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As an agnostic who spends a lot of time reading scriptures of several religions, trying to grasp the themes and motivations of others I share a world with -- those passages are particularly inscrutable.

Thank you for this. You gelled several ideas I was ruminating on over my morning tea -- my aloofness and my sneaking suspicion that self-sufficiency is isolating from society at large.

I still pull over to help motorists. You've inspired me to look for more opportunities like those. :)

Both draw a line, and often the purveyor is trying to adopt a "with me or against me" stance.

My amateur and unpracticed use of the French language has probably mis-pronouned plenty of folk across Europe and West Africa. Luckily everyone understood my motives and took it in stride.

I have plenty of reasons to be annoyed at Apple, but this is NOT one of them. A mouse is a tactile and highly personal choice and F this article for trying to demonize Tim Apple and his preferred input device.

That's brilliant advice.

This reads like all engineering types are jerks, which I politely disagree with :)

I've always thought the solution to this was to fix a tax rate, but let the people apportion the spending themselves, to discover what they find important without letting them claw back the taxes, which I agree would be the default.

Seems like it would shut down entire swaths of "I don't wanna pay for your <x>" bitterness and resentment.

I have compared AI to junior engineers a few times. Not in terms of treatment, but in terms of output quality. Is there a better analogy I should prefer? Or if my thinking is horribly wrong, I'd love a different perspective to think on.

Using an instrument of chance to name a data store technology is pretty amusing to me.

I find Miro the least vexing to use, but they are all pretty limited.

I keep expecting him to rally his support base and attempt to overturn the 22nd amendment. Short-term "winning" might be exactly what he needs to rally them.

Honestly I expected it on his last term.

"nobody cares" except if you've been rejected, then life has some sort of blackball effect on you?

I'm sorry but nonsense. You need to find someone to slap sense into you, you're too far down this dark hole.

You got the job to keep the wife who left anyway and apparently took the house. The job sucks. This seems like two parts of the equation that cancel one another out -- so dump the job. Work as a walmart greeter or something for a bit. go travel, backpacking, hosteling, hey, be one of those traveling beggars that I hate so much -- I bet they don't wake up every day and think about societal black marks on some imaginary scorecard. They think about bumming a ride to that badass glacier over yonder because they want to yell at it and listen to the echo.

the rut is deep, but you can walk right out and reinvent yourself. I hope you find a path to do so, even if it sucks for a bit. It sounds like it can only be better over yonder, wherever that is.

I'm overemployed as a 40+ but this would get a CV from me pretty quickly.

Offer some part-time options and you'll get a custom-crafted cover letter professing my love and why I am a perfect fit as well. :)

I use a mini in-flight. I welcome anything to bring the price down (currently $250/mo for 50 GB)

However, this "fix" not being put out for bid is ridiculous. That's not how competition and the market works. This feels like African-style "whatchu gonna do about it" big man corruption.

As someone who spends a lot of time battling mis-use/over-use of PII constantly, I am adopting MTTL as a term of art. :D

I was that way about a year or two ago. The stuff is moving fast, the water is warm. Unless your objections are rooted in privacy or some other perceived misdeed, I say give it a whirl.

If nothing else, use Dall-E to draw stupid pictures to make you and friends laugh. :)

A Leaf was our first EV. I still maintain that if I had kids of driving-age, this would be my ideal first-car for them. Short leash, easy to drive around, room for friends, but not much scope to get into big trouble with.

Holy cow they're cheap now. Note that they can be absurdly bad in cold/rainy weather -- which prompted the sale of ours in Portland. Our ostensibly "80mi" EV got about 22mi once before howling for a charge, and that spelled "Adios Sparky" for us :)

Yeah I've wanted to and the "bring it back fully charged" requirement is hopeless. I rent for convenience and have zero interest in solving this problem for the agencies.

"bring back >80%" would be easier and tempt me on certain missions where I have the free time to navigate Plugshare and figure it out.

In thinking about it this morning, this is probably where one could use the "prepaid fuel" upsell option. I might consider that next time I rent something away from home. There have been some really dirt-cheap "manager specials" that are apparently code language for "EV rental we can't rent out otherwise" -- like $6, $8/day cheap. :)

I am on record as loving our BMW i3 and its Range Extender. :)

The German over-engineering of stupid things has been it's primary downfall, not the ICE+EV combo. We are approaching the end of our extended warranty period, and we have had two failures -- electrically actuated rear trunk latch and our electrically actuated charge-port-cover latch. Both ridiculous and unnecessary. Both about $4K at the dealership, with no real viable alternatives. Unfortunately, we are likely to replace it due to the obscene repairs of minor and unnecessary components.

I don't think there is anything else similar coming out. We won't be considering the RAMCharger, which is at least the same idea :)

I hope you understand that this anedcote is something like "I rented a car, I bought $9.50/gallon fuel, and then did the math on how many fewer miles that fuel got me vs when I buy fuel at home for sane prices" yeah? :)

$0.68 is nuts. I am on my fourth EV, and currently I will expect 0.35-0.50 on my frequent road trips between CA and OR/WA. I also tend to favor the Electrify America stations since they're free for 30mn for me to use. In my car, that 30mn will take me from 20% charge to ~85% charge for $0.

Once the free-charging sugar high is over for a lot of EV owners, I think they will start doing the math too and prefer, strongly, to charge at home. The other problem is there are no posted rates for the charge, and once you glide into a charger down to 30mi range, you're probably not going to pick up and go to a different one.

Have you never been in a committee meeting?

The "E" in CEO is to listen to a room full of noncommittal, hedging, sycophantic people and then chart a course based on their weak signals.

Arguably the CEO needs all of the talent of a dart thrower; but they're the one that takes the stand, or fall, of the decisions made.

I agree they're replaceable. I don't agree that they're not needed. :)

...raise taxes on the households of whatever the "correct skin color" is until they qualify for these programs? Obvs. :)

/s, I hope. :/

It's an interesting thought. I wonder if VATSIM could provide a meaningful "pre-ATC" qualification. The people are already clearly interested/enthusiastic about the job.

I still don't understand why KSQL is a contract tower and not a full FAA-managed tower.

last time I looked you had to apply to the ATC academy before turning 31. FYI for those considering the big trade: staring at a rectangular screen for staring at a squircle screen instead. :)

I'd love it. I've been shoring up finances, paid off the house, and am ready for an income reduction and whatever pivot presents itself. The signs are all there, from what I can tell.

However, I've also been bearish for like the last 15 years, so these financially conservative moves I have made in reality will portend massive stock market gains, bountiful employment and prosperity. :)

You're welcome.

:) At the rate we're using up names for AI-assistants that we bolt onto every darn thing, I'm sure we'll get down to a "CrikeyAI" offered by some B-tier SaaS company very shortly.

lol, that's savage. I hope it was resonant at least :D

Quality roast. I feel seen. lol. :D

> Maintains a homelab that could probably power a small country, just to run Jupyter notebooks

> Claims to hate over-engineered solutions while running a water-cooled PC 'monstrosity' - irony much?

> Probably spends more time optimizing server configurations than actually using them

I literally have no comeback to any of them. Cheers for this laugh. :D

I have a pair of now fairly old Xeon D-1541 which are not the fire-breathing xeons people imagine, but they're robust, sip watts, and have some really full feature sets that have kept them around in my rack for a long long time.

I got them as they were the cheapest path to 128GB support (in ~2014) and they're still useful today. I run one NAS/VM/home automation box and one Jupyter box with an nvidia GPU in it. They never complain. Neither does my power bill.