insaneirish

> Sounds like you gave them an unfair value.

Huh?

They were the bidder. There was no haggling or negotiation. Accept it or walk away.

Unfortunate. I sold to them a couple times (5+ years ago) and it was a good experience, overall.

Trade-in values are always quite low, and private party sales carry all sorts of challenges. Vroom gave fair value for the simplification of the process (which was clearly not enough margin to be successful!)

> Juniper is pretty big, and probably the company most of the Cisco users are turning to, in my experience.

Not really. Which is why this acquisition price is lower than all their competitors.

> Cisco has stagnated for so long and continue their attempt to push over prices solutions that simply isn't as good or modern as those of their competitors.

Which products, which competitors?

> Cisco isn't the dominate play it used to be and is almost never the first choice for new projects anymore.

Maybe for you, but they are the best in a variety of areas and continue to bring innovation (like Silicon One).

Like any large product company, they have winners and losers, but the existence of losers doesn't assure the absence of winners.

They are focused on their Mist product line which uses machine learning to troubleshoot and root cause issues.

> Those plans just became much more relevant, unless the plan is that Juniper takes the lead on HPE networking.

Rami (Juniper CEO) is staying and leading.

If you were asking in good faith, you wouldn't have said "Slowlaris".

Username checks out!

Rare I find someone who even knows what a blind stitch machine is.

> but they want to sell their customers a second rate product that they stole and shoddily copied on the cheap.

Yup. When I think of Apple's engineering and design prowess, the first two phrases that come to mind are definitely "second rate" and "shoddily copied".

Dry cut in the shop? You are making me want to cry.

I give up. Everything is screwed.

Your job is temporary, but please wear a respirator. :-)

Do everyone a favor and call OSHA on your last day. Nothing about this sounds "okay".

I was gonna go with "Australia is not an island" but, well, I think we can see the problem in that statement. :-)

In the United States, OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) has implemented strict guidelines regarding silica (https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/2018-12/fy16_sh-296...). Silica is highly present in things like concrete, so it is weird to me that something other than concrete would be singled out.

> You appear to have made a quip unsupported by medical data.

No, I have not. The "quip" is ignoring the other sources of silica while singling out this one particular one.

The slabs should be "perfect" from the shop. This includes sink cutouts. For whatever reason, there is a tendency for faucet holes to be cut onsite. This bothers me, but it's true.

Not only is it stupidly messy, it's less precise, dangerous, and often the crews are too careless to protect the inside of the cabinet boxes (where the slug of stone that's being cut from the top will drop and bounce around).

Well said.

To me, saying "I work too many hours to wear PPE the entire time" is akin to saying "I drive too many hours to be sober the entire time."

I'm not sure why I'm getting these downvotes, but my point is that concrete is far more of a silica containing building material than engineered stone but for which there is probably far less political gumption to meaningfully regulate.

But that's the point of templating. It's not a rectangular slab. It's a polygon to accommodate for inconsistencies and should be scribed to the back wall.

And even if something is off, the drywall should be gouged to make the slab fit, rather than stone being cut onsite.

I'd love to hear why. What is the templating process and why is it not better?

> If you mandate that it has to be ordered to fit from the production facility, then yeah it's probably safer.

A mandate isn't really necessary. Everyone involved has every incentive to cut stone in a shop rather than in the field.

The problem is people don't wear PPE. Guess what? Everyone already has a mandate to wear PPE.

Sometimes you can't fix stupid.

As far as countertops go, field cuts are rather uncommon. Laser templating works well.

Holes on the other hand tend to be done in the field. But, people don't wear PPE even though it's simple and easy to do.

> Wearing PPE is miserable. The respiratory masks that reliably keep silica out of your lungs are painful.

I completely disagree. Is it less comfortable than not wearing a mask? For sure. Do I consider it a burden to wear a P100 respirator when dealing with silica? Nope.

> I don't think scrubbing will keep him from losing data when one of those drives fails or gets corrupted.

It pains me to see a ZFS pool with no redundancy because instead of being "blissfully" ignorant of bit rot, you'll be alerted to its presence and then have to attempt to recover the files manually via the replica on the other NAS.

I appreciate that the author recognizes what his goals are, and that pool level redundancy is not one of them, but my goals are very different.

If you add a known fixed mass of preservative, then it's just some math back on earth...

Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/582/

This is interesting to me in only one respect.

The fact that they think the personal market is lucrative enough to break into while already being successful in the enterprise makes me sad that 1Password couldn’t be content with the personal market and instead decided it was enterprise or bust, much to the chagrin of many of their personal client base.

Love BEopt! It’s definitely a favorite in the “construction nerd” community (such as https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/). I used it quite a bit in making design choices for an extensive renovation on my own home.

New York City had it, too: https://untappedcities.com/2017/10/03/an-illustrated-history...

27 miles of tubes.

Meta commentary on toolguyd... its principal has a PhD in materials science and I find the site to be pretty trustworthy.

There's some parallel between steel tools and bike frames with regards to things moving to Taiwan. Both things like wrenches/ratchets/sockets and steel bike frames moved largely to Taiwan 20+ years ago.

Guess what? Taiwan got really good at making both. So in the tool community, you have lots of comparisons drawn between the US and Taiwan and China, with the narrative that as far as Asian manufactured tools, the "good stuff" comes out of Taiwan, and the not-usually-as-good out of China.

There's a similar narrative on bike frames. The interesting thing is that Taiwan didn't just get good at steel bike frames, but on the aluminum and carbon fiber successors as well.

I would frankly rather Craftsman be a sustainable brand manufactured out of Taiwan with a warranty and continuity of product to back it, but unfortunately the collapse of Sears and the subsequent trading of the Craftsman label has made it more of a liability.

Unsurprising and honestly not the craziest thing. “Infinite” and perpetual liabilities are tricky from an accounting point of view and also hard to model accurately.

> Doesn't most bleach contain stabilizers?

Not sure.

SDS for Clorox Regular Bleach: https://www.thecloroxcompany.com/wp-content/uploads/cloroxre...

It lists a single ingredient: sodium hypochlorite.

From the article: "The chemicals in bleach “are persistent in the environment, and they’re also very corrosive,” she added."

This seems incomplete at best and disingenuous at worst.

It's my understanding that chlorine bleach breaks down into oxygen, NaCl, and water.

So, sure, you can argue that salt water is persistent in our environment and also corrosive, but that statement strikes me the same way as how people have long warned about the dangers of ever present dihydrogen monoxide in almost everything we consume these days.