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by showerst 10mo ago
That's the root of it, isn't it? America is pretty great if you're in the upper 20% or so, and otherwise it's losing ground fast.
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by showerst 10mo ago
They have to fill out a disclosure form, but it's on a 30 day delay, often more because they file late. Be wary of all the third party congressional stock trackers for this reason.
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by showerst 11mo ago
I think you missed some sarcasm there.
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by showerst 11mo ago
I think a lot of the following comes the old-fashioned nature. In an age of hyperscalers that want to sell you a private cloud and full stack certification to make it your job to use their software and want to charge you $500/mo for a
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by showerst 11mo ago
I have a couple of instances of this same pattern for various things that have been running for 5+ years, none of them have suffered downtime caused by the infrastructure. I use ansible scripts for the web servers, and the DO API or dashboa
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by showerst 11mo ago
I use the LB's for high availability rather than needing load balancing. The LB + 2 web back-ends + Managed DB means a project is resilient to a single server failing, for relatively low devops effort and around $75/mo.
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by showerst 11mo ago
The point of an LB for these projects is to get away from a single point of failure, and I find configuring HA and setting up the networking and everything to be a pain point. These are all low-traffic projects so it's more cost effect
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by showerst 11mo ago
I use DO's load balancers in a couple of projects, and they don't list Cloudflare as an upstream dependency anywhere that I've seen. It's so frustrating to think you're clear of a service then find out that you&#x27
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by showerst 11mo ago
Do we need more farmers, or for food to be more 'valued' in a monetary sense? The developed world is awash in affordable food. Even machine tools are incredibly cheap and accessible, the issues around those are related to where th
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by showerst 11mo ago
"Having windows in your home is weak security": The trade-off between usability and security incarnate.
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by showerst 1y ago
Not in the sense of "can't be opened without the key". Good locks buy you two things: Deterrence (maybe), and a set minimum of time and noise requirements to bypass them. If your lock reputably takes 3 minutes to pick or a Ra
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by showerst 1y ago
I mostly scrape government data so the sites are a little 'behind' on that trend, but no. Even JS heavy sites are almost always pulling from a JSON or graphql source under the hood. At scale, dropping the heavier dependencies and
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by showerst 1y ago
A point orthogonal to this; consider whether you need browser automation at all. If a website isn't using Cloudflare or a JS-only design, it's generally better to skip playwright. All the major AIs understand beautifulsoup pretty
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by showerst 1y ago
The expert from the videos, Irving Finkel, is a wonderful speaker and personality. I highly recommend watching his lectures and British museum feature on YouTube if you’re interested in the ancient world.
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by showerst 1y ago
Sure, but everyone agrees that first class is full of perks. “People taller than 6’1 can sit here without being in pain” shouldn’t be a multi-hundred dollar up charge.
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by showerst 1y ago
I think DC has the start of a really good system here. There's universal Pre-K 3 and 4. Most elementary schools offer it, but you can also get a large subsidy to go towards a private daycare. I'd love to see that expanded to all a
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by showerst 1y ago
Aside: Sandvik Coromant is a major industrial conglomerate with billions in revenue. Their cutting tools almost certainly made some things you use daily. Not that it has any bearing on them having a tld, but they’re not some random local me
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by showerst 1y ago
Because you've moved the frontier of who's making you money out. Now the 20th programmer is still worth 5x their salary, and you hire up to the 30th programmer to hit 1.01.
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by showerst 1y ago
I really vehemently disagree with the 'feedforward, tolerance, feedback' pattern. Protocols and standards like HTML built around "be liberal with what you accept" have turned out to be a real nightmare. Best-guessing the
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by showerst 1y ago
I think programming is a good example profession. For a simple model, let's say you hire programmers for three reasons: 1. Because you have (X) work to get done to run your business. Once that work is done, there is no more work to do.
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by showerst 1y ago
Acela is the premium route, so they will likley have pretty good leg room.
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by showerst 1y ago
Scotland is not some undiscovered place that nobody ever talks about visiting.
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by showerst 1y ago
We send our daughter to a daycare that has a number of families so wealthy that one or both parents wouldn’t have to work. They still do daycare because many people want careers, and/or because they think the socialization and environm
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by showerst 1y ago
I think most people's escapism around space involves only bringing along the people they like, who make places they already consider nice.
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by showerst 1y ago
The fundamental question is "will the LLM get better before your vibecoded codebase becomes unmaintainable, or you need a feature that is beyond the LLM's ceiling". It's an interesting race.
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by showerst 1y ago
I like to work to music, but find anything with words distracting. So I listen to a lot of random youtube playlists of lo-fi/chillout stuff, which has just been swamped with AI lately. I don't think this will be a big deal in a fe
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by showerst 1y ago
Sugar and alcohol are clearly labelled and provide an obvious benefit, so people feel empowered to make that cost/benefit trade-off. Microplastics do nebulous harm, and it's difficult or impossible to control intake.
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by showerst 1y ago
Going by the lower limit of 20,000 ng/kg, a 70kg person has a limit of 1,400,000 ng/day for DEHP and 70MM ng/day DEHT. So am I reading this right you're probably an order of magnitude below the 'safe' limit eve
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by showerst 1y ago
Tell that to the Anacostia river in DC! They great at reducing watershed pollution. It's really noticeable how much better things have gotten since the bag fee. As a side effect, DC's water authority has also been able to cut main
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by showerst 1y ago
FYI the Wendy’s at Dave Thomas circle was torn down years ago and the intersection is (perpetually) being redesigned.

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