jkestner

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The small link at the end of the chain(blog.supermechanical.com)
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Not just that, but that algorithms are driving us to the extremes. I used to think it was just that humans were not meant to have this many social connections, but it's more about how these connections are mediated, and by whom. Worth
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Borrowing the thought from Ed Zitron, but when you think about it, most of us are exposing ourselves to low-grade trauma when we step onto the internet now.
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Yeah, was going to say, I'd take 800MB/s. I get a mere 180MB/s on this Drobo 5C (filled with 7200rpm HDDs) — theoretical max is 625MB/s.
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For sure. In the face of bigger systemic changes that feel out of our control (eating better, working less, affordable health care), we’ll try every “one weird trick”.
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I've been curious on the real-world throughput of a directly attached Thunderbolt RAID vs a 10GB (single or bonded) Synology NAS. It's annoying to have to go to my desk to connect to the USB-C Drobo, and I have to jump ship sooner
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I got charged for the modem even though I returned it to Xfinity (another champion of customer service) when I canceled. It wasn't worth my time to fight, and I wasn’t going to pay for something I didn’t owe. I could take the hit to my
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by jkestner 2y ago
We're trying to hit those three checkboxes with the environmental monitor/data logger we're shipping in a few months. Certificate to talk to our server, but you can also just point it at any MQTT broker.
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"Inflated sense" of something for sure. When mine attacks, he doesn't know when to stop no matter how many times I grab his neck. I raised this one from the egg. Once they reached sexual maturity he became an asshole, but cle
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“Geese are intelligent enough to discern unusual people” And intelligent enough to hold a grudge against familiar people. But I don’t think we’ve lost any hens under his watch.
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Ah, yes, all that avocado toast. How old are you? At my age, I escaped student debt and was able to buy a house young. I wouldn't be able to take the same path today.
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Pricing up front is a start. Hospital overbilling is probably a bigger issue than doctor pay. They have billing departments equivalent to a corporation’s team of accountants, but instead of paying no tax, their mission is to maximize what y
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I love Ancillary Justice even though I don’t think I should - must be the long payoff. Of course, you can get some of the same themes in an easier (and no spaceships, sentient or otherwise) read with Leckie’s other book The Raven Tower.
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My hack to skip that part is to travel with kids. Keep your clothes on and just walk through the metal detector.
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This anti-tiger rock only costs $10 billion!
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Nah. In my experience when you opt out, they say “Okay,” scan your ID the same way they’ve been doing for 20 years, and you get through in the same time. If they want to entice us with convenience, the facial recognition should allow you to
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I really liked this telling of the story with illustrations: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230719-the-blue-flash-l...
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I got the Maslow because I didn’t see any other solutions to let me cut a 4 x 8 sheet in a small space for that cost.
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Maybe they meant it literally, if your head's in the wrong place.
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Corporations are people, my friend. This is being tested again with anti-boycott laws and lawsuits.
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Nice thing is that block works there.
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Render comments in the style of the Onion's man-on-the-street American Voices section.
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With a simple majority, they can change the rules of the Senate so that a simple majority will get a bill passed. The filibuster is not in the Constitution.
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"Yet you participate in society!" defeatism. If we can't criticize the system without being part of it, then no one can criticize it. Simply living passively requires fossil fuels for most people. Actively patronizing these c
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I don't give a shit whether the workers are asking for "too much", whether they've got a cushy desk job, whether they want to eat avocado toast and drive a nice car. Everyone's entitled to whatever they can bargain
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They're all in it together. The journalists should strike for everything they want as well!
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All you got to do is write the unit tests and let the AI evolve the code, right??
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Kudos to 3M for that adhesive!
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Yes, you could stop it at the point of demand. I remember AZ implemented eVerify or some such, don’t know what effect or loopholes it had. In Texas: Whenever Texas politicians threaten to pass laws that would make it harder for business
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Missing are the exact use cases. For Twine (general purpose IoT monitor from way back), we used UDP for the steady monitoring stream, serving the purposes of a dashboard data stream and keeping the connection open, while saving power. Used

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