eldenbishop

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by eldenbishop 2mo ago
Raw leaf Kratom seems to be helpful for some with what I would consider a manageable and acceptable addiction danger. You can get hooked on it, realize there is an issues and cut back or come off it without it destroying your life. I see no
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by eldenbishop 3mo ago
Same. I watched a manager fail upwards till he practically ran the entirety of engineering. All his projects failed, got expanded and restarted with more budget and more devs until he ran everything. Meanwhile the teams that actually wrote
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by eldenbishop 3y ago
Most programmers never get to experience the amazing feeling of being truly done with a software project. I used to work on video games in the 90s which would go into a box and onto a shelf. We did not have updates or patches. The starting,
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by eldenbishop 3y ago
It's satirical but also true. I have a tesla model y. I only use the autopilot feature to quickly take over when I'm going into the U/I to do something complicated... like adjusting the window wipers (buttons are too small fo
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by eldenbishop 4y ago
Yup. I recently bought a 4runner, not top of the line mind you, and it cost the same as my wife's Tesla Model Y. Love that thing though ... specifically bought the non-pro model to get the simple three knob climate controls. Ridiculous
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by eldenbishop 4y ago
Haven't heard anyone talk about the Shangri-La diet in ages. I did a slight variation of this for awhile way back in my 30s at it worked great. Recently testing this out with OMAD but haven't been doing it long enough to see if it
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by eldenbishop 4y ago
Yup. Every page on the PG&E site is pushing moving to electric cars and home charging but actually getting a panel upgrade that can support it has been a nightmare. Weeks between emails, no explanations for what steps we need to go thro
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by eldenbishop 5y ago
LOL - this is good timing. A bunch of my unit tests just started failing due to the recent DST transition. Luckily our CI build servers are all GMT so it only failed on local runs. But even better if this problem went away altogether.
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by eldenbishop 5y ago
Interesting. I'd never heard of this sect. Also not allowed to live on the same land as their cattle. Always fascinating to read the rules and behaviors of these outlier communities.
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by eldenbishop 5y ago
There is a wonderful little game based on this concept called universal paperclips. The AI eventually consumes all the matter in the universe in order to turn it into paperclips. https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips&#x
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by eldenbishop 5y ago
It's not even about crazy emails. My wife works for an Aerospace company so her work email was blahblah@blah.aero and a huge number of websites still don't recognize that as a valid top level domain.
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by eldenbishop 5y ago
You are correct. It's one of many sleight of hand tricks used to exaggerate the impact of beef. For some reason, certain parties don't want harm reduction policies on these issues, they want you to stop eating Beef altogether.
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by eldenbishop 5y ago
I ride a bike, around 2000 miles/year and I'd love to be able to spout the statistic their claiming. But please, /they are also stating that driving a car 10KM has the same carbon footprint as sending 800 emails. That kind of
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by eldenbishop 6y ago
Sigh. I tried using fizz buzz as an interview question for awhile and never got a single applicant who could solve it. Some just had no idea how to do much of anything but it turned out almost no-one had ever even heard of the modulo operat
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by eldenbishop 6y ago
I have no idea what google optimizes for but it's not time or distance. At least in my neighborhood (San Francisco) it almost alway pushes you onto "main" traffic streets over much faster and more direct routes. It's tri
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by eldenbishop 6y ago
For what it's worth the original close order was supposed to align with bringing the newer Flamanville 3 1,650 MW plant online which would have been a nearly even swap. Unfortunately that project has gone 5x over budget with numerous t
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by eldenbishop 6y ago
I take as much as 20 grams a day with no side-effects. It can take your stomach awhile to get used to that much but once it has adjusted its fine.
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by eldenbishop 7y ago
This has always been true. If a poor persons bike is stolen, it's a misdemeanor. If a rich person's bike is stolen it's a felony. It's disgusting.
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by eldenbishop 7y ago
I think your missing an important detail here. She didn't say she wanted to go to San Francisco. "she was told that she couldn't remain where she was and was asked where she would go if she could go anywhere other than Menlo
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by eldenbishop 7y ago
I own a few Butler motorcycle maps. Phones kind of being impossibly inconvenient on a bike. My riding suit even has a giant back pocket specifically for easy access to a map.
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by eldenbishop 7y ago
This is correct. I find this excerpt sobering when looking at stats for private planes. """ Doing the math In other words, take these comparisons with a grain of salt: In 2013, traffic accidents killed 32,719 people, accordin
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by eldenbishop 7y ago
He talks about designing a film for the big screen experience but every film he mentioned except maybe "North by Northwest" is vastly superior in a good home theater. "Persona" by Ingmar Bergman is a wonderful film but w
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by eldenbishop 7y ago
All the works-with-nest integrations got killed recently. Infuriated me as that was a major selling point of the platform. I used to have my lights rotate evenings when I wasn't home. Also had my outside lights activate based on nest c
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by eldenbishop 7y ago
Seems like an unusually large percentage of posts on Hacker News are behind paywalls, some soft, some hard, some with a maximum free articles per time-unit. I peruse most of the top stories daily and can't read a good number of them ma
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by eldenbishop 7y ago
Sun was constantly blowing my mind when I first got into computing. I remember going to my first Java 1 when Sun was showing off the Java Card. There were terminals everywhere and you would just slide your card into the terminal and your X
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by eldenbishop 7y ago
Sounds suspiciously like a Dualit... https://www.dualit.com/products/classic-toasters
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by eldenbishop 7y ago
Old Volvos had that unreliable reliable quality to them where something was always broken or going wrong but you could keep it essentially useable forever. My handyman was an old Russian dude with something like 360k miles on an old Volvo s
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by eldenbishop 7y ago
Some interesting tidbits on cigarette litter in San Francisco. A study commissioned by SF Public Works in 2009 determined that the direct costs for cigarette related litter in San Francisco could be remediated with a 22 cent per pack tax. T
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by eldenbishop 7y ago
Agree with it or not, this is already normal practice. San Francisco has a "Cigarette Litter Abatement Fee" of $0.85 per pack. https://sftreasurer.org/cigarette
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by eldenbishop 7y ago
San Francisco already does this with cigarettes. An eighty five cent tax per pack is levied specifically for this purpose. So around 4.25 cents per cigarette. I don't see why this could not be applied to other problematic litter source

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