seanp2k2

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by seanp2k2 2y ago
I haven't paid for all that many lightning cables period , since they tended to be included with most devices that needed them, and aside from some strain reliefs that I've added myself in the form of heat shrink, they've be
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by seanp2k2 2y ago
Yup, Apple made Lightning because USB-C wasn't a thing yet and MicroUSB is awful. Lightning is a whole lot better than MicroUSB, and they've been using it since 2012 . MiniUSB B was pretty OK, Micro was just way too thin to be st
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by seanp2k2 2y ago
Yeah, that lawsuit is probably going to bankrupt them here.
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by seanp2k2 2y ago
Yeah, I’ll never suffer another Republican speaking about “law and order” or upholding the Constitution again when they’ve so clearly and so reliably failed to do so.
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by seanp2k2 2y ago
Guess who the boss of the US Marshals is? Former Trump attorney and 2020 election denier Pam Bondi. Good luck with that.
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by seanp2k2 2y ago
When I came to Silicon Valley in the early 2010s and realized that all of the king's horses and all of the king's men could not defeat the scourge that is the US ISP oligopoly even in their own backyards, I knew it was pointless t
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by seanp2k2 2y ago
Nice, works for now, I'm sure they'll pull the rug on this solution too in under a year. I'm switching browsers, I hate ads more than I like Chrome. Sounds like June 2025 is the real date when it'll no longer be possible
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by seanp2k2 2y ago
Love it or hate it, furries make the internet go. A lot of them are very early adopters and developers themselves. Source: I've had more than a few friends in and around the community since I was a teen.
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by seanp2k2 2y ago
Hilarious how in The Year of Our Lord 2025, so many video conferencing apps have not figured out how to implement something similar to the Dugan automatic microphone mixing algorithm. http://www.protechaudio.com/products&#x2
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by seanp2k2 2y ago
Don’t worry, RFK will be gone in 6mo once the pharma lobbyists get through to Congress members if he touches anything that affects their profits.
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by seanp2k2 2y ago
I’ve been happy with AdGuard Home on two Pi4s and a little home server for years now: https://adguard.com/en/adguard-home/overview.html I have some scripts to sync config between them and a Jenkins job if I want
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by seanp2k2 2y ago
But what if we had LexisNexis run it and charge a $350 processing fee for entrance passes with a 3-8 business week processing time?
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by seanp2k2 2y ago
No, they want to run it into the ground and sell it to oil and mining companies or real estate developers.
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by seanp2k2 2y ago
Having worked with many of the latter and having had the displeasure of educating them on nix systems fundamentals: ugh, oof, I hate this timeline, yet I also feel a sense of job security. We used to joke about this a lot when Java devs wou
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by seanp2k2 2y ago
At BigCos, software engineering is also spending 70% of your day in meetings or handling housekeeping chores in JIRA / Monday / Airtable / Notion / GDocs. I’d love to send an AI agent to meet with PMs to give status upda
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by seanp2k2 2y ago
5x faster react boilerplate! #winning
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by seanp2k2 2y ago
Ham radio, particularly some of the ARES / SKYWARN / RACES / MARS folks (tons of overlap within those), go real overboard thinking they’re trying to help in emergencies or actively put themselves into dangerous situations and
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by seanp2k2 2y ago
"lol" said the Scorpion, "lmao".
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by seanp2k2 2y ago
Orders of magnitude make the difference. “Consumer-level” will be once it’s around $300-700ish in a nice little box like an Intel NUC or similar. Ubiquiti just did this with their AI-Key to help classify stuff on their video camera surveill
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by seanp2k2 2y ago
So, $0 budget for software dev / sales / support?
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by seanp2k2 2y ago
But obviously, more rugged individualism is the solution /s
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by seanp2k2 2y ago
Let’s start with 1978 Prop 13 and end their property tax subsidies though. Go look up how much the owners of these eight-figure properties paid in taxes over the past five decades. https://www.taxfairnessproject.org/map onl
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by seanp2k2 2y ago
Land in the hills above a major city among trees with a view of the ocean in a place with extremely nice weather year-round will always be valuable. They will absolutely rebuild. Get in now if you’ve got the cash to buy land there. It might
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by seanp2k2 2y ago
Also AFAIK collision and total loss is required to get financing and for leases, so you still pay / there is still an opportunity loss in other forms. I lease EVs with the federal tax credit and invest what I’d otherwise spend buying c
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by seanp2k2 2y ago
Windows has been isolating dependencies for a while now too, but for security, since their entire security model was pretty awful before, largely because of the need to support decades-old applications that business customers / governm
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by seanp2k2 2y ago
laughing on behalf of all the VFX folks who work on movies all day using desktop Linux https://vfxplatform.com/linux/ Yeah, I get that this is called out under business / professionals, but I've also used U
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by seanp2k2 2y ago
At [company that purportedly highly values candor], I’ve seen multiple people get canned by VPs or directors they’ve criticized internally. Granted, these situations were cases where this was communicated either in a larger feedback meeting
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by seanp2k2 2y ago
As it turns out, being a very powerful person politically with access to nearly unlimited funding can get you pretty great medical care.
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by seanp2k2 2y ago
You can literally go on social media and see first-hand videos of the things happening in real-time there for yourself.
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by seanp2k2 2y ago
Shoulda used Varnish.

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