zrail

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by zrail 3y ago
Location: Michigan, US (US Eastern time zone) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Python, Go, PostgreSQL, SQL, AWS, Heroku, finances/accounting Résumé/CV: https://www.petekeen.net&
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by zrail 3y ago
Kind of like this? https://pedalcell.com
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I was speaking of the US, yes. I should have been more specific.
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UBI and universal healthcare would enable _so_ many people to take risks that they can't today. We would see an explosion in the arts, in fundamental science, in passion projects like this. It would be absolutely incredible. Except acc
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Yep. It's messed up.
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If the municipality owns the poles and the power company this is comparatively easier. In places that own both, like Traverse City in Michigan, Chattanooga TN, or Longmont CO, this model can be incredibly effective. The problem, at least in
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by zrail 3y ago
You jest but also you're not wrong.
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Shielding technology that can be miniaturized to protect a single person. Person-sized shields were tuned to only protect against higher velocity kinetics because if it goes too low it stops allowing air exchange.
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The trick is to persist the tailscale var volume. The auth key is only used when setting up a particular client the first time, once it's connected to your network the auth key is irrelevant. If you're doing this with ephemeral co
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by zrail 3y ago
> figuring out an inkwell that doesn't splosh ink around everywhere or floats just over the bed is probably more work than the idea is worth What if... - cut a custom bed out of a piece of plywood or something, letter-shaped so ther
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Oh yes you're probably correct. Their website doesn't say and I was, until now, not familiar with the difference.
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This is sort of what Edison Motors[1] is doing. They have built what is essentially a diesel electric locomotive in truck form, where they have a CAT diesel generator charging two battery sets which then power two electric axles in the rear
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Ági Szabados is a 35 year old adult woman who runs a successful nationwide book club. "Young content creator" in this context absolutely is patronizing.
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Old Man's War was published almost two decades ago and was Scalzi's first novel. It shouldn't be surprising that it took a lot of inspiration from Heinlein et. al. His later works either lean way into tropes intentionally (Re
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by zrail 3y ago
I just tore through Starter Villian and accidentally laughed so hard at one point that I woke my sleeping spouse.
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Employer provided and managed hardware is treated as a hostile entity on my network. Separate SSID, separate VLAN, no access to local resources whatsoever. I don't even let them talk to my local DNS server, they reach out to Google and
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by zrail 3y ago
GPIO is doable on a mini PC. For example, there are Raspberry Pi Pico firmwares out there that present as a normal gpiochip. I recently set up a pico with 3D printer firmware (Klipper, specifically) so I could control power to my actual pri
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by zrail 3y ago
The supervisor method of installation is difficult to get right. The easiest way forward is Home Assistant OS, which includes supervisor, or just running the Core docker container directly.
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You're still independent of any given service. Outgoing mail is effectively stateless at this scale so the cost to switch to a different one us ~zero.
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Jane Street started as and remains a proprietary trading firm. They added consulting services as some point as well, but that was after they proved their competence.
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by zrail 3y ago
Different people have different experiences. Some people don't experience PPD or PPA at all. For many people PPD and/or PPA are significantly harder than what you experienced, and for a tragically high number it can be fatal for t
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by zrail 3y ago
And famously succeeded.
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At least in terms of aircraft I think you have some camp tinted glasses on. Aircraft, vehicles, ships, and equipment of all sorts has always been developed by private industry. Often in very close partnership with the military, of course. A
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by zrail 3y ago
UniFi doesn't use VyOS anywhere afaik. Some Ubiquiti products run EdgeOS which is a Vyatta fork (EdgeRouter, the original security gateways). More recent UniFi products (UDM, UDM-SE, UNVR, etc) run UniFi OS which is their own Debian-ba
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by zrail 3y ago
Yeah, the cost of buying equipment and licenses supported by a team with a phone number is immaterial for most enterprise-level organizations.
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by zrail 3y ago
You're right that the tooling doesn't support it well but commits have more than one parent all the time, they're just called merge commits. They can actually have as many parent branches as you please but conflicts get harde
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There are some banks that give free Fedwire transfers, often just to higher account tiers. Fidelity Investments gives free Fedwire to everyone, though.
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The control is the desire to hold open the option for future funding rounds. If you gain a reputation for not caring what the VCs think then they won't want to invest in future rounds.
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https://www.petekeen.net I don't really have a theme, other than just stuff that's interesting to me, but I'm proud of it as a body of work spanning more than a decade now.
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I implemented number two as part of an encoding scheme a few months ago. I'm not sure how much it's saved in terms of database lookups but it's aesthetically pleasing to know it won't hit a more inscrutable error while t

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