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by phil21 2y ago
Yep, this is my problem with HoAs. Everyone supporting them loves to bleat about how "voluntary" they are - but any new construction since perhaps the late 80's in my area have been nearly 100%, if not 100%, HoA. This is no
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by phil21 3y ago
At Home Depot at least they do this due (in part, if not in whole) to returns. Your virtual card number may change, since it’s generated every time you add it to a device. This breaks their easy return lookup where you simply present the
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by phil21 3y ago
Buybacks are a tax dodge. Nothing else. Dividends are the proper way to pay out excess cash the enterprise generates. Society decided how much to tax such distributions, and a certain class of people didn't like paying even that lau
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by phil21 3y ago
What could Germany have accomplished otherwise if they had not focused on increasing efficiency? Efficiency in of itself is not a useful work product. To game theory it - if you had an unlimited source of literally free energy, no one woul
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by phil21 3y ago
I do wonder how much of these this is simple nostalgia for the "good times" of my youth, vs. things actually being simpler times/better back then. Certainly brings out certain emotions seeing some of these screenshots.
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by phil21 3y ago
I've put together probably 50 sets over the past 5-6 years. I pretty much only buy the largest sets they make, especially Technic. I doubt I have many sets under 1500 pieces. I've yet to find a single missing piece so far. Many
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by phil21 3y ago
AT&T Fiber in bridge mode is not actually bridge mode. It's some weird 1:1 NAT if I recall, and buggy in certain conditions. You can get the 802.11x certificates off the gateway itself and auth via your own equipment though if you
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by phil21 3y ago
> Which makes no sense, glass is infinitely recyclable, yet it is not, it is instead brought to the local dump. It's reusable, sure. Glass milk bottles you return to be washed and refilled are great. Glass recycling though makes li
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by phil21 3y ago
I'm pretty much the same as OP. I almost always buy the K version of the processor, but never intend to overclock. I just figure I want the theoretical ability to, and the more volume they have on those SKUs the less likely they are
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by phil21 3y ago
I bought a house in a locality that requires conduit for all in-wall wiring (including low voltage) by code. This annoys most people, but I love it since it means you can upgrade stuff easily in the future if you desire. This house did not
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by phil21 3y ago
I don't know how it works in the UK, but in the US the types of people hustling properties in real estate are not using the same banks/financing an average person looking for a mortgage would. It seems from talking to small time
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by phil21 3y ago
As other posters have stated, this sounds more like someone leveraging themselves to the hilt than it does someone with mafia money. Perhaps both, but here in the US there are plenty of these small time self-described hustlers who overexte
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by phil21 3y ago
I was very interested in this when the leading photos implied the use of eye tracking equipment used in the real world. I think those results would be extremely interesting to go over. Asking people to point out where they focus on some pr
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by phil21 3y ago
> It seems fairly silly to think that Covid really changed how people drive. As someone who has driven before, during, and after I think it's silly to think Covid didn't change how people drive. It's a night and day diffe
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by phil21 3y ago
If you are on a dev machine iterating quickly, just set the basic credentials up in ~/.mylogin.cnf[0] and you don't need to worry about supplying those options on the command line at all. [0]: https://dev.mysql.com&#x2F
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by phil21 3y ago
Fair. I am US-centric, so I care most about trans-Atlantic access. From a peering standpoint we still do more traffic out of Amsterdam than Vienna by quite a far margin.
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by phil21 3y ago
> Why not a country with more free space, like France? I can't speak for everyone, but in my case it's laws, regulation, and general friendliness to business enterprises that bring income to the country. Amsterdam is likely als
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by phil21 3y ago
A 2017 MPB is still my daily driver. The only thing having me switch to a M3 at the moment is I'm finally done with that horrible keyboard. Battery life is getting a bit annoying, but otherwise it's chugged away ever since I got
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by phil21 3y ago
Depends on what you plan to do with it long term I think. If you have no plans to make it commercially viable, then I agree with the other poster who recommends using it as blocks friendly for ToR exit node operators and/or similar st
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by phil21 3y ago
> The 2 hour thing was nothing but a technical limit (a literal loop of magnetic tape), and every other justification is retconning. The 2 hour thing was 30 minutes when it was magnetic tape. It moved to digital a while ago and that&#x2
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by phil21 3y ago
This is exactly the Overton window I mentioned. Your opinion/take on this is relatively new. While technically (legally) correct, there was a whole lot of social pushback on this statement or idea even in my lifetime. This take on wor
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by phil21 3y ago
> There are various way this can be solved. We have modern encryption that could make this far, far safer then it is today. We have methods from data leaking. We have process to only allow data to be decrypted if required. There are not.
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by phil21 3y ago
Airline pilot privacy. CVRs were always highly contentious when introduced, due to exactly the situations you see today in the media. The pilot unions were concerned that these recordings would be released to the public, both out of contex
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by phil21 3y ago
Another late reply, but I love me some ZFS talk! That particular build worked fine, it was just really slow. It was a very ill-advised plan to begin with - I was using 5.25" -> 2.5" hotswap bay converters for the 2.5" lap
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by phil21 3y ago
It's performative, but I think next time I get a last minute equipment change to a MAX and nowhere urgent to be I might simply refuse to board and let them know exactly why. I understand it will cost money and time, and really just mos
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by phil21 3y ago
This is somewhat amusing, and at risk of a "me too" low value post... When I started regularly flying, I would actually search NTSB reports for the airframe in question in the airport lounge. I don't really know why exactly,
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by phil21 3y ago
This, combined with the recent news that Boeing wants to correct a design flaw on the engine nacelle anti-icing system by putting it on the pilots leads me to simply no longer trust this aircraft. The first couple crashes were sobering, but
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by phil21 3y ago
They do not. The major gyms somehow have basically blocked chargebacks from most major issuers and additionally even cancelling your card for a new one won’t help. I got into a giant fight with Lifetime Fitness and Amex over this. Amex 10
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by phil21 3y ago
Late reply, but I believe these were the 4200rpm version - they had to be the "thin" drives to fit into my weird hot-swap bays vs. the "thick" drives you would typically see in datacenter use. Basically this limited you
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by phil21 3y ago
> By the way he goes on talking about diet soft drinks, and explain that they are also bad, you produce insulin anyway. This is where I'd start to tune out on other stuff this person is saying. I looked into this a while back when

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