kevstev

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by kevstev 1y ago
There are dozens of us I guess that care about this kind of thing. I have never really understood the obsession with https for static content that I don't care if anyone can see I am reading like a blog post. HTTPS should be for things
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by kevstev 1y ago
Laying chickens are very different from broiler (eating) chickens. You can eat laying chickens but the meat is much stringier. You can stew them though, coq au vin is a French dish more or less made for these types, even though its the norm
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by kevstev 1y ago
I thought the same. It made me wonder where they sourced the photos from, almost looks like they sourced it from webshots or a similar site in the mid 2000s. It was nice to see people just being caught in happy moments, and made me realize
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by kevstev 1y ago
Eh, businesses want to stay resilient to a single vendor going down. My least favorite question in interviews this past year was around multi-cloud. Because imho it just isn't worth it- the increased complexity, the trying to like-like
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by kevstev 1y ago
Yeah- I get about 300 new items each day in my feed... of which on average about 1% of those are worth reading the full article. There is a lot of duplication as well- many sites will cover a new gadget announcement, but only need to read o
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by kevstev 1y ago
Feedly works more or less the same. I have no issues with it.
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by kevstev 1y ago
Yeah back when margin rates were close to 1% it made a ton of sense to use margin. I was pretty cautious with it but bought a bunch of blue chip dividend stocks- altria, vz, etc at 1% rates and collected 5% dividends. For awhile I could eve
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by kevstev 1y ago
I still check it out a few times a week, and the discussions have just fallen off a cliff, and that was the biggest draw to me as well. The articles are far less technical these days as well and tend to lean more political - and I see the d
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by kevstev 1y ago
You are right it's misleading to say DC is at a 30 year low- the data I posted shows that it is actually at a 60 year low. It's not clear at all that it has an abnormally high homicide rate at all. DC is not even listed on the lin
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by kevstev 1y ago
DC'a murder _rate_ is 19th in the country per Wikipedia, and 1/4 of #1 St. Louis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b... The pace of muders in DC this year should put it somewhere ar
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by kevstev 1y ago
I bought a UDM about two years ago, and it was a real mess for about 6 months. It was hanging every few weeks which required a hard reboot- which was shocking, because this was my first attempt at upgrading my network to more expensive and
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by kevstev 1y ago
My accord is a 2007 so not much newer than yours. We can Uber around for most trips but find it very convenient to have a car at times. If it works for you great, I thought that was a fairly common thing- particularly in cars of that era, b
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by kevstev 1y ago
Doesn't anti-theft precautions kick in when you do this? On my Honda, if the battery goes completely dead or when I replace it, I have to enter a code in after, and IIRC all my radio stations reset, so it would be really inconvenient t
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by kevstev 1y ago
I found using qemu to be quite simple and pretty decent. I guess it depends on what you are looking to do- really low level bootloader/OS type stuff or actually explore the instruction set and maybe build something useful. Learning abo
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by kevstev 1y ago
The silent and really unheralded disappearance of Wintel from my home surprised me a few weeks ago as well. It wasn't a conscious decision, they just got slowly replaced by macbooks, and an ARM based NAS... etc. Kind of like how I also
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by kevstev 1y ago
IMHO its more about the varieties that are grown for industrial scale and efficiency, rather than flavor. I was part of a community garden and started a lot of stuff from seed- celery, tomatoes, onions, garlic, lettuces etc... and I was ove
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by kevstev 2y ago
I would be shocked if anyone is really looking for anything practical out of this, its more of a lab exercise that lets you learn by actually doing things. I learn best this way. It's one thing to draw a circuit, or even put it in a
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by kevstev 2y ago
This picture without context gave me QA or build lab type vibes, and the caption in the story confirmed that. They had to test on all kinds of configurations and hardware, so this makes sense- tbh I am surprised its this small. Remote tools
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by kevstev 2y ago
They aren't. You are showing your true colors. Fox news literally says in it's tos that it's a source of entertainment and not real news. There is no false equivalence here. Fox news is absolute trash. Don't even attempt
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by kevstev 2y ago
Yes I read high quality news sources- the WSJ, NYTimes, foreign affairs and a few others like the national review and mother Jones from time to time. I hear this argument a lot and my issues with Trump were from the primary source- his own
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by kevstev 2y ago
This is my big struggle with all of this. His first term I felt America was duped by a con man so protested and made a fuss on social media. Americans saw the first four years and astonishingly decided they wanted more of it, by a decent ma
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by kevstev 2y ago
I don't read it regularly, but The Economist is a great source that covers pretty much every corner of the world. In fact I don't subscribe because its just a firehose, and I just can't keep up with the internal squabbling of
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by kevstev 2y ago
I see. I never trusted transactions and advised our app teams to not rely on them, at least without outside verification of them. The situation is actually far worse with any client relying on librdkafka. Some of this has been fixed, but my
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by kevstev 2y ago
It is a bit of splitting hairs in some sense, but the key concept here is just because the message was delivered to the Kafka client successfully, does not mean it was processed by the application. You will have to explicitly ack if you wan
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by kevstev 2y ago
As someone who was very deep into Kafka in the not too distant past, I am surprised I have no idea what you are referring to- can you enlighten me?
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by kevstev 2y ago
I tried nand2tetris and my hardware class was one I did best in in college. Yet I found this class and book to be very much "rest of the Fine owl" and I had to refer back to my college textbooks and even my tests to do the assignm
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by kevstev 2y ago
We are just in opinion territory here, but Uber was originally more expensive generally than NYC taxis, but it took off anyway. If everyone was so cost sensitive, why isn't everyone taking the subway?
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by kevstev 2y ago
| Consumer don't actually care that much about this. They care about price - they're very price sensitive. Uber WAS cheaper, so they won. The experience being better matters a little, but not much. And, again, it's not that m
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by kevstev 2y ago
Can you lay out your understanding of how this works?- I get the feeling you don't even understand the basics. You are only taxed on profits so why would financing even be brought into the conversation?
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by kevstev 2y ago
Big tech is most affected as they have the biggest r&d budgets? You still have to show a profit to owe taxes which most startups don't have and big tech does. There is a huge bag of tricks you can use to hide or show profit as well

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