willidiots

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by willidiots 2y ago
Ahh good catch - counting down to midnight on October 1.
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by willidiots 2y ago
Smells like an ARG / marketing campaign. Their "want to talk" email is "truthorconsequences@", they have two "blog posts" and a list of vaguely related press pieces (none of which mention them), their logo
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by willidiots 2y ago
Oh totally agree - we live in wildfire country and are in the process of replacing our entire house, effectively, with concrete, metal and other fireproof materials. We have to stop using wood in these places.
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by willidiots 2y ago
NYC flooded massively during Hurricane Sandy. Most of the gulf coast experiences the same annually. Now more of the eastern US will suffer the same fate as climate change accelerates. The rural western US has always been affected by wildfir
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by willidiots 3y ago
If you're new to this: from experience during past eclipses, make sure you're in the area of totality . Our family was on the edge of that area for the last one and thought it'd be enough - it wasn't, as we sadly learn
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by willidiots 3y ago
Definitely a misleading headline - Watch Duty shows 14 prescribed burns in the state right now. I live in the WUI and they've been doing burns around here for the past ~3 months.
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by willidiots 3y ago
In the game of Apollo vs No Apollo, agreed, the game is played out. Even if there's some eleventh hour agreement, reduction in API fees etc, the direction is clear - Reddit's killing these guys, just a question of when. But in the
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by willidiots 3y ago
Reddit would need to monetize those users, presumably by adding ads etc to Apollo, eventually turning Apollo into the Reddit app which already exists today (and which Apollo users don't want to use). Only the users willing to tolerate
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by willidiots 3y ago
I hope Apollo's not overplaying their hand here, though it's super interesting hearing these conversations from the inside. It's clear reddit's got it out for the 3p apps, and I'm personally leaving reddit over this
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by willidiots 3y ago
https://wehoville.com/2013/01/07/why-are-images-from-space-p...
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by willidiots 3y ago
I thought the same at first too, then realized this is mesmerizing beautiful *pollution*. Similar to the iridescent sheen of an oil slick on the ocean.
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by willidiots 3y ago
OP's document lists 11 cities for comparison and says nothing about living in the country.
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by willidiots 4y ago
I always find myself coming back to ST for "powerful text editor" needs. It works, it does what I need. I was able to use it for a long time before paying for it. Not sure why it needs to be explicitly compared to VSCode and treat
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by willidiots 4y ago
Glad to see someone referencing BigClive's teardowns and explanations. As for the business rationale, I think it's less about consumer demand and more about the recurring revenue for the light manufacturers. Products like this exi
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by willidiots 4y ago
One personal counterpoint, as a non-user: I trained under an elite alpinist for 3+ years. This is is someone who'd achieved much in their field, was a happy parent and generally seemed successful and content. We had a lot of intimate c
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by willidiots 4y ago
It's very rare, but nevertheless the kind of thing that corporate legal teams worry about. That said, there are lower-friction ways to deliver these terms - include them in your check-in paperwork, post them visibly in a public space -
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by willidiots 4y ago
I didn't say it was a particularly valuable ad space, I completely agree :) But having had these conversations with the people responsible, that's nevertheless the reality. There are existing supported technologies which solve all
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by willidiots 4y ago
"Spreading the word" isn't needed. There are plenty of low-friction tech solutions to public Wi-Fi onboarding and the people responsible for these systems know about them. The persistence of stupid captive portals etc. is an
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by willidiots 4y ago
I live in the WUI among trees. We've already spent $20,000 removing some fuels, and are spending $30,000 to remove more. This is in a county with a median annual income of $26,000. We can only afford this because of my remote tech wo
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by willidiots 4y ago
Upending your whole life and moving somewhere "safer" is no small thing, particularly when you have generational ties to the area. Doubly so when rural economies are dying, and you can't afford to move. Native Americans have
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by willidiots 4y ago
I suspect the author wanted you to notice the similarity between 7 and 8 when you got to them, not at the beginning of the article.
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by willidiots 4y ago
I spend a lot of time thinking about important conversations beforehand, and the directions they could take. I'll pace around the house for half an hour talking to myself, practicing speaking. This has proven helpful in my job, which i
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by willidiots 4y ago
Growing mobile-first population. Portrait is easier than landscape. Creators design with this in mind, get rewarded with eyeballs.
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by willidiots 4y ago
It's an LED matrix which requires third party cloud servers to update the display. I own one. It's great.
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by willidiots 4y ago
Yeah, simple enough. Also simple enough to go-around when you're obviously slow and going to be short of the runway, but look at Asiana 214. I do wonder if there's some training deficiency or cultural issue that leads to this scen
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by willidiots 4y ago
Entirely speculating, but it sounds like the fundamental problem is that they had a confused Captain and First Officer who both thought they were the Pilot Flying. Human factors / psychology issue. Sure, on a Boeing you'll feel t
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by willidiots 5y ago
I agree that there's something in these videos - at least in Gimbal. I don't think it's a saucer-shaped thing or necessarily of extraterrestrial origin. It could be a drone (either ours - another branch of DoD/govt -
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by willidiots 5y ago
The "saucer" shape and its rotation were IR glare, that's the point of the video. He's very clear that he's NOT debunking the existence of an object. The exhaust of a jet engine, or another high-heat signature, coul
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by willidiots 5y ago
Exactly. The whole system seems hilariously naïve if you have any real-world driving experience in the bay area. I drove 205/580->680->880->237 daily for years, one of the first express corridors. People constantly crossing ov
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by willidiots 5y ago
That's a Part 15 label (see https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-A... ) and it doesn't apply to avionics / radio navigation systems. (I do agree this is Boeing's issue

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