kennethrc

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by kennethrc 3y ago
> See Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Seriously. That's what they're named. Well, colloquial names for "FNMA" (Federal National Mortgage Association) and "FHLMC" (Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation) anyway
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by kennethrc 3y ago
Exactly! But I keep waiting for someone here to mention that, and not seeing it. But my parents' Midwestern bank used to have these too in the 70s, always thought it was so cool.
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by kennethrc 3y ago
> The default configuration was "if you lose power there's a good chance the filesystem will be corrupt". "Good chance"? We used to do kernel module development directly on Pi3/4s at this one client of mine,
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by kennethrc 3y ago
> Argentina and how late they dine. Apropos of nothing, but I loved that about the place
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by kennethrc 3y ago
> If the Ark was found (and verified somehow), would it change your mind? Maybe, but it'd definitely have to be verified by Top Men.
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by kennethrc 3y ago
> Why are you drinking alcoholic beverages if you don’t care about getting drunk? For the taste? If I could get my favorite wines, Scotches and beers without the alcohol- WHILE retaining the exact same flavor- which I admit is likely imp
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by kennethrc 3y ago
> In a previous statement, a spokesperson said [BNSF] “does not retaliate against employees.” Oh! Well then, case closed
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by kennethrc 3y ago
> Where are you flying? 99% of that has been within the US, and about 2/3rds of that up and down the Western US. > If at all possible I use carry on only. I can work nearly anywhere thanks to WFH, but that also means I have a lot
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by kennethrc 3y ago
FWIW,I've had at least a thousand flights over the last 15 years with at least a bag (and many times two) checked and have had one delayed until the next flight about 5 times, but none ever lost.
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by kennethrc 3y ago
"Succession"
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by kennethrc 3y ago
> I'm reasonably certain that no one has ever actually read it before clicking the 'Agree' box. ... or maybe your product is just that awesome it's worth your Immortal Soul after all :)
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by kennethrc 3y ago
I'd be surprised if huge amounts of moderation were necessary in forums about ceramic grilling, Linux laptops and cellular service, though.
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by kennethrc 3y ago
> mobile Yeah, I'm either on my laptop, or the official(?) Reddit Android app if I'm bored outta my skull somewhere and need something to look at (which is very rarely).
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by kennethrc 3y ago
"Get New Reddit" is in orange at the top of the window; I'm still using the old interface (via cookies, I guess).
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by kennethrc 3y ago
Huh. So apparently I'm in the minority here- I point a browser at www.reddit.com , skim a few favorite forums, maybe make a comment or two then do something else for the rest of the day. IOW, is the sky not falling for my use-case?
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by kennethrc 3y ago
> but devices with slow SoC are slow even with plenty of free space. We'd find during initial development (i.e., raw, bare Android) that the initial bring up would have good-to-excellent performance, but as the storage began to fill
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by kennethrc 3y ago
I'll bet that's due to slow storage, and not the CPU(s); I've done a few handsets and tablets and write performance was a large part of being laggy or not. It's quite obvious when the storage is full and the flash contro
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by kennethrc 3y ago
> A vast majority of the Linux desktop ecosystem has been on NVIDIA graphics cards Source? Nvidia's proprietary, closed drivers and the moving target that comes with that means I avoid Nvidia graphics hardware at all costs and I&#x
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by kennethrc 3y ago
I used to commute (weekly) SoCal/NoCal for a while and still fly quite often. Between airline status and perks like PreCheck and CLEAR and lounge access (all of which one of my CCs gives me for "free") flying is a lot less ha
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by kennethrc 3y ago
You need to fix your keyboard, your current one is dropping "0"s (... kidding, but where is this?!)
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by kennethrc 3y ago
Yup. <cue the "How are sex and air alike?" joke>
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by kennethrc 4y ago
My regulatory.db (and regulatory.db.p7s) lives in /lib/firmware; have you tried copying it there? And I make "iwlwifi" a loadable module, so the userspace firmware loader can pick up the various firmware blobs once the r
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by kennethrc 4y ago
It appears this is a non-US issue? "iw reg get" shows "country 00: DFS-UNSET" with 9 frequencies (incl. 755-928 MHz ... huh) and "country US: DFS-UNSET" with a long list going from 2402-7125 MHz on my Wi-Fi 6E
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by kennethrc 4y ago
> I don’t think young people appreciate how talking to strangers in public went from common and acceptable to creepy and taboo in the last 15 years ... uh, what? I meet people (i.e., "talk to strangers") all the time in public,
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by kennethrc 4y ago
...GHz ?
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by kennethrc 4y ago
The Hollywood version of events: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ0P7R9CfCY
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by kennethrc 4y ago
Huh. Been pronouncing it in my head as "dang!" (like the "expletive") all this time