plorkyeran

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by plorkyeran 3mo ago
My eyes glaze over pretty much immediately and I just close the tab no matter how interesting the subject of the writing sounded like it was going to be.
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by plorkyeran 4mo ago
The tube for my portable AC unit would quite easily reach the ~250cm to the tops of my windows and it is not unusually long. I'm not sure what makes you think that would be a problem.
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by plorkyeran 4mo ago
It was a pretty stark difference. I had the opposite problem where it did too much and overshot what I wanted from it so I certainly assume that if it had stuck around it would have gotten tuned back a bit pretty quickly.
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by plorkyeran 4mo ago
Clouds block a decent amount of UV on average , but it’s much less consistent than you might expect. 9/10 you might be completely fine with no sunscreen and then get a horrible sunburn the tenth, with no apparent visual distinction be
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by plorkyeran 4mo ago
Baseball notably does ban pretending to throw a pitch only to throw out a runner instead. It’s just not really seen as unsportsmanlike to push the boundaries of what you can get away with without it getting called as a balk.
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by plorkyeran 4mo ago
K-lite originally was a giant mess of stuff that gradually got pruned down as the libav-based things got better and covered more of what was needed. These days it's just mpc-hc plus lavfilters and a few incidental tools.
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by plorkyeran 4mo ago
I have written software which needed to support SMPTE standards, and to do so I pirated the standard. The standards are initially written to reflect existing systems, but then more systems are developed later.
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by plorkyeran 4mo ago
The author didn't write the blog post so my default assumption is they didn't write the code either.
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by plorkyeran 4mo ago
The top-end rate with PG&E is not way higher than $0.50/kWh. If you're paying $500/month with no AC and no homelab or whatever then you have something else sucking up vast amounts of power and you should spend some time w
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by plorkyeran 4mo ago
That is not at all how PG&E billing works. You can see the current rates and billing structure at https://www.pge.com/assets/pge/docs/account/rate-plans/resid... .
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by plorkyeran 4mo ago
This is just very straightforwardly incorrect. Last month I paid Ava Energy $26 for electric energy generation, and PG&E $99 for delivery. Cutting the generation cost to $0 would only reduce my bill by 20%. Ava Energy says that 70% of t
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by plorkyeran 4mo ago
I have never gotten a response from Claude that is anything other than blandly polite, including with Fable, which makes me assume that anyone finding themself getting argumentative responses is doing something very weird.
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by plorkyeran 4mo ago
Apple stock rises leading up to WWDC and then drops following the keynote every single year. People keep betting that this is the year that they're going to announce the next iPhone and the stock is going to 10x.
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by plorkyeran 4mo ago
XNU's posix_spawn implementation is not fork/exec-based. It does roughly what the API suggests it would do.
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by plorkyeran 5mo ago
If you're getting fired for cause then it is not an amicable breakup and the norms for when you're trying to maintain a relationship obviously don't apply. Layoffs for any reason other than "the company is out of money a
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by plorkyeran 5mo ago
That's a big part of why these things are stupid. There's a bunch of weird design decisions which shouldn't have anything to do with EVs but are a lot more common in EVs anyway.
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by plorkyeran 5mo ago
Forcing people to pay property tax on an inflated valuation of their house or face eviction sounds like a terrible system, actually. If you offered to buy my house for a number that I agreed was a perfectly fair market value that I didn&#x2
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by plorkyeran 5mo ago
The publishing process for Safari extensions is painful, but otherwise it's not meaningfully different from Chromium extensions and there's no good reason for it to work worse in Safari.
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by plorkyeran 5mo ago
401ks and loans for houses are already things which have specific tax carveouts, so the idea that those would be exceptions even if secured loans in general were taxed doesn't seem like a particularly bold idea.
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by plorkyeran 5mo ago
In a spoken Q&A setting opening every single response with "that's a great question" or "thanks for asking that" or whatever is pretty common as a way to fill a few seconds while you think about your response. T
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by plorkyeran 5mo ago
To some degree there simply isn't any plan you can have beyond that in the short term things will suck and hopefully the long term benefits will be worth it. If the existing incumbents are sufficiently ideologically opposed to your goa
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by plorkyeran 5mo ago
The comic is pointing out how absurd that false dichotomy is.
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by plorkyeran 6mo ago
That isn't a rumor? It's a pretty well documented fact that the NSA was involved in the design of DES and that the magic numbers that people initially assumed were a back door of some sort turned out to make differential cryptanal
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by plorkyeran 6mo ago
Some readers will expect Birthdate() to be equivalent to Birthdate(0, 0, 0), and naming it Birthdate::epoch() makes it clear that it is not that. I don't think it's worth it, but there is an upside.
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by plorkyeran 6mo ago
Github is claiming that a usage spike in 2026 is the cause of availability issues in 2025, so their explanation is clearly incomplete at best. The usage spike may be why things have failed to get better despite them putting effort into impr
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by plorkyeran 6mo ago
I am fairly confident in saying that approximately zero enterprise customers used Xcode server. It was extremely limited and targeted at small shops which didn't see the need for a proper CI setup but had an extra machine sitting aro
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by plorkyeran 6mo ago
At the minimum you’ll remember how to do it if you have to do it every six weeks.
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by plorkyeran 6mo ago
So far they're only getting fastracked into Nasdaq 100, not S&P 500.
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by plorkyeran 6mo ago
One of the benefits of it being some form of civil service and not specifically military service is that it eliminates large categories of medical exemptions from being relevant.
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by plorkyeran 6mo ago
You can have a hard cap on compute spend while letting storage go over. Surprise huge bills are approximately never due to storage.

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