ashayh

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by ashayh 27d ago
"Remigration" will improve humanity? You either know this, or willfully ignore. Can't say which is worse.
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by ashayh 2mo ago
Meanwhile, Gatwick currently doesn't have running toilets: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdew2dnxlzzo How about we fix basic issue as a species first, before going all robots and AI and trips to Mars?
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by ashayh 1y ago
Buy locally configurable stuff only. That means Zigbee and Zwave and use them with Home Assistant. There are many locks and devices which support either. There's a learning curve in the beginning, but once you set it up correctly not o
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by ashayh 1y ago
Complexity is also about empire building and job security. If every dev took the path of least resistance, and did the easiest thing that did its task, we would lose 80% of all tech jobs. This would only funnel more money to billionaires an
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by ashayh 1y ago
"Poorer" countries with a per-capita GDP that's 1/5th of Bay Area have exceptional public transport. How about fix the country public transport first instead of spending 2 Trillion on BS AI?
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by ashayh 2y ago
Try Konnected for garage doors. https://konnected.io/collections/shop-now?filter.p.tag=Smart... Have 2 of them and work great.
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by ashayh 2y ago
ebpf works in Windows as well.
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by ashayh 2y ago
Decisions in the US are made by big tech lobbyists, who want the supply of semi-indentured labor who can't jump jobs at a moment notice to continue as usual.
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by ashayh 3y ago
This is bad from a global warming perspective.
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by ashayh 3y ago
Search "who owns Denver Gazette": "Clarity Media, which is the parent company of the Denver Gazette and is owned by GOP billionaire Phil Anschutz, purchased the assets and rights." Now read his wikipedia page.
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by ashayh 3y ago
The hardware/software industry needs to be regulated by levying a carbon tax and pollution tax. The first iPhone/Android were great innovations. And subsequent iterations occasionally added better features -- but not each year. Ph
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by ashayh 3y ago
| and have an attachment to the land. This is understandable, but does not always make sense. After all, these towns were created by European immigrants who left their homeland of hundreds of years, their language, customs, foods, climate e
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by ashayh 3y ago
Canada has better health outcomes than the US. Same with Scandinavian countries, Au/NZ all of which have dispersed populations and spend less. Also, all the proposed HSR corridors are in populated areas. The population density of the n
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by ashayh 3y ago
You can blame Southwest or corporations all you want. But even in the 90s, people did not support HSR overwhelmingly as per your article. And in today's socio-political climate, a politician has to simply call HSR "socialism"
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by ashayh 3y ago
| It is hard to see that most people would prefer to use a train than a car to travel between cities unless they were going from a place close to a station to another place close to a station. So maybe the population might be simply democra
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by ashayh 3y ago
|The car is actually an amazing transport concept. And very hard to beat You do know you can have the best of both? Germany (where BMWs, Mercs, Audis are made), France, Japan, Switzerland etc have no shortage of easy, high end mass public
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by ashayh 3y ago
| Couldn't one start locally with closing downtown to cars? This happens often in many towns in the US, but its not permanent. And people never seem to make the connection that the "great time" they had walking the streets wa
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by ashayh 3y ago
Is everyone in Germany a Chancellor? Are you?
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by ashayh 3y ago
Why not link to the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail which states: " Since its inception in 2008, the Group has issued 18 letters and members have testified before Legislati
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by ashayh 3y ago
No it won't. Americans are too deluded by car culture to ever let that happen. You will see highways with 55 lanes each way, but you won't see an operational high speed train in the US. There are simply too many people opposed to
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by ashayh 3y ago
There are other advantages to fixing leaks & insulation such as controlling humidity/moisture, lowering mold/pollen/dust, lower noise, adding better air filtration, maybe even better fire protection. By "lower"
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by ashayh 3y ago
Without fixing leaks and insulation, you've done the tech equivalent of throwing large amounts of resources at the problem rather than fixing the root cause :) Your CO footprint will be far better if you decided to fix the leaks &
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by ashayh 3y ago
Aero barrier and/or spray foam for an existing home should work well. But they are not long lasting and are often not environmentally friendly. You can also look into exterior insulation. If possible and if you have the funds, try to d
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by ashayh 3y ago
The article mentions the most important point towards the end: “The better you insulate, the less heat you need in the first place,” No heat pump will help if your house is leaky or under insulated.
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by ashayh 4y ago
The article gives a small number of self-hosted examples. Heres some more https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
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by ashayh 4y ago
"Critical for humanity": https://twitter.com/kateconger/status/1575589049573601280/ph... What a joke.
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by ashayh 4y ago
Highly recommend Steampipe. No other open source tool was able to deal with the large number of Route53 records I had to deal with.
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by ashayh 4y ago
Nice .. theres supposed to be Fall covid wave. https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news...
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by ashayh 4y ago
Not true https://www.nrel.gov/news/features/2021/even-in-frigid-tempe...
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by ashayh 4y ago
Myth: https://www.nrel.gov/news/features/2021/even-in-frigid-tempe...

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