balderdash

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by balderdash 16d ago
A former employer owned a combined cycle power plant -when they were having issues (not huge ones, but weird issues or gauge readings) they’d call this old timer and he’d come in walking around ask the operators to make some settings change
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by balderdash 28d ago
TD bank has branches but that's not super helpful if you're at the airport. the helpful thing is having a "relationship manager", someone you can call or email directly - you can get that at a big bank or a small one, an
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by balderdash 1mo ago
I moved over to Fastmail a maybe five years ago and it was pretty painless. The actual mechanics I did in an hour or so while half watching a movie. The hardest bit, which you just have to do slowly over the course of 2-6 months is update y
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by balderdash 1mo ago
Great - now spirit will be the “model”, could you pick a worse example?
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by balderdash 1mo ago
FWIW i was just going off that fact that the warranty on the battery mentioned in the article only guaranteed >=60% after 10 years...
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by balderdash 1mo ago
11-13yr payback on something that is going to degrade ~3-4%/yr for 10 years (and limited terminal value) doesn't seem like the greatest investment unless you think the arb is going to widen a ton.
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by balderdash 1mo ago
Yeah - I was in the nostalgia boat, until you said this and remembered all the times I was in the country going to a friend's house that I've never been to before, its night time, nothings open, your low on gas, an your looking fo
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by balderdash 1mo ago
Yeah - I just want to know early that I need to start treatment not “I might be infected”
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by balderdash 1mo ago
Growing up near the epicenter of Lyme disease (which is awful) - it’s not that hard to deal with on a regular basis (I probably take half a dozen plus attached ticks off me year. When your pre-in-post shower - tick check. Take them off, wor
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by balderdash 1mo ago
One thing pointing out is that deer aren’t really the disease reservoir for Lyme disease (it’s primarily mice) - but deer are key for tick population growth.
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by balderdash 1mo ago
A really accurate blood test for tick borne disease would be much more useful that would allow you to know you have something in a time frame you could treat the diseases early.
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by balderdash 1mo ago
I think what's missing here is the second order effects. refiners will adjust their crack, use blending etc but that's just a rounding error. you're still going to have demand for the other ~60% of the barrel, so refiners ar
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by balderdash 1mo ago
beta also seems to do their flight testing in plattsburgh, ny, anyone know why?
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by balderdash 1mo ago
I don’t know about the aggregate - but people make big money in fishing (check out Salmmar). I think the bigger thing is that fishing tends to be big business in rural coastal communities - which means that an outsize number of politicians
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by balderdash 1mo ago
I don’t think I’ve ever clicked on an add on purpose on a website (I’ve definitely click on one or two a month because of dark patterns). I’m always perplexed as to who is clicking on them because like you they’re just noise I don’t pay att
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by balderdash 1mo ago
if the fines are only leveled at the actual people making these calls, its a useless law - like anyone is going to see a centime from a call center located in morocco. its only if the carriers have some liability that this will have any eff
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by balderdash 1mo ago
i think during that time / place it was risk based - if you didn't know your parent had it (or didn't tell your dr), and weren't an intravenous drug user, etc. its likely no one would have screened for it.
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by balderdash 1mo ago
take a c-level position at a company and your cell phone (you work phone as well, but your personal non-work affiliated cell phone) will ring multiple times a day with sales people (recruiting firms, software companies, cleaning companies,
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by balderdash 1mo ago
I think I’m English the term you’re looking for is an amphiboly. These sentences are not grammatically incorrect, but can be can leave ambiguity about their interpretation.
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by balderdash 1mo ago
I haven’t experienced this - or maybe the training data for aviation is limited. But ask a an llm for aircraft performance / flight planning data and it’s scary how bad the advice /feed back is.
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by balderdash 2mo ago
I feel like when most LLM type emails from people it’s because of one of three reasons: 1) they don’t know the answer - looked up on llm 2) correlate to #1, I want to look smarter than I actually am 3) I’m too lazY to send you a thoughtful
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by balderdash 2mo ago
100% I miss my local pharmacy. Knew the family that owned it and worked there (not well but enough to say hello), really enjoyed occasionally having breakfast as the lunch counter on a Saturday morning. So much better than going to cvs or W
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by balderdash 2mo ago
Yeah, I feel like convenient is: * close to work place (as you said) * somewhere that is located such that they are shortening their return home after the pub / total travel time of work to home is similar to work to pub to home) * co
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by balderdash 2mo ago
i like writing by hand, and definitely generate better content / thoughts. I don't like going back through my writing and putting it in electronic form (an no writing on an electronic device (ipad/remarkable etc.) doesn'
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by balderdash 2mo ago
I don't think think I've ever had a job offer where this wasn't a topic of conversation. its further down the flow signing bonus, salary + bonus/equity/incentive are obviously the big ones, but I've always seen
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by balderdash 2mo ago
I’m struggling to think of. Use for this beyond crypto and govt/military - who’s going to use this?
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by balderdash 2mo ago
I think the bigger thing this making public transport a real alternative to driving - I most American metros using public transport isn’t faster, can be inconvenient (no parking, multiple transfers, etc), comfortable safe. I guess I’m sayin
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by balderdash 2mo ago
I can already see it - “For only $9.99/mo enjoy access to premium routings that that save an average of 15 minutes per trip!”
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by balderdash 4mo ago
two thoughts, the top three s&P 500 etf's have $2.7t in aum (and there are a lot of other etfs, mutual funds, and direct indexers on top of that) - so the dollars don't seem to be the problem. I think its a little insane to ha
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by balderdash 4mo ago
As I recall they do - with many being delivered “green” to the integration upfittet but I think the 737’s for the p-8 is actually assembled separately just for the military

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