clipradiowallet

When I was a kid, my parents worked really hard to teach my how and why to avoid things that would harm me. This ranged from discouraging behaviors like running with scissors or drinking and driving, to substances like tobacco or heroin. Social media did not exist when I was a child, or I'm certain it would have been among those behaviors taught to me as harmful, addictive, and easy to screw yourself up by being involved with.

Of course...it would have been much harder for me to absorb those life lessons if my parents did those things they told me were harmful. If dad got loaded and drove around, or if mom shot up smack, it would have compromised me avoiding those things by following their example. It's tough to tell your kid to avoid social media when they watch their parent mindlessly entranced by it. Do the right thing there, remind your children that what 'Joe Influencer' or 'Jane Fashionista' thinks doesn't fucking matter. There are attention seeking idiots all around us, but they exist in spectacular high volume on social media.

tldr; parent your children to avoid social media, there is limited upside and infinite downside. This may mean not scrolling meme's all night on your phone while your kid does their homework - but you can do it.

I had the exact same experience in bootcamp(Army), and it makes me jaded and uninterested in the monthly "groundbreaking" exercise products or diet programs. Front lean and rest position doesn't cost you anything - just sayin...

I disagree with this author's take on PGP. Perhaps the people they communicate with reply in plaintext, quoting the author...but that's not my experience. That type of behavior is an opsec failure, not a PGP failure.

A tool (like PGP) does not imply a privacy-guaranteed scenario. For an analogy, carrying a handgun does not make you James Bond, and carrying a lockpick does not make you a locksmith. They are just tools, and possessing one of them [like PGP] does not intrinsically include the knowledge and ability to use that tool properly.

> As another comment said, if the unvaccinated were willing to stick to their "ideals" and die at home instead of an ICU bed, I would be a lot more amenable to arguments against mandates.

Can you extend this logic to other groups beyond "unvaccinated"? For example, imagine the ICU beds that would be unoccupied if people who smoke tobacco and drink alcohol chose to "die at home". As a society, we know both of these behaviors are detrimental to health, and yet there are people occupying ICU beds because of their decision to use those 2 substances. Slippery slope and whatnot.... health insurance premiums would also be a lot cheaper if my group health insurance plan wasn't subsidizing treatment for all my coworkers with lung cancer, emphysema, and liver failure.

Yes - but with caveats. Solids like meat scraps and fruit pulps(not peels!) can be liquified with septic tank additives. It's a good idea to use these every month(I set a recurring reminder on my phone). The caveat is substances like fruit peels, coffee grounds, oils, or the gristle portion of meats. These don't break down with the enzymes, and just float(or sink) in your septic tank until you have it pumped.

Without going into the icky details too much... yes it is relevant. Even something like grated carrots will sit in your septic tank for years without decaying. This is largely due to the temperature - it's far too cold to get the easy rotting and composting effect you would see if you left it outside in the sun. The solids you are mentioning are already digested, and are much easier for the bacteria in your septic tank to break down and reach a soluble/flowing state that can pass into your drainage field. Another good example that is REALLY common to see clogging the septic tank exit is coffee grounds - which would compost very quickly in the sunshine, but will last forever in your septic tank and contribute to a very thick "sludge" layer on the bottom. That layer never goes anywhere, and as it grows the capacity of your septic tank shrinks. This will go on until the sludge reaches the exit level and causes the septic system to fail, or until you have it pumped.

The article didn't tell me what Zig really was, so for other people in my boat: https://ziglang.org/

headline from that website: Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

FYI, 1.5 trillion yen equates to 13,607,664,000.00 USD.

Just a note for people who do NOT have sewage service(ie you have a septic tank). You should be rinsing ALL your dishes before using the dishwasher, capturing the solids in a strainer, and putting them in your trash.

Solid food that magically is cleaned by your dishwasher goes into your septic system and significantly reduces time-to-failure, or at the least time-till-you-have-it-pumped-to-avoid-failure.

Does anyone see a product to buy on this page? As I click through the models, all I see are "pricing unavailable" for the laptop kits.

I empathize with your sentiment.. I checked out of IT-related work in my 20's, and the moment I checked back in was sitting on the floor of a production welding shop, impact drilling holes through plate steel. I had this moment of clarity when I realized that however "unhappy" IT made me, it wasn't nearly as miserable as the alternative I had stumbled into.

Or as my dad put it: better to work with your head than your hands, isn't it son?

> My air purifier is built into the furnace ductwork

That's neat! Do you know if the ozone is produced before or after it reaches the blowing mechanism? I ask because if it is produced before, like right after the air intake, that's a really great setup for keeping your ductwork mold and mildew free. I've wanted to buy such a system but keep holding out for things to get cheaper... in the meantime, I use an ecoquest "FreshAir" model sitting on top of the fridge.

> Personally, I'm still waiting for docker swarm.

What are you waiting for, is there something new in the works wrt swarm? I was a swarm fan early on(and secretly still am), but otherwise k8s is where I spend all my time at work.

> Dumb people are going to want to go to covid parties

When I was a child, parents would inform other parents when a child had chickenpox; so they could have a sleepover. That was normal practice in the portion of the USA I grew up in. As a result, nearly everyone my age has natural immunity to chickenpox.

I share that anecdote to point out that the idea of an "infection party" is a really old idea that was practiced at scale. It's not unreasonable to assume people will treat this the same way based on that type of past behavior. Whether it's "dumb" or not remains to be seen.

Edit: I wanted to add for younger persons a blurb about WHY you want to get chickenpox as a kid. Children experience mild symptoms from chickenpox - it's a non-event other than missing some school and having a few sores. Adult cases of chicken pox however are fatal by a large majority.

This doesn't answer your question - but in all seriousness you can smell it. Even the smallest amount of ozone has a very distinct smell you will recognize. If you stand in front of your air sanitizer and let the air pass over your face, you should be able to smell the ozone immediately.

If you haven't smelled it before - I would recommend going to a retail store that sells ozone-based air sanitizers. That should give you a whiff of the stuff for reference. You can also find it in [some] hospitals for air sanitization. I imagine once you smell it, you will realize you have smelled it before and maybe not realized it was ozone that you were smelling.

> Solarpunk is radical in that it imagines a society where people and the planet are prioritized over the individual and profit.

tldr; no capitalism in the solarpunk future. Am I grokking that right?

Boilerplate job/career options for young men thinking about attending vs not attending college...

1) Enlist in the military. pay is sub-par, but your living expenses are well taken care of. picking a job that has a civilian equivalent is clutch here.. eg combat medic, electrician, plumber, various IT-related fields.

2) Skilled trades - eg plumber, electrician, HVAC-related. These pay from 50k to 150k depending on what type of work you do. The "high end" for example being a new-construction electrician, working for themselves, making $75/hr with overtime. All these fields have high job security - plumbing, electricity, and HVAC are not a 'fad', and are likely to increase in demand over time.

3) Own a "low tech" business, the sort you might already work for if you are a teenager. Eg...landscaping. You can make $15/hr running a weed eater, or with a small investment and some people skills - you can pay other people $15/hr to run a weed eater, and you run the business. This is more difficult than it seems on the surface (management and people skills), but it is not something you need a college education to succeed at.

4) Specialty/niche fields...these are more difficult to break into if you don't know someone already. Some examples are mosquito spraying(for a city), [water] well digging, or roadside assistance for a larger contract(like cell phone roadside assistance, AAA, or dealer contracts). These are easier to break into if you already know someone who owns that type of business, who will show you the ropes so you know what you are getting into.

This isn't an exhaustive list by any means, but hopefully someone finds it stimulating enough to come up with some ideas about work options that do not involve a mountain of student debt.

It varies with the company you are at... but building pipelines is just one of the ops tasks typically. Ie, in your gitlab-ci.yaml example, ops would have given you the template (assuming you were going to be the one committing it) that your pipeline had to follow - so it was uniform with the thousands of other pipelines in the company. It's unusual at most of the shops I've been at for devs to ever build their own deployment pipelines. That might be OK at a smaller shop, but once you have 100+ deployments of any type, the devs have lacked ability to keep it all uniform at scale.

A better way to put it... most of my colleagues in an Ops roles already did development for 10-15 years, and moved on to developing the tools to deploy other people's products. Additionally, kubernetes isn't everywhere - they also build pipelines that produce AMI's, GCP images, and write the terraform/cloudformation/HEAT/etc to deploy those things. If you wonder "who automated blue/green deployments?", that's your ops team.

Also, in your example of "human kubernetes" - ops builds those clusters, and monitors those node pools. If you half less than a dozen clusters, or less than 100 nodes among the pools - you might not even have an ops team.

> - Nothing is listening on the nominated port

Now that just shouldn't happen... ie, we(ops) aren't going to deploy something that doesn't come with healthcheck(s). The healthcheck never passing(port isn't listening) is going to stop the deployment from ever completing. Ops job is to push back on developers if they try to hand us something like this to build a pipeline for. In my company, to hand Ops the name of a repo and say "build a pipeline"...there are a lot of requirements, and the biggest one is a list of SLAs. That list of SLAs is how we build monitoring for your application, and one of those should always be a list of port(s) and protocol(s) that are exposed; we build monitors against those.

> smaller minority that despises the numeric keypad and will never buy a laptop that includes one

I'm in this minority! Why don't people use the top-row numbers!?!?

Perhaps for the exact reason you are implying - lack of respect for the judge and/or process.

People don't go to court because they "respect" the judicial process or the judge - they go because they are compelled by force or threats of force/imprisonment.

That said... it seems foolish to disrespect the judge, not because he/she deserves respect, but because they can abuse their power and punish you over slights to their ego. It's the same reason you don't run your mouth at a cop during a traffic stop - they would likely wield their small authority over you in a way that you found unpleasant.

I had the same thought. Everyone on an air assault team knew where the TH3's were, and when to use them. That was the whole point...if at some point there is even the remote possibility of the craft being disabled or captured, thermite grenades are used to prevent that.

I have no idea why those assets were not destroyed. From the outside looking in, it makes no sense at all.

This is the stuff nightmares are made of...the way it takes shadows/outlines and turns them into animals/people. Reminds me of the way you see faces in the curtains at night as a kid.

Reminds me of FSF artwork(I like it!).

If you DO decide to handle things privately...for the love of bob, cover your ass. This means record the interaction, that way if things go poorly...at least there is an impartial record of it to prevent he-said-she-said situations.

The outcomes for people who were never charged or convicted of any crimes seems pretty...brutal. Having your livelihood taken away among other sanctions over an allegation would be very upsetting. It seems a safe bet that in an arbitrary amount of time(say, 36 months), this will happen to the "wrong" person - the sort of person who gets upset and kills people they believe(whether right or wrong) to be responsible.

I don't think that would change anything though, other than further vilifying the person - if they weren't a legitimate bad actor before, they would have become one. The social pressure to ostracize someone who is already being ostracized by the majority is a real pressure that affects people.

> talk to a couple other guys about... what they had for lunch today?

Sometimes we talk about the weather, haha. The most common time I use my radio is during bad weather, especially if there are tornado warnings nearby. There are [tornado] spotters using the same local repeater in our area, and sometimes it can be comforting to hear them report a tornado is moving away from you, or dissipating. Otherwise, I think we don't have much to talk about until there is an emergency of some kind.

One thing I like isn't something you need a license to do, but a radio is a great way to listen to existing traffic outside the bands a normal "scanner" would supply. Everything from drive-thru speakers to casino security uses VHF/UHF frequencies, so with a decent dual band handheld you can listen to everything, which can be amusing sometimes.

Another fun bit, is you can look up registered/reserved frequencies on the FCC website. You can't [legally] broadcast on these, but it can be interesting to see all these reserved frequencies and listen in. Sometimes you'll hear chatter among commercial farmers, other times electrical linemen...it's a mixed bag. I also tune into the local county/city emergency frequencies from time to time. I live in a very small rural area, so if you hear sirens, typically I can turn on my radio and alternate between the fire/police/ems frequencies and find out what the sirens were for.

> (Not a ham - but thinking of becoming one)

Do it! I used "Ham Radio Prep"(google, it's the first result). It was really informative for me. They have a linear lesson plan with videos/tests to help you learn what you need, and then retain that information. After it was done, I felt very prepared for the exam, and the actual exam went very smoothly. As a side effect, I learned a lot about RF that I was ignorant of in the past, and thoroughly enjoyed the entire process. Can't recommend getting into amateur radio enough, it was one of those moments where I realized there was a giant gap in my general how-radio-works knowledge.

As someone who does not know anything about herding farm animals... are goats easier to shepherd than cows? My first thought is "yea, they are smaller!", but is that true?

Better question...given the nutritional information on goat's milk painting it as more nutrient rich - why aren't we all drinking it?

What do you mean? I ask as a ham myself..I took my exam [remotely] in 2020. So far all of my contacts in my area have been pretty warm greetings. I generally get the impression that existing hams like seeing new hams pop up.

That said, I live in a very rural area, and imagine that more congested areas(cities) might be less welcoming of new traffic.