very non-reactive and doesn't corred, and it was easy to smelt and work with since prehistoric times. It is also one of very few metals that is not boring gray/silver. It therefore
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by danielodievich 1y ago
One of my best friends is a recently retired neuroradiologist. He told me his old practice is begging for him to come back for wh a tavern money he wants. He isn't interested. Good for him to have made enough to not care anymore.
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by danielodievich 1y ago
you guys are entirely too cool. I love it. Perfect commentary after a work day full of ai adjacent nonsense.
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by danielodievich 1y ago
Driving a 2002 Mini here with fully analog controls everywhere. I don't need to look at anything and I love it. Since I hardly drive anywhere this should last me a while. Fun thing is that this car has volume and radio channel change b
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by danielodievich 1y ago
This is awesome. I had fun on playing click game on my 85" TV with my wife and it getting progressively more absurd and in my face. What a talented artist!
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by danielodievich 1y ago
I personally very much appreciate this kind of science, it is what made our world what it is. However, the public people leading the world appear to be unable to read a single page, much less this kind of article, or appreciate the complexi
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by danielodievich 1y ago
My wife is a professional photographer, amongst many other things. She's always had a camera since young age. I've been her equipment sherpa for couple of decades, hauling progressively larger bags full of lenses and stuff around.
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by danielodievich 1y ago
This gaming household had two huge teenager fans of Hollow Knight, with t-shirts and hoodies merch. Us adults didn't see what the big deal was about but we are not their demographic. My wife tried it and found it too demanding for a mi
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by danielodievich 1y ago
My smart TV is not on wifi and physically unplugged from the internet except for when I deign to upgrade its firmware. Which I've done once since I bought it 5 years ago. I use 0 (zero) smart features and it is unable to report whateve
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by danielodievich 1y ago
I am very certain in my recollection that this was started much earlier than this as hackathon skunkworks before something like this happened at MSR. It didn't do anything beyond kernel and command line, there was no browser. I don&#x2
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by danielodievich 1y ago
Back in mmm like 2002 or 2003 or 2004 while at Microsoft I read an internal paper from a few OS guys who hackathoned something for Bill Gates's Think Week (which is when he used to go to some island in San Juans or somewhere similar an
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by danielodievich 1y ago
>I assumed, like President said Like all the other sibling comments, just... sigh . I did not assume any such thing. My current home remodeling project with new siding and windows and so on, I've had to pay ~$2K extra in tariffs on
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by danielodievich 1y ago
The Economist's Scam Inc podcast (mentioned elsewhere in this discussion too) has fascinating (and very troubling) insights into this. I have sons heading to college this and next year and I have tried to prepare them for the world of
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by danielodievich 1y ago
My family used VRBO to get houses for winter vacations where we can bring other families and go skiing. With careful research and judicious planning it has turned out okay for last decade of winters. Because it is skiing and usually remote,
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by danielodievich 1y ago
I was there at Microsoft in the beginning of MSI, which was what, Office XP? Gosh or was it 2003? The tooling for dealing with them was super jank then. I could have never predicted that you'd be able to just casually open it in a brow
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by danielodievich 1y ago
One of my most favorite places in nearby oregon is the community of Boring, OR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boring,_Oregon . Exceptionally lovely place. I've yet to visit it's sister town of Dull in Scotland,
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by danielodievich 1y ago
Dropping someone who did a lot for you - and you may not have realized it at the time but now you do - a note out of the blue is a wonderful thing to do. Especially if it is carefully written. Megabonus for paper note although in the career

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