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by dave78 4y ago
> Congresspeople don’t get to skip security lines. According to many reports, at least some do: https://traveltips.usatoday.com/exempt-tsa-screening-109841.... https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna40341995
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by dave78 4y ago
Yes, exactly. That and I'm a firm believer that laws in our country should apply to everyone regardless of status. I think it's unconscionable that our leaders have no qualms about passing laws that the rest of us have to follow a
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by dave78 4y ago
CLEAR and PreCheck are small potatoes. What I want is to require everyone who flies to go through the TSA line, including anyone flying private. Don't allow congresspeople to bypass the TSA (which I believe they're allowed to do
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by dave78 4y ago
A decent portion of the article was devoted to the physical disc option and how it's increasingly uncommon for that to even be offered as a choice.
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by dave78 4y ago
I live in the Chicago area and this is just not true on a large scale at all. The commute into downtown Chicago on a weekday morning is extremely busy (especially pre-COVID), whether by car or rail. The reverse direction is nearly empty. Ev
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by dave78 4y ago
Depending on the location, perhaps getting your amateur radio license and a radio with APRS on it might help fill in some of the coverage gaps. I've heard (though cannot confirm personally) that there is often APRS coverage in remote a
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by dave78 4y ago
> Subjects needing rescue are still usually hesitant to call for rescue and usually try to self extricate Someone with the knowledge and foresight to bring along a Garmin or PLB or something probably has a decent understanding of what it
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by dave78 4y ago
> Search and Rescue is one of the few services that is almost uniformly free [1]. I wonder if this will remain true once everyone with an iPhone has access to it. The increase in volume could easily overwhelm the volunteers, no?
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by dave78 4y ago
While there's probably some overlap for certain use cases, I'd say they're more complementary. In fact, Restic leverages rclone to support a lot of cloud storage services. Restic is specifically meant as a backup tool and doe
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by dave78 4y ago
I'm not sure if my perspective is warped or yours is, but from my standpoint this is all pretty common in corporate America. Companies are acquired or merge and most everything changes - polices, training, perks, and almost always sign
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by dave78 4y ago
Most of the national/international media has been scrutinizing Twitter all weekend, specifically looking for signs of layoffs. It seems odd that this person would have scooped them all on that? Not saying it's impossible or anyth
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by dave78 4y ago
I looked at Musk's feed and it did not appear, but just now clicked on one of the other Twitter links in this thread and got hit with it almost immediately. Maybe the change is still being rolled out? Maybe it was just a fluke? Maybe i
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by dave78 4y ago
I think many/most criticisms of Twitter are valid, but "negligible reach"?
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by dave78 4y ago
As best I can tell the investigation is still ongoing, but for some reason no one in the media really reports on it anymore. I think if the investigation had been concluded there'd be some reporting on that but I haven't found any
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by dave78 4y ago
They are - they added additional charges to the former lawmaker (Madigan) who took the bribes[0]. He was already criminally charged for similar bribery by the local power company (ComEd). Makes me wonder if Comcast or Nicor will be next. I
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by dave78 4y ago
That number could increase soon too. The current governor is under federal tax fraud investigation. He bought the mansion next door to his, purposely removed the toilets, and then declared it uninhabitable to avoid paying hundreds of thousa
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by dave78 4y ago
I feel like it's inevitable now that all streaming services are going to add an ad-based tier. Initially it will just be a cheaper option and you'll still be able to pay for an ad-free experience, but I am concerned that eventuall
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by dave78 4y ago
..and there are plenty of non-nefarious reasons to want to spoof numbers. I used to have a VOIP setup at home that, when I dialed out, the call would appear to come from my cellphone[0]. Google Voice used to be able to do that too (no idea
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by dave78 4y ago
> Power inlets aren't particularly expensive (relative to the cost of the generator, or burning down the house, or death). Most portable generators that people would buy to power their house during an outage are in the $500-$800 ran
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by dave78 4y ago
If not enforced mechanically, it's really easy to forget though. The last time I needed to power my house with a generator, it was because the power went out during a horrendous thunderstorm at 3am. We have a sump pit with a battery-po
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by dave78 4y ago
I don't think so. There are failure modes that GFCI wouldn't catch. For instance, if you managed to grab both the hot and neutral prongs at the same time of the live end of your hypothetical GFCI-protected cord, it may not trip si
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by dave78 4y ago
The parts alone to do it properly are several hundred dollars - the inlet box is around $60, 25 feet of 10/3 cable is $100 (obviously more for longer - wiring has gotten really expensive the past few years), circuit breaker $20, interl
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by dave78 4y ago
PTC is a safety system. Describing it as an "autopilot" seems like an exaggeration to me, though I suppose it may automate some tasks that a conductor may have done before. It was also mandated by federal regulation and from every
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by dave78 4y ago
Cycle counting is common. Other options exist like a tight loop watching a counter register etc.
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by dave78 4y ago
I've used AppNope with success, though I've never tested on an M1.
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by dave78 4y ago
> Chris Wallace gets a $9 million contract?? He's laughing his head off all the way to the bank. I've seen rumors that he is livid. I think the type of personality that takes that job wants to be seen and heard - it's not
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by dave78 4y ago
> Our interactions with them were almost universally positive ... [they'd] try to keep kids from seeing drug use As someone with kids and living in the Midwest, I just don't even have the words to describe my reaction to this.
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by dave78 4y ago
I guess I've assumed that a bike would prefer to cross in front of me, someone who has acknowledged their presence and also happens to be blocking the lane behind me, rather than wait and take their chances with the next guy who may no
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by dave78 4y ago
It happens with any subgroup. Bad apples spoil the bunch and all that. Heck, a lot of bicyclists in this very thread make the same complaint about car drivers and act as if they're all a monolith who only care about running down as man
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by dave78 5y ago
I would actually love to work at a company like that. I've been a professional developer for over 20 years now and at least in my experience, too much unneeded complexity has been the root cause of so many defects and product failures.

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