jpalmer

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by jpalmer 1mo ago
As someone who pays attention to Texas energy rates, I'm gonna call BS on atleast the TX portion of this as rates are at multi year lows. Here are the current rates (1 year contracts): - Oncor (DFW) 11.6 kwh - Centerpoint (Houston) 10
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by jpalmer 7mo ago
If you delete all your backups, AWS maintains shadow backups they can restore? Is that right?
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by jpalmer 7mo ago
I've been using Finch ( https://runfinch.com/ ) for the last few years, it basically is a managed Lima, nerdctl, containerd and BuildKit. I just alias docker to finch and it just works.
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by jpalmer 10mo ago
This looks great. Something I'd like to see in a recipe app is scale is not only reflected in the ingredients list but also in the directions. The linked recipe is a great example. The 1/2 teaspoon in step 1 is never modified re
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by jpalmer 3y ago
This is very much college/program specific. My tenure track wife has tried with two different different universities to get tenure credit by writing an open access text book. In both cases (R1 programs) neither would recognize anythi
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by jpalmer 4y ago
Or the AWS commercial east/west regions. All of which have FedRAMP moderate ATOs.
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by jpalmer 6y ago
Market cap now exceeds top 5 US hotel chains combined. How much can it grow from here?
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by jpalmer 6y ago
> One big factor is it often comes down to which worker group has a stronger union Exactly this. For reference see why there are still humans on cargo trains.
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by jpalmer 6y ago
Here's the amendment that was rejected. https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2020/05/13/sen... > On page 7, strike lines 13 and 14 and insert the following: cell site locatio
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by jpalmer 7y ago
I've used Linux as my daily driver for over 10 years. While not popular with some I've had zero issues with Lastpass. Browser plugin, Android App, supports MFA, just works. Most importantly, I can share select passwords with my
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by jpalmer 8y ago
Here's[0] a menu from my kid's elementary school in the midwest (Lawrence, KS). School lunches have certainly declined over the years. Continued relaxation of nutrition standards[1] doesn't help. [0] https://www.us
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by jpalmer 8y ago
I've used Simplenote ( https://simplenote.com/ ) for years. Can recommend.
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by jpalmer 8y ago
In my tests 4.2.2.1 performs 50% faster than 1.1.1.1 and is twice as fast as 8.8.8.8.
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by jpalmer 8y ago
Using namebench[0], CloudFlare is about the 6th fastest for me. Just ahead of google. 1) Level3 2) DynGuide 3) UltraDNS 4) OpenDNS 5) Quad9 6) CloudFlare 7) Google [0] https://code.google.com/archive/p/namebench&#
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by jpalmer 9y ago
3) The grocery stores in my area (midwest) already provide this service at no additional markup and free delivery if you spend over $100.
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by jpalmer 9y ago
Every single retail brokerage including all the companies that charge "fees" also sell order flows to market makers. All of them.
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by jpalmer 9y ago
I bought a Precision 5520 with Ubuntu pre-installed one year ago and it is still one of the best laptops I've ever purchased. My previous three were Thinkpads with the latest being an x230. The quality of the X series has really been
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by jpalmer 9y ago
Great collection here: https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love
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by jpalmer 9y ago
> The problem is that external costs like pollution are not being priced into the cost of ICE vehicles by, say, a pollution tax. This limited subsidy is a backhanded way of doing that. Using the carbon offset market, you could offset 760
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by jpalmer 9y ago
I've used Gnome (on Fedora) for 10+ years as my daily driver and just recently have been using the pre-installed Ubuntu 16.04 and Unity that came with my new Dell laptop. One of the things I immediately loved is the global menu. This
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by jpalmer 10y ago
Exact same price. You are quoted a price when you checkout online, but a human shops for you and goes through a normal checkout process in the store which weighs the fruits/vegetables etc. You are provided the same store receipt when
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by jpalmer 10y ago
A grocery chain here (Kansas, so I assume most of the US) offers their full store online with free delivery ($100 minimum). Our weekly trips have been replaced by a few minutes on the laptop. The best part for me is that the orders are tr
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by jpalmer 10y ago
Presumably this works exactly like Skype. All new messages are scrolled but if you manually scroll up to read old messages you'll get a button for "new message" that you must click on to resume. Which makes sense in that yo
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by jpalmer 10y ago
Video game soundtracks on spotify. Specifically: * Bastion * Fez * Assassins Creed No vocals, just great music designed to keep you focused.
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Preview the Python Serverless Microframework for AWS(aws.amazon.com)
19 points by jpalmer 10y ago|1 comments
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by jpalmer 11y ago
This was very much a problem I had. As a person who prefers to read books over stuff on the web, I enjoy the fact that as long as I have my phone (always) I can knock out a chapter virtually anywhere. Since moving to ebooks my book consump
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by jpalmer 11y ago
Freedom - Daniel Suarez - Follow up to "Daemon". https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7132363-freedom Old Man's War - John Scalzi - My first Scalzi book and won't be the last. https:/&#x
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by jpalmer 11y ago
I'd like to think the surprise two-point attempt from the 15 will be even more exciting now.
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by jpalmer 11y ago
Just turned 40 this year and certainly had been feeling the effects of neglecting my physical well being. I knew I couldn't undertake any drastic changes as they probably wouldn't last so I decided on a couple small things that w
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by jpalmer 12y ago
Looks a lot like Red Hat's Project Atomic ( http://www.projectatomic.io/ ) "An Atomic Host is a lean operating system designed to run Docker containers, built from upstream CentOS, Fedora, or Red Hat Enterprise Linu

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