thaeli

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by thaeli 13d ago
A routine urinalysis has always been part of my normal annual physicals.
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by thaeli 1mo ago
It’s still the standard for “white goods” (larger home appliances) in general.
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by thaeli 2mo ago
Same here, except we just defaulted everyone to Auto and expect the percentage of tokens spent via the auto router to be high.
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by thaeli 2mo ago
At an operational level for the railroads, we have PSR, which is even worse.
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by thaeli 5mo ago
Also, my phone follows me between vehicles and provides the exact same interface in all of them. Heck, I can switch vehicles and my podcast or music starts back up right where I left it. That alone is a major win for the phone-based approac
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by thaeli 1y ago
I'm the same way. The scanlined, subpixeled versions just look terrible to me.
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by thaeli 1y ago
FPGA based devices that can do this, and quite well, do exist, they're just expensive. The RetroTINK-4k Pro is the top of the line as of this writing but it's a $750 converter.
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by thaeli 1y ago
Emissions related components work very similarly, replace the software and it’s presumed to be a defeat device unless proved otherwise.
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by thaeli 1y ago
For emissions related components, EPA rules do kick in though. While the current administration appears to have paused enforcement, their position for many years has been that running anything except factory approved firmware on an ECU or o
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by thaeli 1y ago
Well, many areas have banned app-only payment requirements (along with card-only) so it’s possible we’ll get some mandated alternatives.
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by thaeli 1y ago
Ironically, this check would be a pretty good use for a LLM.
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by thaeli 1y ago
Are there any additional mitigations folks are using for this? This issue is the only reason we can’t turn classic PATs off entirely. Short lifetime mandatory reauth to enterprise SSO seems to be the best available, but it’s inconvenient fo
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by thaeli 3y ago
Yeah, interested to compare this with optimized and properly cached GitHub Hosted Runner builds.
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by thaeli 3y ago
The biggest problem with SE for me, and this is related to the culture issues you're talking about, is that the site has no good way of deprecating "formerly correct" answers. Even if a better, more correct answer is posted l
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by thaeli 3y ago
There was a common scam back then of sending cheap goods to someone, then billing them a high price, when they didn't order anything to begin with.
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by thaeli 3y ago
Compare this to EMS, where unless you're lucky enough to be fire or hospital based, worker protections are almost nonexistent.
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by thaeli 3y ago
Unless we're ever ready to start treating bike thieves like horse thieves, that's unlikely to ever change. And I doubt we'll ever have the political will to do that, or even a kinder gentler version of it.
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by thaeli 3y ago
The concentrated force for candidates to counteract this would be an industy-wide union. Which isn't happening.. but if you look at unionized industries this is one of the major benefits for candidates, or at least for candidates who m
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by thaeli 3y ago
It's not ideal, per app would be preferable, but at least global can be a toggle in the global quick settings UI.
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by thaeli 3y ago
As a user, I don't care about your ML model. I care about not sending you personal info. Coarser info isn't good enough - you can convince me you actually deserve my real info, or you can get no info (preferable), or you can get f
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by thaeli 3y ago
We do that, but we're joking.
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by thaeli 3y ago
Isn't that pretty much what immobilizer bypass modules have done for years?
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by thaeli 3y ago
It was correct when the book was written, but isn't anymore.
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by thaeli 3y ago
If you read Brave New World and think of the lower "classes" as instead being automation and AI (really, most of the jobs done by Epsilons and Deltas in the book were automated decades ago, and the Gamma / Beta jobs are rapid
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by thaeli 3y ago
The local maximum of "fix it but don't improve it" is a problem, and the requirement for major reconstruction to be done to current codes is foundational to almost all building codes. Note that small repairs and routine maint
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by thaeli 3y ago
Just emphasizes how much the "existential threat" stuff is a scare tactic to advocate for regulatory capture.
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by thaeli 4y ago
That's the nature of steam. 15 year boiler recertification, which is effectively a refurb. Hours in service don't matter for those.
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by thaeli 4y ago
I'm in the US and have had a heat pump for 15 years. It was a fairly small cost add from a straight cool. I get this depends on region, especially for the older units, but I never understood why they were such a hard sell even in mild
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by thaeli 4y ago
I've often wondered why this is. My best guess is that the EPA cert (not actually hard to get) has been turned into some sort of weird quasi-guild-membership thing. I can walk right in to a "to the trade" electrical or plumbi
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by thaeli 4y ago
As a backup option, the incumbents already make this. Carrier Infinity is a good example. Proprietary protocol (RS-485 based, so it can run over existing thermostat wiring) between the smart thermostat and the furnace, and between the furna

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