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by rainsford 10mo ago
I like several features of Firefox, particularly containers as the article mentions. But honestly, not being Google would be enough for me all by itself. I have my issues with Google itself, but even if Google was perfect I'd still b
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by rainsford 10mo ago
Maybe, but there is also the potential for survivorship bias being a factor here too. The chance that a specific person with no football skills can throw a football 50 yards into a trash can is pretty low. But if you gather a stadium full
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by rainsford 10mo ago
One aspect of this I don't see mentioned all that often is that AI is competing for computing resources that are at least somewhat limited in the short to medium term while being pretty inefficient at utilizing those resources compared
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by rainsford 10mo ago
Having tried both Zerotier and Tailscale, I found Tailscale to be a significant improvement. Tailscale uses Wireguard as the base encrypted protocol instead of a semi-homebrew protocol Zerotier came up with that notably lacks things like e
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by rainsford 10mo ago
It's not really "basically wireguard" and you don't have to pay for it for personal use. Wireguard is indeed pretty easy to set up, but basic Wireguard doesn't get you the two most significant features of Tailscale
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by rainsford 11mo ago
Obviously there are confounding variables besides vaccination status, but I find it pretty compelling that the decrease in COVID mortality among the vaccinated group was significantly larger than the decrease in all-cause mortality of that
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by rainsford 11mo ago
> I would like to see the metrics on how much time and resources are wasted babysitting all this automation vs. going in and updating a certificate manually once a year and not having to worry the automation will fail in a week. I would
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by rainsford 11mo ago
I'm glad there are free alternatives to Let's Encrypt, but a major PKI provider also being by far the largest browser provider feels like a disaster waiting to happen. The check on PKI providers doing the right thing is browsers
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by rainsford 11mo ago
In addition to energy, the biggest reason I no longer use old desktops as servers is the space they take up. If you live in an apartment or condo and don't have extra rooms, even having a desktop tower sitting in a corner somewhere is
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by rainsford 11mo ago
Some hybrid cars almost work this way. I know at least Honda's hybrids basically do what you're suggesting but at constant highway speeds will directly couple the engine to the drive wheels. They presumably could use electric
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by rainsford 11mo ago
Not to be nitpicky, but that's only really true if you're driving down a perfectly flat, straight highway at a constant speed. Any hills or traffic slowdowns and your car or truck is doing more work the more it weighs.
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by rainsford 11mo ago
> EV trucks aren't really good at hauling trailers over large distances, as the aerodynamics produce a massive impact on range. Maybe I'm being stupid, but how could that possibly just be a problem for EVs? The aerodynamic phy
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by rainsford 11mo ago
> If you take the Top 500 companies as an indicator how well your economy is doing, but everything is carried on the shoulders of only 1.4% of those 500 companies then what is the point of looking at the 500 companies in the first place.
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by rainsford 11mo ago
I'm amazed how many grown ass adults on airplanes act like little kids when it comes to seat belts and basically everything else. Not just ignoring flight crew advice and common sense to generally stay buckled in order to gain maybe a
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by rainsford 11mo ago
Can A16Z tell the difference? Insert that meme "At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus, from the classic sci-fi novel, Don't Create the Torment Nexus".
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by rainsford 11mo ago
One explanation I've heard that resonates with me is that we subconsciously feel as if we're playing a more complex and less obvious version of the prisoner's dilemma. We intuitively understand that society experiences the gr
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by rainsford 11mo ago
Is the connection through Cloudflare still encrypted between the two peers, as it would be going through a Tailscale relay? If not, that's definitely a downgrade using the Cloudflare approach. But if not, I'm not sure the trust
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by rainsford 11mo ago
That argument makes sense if your question is what are the odds a specific person becomes a billionaire through sheer luck, but the real question is would a population of billions of people worldwide produce billionaires even if the proce
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by rainsford 1y ago
> How is it not? > The budget requires 60 votes, not a simple majority. Thus it's up to the majority party to present a bill that will win 60 votes. It's up to the majority party to do so, but not up to the President to faci
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by rainsford 1y ago
Yeah I did think about that after I made the post. I agree that you and jaybrendansmith are probably right in that it should be a bigger deal for the Democrats than the Republicans. I'm not sure Congressional Republicans see it tha
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by rainsford 1y ago
> IMO governments should have started doing something about 20 years ago if they wanted to keep things on-track... I guess my thought is that it's non-obvious what "doing something" would have looked like. The seemingly i
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by rainsford 1y ago
What's fascinating to me about this shift is that I've yet to see a clearly identified root cause. Some people on the left identify cost of living and things like that, but we're generally richer and better off than ever and
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by rainsford 1y ago
I'm not sure I agree. In a democracy, you should expect voters and representatives to act within the framework of that democracy, which is usually more complex than the binary choice of being the party in power or not. Yeah, in aggre
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by rainsford 1y ago
> Government shutdowns are common under both Republican and Democrat administrations. They're not really, especially at this scale. Since they became a thing when Carter was President, Biden and George W. Bush had 0. Reagan had 3,
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by rainsford 1y ago
The problem is that it's existential for both Democrats and Republicans. Given the current makeup of the federal government, Republicans basically have all the power and have been able to leverage that into spending the last 10 months
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by rainsford 1y ago
Not really ATC specific, but at some point most people in most jobs can't deal with indefinitely not getting paid and will have to go do something else even if they don't have a good backup plan. Working retail, driving for Uber,
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by rainsford 1y ago
Automating various functions seems like a good idea. But it's not going to remove the humans from the loop in the event of a future government shutdown, which is what the original suggestion seemed to be.
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by rainsford 1y ago
Trusting the safety of a flight to the reliability of an ipad is a ludicrously bad idea. Lots of pilots fly with ipads as a tool and they're generally pretty good, but they're nowhere near up to aviation standards of reliability
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by rainsford 1y ago
Nothing will actually stop those VFR flights from still happening, they'll just be less convenient/safe without certain ATC services. If those services are truly required, they can do IFR instead. So can private pilots just flyi
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by rainsford 1y ago
The VFR stuff is always optional for ATC. VFR aircraft can request those things and ATC will usually accommodate, but it's workload dependent and ATC can and does decline, that's the whole tradeoff of flying under VFR rules. I

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