DelaneyM

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by DelaneyM 5mo ago
It's not at all uncommon, and important. When someone is empowered to work remotely, and is salaried and not held to specific hours, then it's very hard to identify what work is "theirs" and what work is "the compan
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by DelaneyM 11mo ago
My suggestion would be even simpler: MQTT -> Postgres (+ S3 for archive) > 1. my "fear" would be that if I use the same Postgres for the queue and for my business database... This is a feature, not a bug. In this way you ca
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by DelaneyM 1y ago
The distance between a scientific revolution being accessible to the ultra-wealthy and the average consumer is measured in years, and shrinking rapidly. I would rather billionaires get anti-aging technology 10yrs before I do than never get
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by DelaneyM 1y ago
It’s not much harder to just harden your system to not be vulnerable in the first place, and that protects your from a lot more.
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by DelaneyM 2y ago
I cringe at the idea that beyond a certain level one stops writing code. You never stop writing code, unless you truly just don’t enjoy writing code, and if that’s the case please don’t manage engineers. You do eventually stop shipping crit
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by DelaneyM 2y ago
Our house is above the prevailing level, built on a cement slab foundation. We have no basement, and water would have to be >3' high above the land to get into the house, but that's only ~10' above sea level. We have no e
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by DelaneyM 2y ago
Depends on the island! As I said in a different response though, when you have a hardened home you fear storm surges, and we do. Our house would probably be obliterated by a 12’ storm surge at high tide. We’re built on a 3’ high cement sla
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by DelaneyM 2y ago
It does depend on the housing in question too. As the study concludes, wind will absolutely tear apart a cheap house, or a structure not built to be resilient to wind. And most aren’t. _But_ once you’re ready for wind , as we are, you live
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by DelaneyM 2y ago
I live in the Caribbean, and we get a lot of hurricanes. A few every year. We build for extreme weather. Our building codes (and common sense) protect us. My house has 10" of concrete on all our exterior walls and 1" concrete s
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by DelaneyM 2y ago
I’ve also burned my Google system. In my case, I use a Google Apps email account so my family has a shared email domain (and I can better handle tech support and manage my kids’ use). That’s slowly become completely incompatible with nest
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by DelaneyM 2y ago
IMO the only chance for redemption here is opening up the devices to open source projects. It’s good hardware, just let us use it. (Also please ship a PoE++ adapter.)
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by DelaneyM 2y ago
I am an experienced engineer with twenty five years of infrastructure and protocol development, and my experience setting up an all-Sonos home system is a _saga_ of epic proportions. Unbelievably frustrating software decisions for otherwise
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by DelaneyM 2y ago
I’m constantly amazed at how differently I learned to do things from my father than from school. My father had all sorts of approaches similar to this, and it’s how I learned to write essays (outside-in) and research (inside-out), and which
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by DelaneyM 2y ago
I live in a country which has no local auto industry to protect and can import vehicles from nearly anywhere. I can confidently say that China has won. There’s just no comparison, and this isn’t just about prices. I’m not even talking abo
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by DelaneyM 2y ago
Pick one single customer and fanatically meet their individual needs. Then add a second. Repeat until you’re no longer needing to tweak your system to delight a new customer. At that point you need sales and you have a business! :)
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by DelaneyM 2y ago
Though I share your pessimism, “fortunately” the drug companies don’t make much from dementia directly, the cost burden is borne by children and care facilities. And for what it’s worth, if there were a drug I could buy for nearly any amoun
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
I mean, a trillion dollars to solve global warming sounds like a pretty good deal to me?
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
Or if they care for their descendants in their later years. (Not saying fish do this, though I wouldn’t be surprised if giant elder fish clear out predators. A lot of people forget this bit but it’s suspected of being a big factor in insec
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
That’s the one! Data URL! Thanks. :) The primary way we used it was as the body of a tracking gif, returned as binary. But we also used it as a spacer here and there inline in HTML using the data URI. When embedding in HTML the file size
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
I went down this rabbit hole about 15 years ago, I ended up hand-rolling a transparent .gif which I think was 15 bytes? Small enough that we inlined it as cdata data urls. (Is that still a thing in HTML? It’s been so long…)
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
It’s fascinating that this is a paper - we did the math about 20 years ago and have been using excess electricity for desalination in Cayman ever since.
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
That’s literally the first sentence of the dictionary definition: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trans%20woman#:~:...
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
You become a business guy the same way you became a technical guy! Don't waste time selling soap though (unless you really love soap) - my best advice is to try to sell something you've made. It could be your time (as a consultan
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
Corollary: you do not need a non-technical co-founder. My advice to engineers is that it's nearly always easier to learn business/sales than to learn to like a co-founder, especially the type generally drawn to being a "busin
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
Don’t underestimate the importance of building supplies and labor. Food and water are good, though we have a lot stockpiled already, but it’s easy to underestimate how tough things can get in the summer when there’s no A/C or refrigera
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
Having lived through a Caribbean hurricane ( https://www.caymancompass.com/2021/09/12/remembering-hurrica... ), I can assure you that an airship is much less potentially useful than cargo ships and ferries. The
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
So my big takeaway from this is to never email a government official or agency if at all possible, because that’s how you end up on spam lists via FOIA.
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
I woke up one day about twenty years ago with terrible tinnitus, to the point I could barely function. I’d never been to a concert or worked with heavy machinery and didn’t wear headphones (I have tiny ear canals and can’t fit earbuds). I
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
As other replies have mentioned, you need to push against the water to position the windfoil to produce thrust. Otherwise you're just being pushed by air, and you're limited by windspeed. Sailboats can go many times the speed of
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by DelaneyM 3y ago
I do not believe you're making an argument in good faith, you're just stirring the bot with a false equivalence. Take it to twitter.

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