scottlamb

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by scottlamb 20d ago
You're never going to get promoted with that attitude! I'm joking...but not entirely. It sounds impressive on a promo packet when you say you've saved 100 TB of RAM / $$$ through whatever technique. But it sounds a lot l
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by scottlamb 1mo ago
> Now they're run based on the data, and the data says they have enough loyal-to-a-fault customers like the author that chronically understaffing is more profitable than providing a good experience. If they are indeed saying underst
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by scottlamb 1mo ago
> They cherrypicked 15 countries. The "world" chart shows an increase from 19% renewal to 34%. Did they cherry-pick that? (Also, "European Union" is more than one country.) > I don't doubt that it's econo
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by scottlamb 1mo ago
Agree with your broader point, but out of curiosity: > It cost her nearly $10k to have a _used_ aluminum ramp installed for her house. Why so expensive? I did a quick search, and the only way I could get a (new) aluminum ramp up to $10k
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by scottlamb 1mo ago
Some people actually care, but they can't always win the battle at their own companies when there are other priorities, much less go fix all the other websites, pour concrete at other businesses, etc. Is the solution for everyone t
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by scottlamb 1mo ago
The author is seeing that it's easier for one team to get backing (VC money, course credit, design awards, TED talk applause, etc.) for "solving" an accessibility problem than for us to enforce that entire industries follow g
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by scottlamb 2mo ago
> I'm pretty sure doing janky things to the AC you don't own is a lease violation. Why? Not all "janky" things are the same: * Sloppy changes to the internal 240V wiring: yeah probably a violation of the lease, and le
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by scottlamb 2mo ago
Nice. I don't have any ESPHome thermostats right now, but I have an ESPHome fridge/freezer temperature monitor. I adopted the same idea: it should integrate with HA when HA is available, but it should be useful even when HA is dow
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by scottlamb 2mo ago
> The rest of this blog post is a walkthrough of a software engineer’s approach to home automation and building custom hardware, and let me tell you: both the final product, and the journey to get there, are hella jank. IMHO it's no
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by scottlamb 2mo ago
> Honestly, back when the 737 MAX debacle happened, a lot of consumers claimed that they would stop flying aircrafts if they ran into 737 MAXs. And I don't think it happened in enough numbers - or even enough to make news. Sales wen
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by scottlamb 2mo ago
I read ryandrake's comment as saying this accidental sharing is a rare opportunity for wired to audit actual video of (some) drone use, and they might yet review it more and find some drone use policy violation not obvious from flight
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by scottlamb 2mo ago
> In its statement, the SFPD notes that it adheres to a “strict policy” around drone use, and that “drones can only be used to assist with active criminal investigations, to assist with or in lieu of vehicle pursuits, and for training ex
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by scottlamb 2mo ago
I'd be interested to hear the author's answer to your question, but I see it as an interesting proof-of-concept. It's testing the viability of not only rewriting PostgreSQL in Rust (and their choice of deps) but also in switc
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by scottlamb 2mo ago
> Disclaimer: An earlier version of this post claimed the structure is wait-free, this is incorrect. Being wait-free requires that failure or suspension of any thread can’t cause failure or suspension of another thread. This queue in fac
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by scottlamb 2mo ago
> I mean I might not know what a strawman is, but I thought it was claiming people were making an argument that in fact they were not. What I mean is: I expect you originally heard a version of this that was more nuanced and supported by
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by scottlamb 2mo ago
> Going from "predominantly what happens" to "it's theoretically possible occasionally" is a question of magnitude rather than direction. Okay, fair enough. I took "without adding any new buyers" litera
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by scottlamb 2mo ago
>> Even your straw man version of this argument is pretty convincing to me... > Wouldn't that make it not a straw man argument? I think the "even" and "..." are doing a lot of work in my sentence. You prese
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by scottlamb 2mo ago
> Increasing inequality is bad I'm not at all sure everyone in these discussions agrees on this point! I agree with you not only that this is bad but also that wealth taxes are not the only way to address it. They are a way that is
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by scottlamb 2mo ago
I agree: there is no precise, objective way to compare the utility of two arbitrary wealth distributions, and redistribution does not always maximize the total well-being of society. Yet I assert it's useful to ask if the status quo—on
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by scottlamb 2mo ago
> The people behind wealth taxes generally handwave explaining how their system will be better at allocating than the people who make a living of allocating wealth effectively because it is all just obvious that it doesn't need to b
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by scottlamb 2mo ago
> The annual turnover for e.g. Apple stock is ~0.4%, so a 0.8%/year wealth tax would triple the number of sellers without adding any new buyers. Is that assuming the tax money is going into the void? I agree it might force roughly 0
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by scottlamb 3mo ago
Well, I qualified with "here in California", and I don't know if that's where tancop lives. I think the current situation is not great, but I'd want to fix it by investigating why we're seemingly unable/un
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by scottlamb 3mo ago
> What do you think the chances of being caught shoplifting is? If it's less than 50-33%, then you have the same problem as the OP where it makes sense to shoplift. Don't we already? Police and DAs at least here in California a
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by scottlamb 3mo ago
> I'd love to look into the Quick Access placement. It is supposed to appear on all spaces and sets an NSWindow property to do so. Is there anything particular that you think triggers it (multi-monitor, full screen apps, etc)? Thank
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by scottlamb 3mo ago
> These are tiny paper cuts that add up to pain, like the ones you mentioned that affect me/a tiny portion of the user base so they aren't worth fixing. Is the justification I'm sure that's being made. I think it&#x27
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by scottlamb 3mo ago
Can you give me an example of a UX problem that you attribute to the password manager? That'd help me understand. I often hit problems with 1Password's autofill on particular websites, but by and large I blame the website. Few exa
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by scottlamb 3mo ago
ceejayoz> You want to let every merchant I swipe my card at know my age? To improve privacy? Remember the site guidelines: SG> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that&#x
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by scottlamb 3mo ago
As I understand it, Hawaii had environmental concerns with ferries (requiring a review that was never completed), specifically whale/ship strikes and the risk of car-carrying ferries transporting invasive species between the islands. [
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by scottlamb 3mo ago
I don't think people are upvoting this for the fact at the top of "say something surprising" [1], but it indeed surprised me: > I can write 500MB/s to a hard drive? that's so much! Turns out a Seagate 2X18 can wr
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by scottlamb 3mo ago
> Or is this a building permitting issue where for some reason the bureaucracy surrounding a permanent structure is expected to drag on for years but somehow they got the tents permitted rapidly? Good point; some permit loophole might ma

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