skeeter2020

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by skeeter2020 4d ago
>> You're probably aware of this already but luckily a lot of service manuals can be found online in PDF form. Not official ones for John Deere tractors unless they were leaked from authorized service agents!
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by skeeter2020 4d ago
the issue is not that this information is undocumented, it's that an "authorized service center" gets information that an "owner" does not. Also cars are not "small open source utilities" with undocumented
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by skeeter2020 4d ago
A tractor - and all farm equipment - is ridiculously expensive, the core platform is not much different from previous generations and they are used by a respected segment of our society to grow us food. All of this adds up to make JD's
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by skeeter2020 4d ago
This is just not true - their machines are purposely opaque and loaded with DRM. Regulation in this area could potentially make the entire system more efficient and cheaper for everyone at the cost of JD's predatory practices. In addit
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by skeeter2020 5d ago
How the hell do such intelligent people (or is it BECAUSE of their ability to bend minds, including their own) reconcile "I believe this is dangerous and wrong" with "I am actively working towards this"? I get changing y
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by skeeter2020 5d ago
Similarly I've stopped saying "It's crazy that..." and changed it to "It's wild that ..." What do you call it when tamer words are more impactful? Example: I've found "Dum-dums" > "s
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by skeeter2020 5d ago
I've never seen oil prices decrease due to any regional disruption; the market is global. If the price in Alberta went up when the Straight closed, I wouldn't hold my breathe for Europe in this scenario.
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by skeeter2020 7d ago
Trailers have been a big part of the movie-going experience as long as I've gone to theatres. Coca-cola, Ford and Government of Canada ads? Not so much.
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by skeeter2020 8d ago
Apparently I fall into the same trap as the early Europeans: trying to pair Australian animals with something similar from familiar North American species. This is always a mistake!
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by skeeter2020 16d ago
What a crock of shite. Of course there's going to be some dead one when you have this many, but there are also projects that are foundational and many exciting new ones too: https://projects.apache.org/projects.html
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by skeeter2020 19d ago
>> and even rawdogged a custom JWT system ... This may now mean something along the lines of "struggling to grind through..." but is based on the original meaning of having sex without a condom, typically with misogynist ove
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by skeeter2020 21d ago
That seems unlikely because AWS needs to build proprietary features within their services to lock in paying (enterprise) users. The problem now is that labs will inevitably focus on this work, which I view as opposed to local, in-process wh
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by skeeter2020 21d ago
TL;DR AWS will either acquire MD next/soon, or (more likely) keep them around for the optics that they are totally not going to starve the community of anything other than DuckDB as a hosted AWS service. From the MD "about page&qu
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by skeeter2020 21d ago
agree - I was really uneasy with the lede in their v2.0 preview: "DuckDB has been an in-process database since day one. But people have asked us – very persistently – for a client/server mode, and we have finally caved" This
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by skeeter2020 27d ago
I'm not a user of twitter/x/whatever but every. damn. time. I click on an X link it's made me sadder and stupider, and the world a slightly worse place. It's the dirty bathwater of humanity.
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by skeeter2020 27d ago
All punks - and quite a few non punks - are aware of NOFX. They refused to play the game yet had a 40+ year career and even bigger impact on punk music since the late 80's.
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by skeeter2020 27d ago
IMO the tension is a feature, not a bug. We (humans) put far too much emphasis on the current state (is Cobain a mainstream success or counter culture hero?). We need to focus on the change we're observing; Cobain was an alternative th
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by skeeter2020 27d ago
operating at a loss and non-operational because of outages are very different. If they can't maintain service levels nobody - AI super user or quant, old-fashioned human - will be happy.
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by skeeter2020 29d ago
it's very attractive to try and build a progressive tax system that swings too far the other way too. Economically some sort of tax free base and a flat rate is the best but politically it's way better to attack here and carve out
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by skeeter2020 29d ago
This is why the long-term survivors tend to be pretty mid chains & franchises. They've got the marketing down and the food is an afterthought.
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by skeeter2020 1mo ago
>> When a judge has made a terrible decision for dumb reasons, you appeal it This is not how the legal system works. You need grounds for the Appeal - such as procedural - AND need to get another court to agree with your grounds AND b
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by skeeter2020 1mo ago
Good plan; instead of a decent bike lock, and asking for some (read: ANY) enforcement & punishment of bike theft I'll just "improve society".
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by skeeter2020 1mo ago
nobody steals bikes to buy milk for their baby either.
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by skeeter2020 1mo ago
bikepacking bikes rarely have mud guards; maybe something small on the front. dropbar touring bikes often have full fenders though.
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by skeeter2020 1mo ago
You must be from somewhere where winter means rain vs. large amounts of snow. I can see if you're doing a road ride with a group (where they often run tight) they'd ask for fenders. Here a road bike would be useless once winter hi
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by skeeter2020 1mo ago
and no one who rides a legit road bike would be seen dead on a "road ebike".
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by skeeter2020 1mo ago
>> so I can pay more attention to riding safely and effortlessly. If shifting gears takes to much of your attention, I'm concerned for all of us, and why do you need to pay more attention to riding "effortlessly"?
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by skeeter2020 1mo ago
>> and he's still figuring out how to/if he wants to monetize it that implies that he's probably not paying for Lovable, and thus their 13B+ valuation is built on influencers and eyeballs?
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by skeeter2020 1mo ago
Solar maybe NOW is, but this isn't a 5 or even 10 year old problem. And cost effective compared to what? We'll consider sending people to Mars to save humanity but reactors are "too expensive"?
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by skeeter2020 1mo ago
remember the amazing show "community"? Elroy: “I got a job through LinkedIn.” Annie: “What? That’s crazy! People use LinkedIn?” Elroy: “No, LinkedIn hired me to help figure out why people don’t use it.”

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