TimBurr

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by TimBurr 5y ago
From the people who brought you: Biden Tax Rule Would Rip Billions From Big Fortunes at Death and Richest 100 Americans Would Pay $78 Billion Under Warren Tax I think that billionaires are bad for democracy, and that Bloomberg is not aligne
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by TimBurr 5y ago
This even works for some non-antique cars. Jeep Wranglers (TJ generation) and Mazda Miatas (NA generation) have both appreciated somewhat in recent years. Of course, no one's getting rich when a car appreciates from $5000 to $6000 or $
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by TimBurr 5y ago
This might be a different Ask HN, but does anyone have suggestions on avoiding the content farm stuff? Searching reddit works, but amounts to being trapped in a walled garden. I've found a lot of great stuff on random independent websi
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by TimBurr 5y ago
On a quick and dirty look, I don't think those figures are right. Here's what I found for 2020: USPS 2020 Revenues & Expenses Package revenue: $28,537M Overall revenue: $73,123M Overall expenses: $82,309M Net pro
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by TimBurr 5y ago
Here's a NASA blog with slightly more detail: https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/296/mars-... > An issue identified earlier this month showed a 15% chance for each time the helico
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by TimBurr 5y ago
Thanks! I looked at some tank drawings, but couldn't tell if they were omitting auxiliary tanks for simplicity's sake. Didn't want to say anything inaccurate.
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by TimBurr 5y ago
I'm not sure what was on the Shuttle tank, but other vehicles carry hydraulic fluid (for engine gimballing) & hydrazine (for small thrusters). They're usually vented at the end of a mission to safe the vehicle. If you're
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by TimBurr 5y ago
There are similar limits on photos/video. MMS photos are resolution capped at ~1MP, and videos have are compressed to be barely legible. iMessage transfers photos/video at their native resolution. Which means that if three iPhone
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by TimBurr 5y ago
I mentioned it in a different comment, but take a look at Syncthing. It does mesh-style backup to synchronize a folder between multiple machines. That provides robustness against hard drive or PC failures, and it's easy to add an offsi
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by TimBurr 5y ago
Depending on what you need, a NAS + Syncthing is much simpler than the linked article. Building a PC isn't hard, and keeps prices down. These days, a RPi 4+2 USB HDDs would run circles around the motherboard on my NAS. Syncthing is a g
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by TimBurr 5y ago
I've found http://neverssl.com very helpful for captive portals. It does what you'd expect - hosts a HTTP-only page that allows captive portals to work correctly. Since it's only ever HTTP, it sidesteps the certif
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by TimBurr 6y ago
A few examples in the blog post stood out to me - both refine ambigous letters to clear ones, which demonstrates concerns other folks were talking about in this thread. In this one, i's are nearly illegible, but are corrected. It appea
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by TimBurr 6y ago
I set up a personal mailserver a few years back, and have hit a lot of painpoints. The main ones were software complexity (setup) and dealing with blacklists (ongoing). Setup for a normal mailserver requires Postfix (SMTP send/recieve)
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by TimBurr 6y ago
That's a similar spirit to Rockstar and Enterprise - they're joke languages to poke fun at employer requirements. Rockstar actually looks fun to play with, in a code-as-art sort of way. :) https://codewithrockstar.com&#
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by TimBurr 6y ago
Thanks for the reference! I'll have to read about those more. Sounds like that also eliminates any fuss with oil/fuel ratios, since they're introduced separately.
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by TimBurr 6y ago
You're asking really good questions :) In my layman's understanding, those are related. Playing with the piston dimensions limits (but doesn't entirely prevent) fuel/exhaust mixing. Unburned fuel in the exhaust makes the
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by TimBurr 6y ago
If you like this, you'll probably enjoy Elmer's Engines. It's an old book full of steam engine plans, designed for people who are new to machining. I used some of them as blueprints when I took drafting in high school. http:
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by TimBurr 6y ago
I know you mentioned exercise, but it doesn't have to be a huge commitment. I try to bike 30 mins a day. Pre-covid, that meant biking to work and back. (I'm lucky to live close to work.) These days, I take off for a 5 mile ride ar
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by TimBurr 6y ago
That would be true iff prices were disclosed upfront and the pricing model was clear. I had a hospital experience recently where the surgeon provided one bill, the hospital a second, and the anesthesiologist a third. Only the surgeon's
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by TimBurr 6y ago
Speaking of Asimov, "The Dead Past" explores government controlled research, which the article proposed as one defense against black-ball ideas. Without spoiling too much, the story revolves around suspected government suppression
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by TimBurr 6y ago
I dunno if it addresses your concerns in particular, but there is a JS-free version with normal pagination: https://ddg.gg/html https://html.duckduckgo.com
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by TimBurr 6y ago
I'm not sure. Possibly both? Just took a look over my bookshelf, but they haven't made it with me through moves. I do still have Incredible Cross-Sections. That was another of my favorites to flip through. It looks like there are
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by TimBurr 6y ago
If you don't mind me adding :) 6. Prices are often unknown at time of service. No amount of research can make up for hospitals that haven't decided how much your surgery will cost until after the fact. I recently paid a hospital i
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by TimBurr 6y ago
Thinking of when I was 12 (2005?), microscopes and magnifying glasses helped me understand. Depends on device DPI (cell phones have an insane number of pixels per inch; desktop screens are usually less dense). If you can zoom in enough to s
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by TimBurr 6y ago
One more angle - competition & nationalism. The 737 Max and A320neo are direct competitors. The A320neo was announced 6 months before the 737 Max in 2011, and both were certified for flight in March 2017. (Give or take - the A320neo has
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by TimBurr 6y ago
Not much of one :) The backend is all Python - netcdf library for reading; Pillow for image manipulation. There's a second Python script that regenerates the videos daily, using FFMPEG. A simple cronjob restarts the services if anythin
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by TimBurr 6y ago
Earth from space, as of ~30 minutes ago. This visualization uses imagery provided by GOES-R, a geostationary earth-observing satellite, to generate near-realtime true-color images of the earth at (fairly) high resolution. (There's also
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Show HN: Realtime Geostationary Earth Imagery(bluemarble.nitk.in)
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by TimBurr 6y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful response! Appreciate it. I initially missed the distinction between affirming speech and speech designed to make the recipient feel good. Jokes can make people feel good, but don't affirm that they are enough,
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by TimBurr 6y ago
Have you thought about adding other types of phrase to the API, bound to different endpoints? If the goal is to brighten people's days, a short joke or pun could do the trick. Or something like `fortune -s` (but fortune is usually mult

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