dave78

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by dave78 14d ago
> The open source weather apps are not very accurate. Usually with a few degrees, and the radar is hit or miss. If you are in the US, check out wX: https://f-droid.org/packages/joshuatee.wx/ It's fairly te
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by dave78 22d ago
Do people in Tahoe heat-tape their whole roof or just the edge where ice dams would otherwise form? I've only ever seen the latter, and even doing that will be noticeable on your power bill.
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by dave78 1mo ago
My home airport is a major hub; it is very common for some destinations to have a dozen or more flights across the various airlines. Quite often the American and United flights are scheduled similarly and leave within 30 minutes of each oth
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by dave78 1mo ago
> That’s the disparity at issue. However there’s no law from you putting up your own camera, pointing it at a public street and publishing the details of every car that drives past and highlighting any interesting once’s, like the mayor,
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by dave78 1mo ago
> I would want police to know where I live ... but I wouldn't want that accessible to others. Oddly, this was 100% commonplace before about 2000 or so, in the US at least. Every household got a free phone book from the phone company
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by dave78 1mo ago
Can I submit a FOIA request to get all the plate reads from Flock for my town's mayor or police chief (their private vehicles) so that I can create a map of where they go and share it online? I genuinely don't know the answer as I
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by dave78 1mo ago
Flock cameras are everywhere all over my very blue area in a blue state with new ones appearing every day. I really don't think this is a Republican/Democrat issue. And I think as people are learning about it, they are outraged ac
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by dave78 1mo ago
Vendor doesn't matter. The same issues will exist. Public safety is all about aggregating data to "operationalize" it now, so all vendors will be collecting data and sharing it with all customers just like Flock. The only ben
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by dave78 2mo ago
> places like Chicago and New York City are very near the center meridian of their time zone Chicago is very close to the eastern edge of the Central time zone, though I know that was not true throughout history.
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by dave78 4mo ago
To each their own, but I've been using Brave for a long time (5+ years I think?). It was one or 2 clicks to turn off the crypto stuff when I first installed it. It was straightforward and no dark patterns were employed. It has never co
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by dave78 5mo ago
Can't there can be over-current issues if you are not using a dedicated wall outlet for backfeeding the solar? Consider a situation where the plugged-in solar inverter is capable of providing 15 amps into the circuit, but so is the bre
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by dave78 5mo ago
> Our lease agreement has some concessions for potential satellite dishes and external TV antennas. This may be because the FCC has pretty strict rules that require apartment buildings to permit dishes and antennas on personal areas like
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by dave78 5mo ago
About half of the strategic petroleum reserve was sold off in 2022.
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by dave78 6mo ago
Jeff mentioned in his video that just loading the front page of CNN would take something like an hour and a half (20+ MB). 33.6Kbps is not practical for much on the modern Internet in 2026. As mentioned in a sibling comment, Starlink (even
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by dave78 6mo ago
> I don't see mention of open source alternatives Check out Nebula (created by Slack) - https://github.com/slackhq/nebula Fundamentally very similar to Tailscale. I've been using it for years and it has be
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by dave78 6mo ago
If opinion polling were to be done on this issue, I bet we'd find that the general public would be almost unanimously united in agreement that elected officials should not get special treatment in the airport or when flying. Instead, t
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by dave78 7mo ago
> which doesn't get you all that much After college I moved from the far western edge of one timezone to the far eastern edge of another zone. I grew up with 5-5:30pm sunsets in winter, and now I live with 4-4:30pm sunsets. I moved
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by dave78 8mo ago
Nebula just had a major release that added IPv6 support for overlay networks. Hardly maintenance mode. The main company working on it now seems to be adding all the fancy easy-to-use features as a layer on top of Nebula that they are sellin
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by dave78 8mo ago
Same with Gemini.
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Nebula VPN v1.10.0 adds IPv6 support for overlay network(github.com)
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by dave78 11mo ago
I got much better at this when my kids were born, because it was the only way I could get work done on some of my (computing) side projects. I went from having hours of uninterrupted "in the zone" time during evenings and weekends
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by dave78 11mo ago
also: - tons of sensors with limited lifespans - more complicated transmissions with more gears - auto start/stop Pretty much all of these reliability reducers are manufacturers trying to eek a little more MPGs by throwing lots of comp
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by dave78 1y ago
Interesting tidbit regarding LiteFS/Litestream: > But the market has spoken! Users prefer Litestream. And honestly, we get it: Litestream is easier to run and to reason about. So we’ve shifted our focus back to it.
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by dave78 1y ago
Ahem: https://x.com/TheDemocrats/status/1958659652708716776 The dislike for the new logo was one of the very rare things that people on both sides in the US seemed to agree on...
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by dave78 1y ago
According to Jeff Geerling's video, the main PCB in the 500+ is identical to the 500, same revision and all. Presumably they planned both the 500 and 500+ at the same time so they designed a single PCB that could accommodate both, and
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by dave78 1y ago
Second paragraph in the article: "Raspberry Pi 500+ boasts ... an internal M.2 socket pre-fitted with a 256GB Raspberry Pi SSD" so I'm not sure what your point about SD cards is in this case.
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by dave78 1y ago
Unfortunately, I can confirm this.
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by dave78 1y ago
Yeah, it's far from ideal, but in my experience its accuracy is better than most anything else readily available, including the official status pages maintained by most tech companies.
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by dave78 2y ago
There are plenty of IoT devices that people want to execute commands on (anything remotely controlled, basically). Polling for commands on a periodic basis introduces lag into that process which is irritating. Furthermore, polling at a freq
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by dave78 2y ago
I'm 24 years into my career now. I think you just get used to this after a while. I've worked on several big (at the time) software products that our company built and shipped to customers for a while, that we have since abandoned

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