S201

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by S201 2y ago
The overall Forest Service budget has indeed been increasing, but it's nearly all going to wildfire fighting. I recently wrote about the state of forest road funding and went in depth on this here: https://ephemeral.cx/
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by S201 2y ago
I actually quite like it when this happens from the candidate side of the table. I don't want to work anywhere that is so short term focused on "you need to have X years of experience with this exact language/framework or we
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by S201 2y ago
This is how software freedom dies. If bs like this and that "web environment integrity" crap Google tried to push into Chrome last year isn't an obvious sign that Google is a monopoly and needs to be broken up then I don&#x27
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by S201 2y ago
Plus Garmin devices use the Iridium network which has truly global coverage (as opposed to Globalstar which is only in select areas of the world) as well as other features useful for non-emergency backcountry travel. I won't be droppin
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Hey Google, what happened to all the fun?(shanetully.com)
82 points by S201 2y ago|20 comments
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by S201 2y ago
> Bank apps not running on phones where security has been compromised seems entirely reasonable. I have root access on my laptop and I log in to my bank's website just fine. Making apps not run on rooted phones is just perpetuating
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by S201 2y ago
I've never been locked out of my LibreOffice documents stored locally on my Linux box.
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by S201 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
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by S201 2y ago
This was also a major concern around the construction of the Golden Gate bridge; that during a time of war an enemy could have destroyed it to trap a large portion of the Navy's Pacific Fleet in the bay.
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by S201 2y ago
https://pirep.io - a collaborative database of all airports in the US & Canada and their local amenities for general aviation pilots. There's a bunch of local knowledge scattered about for recreational pilots, most of i
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by S201 3y ago
> right in front of ultra short timeouts everywhere > If only I could meet the people who make these decisions in person... For what it's worth, I was once forced to implement a half hour auto-logout on a website that could hardl
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by S201 3y ago
Heh, that's the same company that sends physical mail to me every time I make a trade because they believe that email sent to my personal domain is "undeliverable" and automatically opt me out of e-statements no matter how ma
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by S201 3y ago
I still have a stack of these lying around. I used them in high school for carrying a live Linux distro in my wallet to use on the school computers since the BIOSs were too old to support booting from USB. Needless to say, the school distri
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by S201 3y ago
Lion Air 610 crashed October 29, 2018. BA closed at $357 that day. It continued to go down to $304 on December 17th 2018. By February 25 2019 it hit a high of $440. A month later Ethiopian Airlines 302 crashed sending BA down again. The lar
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by S201 3y ago
> Boeings stock price is down 18% this month. Sounds like a good time to buy it then. There's a 0% chance the government would let Boeing go down so it will rebound just like it did with the last 737 issue a few years ago.
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by S201 3y ago
It was a joke.
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by S201 3y ago
The problem is that after paying the strike price to exercise and the subsequent taxes I'd be underwater based on their current FMV so it doesn't make sense to exercise them. Plus I have very little confidence left in the business
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by S201 3y ago
I have options on Carta from a prior employer that are going to expire in a few months because there's no buyer for them. If Carta is looking for some shares to trade without the owner's consent I wholeheartedly volunteer.
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by S201 3y ago
Same here. Between this and the numerous price hikes I cancelled Prime this past year having been a subscriber for over a decade. The only reason I paid for Prime was the shipping speed and Amazon consistently failed to deliver on that so w
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by S201 3y ago
And? It's called collecting evidence.
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by S201 3y ago
You are completely missing the point that this is not just about an individual's ability to buy hardware that they can do what they want with, but rather two corporations (Apple and Google) locking out all competition on their respecti
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by S201 3y ago
Please point me to the smartphone that I can freely do whatever I want with. For all Apple devices, it's non-existent. For Android there's only a few limited options left that ship with a bootloader that can be unlocked. The point
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by S201 3y ago
I assume by being on HN you work in the tech industry. Assuming so, you owe your career and livelihood to the openness of the systems that came before you and the people that built them. Locking everything down in the name of safety and con
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by S201 3y ago
Yes. If I bought and paid for something I own it and should be able to run whatever software I want on it. Anything less makes it not my device anymore.
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by S201 3y ago
And malware has never existed in the Google Play store, right? The point is that if you are the owner of the device you get to choose what to do with it, not Google. If the trade off for that freedom is an increased risk of malware then so
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by S201 3y ago
Is it the stock battery or after-market? Even if you bought it one year ago, when was it filled with acid? Many auto parts stores sell sealed lead-acid batteries as "new" when they've been sitting on the shelf for a year and
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by S201 3y ago
A hardwood table does not cost remotely the same in terms of materials or labor as a cheap table that you can buy at the likes of IKEA and crowd. Hardwood, especially nice hardwood, costs FAR more than MDF. For example, a slab of black waln
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by S201 3y ago
It's not that there's not a demand for unleaded avgas, I'd say most GA pilots are ambivalent to leaded vs. unleaded fuel; they just want whatever makes the prop spin. The issues with the unleaded avgas rollout are purely bure
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by S201 3y ago
> Unlike software, there is no machine that can do the type of woodworking you describe. A CNC? > Conversely, my own experience shows that even with context window limitations, ChatGPT is already better than 90% of working software en
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by S201 3y ago
> Folks still enjoy doing woodworking and make boxes, tables, benches, etc. -- even though they could easily buy them new, used, or for pretty cheap (say, at IKEA). For what it's worth, many woodworkers prefer making their own stuff

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