insaneirish

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by insaneirish 7d ago
> Oh I back them up to Immich self-hosted. I just stopped paying Apple. Which means this original comment is somewhat disingenuous: "256Gigs of storage basically means everyone's going to have to upgrade their iCloud storage mo
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by insaneirish 8d ago
> I've stopped sending my camera roll to iCloud just to save on space. This is an interesting choice. Photos from my phone would literally be the last thing I ever turned off backup for. To each their own...
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by insaneirish 22d ago
I understand your argument on gas. But I find the comment about tires to be curious. I literally will not buy tires anywhere else. Costco: - Often has a lower price on tires than other stores (particularly when they run a brand specific sal
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by insaneirish 1mo ago
As it's said... "Every company eventually becomes a bank."
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by insaneirish 3mo ago
In one fell swoop, Fender destroyed every bit of musician goodwill they had. For right or for wrong (and I think for wrong), their claims are baseless. I wish them (and their PE overlords) a powerful defeat, ideally in a court of law, but i
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by insaneirish 3mo ago
Feel like it's burying the lede a bit to not mention that Broadcom acquired Computer Associates and said "hold my beer".
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by insaneirish 4mo ago
I never thought the HP of today would do this. 20+ years ago, I was first enamored by a 16C a much older coworker owned. Sometime after that, I bought one on eBay for around $100 (IIRC). Inflation adjusted, this reissue is a deal!
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by insaneirish 4mo ago
It's simply not for you then. That's okay. I'm the opposite. I can't use a non-RPN calculator. Getting the numbers out of my head and onto the stack is how I achieve clarity in what I'm doing. I used the 49 in high
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by insaneirish 5mo ago
Steve Sando, the founder/owner of Rancho Gordo, has been on the podcast ( https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cooking-issues-with-da... ) hosted by the author of this article (Dave Arnold) a few times. Those
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by insaneirish 5mo ago
If you are unfamiliar with the author, Dave Arnold is a former instructor at the French Culinary Institute, a bar owner/operator in NYC (Booker & Dax (closed), Existing Conditions (closed), and Bar Contra ( https://www.ba
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by insaneirish 11mo ago
My delivered cost of electricity went up about 50% per kWh in the last few months and is therefore 3x what you mention and likely only going higher. [AI driven] data center power consumption is real and as of right now, it seems like other
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by insaneirish 1y ago
Sun Rays were so good. Being able to walk over to someone else's desk and say "hey, take a look at this" and swap your card for theirs and instantly have your desktop was such a great user experience. Also enjoyed the keyboar
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by insaneirish 1y ago
Here is a great analysis of God Only Knows from the podcast “Strong Songs”: https://strongsongspodcast.com/blogs/episodes/god-only-knows...
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by insaneirish 1y ago
> Importantly, it also plays Weather Channel-esque background music. Which has its own sort of funny subculture. One is Phish fans unexpectedly hearing what was decidedly not publicly common music being aired on the Weather Channel: htt
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by insaneirish 1y ago
Maybe it's me, but I think in the worse case scenario (criminal liability), a jury will be more sympathetic to a person (acting in good faith) that had an issue because of the car manufacturer's provided system than they would to
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by insaneirish 1y ago
> For example, it would be pretty difficult to produce vacuum tubes now. Vacuum tubes are still made. They’re used extensively in instrument amplification. But I think this bolsters your point!
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by insaneirish 1y ago
What particular drivers are you referring to? NFS is natively supported in MacOS...
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by insaneirish 1y ago
> Exceptions are reasonable. If there were an actual strategy, exceptions would have been clear from the start.
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by insaneirish 1y ago
Can someone please explain the flag? Given the amount of stupid things that end up on this site, this is asinine.
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by insaneirish 2y ago
> I personally took a cab from Newark to Laguardia I don't understand why anyone would ever attempt to do this. Was it truly the only option?
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by insaneirish 2y ago
I feel like this whole thing buries the lede a bit. Yes, turns out running overlay/VPN type things disrupts traffic patterns. This is a non-story. But we're talking about using wireguard on a local network, so the actual interesti
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by insaneirish 2y ago
It's interesting how major airlines competing with them has made things worse for everyone. I have many times seen passengers ignorant about what "basic economy" means (or at least feigning ignorance) and it leads to passenge
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by insaneirish 2y ago
I have wood spoons that go in the dishwasher multiple times per week for years and they're fine. It's why I like wood. You don't need to baby it, and if it breaks down, you throw it out and it returns to the earth.
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by insaneirish 2y ago
> but I also hate the hesitation on uncontrolled left-hand turns in particular. Seems dangerous. Bingo. This is exactly where it scares me, particularly when I'm already in an intersection. > I've pretty much just made it a
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by insaneirish 2y ago
> For all the zillion things I can configure in my Honda Passport, I can apparently not turn that annoying feature off. Here you go: https://www.idlestopper.com/ Sad that this is what it's come to, but here we are.
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by insaneirish 2y ago
There is already an argument that says "let's stop pulling stuff out of the ground purely to burn" and instead use renewable resources. That's a difficult enough argument that lots don't agree with. Saying "let
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by insaneirish 2y ago
> Because in the real world burning plastic for energy reduces CO2 emissions. Compared to what? Over what period? Consider this at the extremes. Instead of investing in any photovoltaic, 100% of PV demand should be shifted to burning lan
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by insaneirish 2y ago
> That should say "reducing carbon emissions", not adding. Burning plastic for energy is a net reduction in CO2 emission. Not sure I understand that math. You have plastic. You burn it. That is a net increase in atmospheric CO2
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by insaneirish 2y ago
Citation needed?
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by insaneirish 2y ago
> It links up addresses to host names so that you don’t have to remember ip addresses of servers. Um.

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