sparrish

16 ms·

241.
by sparrish 3y ago
I think you'd need a kevlar net to catch baseball sized hail going 150mph and that won't be cheap.
242.
by sparrish 3y ago
I'm from rural Colorado and have known several farmers and ranchers that have died by suicide. Most were quite wealthy and very lonely. The inability to find a woman who is willing to be a farming/ranching wife has left them wit
243.
by sparrish 3y ago
Usually just one kid will stay home and farm while the other head to cities. That kid will have to buy the others' share of the farm when the parents die, which puts them back in debt.
244.
by sparrish 3y ago
I got 4 boys and way too many legos. Only time I'm taking my shoes off is when I'm in bed or in the shower. It's just too dangerous to go barefoot. <grin>
245.
by sparrish 3y ago
Stripe didn't kill your service, you did by not building it with the ability to switch to a different processor.
246.
by sparrish 3y ago
This is so going to get abused.
247.
by sparrish 3y ago
You do realize that this is exactly what most people and corporations have done to RMS and the FSF for many years now? Got tired of his inappropriate antics, brash manner, and said "I don't care" and stuck their fingers in t
248.
by sparrish 3y ago
We've used Twilio, Nexmo (now Vonage), and Plivo for years. Twilio is still our go-to for US SMS. Nexmo has great international deliverability but is more expensive than Plivo. Plivo works fine when it works. When it doesn't, the
249.
by sparrish 3y ago
Many carriers don't allow non-authorized devices like 4g modems to send SMS on their networks now. That's a recent change (last year).
250.
by sparrish 3y ago
4g hats don't even work with many providers anymore since many US carriers are whitelisting only their allowed devices to send SMS on their networks.
251.
by sparrish 3y ago
What is RTO in this context?
252.
by sparrish 3y ago
You're forgetting the part where if they predict bad thing X would happen by year Y, they would get Z funding. The monetary incentives in academia and public are stacked towards predicting doom.
253.
by sparrish 3y ago
I always thought "chemo brain" was just a cop out until my mother had her bout with breast cancer. She was a very opinionated and capable woman. Now she can't carry a conversation or remember where she put her socks. It&#x27
254.
by sparrish 3y ago
Why would a bank give a "non-recourse" loan for commercial property? Doesn't make sense to me.
255.
by sparrish 3y ago
A mindset of producing more than you consume has taken western cultures to where they are now - less poverty and more abundance than ever before in human history. We live freer and eat better and live longer than any of our ancestors. Why
256.
by sparrish 3y ago
Just like Detroit was 30 years ago. Though I doubt SF's decline will take nearly as long as Detroit's. The drug use and crime tolerance is higher now in SF than it ever was in Detroit. 15 years from now we'll have evidence
257.
by sparrish 3y ago
We bought a Ninja. It's bigger, which is wonderful for our large family, and works great. Has lids for air frying and pressure cooking.
258.
by sparrish 3y ago
About 20 years ago, the rural town I was living in built a new, larger (40 beds - previous one was 20 beds) hospital. It was greatly debated in the community because the federal government was pushing the grants that would build it but the
259.
by sparrish 3y ago
I was told growing up the measure of good work is that you produce more than you consume. That's how families and communities grow and prosper. If you consume more than you produce, you're a drain on your family and community and
260.
by sparrish 3y ago
You say that like it's a bad thing.
261.
by sparrish 3y ago
Snaps are awful. Even simple programs like 'calculator' take multiple seconds to start. I'm planning to bail on Ubuntu soon as well.
262.
by sparrish 3y ago
Please provide some examples.
263.
by sparrish 3y ago
So your argument is it was easier to move across continents in the 1800s than to move from SF to Nebraska today? Sorry, I ain't buying it.
264.
by sparrish 3y ago
Nearly 90% of HTTP attacks on our website come from Cloudflare Workers. We've chosen to block huge subnets of their IPs because of it. This new raw TCP connection feature will undoubtedly be used to attack other services in similar wa
265.
by sparrish 3y ago
Some European cards have geographical blocking on them and can't be use for subscriptions to US companies without removing the blocking.
266.
by sparrish 3y ago
What country is your credit card from? I know many customers from India are struggling to pay for SaaS subscription services since banks there started rejecting all recurring charges.
267.
by sparrish 3y ago
I commend you. My wife and I homeschool our 7 (3rd just graduated) and it's a lot of work but we've found it worthwhile. I sincerely hope will too. Homeschooling is not the right choice for every family but for those who are able
268.
by sparrish 3y ago
Title should probably be "Who is Rollo May?", not the first quote block.
269.
by sparrish 3y ago
They're right; microbiology isn't for children. <grin>
270.
by sparrish 3y ago
One reason I'm keeping my older cars because I don't want to have to deal with the crapshow that is touchscreen interfaces.

More ›