phil21

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by phil21 2mo ago
> I don’t even know of a high school around me that starts at 7:30AM. Within 30 minutes in each direction this was the normal start time for practically all high schools in my area growing up. Where I live now my niece who I occasionally
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by phil21 2mo ago
I think you're mostly right. I use it for a few extra things though. Stuff I can think of: * Timers * Alerts * Step counter/fitness tracker * My fitness app for weight training - I can start a workout on my phone and enter my set&
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by phil21 2mo ago
> No one expected doorbell cameras to join a mass surveillance network, but later the manufacturers added that feature. Plenty of people did? That was obviously one of the end goals for cloud connected devices pushing recordings to a rem
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by phil21 2mo ago
Generally speaking, from having family who were organic market garden farmers who also did a few farmers markets stalls… Smaller markets tend to be better and more curated/policed by the organizers. This typically means you are driving
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by phil21 2mo ago
Or it’s just the largely self-taught intrinsically curious autodidact developers and engineers have always been 10x and the “average” person in it for the paycheck is really what a 1xer has always actually been. I think the industry highly
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by phil21 2mo ago
So weird to me anyone actually refutes this effect. I lost weight for two reasons. First was for health, second was for career/being taking seriously in certain social circles (aka networking). I also went through one of the least conf
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by phil21 2mo ago
Nope. Takes maybe 3-5 seconds to start from when I press any button on my Shield remote. HDMI CEC autoselects the input and everything reliably about 98% of the time. Once in a while (every couple months) I need to reboot my shield which is
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by phil21 2mo ago
> Shame we've given up all our free time to work so we can buy worse alternatives. Not true on average. The average American spends 4-5 hours a day on personal screen time. And those who complain about not having time to cook I&#x27
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by phil21 2mo ago
They were more absurd in the 90's. You'd have the gas station 64oz reusable cups you could use to do unlimited refills for a dollar. "Super Size" was a 90's thing as well, if I recall. It was basically an arms race
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by phil21 2mo ago
Yeah, this is the problem for me. Society is orientated around morning hours, and kids are the big one here. When I had a job I rarely had to interact with others, it was pretty easy. I could wake up early on the one day a week or less I ne
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by phil21 2mo ago
> Which is super unattractive in much of regular life Which is, imo, one of the primary reasons of the stagnation of US society over the past 50 years. We are at all time lows for internal migration. This reduces dynamism drastically. Pe
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by phil21 2mo ago
I have done all this and more. Done all the stupid advice you get from everyone who was simply a morning person living an irresponsible life but then grew up, hired professionals, and even tried prescription drugs for a period of time. It i
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by phil21 2mo ago
I mean, if you care about this and it annoys you the fix is very simple and relatively cheap. Just set a minimum baseline/standardization for the type of cable/capabilities you need for your highest end device. Only keep those cab
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by phil21 2mo ago
Slop is slop. I don't care if it's human generated or AI generated slop. It's all the same to me. All AI did was accelerate the generation of slop so that bit is interesting to discuss and ponder. It's simultaneously uni
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by phil21 2mo ago
This doesn’t work for older folks. They have medical providers constantly randomly reaching out. Typically medication changes or reminding them it’s time to come do labs or whatever. That and trying to walk my parents through turning this s
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by phil21 2mo ago
There was no actual plan that could have been made short of one that spanned multiple administrations over at least a decade to spin up enough missile or interceptor manufacturing for such a thing. It’s just silly to think that the US has t
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by phil21 2mo ago
> I guess this is Bessent's scheme to try and kick that can down the road. This can be summed up policy for pretty much every single administration since I've been alive. For almost every single massively looming problem - fina
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by phil21 2mo ago
I’m for LVT precisely for the express purpose of not carving out exceptions for any landowner. 80 year old ladies included. Basically I see it as a way to get closer to the ideal of making land speculation no longer a thing. Regular homeo
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by phil21 3mo ago
Call it 200W, and it would offset say 5 hours a day of that for where I'm at. Call it 1.5kwh for the entire day being optimistic. This would save me (inclusive of taxes, etc.) roughly $.33/day. Call it $10/mo. 34mo so payback
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by phil21 3mo ago
Why is it in the middle of nowhere? Ignoring that's somewhat the exception, not the rule. It just might have to do with where electrical grid interconnect happens to currently be with spare capacity. These corridors also happen to be w
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by phil21 3mo ago
The datacenter buildout is just a buildout of the electric grid in a roundabout fashion. If you are for green energy and the electrification of primary energy this giant wave of unlimited private investment is the best gift you could have e
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by phil21 3mo ago
> While we're at it, how much should small bathroom, 2 week renovation cost? $100,000 in labour? Obviously much more than 2 weeks worth of work at a commercial job, since that's the worst possible kind of work you could ever of
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by phil21 3mo ago
Certainly has changed my writing style. Now I just vastly overuse commas in inappropriate ways!
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by phil21 3mo ago
Even a house you know you're not going to buy is worth taking a walk-through if you're already there and the agent has prepped it for showing. You can learn a lot from such experiences. What to look for/what not to look for,
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by phil21 3mo ago
I have friends who teach public high school classes. This is entirely believable to me based on the stories and trends they talk about.
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by phil21 3mo ago
I guess it depends on how you look at the numbers. My current place would sell for say $1.4M or so. The lot itself is worth around $600-700k if it was empty. A similarly sized home would cost well over $1m to construct to similar quality le
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by phil21 3mo ago
> It just seems a bad idea to expose such a server to the Internet and maintain it Why? Nerds have been hosting services for their friends and family for decades now. It was one of the primary benefits of knowing an IT nerd. They probabl
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by phil21 3mo ago
Well you shifted the goal posts. Storing everything in EST vs UTC isn’t great, but isn’t some business ending level problem. It annoys engineers and causes inefficiency. Unlikely to even show up on a quarterly report if someone chose to wr
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by phil21 3mo ago
Because I have been monitoring this as a weird interest of mine now for 20 years or more. To the point of absurdity. I would be very surprised to hear of a location in the US that is experiencing grid instability due to recent increases in
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by phil21 3mo ago
The only reason Loudon county became datacenter alley is due to where the transatlantic cables landed. And Washington DC being next door. It’s basically the OG networking effect. You put equipment there because everyone else had equipment t

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