DavidPeiffer

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by DavidPeiffer 5mo ago
Buying used is great and all, but so many more products and product features have become cloud and subscription reliant across all industries. They'll be able to get you profiled and locked into a dynamically priced subscription eventu
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by DavidPeiffer 5mo ago
(Iowan) We've been losing our importance in the election cycles. We did have a pair of very long tenured senators who definitely gave us an outsized representation for decades, helping to establish many of the ag friendly policies we
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by DavidPeiffer 6mo ago
I went to school for industrial engineering and have worked in manufacturing the last decade or so. Bus production would be an entire refactoring of an auto factory. Tons of equipment would need to move around, electrical conduit would need
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by DavidPeiffer 7mo ago
I was really hoping this CVE would have been caused by the Copilot integration into Notepad. Calculator hasn't been infiltrated by Copilot yet, but I'm sure the day is coming.
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by DavidPeiffer 7mo ago
>It makes me wanna write an AI browser assistant that can take my comments and stylize them randomly to make it harder to use these sorts of forensics against me The old trick years ago was to translate from English to different language
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by DavidPeiffer 9mo ago
This reminds me of a neat piece of computer keyboard -> audio software I found on what had to be an "old internet" site 15-20 years ago. For lack of a better phrase, it was relative tone keyboard. I've looked but have no
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by DavidPeiffer 9mo ago
What struck me about the big island is that it has 8 of the 13 climate zones, and you can go around the perimeter of the island in about 5 hours. I loved going up Mauna Kea visitor center and stargazing. At ~11,000 feet, it's one of t
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by DavidPeiffer 10mo ago
I worked with some supply chain consultants who mentioned "internal suppliers are often worse suppliers than external". Their point was that service levels are often not as stringently tracked, SLA's become internal money shu
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by DavidPeiffer 10mo ago
>This is one of the reasons I am so skeptical of the current AI hype cycle. There are boring, well-behaved classical solutions for many of the use-cases where fancy ML is pushed today. In 2013 my statistics professor warned that once we
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by DavidPeiffer 10mo ago
Yes, this works very well. The element zapper interface is a little challenging or I intuitive, but just using a default block list is so much better than using the internet without any ad blocking.
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by DavidPeiffer 10mo ago
>We really should be yelling for advancements in simple-to-configure dedicated, restricted VLANs and SSIDs for IOT devices instead of yelling about how inappropriate we think that using IP is. What is the lay of the land for typical cons
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by DavidPeiffer 11mo ago
I graduated in 2011. Smart phones were rare, but dumb phones were quite common. The lunch room was quite loud. To keep people from being in their own world on their phones too much, my lunch table had a rule that if you laugh out loud at so
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by DavidPeiffer 11mo ago
I'm not positive whether Target's system from ~15 years ago was a TUI, but a friend worked there in college. He mentioned the process for tax exempt purchases was a bit challenging/not the most common. There were some frequen
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by DavidPeiffer 11mo ago
It varies significantly by locale. I've seen people post online about how it made little sense to keep just one gas appliance because of significant savings. I'm in Iowa, which typically heats on natural gas in urban areas. I have
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by DavidPeiffer 11mo ago
The YoLink system works great! I was able to spot an issue causing my chest freezer to very slowly increase in temp (roughly -10 to +10 F in a month) and move the contents before losing the food. Across 5 temperature sensors, I've need
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by DavidPeiffer 11mo ago
This is a very long and well written article. One fact I'd like to highlight is that the liver can regrow to the same size quite quickly if you choose to be a living liver donor.
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by DavidPeiffer 11mo ago
I work in manufacturing. There are a few instances where watching YouTube may not be a huge hazard, but 98% of the roles I've seen the are reasonable reasons to not permit that. If nothing else, it'd be easy to let quality suffer
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by DavidPeiffer 1y ago
Here are links to the episodes, for anyone interested. April 2025 interview: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/some-of-americas-most-... August 2025 interview (after BLS head statistician was fired): https:&#
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by DavidPeiffer 1y ago
It's the best data that's available at the time. It's been collected in a consistent fashion for a significant duration of time. To understand how a new methodology would differ, we'd want to run a new process in paralle
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by DavidPeiffer 1y ago
> Wow - noticeable at least! The blue is sufficient but not necessary for the animal to be impacted by the poison. It is a very vibrant blue though, and anyone would be concerned if they opened an animal and saw that.
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by DavidPeiffer 1y ago
I think about a book I found in Texas at a thrift store. Poor's 1925 Railroad Section [1] is a thick book containing details about every (?) railroad in the US such as miles of track, tons hauled, revenue, recent mergers, etc. I'm
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by DavidPeiffer 1y ago
I've had a couple coworkers attempt to use AirPods with Windows computers, and the audio quality has been awful and unusable. They sound super distant even with sound turned up all the way.
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by DavidPeiffer 1y ago
You will be going through underwriting again, your new rate will be based on starting at an older age, and you'll have a new exclusion period begin (unless there are some provisions which prevent these in the event of a company failure
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by DavidPeiffer 1y ago
>During the RSS reader era, I was exposed to a lot of curated tech and design content and it helped me really develop taste and knowledge in these areas. Man, you helped me realize how much the RSS era helped me out. I followed so many d
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by DavidPeiffer 1y ago
I lived about a mile outside of the DART zone where they were trialing this, if it's the program I'm thinking of. I attempted to use it one time, but had issues with the app. I love the concept though, and hope there's an eco
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by DavidPeiffer 1y ago
My favorite application of dead reckoning is the early 80's Honda system to display the car location on a map. While testing the system, there were times where the car showed itself off of the road. After looking into it further, they
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by DavidPeiffer 1y ago
>...I am sorta doubtful companies will deliberately make less efficient appliances if it goes away. Working in the manufacturing space, I have no doubt designs will change and energy consumption will go up. They will be able to remove se
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by DavidPeiffer 1y ago
A P51 is my daily driver, and I personally really like it. The charging brick is indeed huge, but I throw it in my backpack and it doesn't bother me. I hate that the processor isn't compatible with Windows 11, because it's a
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by DavidPeiffer 1y ago
W700ds is such an oddity. I love it. One day in high school, my dad asked "what's the difference between RAID 1 and RAID 0?", which led to me sitting down next to him to spec this monster laptop out. A week later he purchased
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by DavidPeiffer 1y ago
If this type of surveillance is concerning to you, please look at advocating against it at a local level. Thomas Ptacek [1] has experience and seems very willing to help out. He recently provided a really helpful comment regarding reining i

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