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by tristor 4mo ago
This was actually a cool way to learn about DN42. I'm adding to my list of someday side projects to set this up. At some point I want to operate my own AS.
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by tristor 4mo ago
One of my favorite features of my Mazda 3 is that it has a HUD projector in the windshield that gets turn by turn directions via Apple CarPlay so I can turn off the screen and still get navigation.
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by tristor 4mo ago
> You only see them higher because there is no enforcement of the rule. Unenforced rules effectively don't exist. Selectively enforced rules are a focal point for discrimination and corruption. I don't think you're making
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by tristor 4mo ago
I like having bright LED headlights, however I also made sure my headlights are correctly aimed and that my auto-leveling is working correctly. My car also auto-dims high beams and has ADB/turning lights. So, in short, I understand w
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by tristor 4mo ago
I have this exact same thing happening with B&N. Did you ever figure out how to get it to stop?
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by tristor 5mo ago
Where does this draw data from? It's a similar visual concept to what we're doing at ThousandEyes within Internet Insights (see https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages/ ) however we make it fairly clear how we a
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by tristor 5mo ago
No. Engineering is in part about ethics. Acting unethically is a choice. Engineering is in part about tradeoffs, if you trade off your ethics you are not doing a good thing and we don't feel sorry for you. This fictional person in
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by tristor 5mo ago
I plan to do the same eventually. I want to buy a shop and become a mechanic, primarily flipping cars, and doing actual repairs for a fair price. I need to get to the point where the business venture only needs to do a bit better than bre
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by tristor 5mo ago
The worst interview of my life was at Meta, and it was bad enough that I have permanently blacklisted them as a place I will /never/ work. I get contacted by Meta recruiters relatively often despite the fact I let them know after
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by tristor 5mo ago
I don't agree, but I think your perspective is valid so I upvoted you. I've worked for companies that did this, in fact I'd say this is commonplace at startups and small companies, at least till around 500 employees or so. I
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by tristor 5mo ago
Buying is cheaper than renting in most of the country, it's only in coastal markets with exceptionally high home prices that this isn't true. There's a basic formula you can use called "price-to-rent" that helps yo
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by tristor 5mo ago
Lexus didn't enter the Japanese market as a brand until 2005, prior to that all Lexus models well sold under the Toyota moniker in the Japanese market. I'm not sure about Acura, but the GP's assertion is largely correct in it
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by tristor 5mo ago
> And I personally think that billionaires extracting untold wealth from those of us doing the actual work is a far greater societal problem than some normal folks who are lazy There can be two problems (or more). We can care about two
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by tristor 5mo ago
> It declares authority "these are the facts" rather than "let's discuss ideas" and if you haven't fully earned that authority it honestly just kind of smells of insecurity. Not at all. 1. Someone is coming
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by tristor 5mo ago
> Why do we constantly denigrate these "free loaders" and exalt the capitalists who quite literally free load off of our labor extracting untold billions and trillions of dollars off the backs of average folks like you and me w
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by tristor 5mo ago
> We accept some things being unfair, not everything being unfair. Life is fundamentally unfair. Anything that tips the balance in the other direction is due to specific, continuous human effort. It's a good thing when we can make
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by tristor 5mo ago
Very similar experiences here. My first job was in a union shop, but you could not be forced to join. Whether you joined or not, though, you had dues taken from your pay. I refused to join initially because I could choose to join at any
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by tristor 5mo ago
Interesting, I read this series of posts and as someone who does not have a dog in this fight but does have a more than passing background in both audio engineering and datacenter engineering, the response Masley gives here to the very firs
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by tristor 5mo ago
After reading Madhu's Wikipedia page and some basic research it looks like he failed his polygraph required to access controlled compartmentalized information (SCI), then DHS (under Noem) then fired six career staffers because of him f
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by tristor 5mo ago
> As someone gen-z, I think that we are just the ones facing the double it and give it to the next generation problem. As I sometimes have to remind my own gen-z child who now unironically is blaming Millennials for the current situation
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by tristor 5mo ago
I don't understand the mindset of being surprised that people are honest about their own opinions about their work. I don't have any uniquely bad concerns about my employer so I don't think I've ever written anything li
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by tristor 5mo ago
I only had to do it years ago. I have a new M5 Max MBP and it has never had SIP disabled, neither did my M1 Max MBP I replaced. That's at least 4-5 years where it's been unnecessary. Never needed it on Apple Silicon devices, al
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by tristor 5mo ago
> The very first thing they show this new machine doing is helping people shop for clothes using AI. Shopping with AI is something I wish actually worked, but instead it doesn't. I've been using ChatGPT and Claude to try to he
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by tristor 5mo ago
I've been using a Mac since 2012 for all manner of work and personal use cases. I haven't needed to disable SIP to do anything in quite a long time. I used to need to do this to install kernel extensions for audio, but this is n
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by tristor 5mo ago
As a corollary to > Communication is a tax that you should justify before paying it. > Every piece of information should have a single source of truth. - Do as much as possible on a single system and minimize sharing state. - Recogniz
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by tristor 5mo ago
As I've gotten older I struggle to make new friendships, but I still keep up most of my older friendships. The friendships that I've dropped or let fade away are mostly because they were toxic relationships in some regard or alte
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by tristor 5mo ago
The biggest challenge I have with local models right now (and I use them extensively) is search integration and tool calling. The thing that Claude and ChatGPT get right for most general purpose use cases which is hard to do with a local m
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by tristor 5mo ago
None of the information identified for me was surprising using an up-to-date Firefox on Mac w/ a mostly default configuration. I had to unblock Javascript in NoScript for the page to work. I get the point, but I think the EFF Panoptic
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by tristor 5mo ago
That's true, but mostly due to simple logistical constraints, more exoticly prepared beans generally don't keep as well on the shelf and need to be used shortly after roasting. I do a pour over in a Chemex every morning and use th
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by tristor 5mo ago
My local Costco carries the fair trade artisanal coffee brand that is roasted in my city, just in a 3 pound bag of beans instead of a 1 pound bag of beans like at the bougie grocery store. I can understand not wanting the Kirkland brand co

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