sigstoat

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by sigstoat 6y ago
having worked on a professional but very low volume product, ordering took about an afternoon. all the rest of it took months. and there are already assembly companies in most major cities that will take your money and files and just make a
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> Since COVID the webcam market has exploded. companies that are crushed by demand for existing products, and dealing with covid-related supply chain issues, and long-term uncertainty about demand aren't going to have a lot of luck
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by sigstoat 6y ago
we're about 8 years too late for that. i'll get back to you in 5-10 years to let you know how it goes, but i'm not very concerned.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
i bought my own cable modem, installed it, never got around to calling them or returning their modem, and after maybe another month or two, comcast just stopped charging me the rental fee and didn't ask for their modem back. so... pret
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> Except for maybe another pool. Which is going to hurt since ZFS with buying everything up front is VASTLY more expensive than RAID where you can grow the array as needed - under the assumption that the storage needs grow slowly, which
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> You think that removing 2 F-35s from the budget will significantly alter that calculus? you think that the "don't buy 2 F-35s and fix arecibo" train of thought ends at fixing arecibo? like, if the military hawks would ju
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> You can call the relevant agency directly. Similar to calling the police station for non-emergency calls instead of 911. that's not a meaningful distinction in a lot of places. 911 and the "non-emergency" number around h
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by sigstoat 6y ago
i don’t think you need to reference much of anything but the flag itself to firmly establish that the flag doesn’t have text on it.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
on the other hand, we do an awful job catching them, so more resources could be put to use there than they're currently getting.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> Typically this is a death knell for a software project -- however well-reasoned, well-intentioned, and well-planned. i've watched this cliche doom more projects than the actual attempts at rewriting/rearchitecting. midwit man
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by sigstoat 6y ago
they've got compute modules with emmc, and and a board you can slap them on, that has full sized HDMI. https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/compute-module-4-io-boa... costs more, and takes up more space, but it in
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by sigstoat 6y ago
more garbage that mentions benefits while ignoring that costs even exist. if you want to consider the environment in your engineering decisions, that's fine, just bring it up front and put it in there with the NRE vs operational costs,
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> Some think every star has some planets. 20 years ago, before we had direct evidence of exoplanets, we had evidence from the spectrum of stars that about 80% of the ones which had grown large enough to swallow any of their planets had p
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> If I could extend my life by 50 years of good health I might take that offer. If I had to extend it by 500 years, I'm pretty sure I'd decline. If I had to extend it 5000 years I'd certainly say no. 5M years of existence
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> alas vastly overpriced. they're not cheap, but i've bought cheaper and that stuff costs even more in the end. power electronics that are safe and reliable costs. > you can't just hack and extend the battery capacity f
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by sigstoat 6y ago
tripplite and apc will happily sell you UPSes that will use external battery packs, which is the only way you’re going to get an hour. until you switch to external batteries, they keep increasing the inverter size, which is unnecessary for
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> why would headphones need to be waterproof because of consumers and it makes them last longer > I think it's just planned obsolescence. you're blaming them for planned obsolescence (which is a wildly overplayed card on HN)
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by sigstoat 6y ago
nobody who charges less than $100/hr
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> I'm more interested in hearing about [...] did... did you google that? could you share what you found? i don't see any relevant submissions in your history.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> What does the language bit have to do with anything? I speak 2 foreign languages and I'm not a native English speaker. capitalizing "GUN" as though it mattered looked rather like hoplophobia. > There is still the fact
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by sigstoat 6y ago
maybe if you spoke a different language you wouldn't be bothered? electrons can't travel very far in glass, or atmosphere, which is why the tube has a vacuum inside of it.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
what sort of ideas are required besides sending an email to your IT folks and telling them to set up a JIRA project for tracking job applications? you could, in an afternoon, ensure that no applications are ever mysteriously forgotten about
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by sigstoat 6y ago
while i appreciate the effort, the only thing any of those have in common with yacy is being not-google.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
“things like”? is there anything else? yacy was pretty meh when i tried dealing with it. though it did tend to turn up some stuff google didn’t (sometimes for the better, but mostly not)
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by sigstoat 6y ago
we see this vocational awe with other professions where the number of folks who want to do it wildly exceeds the amount of funding (public or private) available for the work. and it's self-fufilling, to some extent. you grow up and hea
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> I thought the AWS console was bad but the Azure console takes the cake. at the start of quarantine, the azure console was just dying on me regularly. we couldn't get the instances we needed, and apparently neither could the servic
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by sigstoat 6y ago
i don't have a strong opinion myself, but i think you could make an argument that if you've got an S&P500 ETF, disclosing that you own any of FAAMG would be reasonable since they're all >2% of it. in this case owning s
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by sigstoat 6y ago
i don't know or (in this case) care what would be different. (and i say that as a fan of RCV and similar). i'm just tired of people positing counterfactual worlds, and assuming whatever tiny little change they make will have no ra
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by sigstoat 6y ago
s/If Florida had ranked voting in 2000/& and the candidates, campaigns, and voters all behaved as though it didn't/
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by sigstoat 6y ago
one of you is describing the world as it is, and the other the world as you think it ought to be.

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