mindslight

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by mindslight 5d ago
Putting aside the awesomeness of the term homebase , what exactly differentiates the base from the prod? Aren't those ZFS pools just production ? Or something like an MQTT broker that supports home automation - you're likely run
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by mindslight 6d ago
Re names, I like "homeprod". The main goal isn't to experiment and learn, and you're not scrapping to get a pair of Cisco 2501's to study for your CCNA. Rather the main goal is providing services that support your f
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by mindslight 7d ago
Why technology sucks in '26.
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by mindslight 8d ago
Truthfulness does not imply that something is not partisan. That it's brought up as a talking point to motivate a certain line of thinking is what makes it partisan. > You should read up on game theory. It doesn't matter what
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by mindslight 9d ago
Honestly telling your kid going off to college (or elsewhere) "you have to take everything from you care about, the rest is going to go away" seems like a good way to stunt their independence. The natural reaction would be to ta
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by mindslight 9d ago
I really wish articles like this wouldn't anchor around this refrain of "... while their wealth increased by $XXX". It's a staple of tax law that you're only taxed when income is actually realized, and there are a
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by mindslight 10d ago
I like the article, but I'd say it has left out descriptions of those people who weren't in the social Matrices it described (either because they didn't want to be, like " one family who had moved out of the West End int
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by mindslight 10d ago
Your game here seems to be throwing out simplistic partisan tripe, to either prompt an equally-inflammatory opposite-partisan response that will leave you feeling vindicated, or you can always fall back to arguing the shreds of truth in it
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by mindslight 10d ago
Do you feel like you have much agency in the economic and political systems that rule our lives? The problem does indeed always come down to humans, but the specific humans with the most agency are generally quite eager to take away the age
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by mindslight 11d ago
Right on! It's always frustrating reading articles framed in terms of "security breaches" and "dark web", invariably doing hand waving at unspecified harm, when the real threat actor for pretty much everybody is t
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by mindslight 11d ago
You really do seem to love this type of "Democrats made them do it" excuse. At a certain point you've got to ask yourself if you're trying to convince others or mainly just yourself.
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by mindslight 11d ago
So you were "simply" responding to one small part of my comment, with a narrative that sane-washes the whole larger picture. If you personally don't care about the debt, that's fine. But there are a lot of people who had
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by mindslight 11d ago
The Republican plan appears to be to run the de jure government into the ground so that the corporations can occupy more and more governmental roles, eliminating what little shreds still remain of our Constitutional/natural rights. So
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by mindslight 11d ago
Cool story bro? I remember a whole lot of people who complained about the debt during the Obama years (I was right there with them), who are now completely silent or even full-throated support. Perhaps a few of the more "honest" o
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by mindslight 12d ago
Did anybody think Grumpism was going to go somewhere other than here? It's merely been the spite choice the whole time - a way for economic losers to stick their thumbs in the eyes of people who had been mildly successful. Pure crab bu
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by mindslight 13d ago
The Sharpie works!!
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by mindslight 13d ago
Games could clearly be an exception - they're the only place the locked down computing paradigm has a reasonable argument. The multi-user productivity apps you listed would most certainly be better off as separate clients and service
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by mindslight 14d ago
> if someone writes an app with a backend service or library, should they be required to document the API for people to build their own tools on top of? Yes. Network services and client software should be considered two separate produc
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by mindslight 14d ago
Documentation for hardware subassemblies produced by different manufacturers isn't getting conveyed through hallway conversations. Pure software can indeed be quite sloppy, but for vehicles we're talking about large scale cross-st
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by mindslight 14d ago
> at what size or capacity should you be required to document and publish these things? The reason there is an opaque number in that open source utility is precisely because of a lack of open documentation for that register definition.
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by mindslight 14d ago
Given how each tractor manufacturer is essentially associated with its own specific country, I'd say this industry is a great example of how mature industries tend to consolidate into monopolies while getting propped up by regulatory c
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by mindslight 14d ago
> I’m not a mechanic or a farmer So the author is looking at one third of the problem (from the perspective of an IT worker), in a comfortable stage-managed experience put on by Deere themselves. A sensor with a disconnected cable - a
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by mindslight 15d ago
My question is not whether those who voted for Trump 2024 are going to come to their senses and sour on this incompetent, destructive, and corrupt con man. My question is how long their reality checks are going to last before they start lea
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by mindslight 16d ago
Your understanding of LLCs is a bit off. The LLC (or other corporate) structure does not protect the nurse from liability, nor any of the other directly-involved workers. The LLC protects the owners of the LLC - ie the ones turning the
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by mindslight 20d ago
It's understandable when you see that the ethos is to have software that represents the user in charge of the rendering, rather than centralizing it all on the server. There is a major difference between common "app store apps&quo
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by mindslight 20d ago
> too much time being the "defund the police/eat the rich" sidekick to Biden It seems like you're merely demonstrating one dynamic by which people are able to maintain that proud ignorance - buying into simplistic f
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by mindslight 20d ago
Actual terrorists have a right to speak too, you know. Intrinsic to the whole idea of rights is that even people we don't like (or are even mortally opposed to!) still have them. The problem with "firebombs on anti-abortion preg
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by mindslight 21d ago
> Most Americans clearly don't approve Except they did . Votes for Grump in 2016 were completely understandable, sympathizable even. Responsibility for the train wreck of a first term didn't fall at the feet of the voters -
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by mindslight 21d ago
No, that's proxying the service . Presumably if your younger brother had asked you to buy ten handles of pure grain alcohol, you would have asked some questions. Proxying the credential means something like letting your brother use yo
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by mindslight 22d ago
Move over mahi-mahi, here comes maha tuna.

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