sjm-lbm

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by sjm-lbm 7mo ago
I still have both the screensaver and the moment that I realized that disabling the screensaver allowed processing to happen meaningfully quicker burned into my mind.
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by sjm-lbm 8mo ago
I agree with your first point (and I wasn't trying to defend Kavanaugh, just pointing out that the dissent calls something out), but I disagree with your second. Kavanaugh isn't lying - this ruling causes some chaos and uncertaint
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by sjm-lbm 8mo ago
No, but it is a weakness that they have neglected to provide the clarity that would be required to clean it up.
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by sjm-lbm 8mo ago
If you read the opinions, it's even less clear. The majority does not make it at all clear whether or not refunds are due, and Kavanaugh's dissent specifically calls out this weakness in the majority opinion. Even if the executi
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by sjm-lbm 8mo ago
Also worth noting that who owns the risk is a regulatory question, not a technical or product one - and, like all regulatory questions, is different for different countries/regions. Chip and pin and NFC transitions took off much quicke
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by sjm-lbm 8mo ago
As best as I can tell, there was less than 10 minutes from the last successful request I made and when the downtime was added to their status page - and I'm not particularly crazy with my usage or anything, the gap could have been less
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by sjm-lbm 9mo ago
To be fair, that is true. Texas is around the 5th most difficult state to vote in per the Cost of Voting Index.
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by sjm-lbm 9mo ago
This was common in Texas, but becomes challenging when one polling place serves voters that might have different elections to vote for - say, at a polling place on the line between two school districts or something like that. You can't
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by sjm-lbm 9mo ago
Pretty similar here. Another thing I keep thinking is a phrase pilots use when flying airplanes using FMSes and autopilot: "never fly your airplane to a place you haven't already been to in your mind" - that is, don't ev
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by sjm-lbm 9mo ago
More or less yes. If you want to see the way this looks on the flight displays that a pilot sees, this video shows some examples (generated from a flight simulator): https://youtu.be/L5KQ0g_-qJs?si=AtYkellEROnHZ89e&t=349
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by sjm-lbm 11mo ago
That's the debt ceiling, which is a different weird quirk of how the USG is funded. The relevant page for shutdowns is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_Un... "Funding gaps have
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by sjm-lbm 1y ago
just FYI you can watch on your Android device now. It took them a long time (seriously, I think more than four years after AppleTV+ launched), but they did finally release an Android app.
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by sjm-lbm 1y ago
Is this true though? Texas has had some well-publicized failures (well, really one major one), but as best as I can tell they are more or less middle of the pack on grid reliability[1]. I mean, you'll need a backup generator anywhere,
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by sjm-lbm 1y ago
FWIW, at least as of today, American Airlines' website attempts to show you round trip prices. When choosing your outbound leg(s), they show a price inclusive of the cheapest return journey on the day you selected to return using the c
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by sjm-lbm 1y ago
I think you're underestimating how hard it is to shoot yourself in the foot when using the PHP language defaults and the defaults for any modern PHP framework - it's genuinely hard to do. I still don't think PHP is a good ide
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by sjm-lbm 1y ago
Some of the All or Nothing documentaries that cover Premier League teams include a lot of footage in the away dressing rooms, and they are almost all bad (though Goodison was weirdly cavernous and looks more annoying than normal). Exactly
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by sjm-lbm 1y ago
I use pfSense CE, and rely on DNS entries to be automatically created for DHCP addresses. That worked fine for more than a decade, until they made Kea the default a couple of years ago (or did they just put a bunch of notices in the interfa
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by sjm-lbm 1y ago
It's not at all a similar ride, but Epcot Center's Horizons (at Walt Disney World) used two Omnimax screens back to back as part of a dark ride. There's a map showing what that looked like here: https://parklore.co
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by sjm-lbm 1y ago
I sort of wonder how many of them had this exact fate - the Ft Worth Texas one was in the exact same situation. My understanding is that both parts to maintain the projection system and people with the knowledge to operate it were getting v
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by sjm-lbm 2y ago
Yeah, I do agree with that. Honestly part of me wishes they would have used the old assets - put whatever you have thought the best available upscaler, and lock the player's position while the video plays. I mean, your position was loc
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by sjm-lbm 2y ago
Since we're getting pretty far down the nerding-out-on-myst rabbit hole: the original version of realMyst, at least for Windows, had some bug that would cause it to immediately crash on any system with a multi-core CPU. At some point s
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by sjm-lbm 2y ago
.. and all the talk of multicloud makes me feel like I'm reading an IBM press release, which is never good.
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by sjm-lbm 2y ago
Yeah, it's actually three, though only from a branding perspective. They did rebrand Lync/Office Communicator as "Skype for Business" for a bit, though I don't think there was ever any code shared and it was just a
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by sjm-lbm 2y ago
FWIW, you're thinking about the DoD/the Pentagon, not the federal government as whole - and yeah, the Pentagon hasn't been able to pass an audit in ~6 years. The defense budget is somewhat more opaque, though, for national se
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by sjm-lbm 2y ago
I'd suspect that there is. That kind of ruins the point of Sonos, though - their appeal was their ability to do a lot of different things, automatically, with just a wifi connection. Having to set up some sort of alternate source of au
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by sjm-lbm 2y ago
As someone that an Android user, and has been a user (and formerly, major fan) of Sonos for about ten years now, it honestly seems worse than that. For a while, Sonos speakers appeared as Google Cast targets, which was a phenomenal (if slig
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by sjm-lbm 2y ago
Since we're talking about books, this statement reminds me of one that OP might want to look at: Super Founders. It's been a while since I've read it, but off the top of my head: most successful founders are older than you pr
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by sjm-lbm 2y ago
To be fair, the automatic belt "fad" was more interesting than that. For a brief time in the 80s (and into the early 90s), cars were required to have either automatic seat belts or airbags. Generally speaking, air bags were more e
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by sjm-lbm 2y ago
I don't really know for sure, 2007 was a weird time. The iPhone launched that year with obvious deficiencies (no apps, no 3G) but managed to evolve into something much better quickly enough that it didn't really matter. The Foleo
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by sjm-lbm 2y ago
.. and as soon as you stop just uploading files (which, as you say, nobody does), a lot of the other advantages go away also. Laravel and Symphony both make PHP much slower. If you are going to have sane routing, you're probably going

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