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by phil21 1y ago
Ancestors didn't have the hyper-scheduled calendar controlled lives of two working professionals plus child rearing. Something has to give in such situations. Priorities are 100% it. My parents were able to raise me on a single incom
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by phil21 1y ago
> Is US leadership that bad that they failed to address this risk? I mean, quite obviously? Borne by the simple fact of... here we are discussing it? It doesn't matter how easy, quick, or hard it is right now. What matters is lead
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by phil21 1y ago
Unifi is what you swap over to once your time becomes more scarce and money more plentiful. At least in all the cases of my peer group. It's far less customizable, and can be maddening sometimes if it doesn't Just Work(tm) - debu
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by phil21 1y ago
I ran an old Thinkpad as a home router and small home server/NAS device for quite a long time, usually swapping out my old work upgrades every 3 years or so. They all had onboard gige so it worked fine - native vlan for the inbound Com
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by phil21 1y ago
It's way less about device count, and more about AP density - especially in RF challenging environments. I pretty much just deploy WiFi as a "line of sight" technology these days in a major city. Wherever you use the wifi you
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by phil21 1y ago
> So a person can hard-wire their Sonos sub, soundbar, and surround speakers into the LAN without fear of badness -- or use one or more of those wirelessly, instead. All without problems. Eh, I just had to go through and disconnect all e
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by phil21 1y ago
It will be less the age of the actual cable, and more the standards used when cabled. The largest issue is likely to be splitters behind the wall that limit frequencies passed through. Usually those can be found in the wall boxes behind th
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by phil21 1y ago
Works pretty well for me across two C8 vehicles. The only complaint I really have is when my wife and I are both in the car and it randomly decides to pick up the non-drivers phone even though the right driver profile is selected. I have m
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by phil21 1y ago
I really despise this talking point. Before Boeing had its epic fails, usually they were talked about as the prototypical “we make airplanes instead of rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong” example. But it neglected to show that Boeing outsourc
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by phil21 1y ago
Plenty of bets being placed on nuclear, but they are moonshot style bets. From where I'm standing, the immediate capital seems to be being deployed at smaller-scale (2-5MW) natural gas turbines co-located on site with the load. I haven
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by phil21 1y ago
I don't see how? It's much more reasonable to state "all electrical consumers are paying a proportionate amount to operate the grid based on their usage rates". This is typically spelled out by the rate commissions and
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by phil21 1y ago
Yeah. We have been turning off old plants and not bringing on-line new ones the entire time I've been alive now. At best we've perpetually been renewing licenses to grant operation of old plants well beyond their original design
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by phil21 1y ago
The lack of investment in energy infrastructure - especially dispatchable power sources and grid transmission - is finally coming to bite us. Datacenters are simply the final straw/tipping point, and make a convenient scapegoat. At som
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by phil21 1y ago
> we all need to use less energy We need cheaper and cleaner forms of energy. More efficient uses of energy. I do not agree that we "all" need to use less energy overall. Energy use tracks wealth pretty closely, and manufacturi
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by phil21 1y ago
I use them regularly and have never had anyone not accept them. I have had many places reject $100 bills though. I’m that weirdo that tries to pay cash for most everything, so sample size is large and across a diverse set of businesses. Due
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by phil21 1y ago
This used to be true, but the last few years I’ve noticed many more ATMs and even people handing out $50 bills. They are effectively becoming the new $20 with inflation continuing upwards, and I expect their popularity to continue to increa
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by phil21 1y ago
This would be vulnerable to a double spending attack. Pretty trivially too unless I’m missing something. If it became common I imagine it would stop being so quickly as fraud would rapidly catch up.
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by phil21 1y ago
This is the reason I try to pay everything I reasonably can with cash. I’m about as northern as you get. I’m definitely looked as crazy in my friend group from time to time, but over the years I’ve just become known as the guy who will alwa
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by phil21 1y ago
It’s quite common in the US everywhere I’ve lived. Every tradesman I’ve used outside of large companies will offer a large discount for cash if you ask about it. They will likely not be the first to initiate though at a certain level of cu
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by phil21 1y ago
Our 75/25 Australian Shepherd/Poodle mix we like to call "loophole puppy" since she has the Aussie "lawful good" traits, mixed in with a mind that makes everything a game of how she can adhere to the letter of
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by phil21 1y ago
I find a good use in it via making legal, but otherwise “high risk” transactions traditional financial institutions either don’t touch or make very difficult to engage in. Much easier for me to send a small amount of crypto to a VPN provide
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by phil21 1y ago
All this does is keep people alive. Certainly important and might solve the final "acute" symptom but doesn't address a single other thing in the parent comment. All which is very much true if you are paying attention to the
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by phil21 1y ago
I'm convinced that a great majority of problems in the US these days fundamentally boils down to principal agent problems. The 2008 financial crisis is a great example. Once banks no longer kept mortgages on their own books, it just b
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by phil21 1y ago
It’s exceedingly rare for a vendor to be cheaper on shipping (and in total) than Amazon is for me. Especially if you consider shipping speed and return hassle/expense. Really depends on what you buy, but about half the time I buy from
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by phil21 1y ago
I do wonder about the second order effects of the second bit. A lot of open source tooling gets created to solve those random "silly" things that are personal annoyances or needs. Then you find out others have the same or similar
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by phil21 1y ago
This simply is untrue for a huge portion of work done in IT. It seems in the last decade or so many people have forgotten that programming is simply a way to achieve a business goal or task. Some things are highly valuable (e.g. validating
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by phil21 1y ago
I mean, this is the entire intent. It lowers your resale value quite a lot too though, since it's not open for development. I was moderately interested in a property in the middle of nowhere that had about 8 acres buildable (with two
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by phil21 1y ago
Totally agree. It only works if you're the only person who has the tech and no one notices you're using it :)
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by phil21 1y ago
> recession This, but an actual depression that will likely make the Great Depression look like a good time - largely due to folks being a lot more self-sustaining back then due to common skillsets and lived experiences.
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by phil21 1y ago
These two topics are not remotely the same or even in the same league. In fact you could very easily argue that the reliance on HFCS which is native grown and keeps a huge amount of tillable land in production is a national security asset.

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