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by switchbak 4mo ago
Certainly telling them to turn off bluetooth will not have any positive effect, if there was a bomb I presume it would only have a negative effect. But some people are really dumb when it comes to having common sense with respect to tech (o
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by switchbak 4mo ago
People that only use their rear view cameras scare me. Move your head, be aware of your environment and the people (kids) around you. And use your cameras (again, kids). Sometimes I sit in a coffee shop and very often see people just using
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by switchbak 4mo ago
Every time I'd take my car to the shop they'd turn the lights off, and I find myself driving around in the dark with no lights on. Why does anyone want that? And we used to mandate "daytime running lights" in Canada, I d
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by switchbak 4mo ago
They can't afford buttons in the console, yet they can afford a massive piece of useless glass. Sometimes I think we're not getting the real story.
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by switchbak 4mo ago
Robo vacuums are already doing this. What a time to be alive and all that.
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by switchbak 4mo ago
I mean - I agree for the typical multi-user, SaaS webapp. But I don't think that's what these folks are proposing. If they are - yeesh, count me out. If on the other hand they're talking about single-user, software in the sma
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by switchbak 4mo ago
I'm someone else who has inherited a bunch of ad-hoc orchestration systems and also used Temporal quite heavily. The latter does certainly come with some overhead (not so bad in the age of LLMs), but it also guides you along a well-tro
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by switchbak 4mo ago
The F-15 EX looks to be pretty popular right now, export-oriented and will probably be around for a while. To be honest, which aircraft we choose isn't going to be the make or break part. All the other terrible decisions that politicia
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by switchbak 4mo ago
Oh it's definitely sink or swim, and you always have to be setting up the next thing while working on your current thing. It's a big part of why I got out - I'm much happier with a more stable situation. It's all about t
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by switchbak 4mo ago
It sounds like a return to the way things have been for a long time. Our post-WWII abundance has been a bit of an aberration compared to most of our history. I'm not saying it's good, I think it's very concerning and potentia
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by switchbak 4mo ago
Did they say it was easy? It's still the right thing to aim for, even if it is a lot of work.
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by switchbak 4mo ago
Many of the homes in the world were built when lead and/or asbestos were in use. Asbestos isn't much of a concern if you don't disturb it - don't let your kids play in the attic or tear out the drywall, and you should be
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by switchbak 4mo ago
You also don't need the politics and corp bs. I worked as a contractor for tiny little orgs doing good things for ~11 years - basically 2-5 people, almost no BS, good money, tons of time flexibility. I shifted away to get more predicta
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by switchbak 4mo ago
They've just released an external storage approach to solve the large payload issue. I don't 100% love it (it's bolted on, not an intrinsic part), and it's an early release right now - but you can consider this effective
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by switchbak 4mo ago
Having inherited a few of these - you tend to home-grow an ad-hoc version of many of the existing OSS tools, but with less of the patterns baked in. Not sure where the NIH ends and where you're actually better off with a supported orch
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by switchbak 4mo ago
That's how the USA uses it, and for that use case it makes a tremendous amount of sense. I just think it's a bit too rich for Canada's blood. Perhaps the whole-system costs do balance out in the end: surprisingly reasonable c
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by switchbak 5mo ago
We've long pushed for 2 engines - which has made sense in the past. Even a successful ejection over the vast arctic would basically be a death sentence. Though some of our allies don't seem to have the same reservations, and it se
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by switchbak 5mo ago
The F-35 always seemed like a funny choice for a mainline fighter for Canada. Even the US has invested in many more F-15EXs. Having a Hi/Lo mix makes sense for a larger force, but equipping a smaller force with only exquisite birds doe
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by switchbak 5mo ago
It sounds like you're obscuring the point by muddying the water here.
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by switchbak 5mo ago
How exactly is that related to their point about nations moving to alternative supply chains away from US based ones? They're saying the administrations actions are counterproductive, and driving away both money and influence from thei
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by switchbak 5mo ago
I spent a bunch of time on a task that we've chatted about for WEEKS. At the PR review time of this lengthy process, I get a bunch of AI slop saying: - this looks like it changes X to Y, did you mean to do this? Worth another look? It
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by switchbak 5mo ago
I think it's perfectly fine for the author to use AI in their research process, and it sounds like they weren't relying on it exclusively. So they've already asked AI its opinion on the topic. They're explicitly reaching
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by switchbak 5mo ago
I think there's a few things going on here: - surveys are just bad, you have a selection bias right off the bat, especially from an outfit like the globe and mail - the idea is that an invasion would be overwhelming and futile to res
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by switchbak 5mo ago
Oh I see, sorry I didn’t realize your point of view was this simplistic. Good luck with your pacifist utopia, hope some guy with a nail in a board doesn’t come and take it all.
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by switchbak 5mo ago
I think the USA has long desired a stronger nation to the north. Not only would it be a good place to sell second-tier weapons (CF-5 anyone?), but it is also quite an important border to secure. It's only the extreme harshness, inacces
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by switchbak 5mo ago
Agreed - treating humans as "human resources" is dehumanizing. And the most extreme is treating them as resources to be exhausted and discarded. That is exactly how coal miners or even laundry washers were treated in the past. You
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by switchbak 5mo ago
Supposedly the SR-72 has figured this out. Just rumours at this point, but apparently they’ve cracked the hypersonic air breathing puzzle on a usefully sized aircraft.
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by switchbak 5mo ago
I’d love to have a big die cast model of one, but that’s about as close as we’ll ever get to the Avro flying again. I don’t think you’d be pushing much freight on an Arrow (though I’d love to fly one!). An XB-70 with modern engines? Now tha
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by switchbak 5mo ago
I’m not in the industry, but I would say Hermeus would be a perfect example. Ostensibly building a commercial airliner, but if you look closely it feels like a military oriented startup from the inside out.
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by switchbak 5mo ago
Please read my message- I said all that networking stuff was beyond the average user. I didn’t make a recommendation (tailscale or otherwise), you should ensure you’re taking in the actual intent before writing a reply.

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