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by no-s 4y ago
> “Antractica” The porbelm si?
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by no-s 4y ago
> Hire people who can and are willing to read. Also make sure they are able to read more than the first few words of the first sentence…(from bitter experience)
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by no-s 4y ago
Optimistic SF is retro SF. Thanks!
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by no-s 4y ago
> But how do you color match your drives in your spiffy NAS? haha, pimp your ride!
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by no-s 4y ago
> The stuff I've read that touches on this idea is almost all from 2006 and onwards, mainly 2010s. The earliest example is a bit of an outlier: Douglas Hubbard's 1985 How to Measure Anything -- but it's also only tangentia
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by no-s 4y ago
> Total system outage is one level, unrecoverable total system outage is even worse. Ha, I used to suggest people consider “total failure of business” in exposure quantification...
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by no-s 4y ago
> It's a common misconception that risk management and risk reduction are synonyms. Risk management is about finding the right level of risk given external factors. Sometimes that means maintaining the current level of risk or even
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by no-s 4y ago
> my APL compiler, April Oh, I have to try this! APL is in the family tradition, I literally learned it from my mom. Probably the first programming language I sincerely enjoyed! I sure do miss the glyphs. Mom uses R now and often notes s
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by no-s 4y ago
> If you use a Mac, I’ve really enjoyed using Divvy. You can define snap zones with keyboard shortcuts. My memory is hazy but I feel this is close to some now-elided window management feature in MacOS... Thanks for the tip!
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by no-s 4y ago
> The constable, my son, and his friend walked into the management office; the constable presented the writ of execution of the judgment, and my son and his friend started unplugging and loading up office equipment and furniture to be ha
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by no-s 4y ago
> You may not be trying to choke people, but you're doing it anyway by defeating emissions controls. You can justify it all you want, just make sure you understand the consequences.Those "micro-regulations" as you call the
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by no-s 4y ago
> What do you need a pickup for? At my age the time wasted by not having the right tool at hand stings bitterly. Especially when the job is absolutely necessary. Mostly use the truck for getting around to rural property off the paved roa
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by no-s 4y ago
> I have no problem with fining the idiots who remove particulate filters and sensors to be able to 'roll coal' at urban stoplights. That's senseless. But expensive emissions control systems are a problem. yeah, what perce
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by no-s 4y ago
> A late model diesel truck capable of "rolling coal" almost certainly has an emissions defeat device or tune, or has otherwise been modified. These devices are not always about trying to extract the performance lost to emissio
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by no-s 4y ago
Selenian Boondocks[1] has a great archive of cool ideas (eg [2]) and some of the authors are also founders. [1] https://selenianboondocks.com/ [2] https://selenianboondocks.com/2022/04/geo-orbital-d
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by no-s 4y ago
> The 2nd amendment talks about a "well regulated militia" not a well armed one FYI “well regulated militia” in that 18th century sense meant “armed and dangerous as a fighting force at whatever scope of operation that is needf
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by no-s 4y ago
Futurists extend trends, but innovation defies trends. So this article is about futurism, not innovation. I would believe the blurring of cloud, edge, and localhost more than this. I think it’s reasonable to believe network splits (physical
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by no-s 4y ago
It’s not hypothetical that a person would buy a pickup truck and expect to use it at all, heheh. You chose to reframe it as “the person is exclusively relying on this grid-tied vehicle for all their transportation needs as well”, which is f
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by no-s 4y ago
Also, safety will probably also dictate you must wait for the utility to finish using your truck battery before you disconnect it. You’ll probably have to request a disconnect and wait for generation or OtherPeoplesStorage to come online…
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by no-s 4y ago
> The article is being clever and recontextualising the concept, because that’s what cements a use case in peoples minds. Awesome! Gotta remember that line when I make shit up! Hurrah for This brave new world where a sufficiently reconte
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by no-s 4y ago
> If adding energy storage to homes allows the grid to require less fossil-fuel burning peaker plants, while generating income for those homeowners, why wouldn't this be rightfully seen as a virtue? Hmm, imagine the scenario where t
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by no-s 4y ago
> Transforming an F-150 Lightning into a backup generator means you can keep the lights on during blackouts. > ... 9.6 kilowatts of carbon-free electricity generated onboard... fail. it’s a mobile battery, not a generator. For a modes
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by no-s 4y ago
> which is really the one cloaked in authoritarianism? Really? A false equivalence? I think it might boil down to who initiates the use of force to get their way. If someone says “no, I’m not giving it up,” how will you make them give it
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by no-s 4y ago
Throwing smart contracts into the mess doesn’t make gun control any less of a waste. Bluntly, as long as gun control ultimately relies on use of force to succeed, gun control proposals are cloaked authoritarianism. Therefore it’s quite poss
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by no-s 4y ago
> The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s decision in Jarkesy v. SEC would dismantle much of the system the federal government uses to enforce longstanding laws. Well, too bad. The US gov’t is explicitly supposed to have limits,
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by no-s 4y ago
Recently I’ve thought it might be good to go back into consulting as a Data Architect. I would happily partner up with a good product if it there was (hands waving) “synergy”...
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by no-s 4y ago
> If you work with Postgres it's pleasant for the most part as well. I’ve schemed and schemed for years and still those Postgres-central jobs elude my grasp. Still dreaming. In my current job I go back and re-cast the solution in Po
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by no-s 4y ago
> I never came across a DBA which has more than scripting experience. The job title is not “database administrator”, it’s “systems engineer - database”. Frankly if it’s remote I would apply for it, even though I’m not a Postie specialist
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by no-s 4y ago
> more or less a single Postgres database with all our state oh that’s neat. As a data architect, I like to avoid such issues by never letting it happen in the first place. I love Postie but I’m not a specialist. But why not sharding? Se
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by no-s 4y ago
> I would really appreciate real DBAs with in-depth skills. heheh, I hear that all the time, but show me the money...

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