crispyambulance

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by crispyambulance 9d ago
I think subway rail systems do have "real live location", but whether that information is consistently provided to public distribution for use through apps is a question mark. I suspect most systems are a mix of your platinum, gol
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by crispyambulance 9d ago
Transit telemetry is inherently spotty on these public-facing applications. If it's like other systems, it will resort to transit schedule estimations when data is missing and then try to sync as live data becomes available.
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by crispyambulance 9d ago
> My TVs are on the IoT network so that I can control them from Home Assistant, but they're blocked from accessing the internet. NS lookups are redirected or blocked (53 redirected to my local DNS resolver, 853 blocked),[...]
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by crispyambulance 2mo ago
>...vocation of choice is misaligned with your personality... I also kind of sense this. The OP mentioned they were doing systems engineering. That's a very particular hellscape of grinding details. It involves being comfort
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by crispyambulance 2mo ago
It really depends on what the individual goal actually is. I think engineering curriculums “stop short” on mathematics just as it starts becoming interesting, more generalized and before connections start becoming easy to see and remember.
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by crispyambulance 2mo ago
XML was a good, well-intentioned idea. The problem, IMHO, was that rampant "xml-abuse" in the naughts. ws-* standards and over-engineered garbage like SOAP ("complex object access protocol") made people loathe XML. I did
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by crispyambulance 2mo ago
> I really do not think it’s a difficult language to learn. Neither do I, but there's huge distances between "spend-an-afternoon-intro-on-it" and "learn-it-well-enough-for-occasional-work" and "lear
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by crispyambulance 2mo ago
> You can learn something like ~90% of useful SQL in an afternoon. Oh, HELL NO! It's an ugly little language that one has to come back to and re-learn over and over at different levels of sophistication. Nothing wrong with
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by crispyambulance 3mo ago
Beautiful! I did have in mind something more like the Socratic method, asking pointed questions of your mentee, guiding them but not pushing them. I suppose that in a weird way that essay is the Hunter S Thompson idea of the socratic method
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by crispyambulance 3mo ago
There is plenty advice around for "how to ask" (really, it's the same if you know the person or not). It all boils down to a Calvinistic "show you're worthy" kind of exercise. But what about advice for giving h
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by crispyambulance 3mo ago
> ...it's massively expensive to buy the components piecemeal. I think the point of this is not to make "a product". It's just a fun project that you can build yourself or participate in some way with it's creat
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by crispyambulance 3mo ago
Motto's, slogans, mission statements... All of these things are 100% bullshit and always have been. It's tragic that Google actually had people believing them when they championed "don't be evil".
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by crispyambulance 3mo ago
Yes. It was good enough to communicate that news item. Did Alibaba perform "an attack" or were they taking advantage of resources and going beyond Anthropic's terms of service? Didn't Anthropic do the same kinds of thing
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by crispyambulance 3mo ago
The standard of neutrality that people here pretend to require from news organizations is not even remotely realistic. It was a timely story from Reuters. They do fast news feeds, like APnews. Could it have been better or more accurate? Sur
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by crispyambulance 3mo ago
Ferriss has been part of what I call the "self-help industrial complex" for a very long time. He also has known Thiel since at least the early naughts.
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by crispyambulance 3mo ago
> Regulate or not regulate, but the government should not pick winners and losers. Indeed, it has been very clear since Jan 20 2025 that our executive branch of government is not a rational actor. I don't expect them to make
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by crispyambulance 3mo ago
> They were asking for regulation. That's what they said, but were they, really? I've heard others call it a marketing ploy that AI companies keep coming back to-- the idea that "it's soooo dangerous, we have
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by crispyambulance 3mo ago
If we're talking homemade vacuum tubes... I wonder if it wouldn't be easier to just use metal endplates with feedthroughs for electrical (like spark-plugs) and with v-grooves for o-rings or some other gasket material. this kind of
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by crispyambulance 3mo ago
A lot of success-striving people are pretty grossed out by absurd levels of wealth inequality as well. Sure, some folks are going to be fantastically wealthy, that's OK to a large extent. But, we're on the precipice of trillionair
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by crispyambulance 3mo ago
The thing about "compound growth", even in the most general sense, is that it ALWAYS ends, and that end is typically a crash of some sort. In biology there's the notion of a growth curve. It starts out with the familiar &quot
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by crispyambulance 3mo ago
I do appreciate how helpful AI has been with troubleshooting and providing vital background info in repairing appliances. I've been doing this since before AI, as appliance repair services from professionals are all but gone where I li
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by crispyambulance 3mo ago
I've used this pattern for ~10 years now: 1 Subscribe at some very reasonable intro rate: $4 a month for 6 months 2 The intro rate expires and goes to $25 a month. 3 I call the number to cancel, say I am canceling because expense 4 The
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by crispyambulance 4mo ago
It's always been hard to know the extent of how draconian tracking actually is (IT pros tend to not talk about it much). In the US, there's the expectation that when you use an employer-provided device that any and all activity on
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by crispyambulance 4mo ago
Good riddance! I've used it a lot, like everybody else, and it helped me many times. Unfortunately, it developed a serious culture problem that would not go away. I suspect the gamification attracted many rigid-thinking, rule-obsessed
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by crispyambulance 4mo ago
> When I look for people to take advice from I want to see a pattern of home runs, that they can deliver repeatedly... That's fine, I guess, if your idea of "success" is apple-scale product home-runs (good luck wit
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by crispyambulance 4mo ago
> From which would you take advice, the successful entrepreneur/investor, or the nice hacker geek [?] The nice hacker geek? By the way, the Woz has a net-worth of 140MM, so he's more wealthy that the vast majority of "succ
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by crispyambulance 4mo ago
Beyond a certain amount, the actual number becomes meaningless especially for people who already have dynastic wealth not even counting this. It's just what they happened to negotiate. It's quite a retirement package.
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by crispyambulance 4mo ago
A lot of this is a matter of taste and judgement. In the same way that it's possible to have an xml/json/yaml/toml config that creates despair in those who have to maintain it, a python or bash script can grow into a mon
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by crispyambulance 5mo ago
> Infrastructure as Code, not infrastructure as YAML. Right on. It's amazing to me that we've spent decades with programming languages and environments which can accurately guess what you're about to type next, which have
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by crispyambulance 5mo ago
> ...sneaker company that pivoted to data centers set the 'weird' bar pretty high... "Weird" is the wrong word for Allbirds. "Fraud" is far more fitting. They obviously have no intention running an AI-datace

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