runamok

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by runamok 4d ago
You keep quoting prices that make no sense in 2026 such as cars under 20k. See https://www.theautopian.com/americas-cheapest-new-car-now-co... Please link to some prices for motorcycles that can go 75 miles per hour (necess
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by runamok 14d ago
I don't agree with much of the above but I do agree that we should endeavor to minimize error notifications and the like because people don't read them. We (as programmers) should endeavor to make things "self-heal" or w
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by runamok 14d ago
As an aside I really like video games that have a running log of everything characters have said. Persona 5 does this. It's a rare feature from my experience!
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by runamok 15d ago
Yes, I did want to understand the source for those kinds of numbers. I'd assume we would see dead birds all over the place if this was the case.
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by runamok 20d ago
Where exactly are they planning to build this? See https://environment.yale.edu/news/article/louisianas-shrinki... . Ah, Vermilion Parish which is ~160 miles east of New Orleans...
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by runamok 26d ago
100%. Ann Trason often was first overall in ultras: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Trason . I think it may be that over extremely long endurance events, having more muscle mass goes from being an advantage to a disad
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by runamok 1mo ago
These sorts of seat mounted mud guards would work: https://ass-savers.com/ (yes, the URL is funny and seems a risky click)
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by runamok 1mo ago
100%. A few relevant articles: https://www.openhealthpolicy.com/p/medical-residency-slots-c... and https://www.openhealthpolicy.com/p/best-of-open-health-congr... A snippet: > CMS residency fun
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by runamok 1mo ago
Which makes me cynically believe that all this capital being burned that has made memory, storage and GPUs in some cases 5x is a feature, not a bug. "Can't use open weight models if you can't find or afford the hardware to ru
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by runamok 3mo ago
Most Americans conveniently forget the whole "nation of immigrants" thing once they are a few generations removed from the situation. Ladder kickers the lot of them.
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by runamok 3mo ago
I like how the fact that most likely this theoretical company is not a company of 1. What about the employees frankly doing most of the work? Are the customers getting a good product at a fair price? Are their vendors getting paid a fair an
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by runamok 4mo ago
The issue at hand is the incredibly wealthy can pay close to nothing in income tax because they often borrow on their collateral vs. sell their holdings. Hence that 1% that PG equates to 20% tax is quite fair. Look at what Buffet says the p
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by runamok 4mo ago
By the way, I love that their stock lost ~23% after this decision. I assume the C suite thought this would goose the stock like all the other companies pulling this...
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by runamok 5mo ago
I mean just the fact that bets are being placed could have tipped off the target and made them prepared.
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by runamok 6mo ago
Behind the Bastards did a few episodes on this: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236... and they were quite entertaining.
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by runamok 7mo ago
I think of the corporate death penalty as being more appropriate when leadership knew exactly what was going on and chose profits over people. Exxon, see https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063 . Purdue
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by runamok 8mo ago
They absolutely will compensate you. Often they will just give you a voucher. I've even been compensated to pay for a rental car to drive myself home when things were REALLY hosed during this: https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by runamok 8mo ago
Aren't they optional in most cases? You can opt-out of vaxing your kids today right? They just won't be welcome in public schools. I guess the other common cohort is health care workers (which seems reasonable) per https:/&#
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by runamok 11mo ago
How about rubbing alcohol?
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by runamok 11mo ago
Travis seems very devout as evinced by his reference to "Boob-er": https://mashable.com/article/uber-disgusting-examples
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by runamok 11mo ago
That is because there is not a cost for the disposal of the broken vacuum. Imagine if we paid by the weight of our trash. Some of the right to repair laws are trying to change that by requiring replacement parts be available to purchase. h
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by runamok 11mo ago
The data for long term maintenance can be found but for example the government could mandate it be published for car models to give consumers more insight and be a lever to incentivize designing cars to be more easily maintainable (e.g. not
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by runamok 11mo ago
40% of *growth*, not 40% of total GDP.
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by runamok 1y ago
Here is a good podcast on his terribleness: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aEv08Zzunfc Some high points: Incredibly abusive to his employees, stole from Woz, screwed over his employees when Apple went public and Woz covered,
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by runamok 1y ago
Sure. My company is demoing Chainguard which is quite pricy for hardened images. Bitnami premium reportedly goes for $50k to $72k per year: https://devoriales.com/post/402/from-free-to-fee-how-broadco...
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by runamok 1y ago
In brief you need to switch the registry from (iirc) docker.io/bitnami to docker.io/bitnamilegacy. Note that as of iirc tomorrow those images will no longer be updated. So the moment there is a high or critical cve you better have
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by runamok 1y ago
Does said network egress cost $50k per user?
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by runamok 1y ago
A good portion of that is covered by Behind the Bastards'coverage of Vince Mcmann: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JLdaMY9n_Oc&pp=0gcJCfwAo7VqN5t...
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by runamok 1y ago
That was my question too! This? https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/How+to+Turn+on+a+MacBook+Air+Wi... Just never let it get too low?
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by runamok 1y ago
100%. Those disks are likely working much harder moving the head all over the place to find those empty spaces when it writes.

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