jeffbee

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by jeffbee 8mo ago
People don't like to work in the middle of the night.
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
70 on-duty, that probably translates to 200-300 people on staff.
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
None of the covered properties in Berkeley are legitimate landmarks of genuine architectural merit or historical importance. Every one of them was established by flim-flam for the purpose of claiming the tax abatement. Over the years this l
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
People say that in Berkeley but usually the specifics of the deal they are taking about are incorrect, so I generally ignore such people. For example the properties owned by the U.C. wealth fund are taxed like any other.
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
That's not "unintended" that is the core of what they call the NPIC, the non-profit industrial complex. They do the same activity, with the same financial outcome, but they do it under a different corporate form and pay no ta
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
TL;DR taking properties off the tax roll costs the remaining taxpayers more. Pretty basic stuff. I've been talking this up to local electeds for decades, with very little progress. The only success I've had is ending the local pro
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
Their service is way worse than you think, in every way. The actual unsupervised Robotaxi service doesn't cover a geofenced area of Austin, like Waymo does. It traverses a fixed route along South Congress Avenue, like a damned bus.
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
That's great and, of course, only your experience matters to the choice of which OS you use. I just don't want people to get the impression there are no tradeoffs. Another tradeoff GrapheneOS makes is because of the way they confi
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
> security hardening first and foremost (above usability or compatibility). Right. Something that GrapheneOS boosters often fail to mention. It's not like those guys at Google are just idiots and don't know how to make a harden
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
Greenwald defends totalitarian strongmen abroad by his reflexive and universal opposition to American power. His stance on Ukraine, for example, is as extremely pro-Putin as any writing can get without saying "I love Vlad and I will ki
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
Greenwald has criticized every institution that exists, so there's not a signal there.
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
"Yay" Greenwald is (still) playing footsie down at the Nazi bar. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-s...
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
Greenwald is a vocal and consistent anti-institutionalist, and this creates the conditions for strongmen to take over. Whether he is aware of having this effect is not relevant.
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
That analysis starts too late. Swiss advantages arose from ignoring other countries' patent laws in the 1850s.
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
Switzerland obviously isn't anti-immigrant. Really nobody is from there. Nearly half of their population immigrated. But the SVP wants selected varieties of white immigrants, nobody any darker skinned than David Hasselhoff, certainly n
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
SVP "which is right-wing" may not convey the degree and nature of that alignment. Just search for "SVP propaganda posters" or read https://www.dw.com/en/far-right-party-violated-anti-racism-l... . Wh
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
If you just want to send a protobuf to a host:port there's no reason you can't do that with gRPC. Client load balancers are something you can optionally layer on top.
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
There is nothing analogous to the ORB in gRPC, so your complaint seems hallucinated. Callers are entirely responsible for figuring out where their services are. gRPC holds no opinions whatsoever about how your servers are named or how their
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
I fail to see how the application will even be aware of unknown data. Explain what practical problem could possibly arise if you think a message has 4 fields and I send you a fifth one. Edited to reply to your edits: People who are just boz
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
I don't see why any of that would be necessary. There are simple rules for protobuf compatibility and people only need to follow them. Never re-use a field number to mean something else. Never change the type of a field. That's it
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
Nobody cares that you think v14.7.22b runs well on HW3.1. Literally nobody.
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
OK. I think you moved the goalposts a fair distance there.
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
This doesn't sound right. I just opened a shared link in a fresh incognito window and it works fine.
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
FSD doesn't "work fine" driving directly into the sun. There are loads of YT videos that demonstrate this.
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
How does this survive contact with the triple net lease? You pass the bond and the property tax is immediately due from the tenant . Congratulations, you destroyed all the businesses.
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
The laser gizmo is central to this story.
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
It indeed departs from instructions pretty regularly. But I find it very useful and for the price it beats the world. "The price" is the marginal price I am paying on top of my existing Google 1, YouTube Premium, and Google Fi sub
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by jeffbee 9mo ago
Venus was at its peak brilliance last night. You probably thought you saw something up in the sky other than Venus, but I assure you, it was Venus.
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by jeffbee 9mo ago
Good explanation. I think it's sad that people find it easier to adopt imaginary theory of why labor statistics are flawed than they are to simply go read their methodology. People don't want to believe that there are BLS statisti
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by jeffbee 9mo ago
Yes, moreover the whole-population participation rate is basically useless and nobody should look at it.

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