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kilpatds@elsewhere Long term unix systems programmer, tabletop gamer, crazy person.

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It's been a while since I watched it, but I recall he just was using nerd4cities' methodology, which was based off of door-to-door transit time, and would assume flight for here to Chicago

09.03.2026 19:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think he's not suggesting Seattle-Chicago lines. He's suggesting Seattle/Vancouver high speed rail, which hits totally different issues.

Seattle/Chicago is too far for rail per the methodology he used, IIRC

09.03.2026 19:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I just said "fuck it" and retired at 50

07.03.2026 03:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

When I predicted EV sales would still be strong this year, this isn't what I had in mind

06.03.2026 19:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hell, my vanity domain is likely older than OP (y2k)

06.03.2026 06:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Four years ago, my water heater died and spilled water out and I needed to emergency replace it. So ... I decided to replace the anode on the new one this year.

I've now had two plumbers come out to tell me no ones does that, but if I want, $1k plz.

@techconnectify.bsky.social, this your beat?

05.03.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If your immediate group uses Teams, Linux is gonna suck, but...

Teams has a browser version that usually works "ok".

Also, outlook has a web version that IT can turn on, and that works well, actually. You can also access outlook via IMAP, but there the calendar integration sucks

04.03.2026 14:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Google workplace and slack?

04.03.2026 08:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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VIDEO: Scream Club Seattle keeps growing, midway through first year (Story originally posted 8:22 pm, updated 12:32 am) By Torin Record-Sand Reporting for West Seattle Blog From a distance, they looked like a regular crowd of people enjoying a nice evening walk on...

@petersagal.bsky.social a bluff the listener proposal....

westseattleblog.com/2026/03/vide...

04.03.2026 02:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Unfortunately that hasn't worked in Cali (or Seattle or really anywhere else. Instead the environmental wing of the party decided that McMansions didn't need permits, but apartment buildings needed a 3k impact statement per nail)

02.03.2026 00:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

He said wrong answers only...

26.02.2026 00:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

His summary of the quote left out "US". All US wars. Puppet masters behind all US wars. Yeah, that reads as pretty anti-Semitic to me, a non-jewish white boy.

24.02.2026 21:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Government Docs Reveal New Details About Tesla and Waymo Robotaxis’ Human Babysitters Self-driving-vehicle companies are revealing new details about their safety-critical β€œremote assistance” programsβ€”but questions remain.

Self driving cars have remote support staff to take over if the system fails. For some reason, this created a meme that they’re remotely piloted.

The idea that someone in the Philippines is doing real-time driving of a car in the U.S. is silly when you consider how physics works.

22.02.2026 22:49 πŸ‘ 88 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 2

Front end is the interface, backend is the data model. I tend to think front-end work requires more varied skills, and I say take as someone who’s fundamentally always been a backend developer.

I just move bits man. I don’t have to know what they mean.

22.02.2026 18:59 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Also the rain is so soft that umbrellas are pointless. You can walk 5 blocks in the rain and not get wet.

21.02.2026 06:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A population map of Hungary. The high population density areas overlap with the low vacancy areas from the earlier quoted.post

A population map of Hungary. The high population density areas overlap with the low vacancy areas from the earlier quoted.post

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

So yeah, kinda

14.02.2026 22:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't know about the specifics here, but this formulation usually hides the detail that the vacancies are all in Potsdam NY, and the homeless are all in NYC

14.02.2026 22:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The biggest political divide on here is not between left and liberal but between "politics is real and involves real outcomes for real people" and "no it doesn't fuck you"

13.02.2026 18:28 πŸ‘ 1416 πŸ” 313 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 16

The only real limits are "official capacity". From behind a podium, there are no limits.

Defamation is just not on the list of things you can sue the federal government for, and people acting for the government can sub in the government in lawsuits

09.02.2026 20:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

January 3rd is the only day so far this year that cops *haven't* killed someone.πŸ€·πŸΏβ€β™‚οΈ

Dems in NYC still have over 1,000 national guard troops deployed in the subway for no reason, compared to the GOP only deploying 800 in DC for no reason.

Cops have arrest quotas. ICE has arrest quotas. Same same.

07.02.2026 20:12 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Americans have been so poisoned by TV copaganda slop that it largely doesn't register to them that police officers are not supposed to point guns at people

guns are in principle not a tool of law enforcement, they are a tool of self-defense that we allow law enforcement officers to have

03.02.2026 17:30 πŸ‘ 835 πŸ” 196 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 7

And get a notification every time you power it on about how the network is unconnected

01.02.2026 19:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

(it's subsidized by advertising/data collection for advertising. They're all smart. Most of them try and fingerprint what you're watching to sell as data, and the smart bits show ads)

01.02.2026 18:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Lose

01.02.2026 05:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Uh ... This

31.01.2026 00:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Well, as a libertarian nutjob … no notes. I especially liked the last third of it.

31.01.2026 00:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Look, if you had a party scheduled at your house, and the pipes broke and the floor was covered in raw sewage, you’d tell your friends not to come over.

In that spirit: world, skip the World Cup until we get this sewage worked out. And don’t be too sure about the Olympics.

27.01.2026 20:39 πŸ‘ 7801 πŸ” 1696 πŸ’¬ 90 πŸ“Œ 41

Por quΓ© no los dos?

(Targeted Deregulation, and also wealth taxes)

26.01.2026 08:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I expect every single law enforcement officer of any kind to be willing to die rather than risk killing a person unnecessarily.

Anyone who does not like that tradeoff should not seek to carry a gun on behalf of the government.

It's really that simple.

25.01.2026 16:49 πŸ‘ 548 πŸ” 135 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 13

Link?

22.01.2026 17:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0