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by phil21 11mo ago
Yep, first language I learned. And since I was somewhat early to the Internet thing, I found IRC when I was about 14 years old and actually learned from a lot of the folks who have authored books on Perl or are at least (were) well known in
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by phil21 11mo ago
It’s interesting to me how brains work. Perl has always “flowed” for me and made mostly intuitive sense. Every other language I’ve had to hack on to get something done is a struggle for me to fit into some rigid-feeling mental box. I unders
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by phil21 11mo ago
> Herbicides are pesticides. Are you implying that I made a mistake with that word? I did not. Fair, the word pesticide is technically accurate - simply not used where I am from to describe herbicides. > would you advocate for dishone
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by phil21 11mo ago
The public discourse on glyphosate is useless. As witnessed by calling it a pesticide, which is quite common among those most vocal against its use. Less is more when it comes to chemicals, which is why reasonable uses of glyphosate seems t
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by phil21 11mo ago
Would you really need ASML machines to do DDR5 RAM? Honest question, but I figured there was competition for the non-bleeding edge - perhaps naively so.
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by phil21 11mo ago
Currently trying to source a large amount of DDR4 to upgrade a 3 year old fleet of servers at a very unfortunate time. It's very difficult to source in quantity, and is going up in price more or less daily at this point. Vendor quotes
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by phil21 11mo ago
I often describe myself as a bulldozer for my team. My job is to lay out clear expectations, do my best to steady the course free of external chaos, and bulldoze a clear path for the team to get stuff done.
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by phil21 11mo ago
> where the builders didn't want to be on the hook for the inevitable doubling (or worse) of final cost, so they wrote special rules for new nuclear to be paid in advance and not held to cost estimates. Sounds relatively fair to me
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by phil21 11mo ago
Liability for what? The only real liability in my state is for outright misrepresentation or fraud via failing to disclose. The disclosure form covers anything material I'd care about. Even then - good luck actually proving anything s
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by phil21 11mo ago
Inspections are fairly worthless if you are remotely handy and competent at basic stuff. I don’t need someone to go through and catalog the make and models of all the appliances, and I can visually inspect my own water heater and furnace pr
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by phil21 11mo ago
Many of those “simple diagnostic procedures” are a tenth of the cost if done outside of insurance out of pocket. MRIs are one of them. My routine blood work done via my doctor bills something like $1600 to my insurance every other year or s
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by phil21 11mo ago
> Hospitals charge $15 for a single pill of Tylenol because they know insurance will pay for it It’s more they know insurance won’t pay for it, and negotiate discounts based off the “retail” price. Although at this point it’s gotten so
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by phil21 11mo ago
Verizon unlimited plans will be about that after taxes and fees for two lines. Add in phones being financed and you’re easily over $200/mo direct with a carrier.
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by phil21 11mo ago
> Taxes once when you take the loan against it, and taxed again when you realize the profit to pay the loan. Trivially fixed by simply letting you deduct the taxes paid when you took out the loan against the taxes owed when you actually
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by phil21 11mo ago
I’ve always been of the opinion tax brackets should be “lifetime earnings” based regardless of income source. Your first $1M should be taxed differently than your next $10M and so forth.
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by phil21 11mo ago
Pretending scheduled downtime and rare emergency shutdown of dispatchable power sources are the same as intermittent sources of power is getting to the point of a disingenuous argument. They are not remotely comparable, and they are typical
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by phil21 11mo ago
That works fine. Self driving doesn’t need to be everything for all conditions everywhere. Give me reliable and safe self driving for Interstate highways in moderate to good weather conditions and I would be very happy. Get better increment
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by phil21 11mo ago
> Seasonal energy storage is uninteresting, you just overbuild the energy production instead. This is already done for every existing type of energy production to account for seasonal variation in demand. It’s the only thing that is inte
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by phil21 11mo ago
Well, I certainly can’t make a couple weeks of battery storage pencil out vs. a fossil fuel generator at this point. The math actually gets worse once you get into combined cycle natural gas at scale. You I suppose could make an argument th
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by phil21 11mo ago
It’s not reasonably affordable by any real “middle class” metric and the impact a reliable grid has on the industrial and commercial base of an economy is being undervalued by an utterly laughable degree during these discussions. Westerners
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by phil21 11mo ago
There is not enough evidence to say this is true. It could absolutely be a factor in the effectiveness. Placebo is a highly effective drug. I say this as an extreme evangelist of GLP-1s. Behavior modification and habit building appears to m
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by phil21 11mo ago
> my guess is that what we'll ultimately find is that the benefits of GLP-1 therapy are primarily due to reduced blood sugar This is my guess as well. It's been eye opening correlating on/off GLP-1s, wearing a CGM (blood g
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by phil21 11mo ago
>The "something" that happened was ads. They poisoned all the fun and interest out of technology. Disagree. Ads hurt, but not as much as technology being invaded by the regular masses who have no inherit interest in tech for th
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by phil21 11mo ago
> To me, hacker is about results Same to me as well. A hacker would "hack out" some tool in a few crazy caffeine fueled nights that would be ridiculed by professional devs who had been working on the problem as a 6 man team for
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by phil21 11mo ago
16 minutes per mile (3.75mph) (5 miles in 80 minutes) is basically my 'fast walk' time in the city. My wife who is shorter has a hard time keeping up with that. Unfortunately stop lights/etc. will also make this longer. My &q
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by phil21 11mo ago
It's only meaningful if you have enough disposable income to invest that it eventually (and I don't mean in 50 years) makes a dent against your living expenses. If you make $4k/mo and rent is $3k, it's pretty silly to st
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by phil21 11mo ago
Upgrading from 300mbps to 1.5gbps was instantly noticeable to me. I was also skeptical of it being so. The microbursts to pull down a full chonky 50MB modern web page actually do matter when you are on modern hardware capable of rendering
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by phil21 11mo ago
I’ve had McDonalds twice in the past 12mo. Once locally just because I was for whatever reason craving it, once on a late night last minute road trip in the middle of nowhere midwestern USA. Hasn’t seemed to have a discernible quality diff
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by phil21 11mo ago
Costco has been 2.99/lb for chicken breast about as long as I can remember now here in Chicago. It’s only sometimes better priced than the local supermarket, but the quality is consistent and price stable. If I have spare time on a wee
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by phil21 11mo ago
More expensive? Absolutely not. Never has been and is unlikely to ever be true. More difficult? Time consuming? Requires practice? Yes. Usually overblown though on all fronts, considering the types of families that seem to find ways to make

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