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by phil21 3y ago
Yes. This was the primary motivation for me to lose weight last year. Health is a close second, but it's a much more delayed gratification thing vs. seeing the immediate social benefits just 6mo later. Going from morbidly obese to th
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by phil21 3y ago
I wouldn't quite say I went so far to think it was a toxic bro-club, but I certainly did not give resistance training the consideration I should have until this past year. If I could make a single change in my life 20 years ago, it wou
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by phil21 3y ago
I've found ZFS to be extremely forgiving for hard drives having random slow response times. So long as you are getting a response within the OS I/O timeout period, it's simply a matter of blocking I/O until the drives s
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by phil21 3y ago
I was a 100% Thinkpad fanboy up until the T410S finally pissed me off enough with battery life and keyboard changes to move to Apple. The T series was built like a tank - a WWII era tank that could take a beating, have bits and pieces crack
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by phil21 3y ago
It all depends on your workflow of course. I run 3 monitors for my main workstation. Admittedly the third is mostly for rare events (e.g. debugging a performance issue across many services) or most of the time background TV/security
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by phil21 3y ago
Most of the city is definitely an exaggeration. Chicago is absolutely a car-first city, and it's pretty obvious having moved here 20 years ago. You can very easily live in areas of the city without a car and I have done so. Plenty
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by phil21 3y ago
I've seen the top picture installed in a few places, and always wondered what their function was. Learn something new every day, and this time it was 10 minutes after I woke up! Thanks!
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by phil21 3y ago
I completely disagree with this notion. Many cannot afford it, most can easily. If you are driving a relatively modern car and have no small $350 gas generator at home for emergencies I absolutely question your priorities in life. Nearly e
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by phil21 3y ago
I just did it the other day to recommend a hole in the wall restaurant in Italy I was last at in 2016. I couldn't even narrow it down to the correct street until I was able to find it on Google timeline. Need? Probably not. It was c
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by phil21 3y ago
The problem is chargeback fraud has become rampant since COVID, at least from friends stories in the payments and retail spaces. The word got out you can just call your bank and they will back you very few questions asked. This was abused
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by phil21 3y ago
It's very location dependent. Where I live most stuff beats the 2 day estimate and it's not unheard of to order something in the afternoon and have it at the front door when I get back from dinner. Friends in other locations seem
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by phil21 3y ago
I had grand plans to make a giant USB ZFS volume from tradeshow thumb drives in bulk. It lasted a couple evenings while I bumped into apparently every Linux USB driver/chipset issue possible trying to drive a couple hundred drives via
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by phil21 3y ago
This sounds somewhat similar to a problem I had with the same generation of equipment, but in an install with about half a dozen APs. After I completely wiped the site configuration and migrated to the "new way" of doing it (I wis
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by phil21 3y ago
This device can hold up to 200 units of insulin in it's cartridge. I'm not familiar with it to say if it has any safety interlocks to administer some sort of max dose lower than that at a time though.
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by phil21 3y ago
I am entitled to a citizens arrest of the suspect, with all the liability that implies for myself if I am wrong. If the subject refuses to comply, then enough physical violence to restrain them until police arrive or at least my property is
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by phil21 3y ago
I mean, the same exact argument can be made for public transportation (e.g. subway/rail) construction in the US. It's too expensive to be realistic! Well, sure. But why is it that expensive? It's expensive because we decid
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by phil21 3y ago
At some point society will realize comparing power pricing to the lowest cost per kwh on a given day is a silly waste of time. What matters is what is the most realistic mix of power generation and storage for 24x7 reliability. This can of
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by phil21 3y ago
> So what is your proposal? A realistic one, please, not a scenarion of "we should have done X decades ago", but one that can be worked on right now, on the basis we have. Sometimes the only realistic answer is "We should
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by phil21 3y ago
> So nuclear operators are freeloading on society for decades making billions of profits Funny. I have the opposite take. Society has freeloaded off of nuclear for a generation or two by ignoring the wider social benefits and putting a
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by phil21 3y ago
I generally agree, but don't all the latter items simply in the end have the desired result of deterring future criminal behavior? If distracted driving was caught 95% of the time, and the sentence was something like 40 hours of commun
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by phil21 3y ago
Unfortunately after a lifetime of being a Thinkpad fanboy to the point of absurdity, the T410s is the laptop that made me move to Apple and not look back since. The battery life on that thing was something to behold. Couldn't even las
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by phil21 3y ago
Being outside implies discomfort, or at least the potential for it. Many want to experience nature without being exposed to the harshness. Probably all of us to some degree. It's more or less the difference between a tourist and an e
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by phil21 3y ago
He upset about it, but acting surprised or outraged is just fake crocodile tears.
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by phil21 3y ago
It's functionally true. Thinking off the top of my head I can come up with at least a dozen examples growing up of friends w/ these doors. Not a single one was ever locked. Most of the time w/ school-age kids they would be
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by phil21 3y ago
The best part about all this is you explain what a SAR is to nearly anyone for the first time, and their immediate response nearly 100% of the time is to suggest committing an actual felony by structuring to avoid them. Even if there is lit
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by phil21 3y ago
That's what folks said about credit and debit cards to the curmudgeony folks like me 30 years ago. Now I can walk to a half dozen places that won't do business with you if you have neither. It would likely be defacto required, jus
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by phil21 3y ago
I suppose the smart pirate would diversify their portfolio. Keeping it all the bank doesn't sound super smart for a pirate who might be unmasked and assets seized. Certainly no form of wealth storage is without risks!
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by phil21 3y ago
So we're at the "then they laugh at you?" stage of the game it seems? I guess that happened years ago and we are fully in the "and then they fight you" portion of the timeline.
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by phil21 3y ago
I think a lot of folks reading this will immediately be critical and tell you exactly how easy it would have been to solve your problems from spiraling out of control. They are likely largely factually correct. What is not being said is th
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by phil21 3y ago
I am a firm believer of having 10% of ones liquid net worth in cash or equivalent not gatekept by anyone but myself. This is from extremely hard won personal experience. Yes, it's a lot of cash. I don't mean keep it all under you

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