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by elevation 4mo ago
> one day I can rely more on well water/rain catchment system There are some fascinating youtube videos on digging your own backyard shallow well (12-40'). This close to the surface, the water is considered non-potable, and yo
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by elevation 4mo ago
> It's closer to 1.4x. Correct. The average was 1.37x revenue from the last decade[0], and the peak was 1.92x in 2020, not quite 2x. [0] FY2015-2024
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by elevation 4mo ago
The ultra wealthy were already safe; it's much cheaper for the IRS accuse a middle class household with a couple W2s and a Doordash 1098 of inadequately tracking their mileage and fuel receipts than it is to review the reams of paperwo
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by elevation 4mo ago
Milwaukee's flag wasn't designed to help combatants make a split second friend-or-foe decision in low visibility. Tactically speaking, the vexillologists are correct, it's unarguably a poor design. But Milwaukee has very lit
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by elevation 4mo ago
If you liquidate Elon or Bezos' wealth and distribute it to every US citizen, you're looking at a one time payment of $1-2K per US citizen, and that's only if the value of the assents holds as you attempt to liquidate everyth
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by elevation 4mo ago
> can’t lay off someone to replace them with AI This measure would either be toothless or it would make it impossible for the most toxic (non-criminal) team members to be fired.
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by elevation 4mo ago
> I got it down to 39kb. If you're counting KBs and you have to include zstd yourself (a reverse proxy isn't handling it for you) does that mean you're targeting an embedded device? Are you supporting TLS at that size?
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by elevation 4mo ago
I had the same thought: the device OP used for LTE testing may have been still connected to a local link and was routing packets over that instead.
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by elevation 4mo ago
> Who you are: a highly motivated senior CPU verification engineer [...] rigorous pre-silicon verification methodologies Was this supposed to be an internal posting? This seems like a highly specialized skillset -- you can't just
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by elevation 4mo ago
> We need outcome based billing... I don't want to pay for a service that doesn't deliver. You can already do this: hire a consultancy to build you a working deliverable for a fixed price. They will be incentivized to prompt t
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by elevation 4mo ago
> Explorer now has tabs. I don't need tabs Hey now! The `nautilus' file browser on linux got me hooked on tabs and for years it's been a glaring deficiency of File Explorer. Many tasks involve a collection of directories
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by elevation 4mo ago
I’m experimenting with serving different content to users based on the presence of an mTLS cert in their USB key. The idea is that authenticated employees see the company logo but scrapers get an IIS welcome page. Prevents cloned content f
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by elevation 4mo ago
Another reason to favor using AI to build automation instead of relying on it in prod: the risk of war and global instability. If LLMs are genuinely helpful or even decisive in a military engagement, you can expect any host country to comma
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by elevation 4mo ago
This lengthy email thread[0] indicates that Jon Postel made the assignment in 1992, that the entity "Amateur Radio Digital Communications" wasn't formed until years later, meaning Jon's assignment had to have been for a
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by elevation 4mo ago
> thought GitHub invented git Putting the generic term into your corporation's name can be effective means of claiming things that don't belong to you. Jon Postel reserved 44.0.0.0/8 for a generic purpose: "amateur ra
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by elevation 4mo ago
> 20 year IaC vet Just out of curiosity, are you familiar with infrastructures.org? It's a manifesto on how to bootstrap infrastructure from a team that would go on to invent IaC tooling. I read the site thoroughly a few years bac
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by elevation 4mo ago
> It's not a tax on commercial property. This makes more sense; I had engaged with just the phrase "property tax" without this qualification.
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by elevation 4mo ago
I have been considering Nextcloud for a homelab install, but dreading the deployment/maintenance story there if I ever start relying on it as a source of truth. Would definitely consider a smaller option like this. My biggest worry is
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by elevation 4mo ago
Could a veterinary business not be bootstrapped? Assuming you had $$$ for some supplies but couldn't afford to lease a commercial building, you could provide small mammal services from your vehicle, driving to people's homes to gi
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by elevation 4mo ago
The daughter company would presumable be allowed to purchase goods and services. What prevents those goods and services from being supplied (at a hefty markup) by another company under PE control?
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by elevation 4mo ago
Not all PE problems are existential; they will be outcompeted. What keeps a newly graduated Veterinarian from opening her own clinic and undercutting the PE competition? With no massive loans on her books, she can profitably offer lower pr
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by elevation 4mo ago
How would you phrase this though? Plenty of PE firms have the funds to buy your local veterinary clinic or auto body shop with cash; the leverage comes later, when they direct the business that they own to get a loan. How can you make it
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by elevation 4mo ago
Thank you! I have been absorbing Bringhurst methodically the past year. I had not heard of Glaister, will be on the lookout. Good point about library and corporate sales. My main supply of materials from the 60s has been from estate sales
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by elevation 4mo ago
The US Federal Government spends twice as much as it collects in taxes, borrowing the difference. The mounting debt requires that we set interest rates as low as possible to keep interest payments feasible. For depositors, this means you ca
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by elevation 4mo ago
> Once you know what all the people in a top publishing company do, the difference between an amateur publication and a professional one becomes immediately apparent. Any advise for developing this sense? I will never work in a top publi
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by elevation 5mo ago
> some of the most meditative and creative of my life This sounds like a worthy pursuit. We control the most powerful machines to ever have existed, yet it's all too easy to use them for anesthetic distraction. Offline relationshi
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by elevation 5mo ago
> A fab is not a small business! An SBIR is just a cost effective way for the government to put a number of PhDs/engineers to work on a problem.
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by elevation 5mo ago
Accelerating this process sounds like a good focus for an SBIR (small business innovation research) RFP.
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by elevation 5mo ago
> you'll sell 10x as many chips The cost of the tooling is probably blocking a few sales, but the biggest blocker for FPGA sales is price of the parts themselves. FPGAs make the most sense where absolute quantities are low and the
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by elevation 5mo ago
Why couldn't a company committed to mask fabrication and wafer fabrication, in concept, perform these steps daily, or several times daily? Multiple prototype designs could be grouped together so multiple customers can realize a new de

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