drew870mitchell

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by drew870mitchell 7d ago
Yeah, a while back Google Maps sent out a cheerful "here's all you've contributed" email and i clicked through and found my complete history. It was a graveyard of rejected edits for things like closed streets, wrong bu
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by drew870mitchell 15d ago
Somebody in his position (major crew chief, maxed out seniority) would've been making about 120k real dollars, plus his defined benefit retirement, plus flight benefits for him and family, for the past few decades. He spent his time o
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by drew870mitchell 2mo ago
AWS is basically a utility. I think it's inevitable that their carelessness around billing will end up with them being regulated like one.
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by drew870mitchell 2mo ago
Electric battery storage is a better option, but also your home is a very leaky battery storage for conditioned air. At my last place i got a plan that was nearly free on overnights and ran the HVAC all night, turning it off during the pea
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by drew870mitchell 3mo ago
Living in a warm climate US city i noticed roaches almost disappeared once off the first floor, i saw only one in five years in a 7th-floor apartment.
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by drew870mitchell 3mo ago
Whenever we get to talking about three letter agencies, i wish people spent more time thinking about their threat model. Is the TLA surveilling me because they're broadly interested in everybody? OK then, the return on investment isn
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by drew870mitchell 4mo ago
Not about the UA flight, but the grandparent's first point. I can see how it's not simply superstition or theater. Critical info gets communicated either over fuzzy radio or 220 character ACARS messages. You wouldn't want
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by drew870mitchell 4mo ago
Same, i'm doing a kitchen reno and gave up on Home Depot because of this
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by drew870mitchell 9mo ago
Balancing out the other comment - there's two real supermarkets within a fifteen minute walk of me (another American). It's fun to leave meal planning up to whatever is on sale that night. For people in the outer suburbs where th
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by drew870mitchell 11mo ago
IIRC there's a legal distinction between mere unauthorized entry and unauthorized entry that involves circumventing any kind of lock
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by drew870mitchell 1y ago
This is also where i'm at with ChatGPT. Its bullshit meter doesn't exist, but it has "read" everything in a way that i can't, so it's bad for truthiness, but it's great for search and correlating items in
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by drew870mitchell 1y ago
We (us, the people reading here, the demographic building the software and technology and automation) would do well as a community to spend more time on introspection about what ends it serves that tech, which was sometimes promoted as a gr
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by drew870mitchell 1y ago
My guess is it's cost driven? IIRC insurance would not pay for mine when i was out of the recommendation pool but they did (were legally required to afaik) when the pool expanded to include my age group.
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by drew870mitchell 2y ago
The whole mode of taking in trade news has changed. 20 years ago when i bought a Maximum PC i read it cover-to-cover. Can't imagine doing that now with anything other than a book or a movie. Instead i'm reading the one or three
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by drew870mitchell 2y ago
A friend bought land to build a house on where dowsing was culturally pervasive. He knew it was bogus but it was cheap compared to the land price and everybody around was heavily pushing it. An old guy came out and, during the performance
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by drew870mitchell 2y ago
The book is wonderful, as biz-tech-optimist quick reads go, and some of its ideas have stuck with me over a decade after reading it. I'm almost entirely off MSFT products now but i was heartened to see the Recall announcement the othe
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by drew870mitchell 2y ago
The students were nonconsenting lab rats for a bizarre media experiment. They have every right to feel used or betrayed because they were.
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by drew870mitchell 3y ago
We lost something as a society when McDonald's shifted its good prices to their app. I'm able to keep up with the app deals but it's frustrating to spend any brain space on something that was simply $1 or $2 without fuss a d
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by drew870mitchell 3y ago
Weather Underground used to have a great tool for this that they called Road Trip Planner, but it broke and they took it down several years ago rather than fixing it. While trying to find the exact name i found a forum post listing a coupl