Most Unions don't even allow the workers to initiate a strike (as part of the work contract) – it must be ordered by LU/hall.
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This oddball Apple cable sits proudly in our "old proprietary Apple cables" cardboardbox (Thunderbolt2 is NOT DisplayPortMini, despite their physical interconnectability)... and are now worth ≥$65/each.
Too bad my 2009 iMac 27" is still alive, occassionally requiring that cable's usage; a more-powerful 15" MBP can then use it as its main display =D
I spent three decades @30Hz, and just the past few ≥60Hz@4K... as I've aged I appreciate the analogue more, and the jarring stutters of 30Hz are constant reminders of computized digitality.
Also, PoE at 144Hz is incredible (I went from <30Hz to 144Hz with this one simple trick: $1000 5070Ti, which turns out was actually a great investment, too [today's price $1449]). But so is scrolling through walls of text, now.
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Apple Silicon is certainly incredible (I also have a base-model M4mini, but it severely lacks RAM/ports so I don't really use it much/eWaste); my only Silicon-purchase-regret was buying a beautiful new 2024 MacBookAir (15") – heavily discounted $850@CostCo – but with only 8GB of RAM (it is functionally worthless, other than for watching it destroy your SSD with page-outs as you casually stream YouTubies...). In 2024, only 8GB of RAM (soldered onto the board because fuck you)!
Marietta's did not have any Pi400s for sale (I love mine, with its built in keyboard; it is my main Kali hackbox) but did have lots of Pi5 (4gb was ~$100 IIRC; 1gb was ~$40).
I've picked up two 7" touchscreens, which seemlessly integrate into any Pi project (mine are both now installed on Pi 3b+ PiHoles, to display realtime DNS traffic 24/7); if you buy the returned/open-box, each screen is less than $50 (no more fumbling for HDMI cables).
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Unrelated: the RTX5070Ti (purchased May 2026 for $999) is now $1449! The 5060 (purchased July 2026 for $329) is now $459; no 5090 in stock (of course).
Having done this dozens-of-times, each attempt remains scary. Reattaching the glass, the magnets flex the pane incomprehensibly.
My favorite feature of these older iMacs (and laptops of the era) is that you can manhandle the glassed screens (pointing, touching, scraping), to no destriment of the LCD (beneath).
In Tennessee, the first two offenses for improper display of license plate are $10 & $20 fines, respectively (but obviously this allows them to initiate a traffic stop; a younger-me couldn't afford this risk). In the past year+, a dozen officers have ignored my plateless transgressions.
This has the side-effect of encouraging me to obey most traffic laws more rigorously (e.g: I speed less, am generally less-aggressive).
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I am a middle-aged fat bald white dude in the US South – I'm practically invisible!
FYI: Halloween is officially "Drive without a License Plate Day" (to protest FLOCK cameras)
But Computer said "no."
So I just put the wrong-sized filters back on the shelf, and "stole" the correct-sized filters. Clerk and I waved upon my exit.
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We will figure these automated systems out.
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No illusions that I'm not also traceable. Tracked.
[looks at tennis racket nervously]
"I'm an adult. I will not record this incredibly-sounding phenomenon for the YouTuby viewies..."
I'll just take your word for it.
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I am forty-something, but I still always cringe when I think about that sappling I destroyed (recklessly, with my teenage-swung crowbar), just to show off to some girl...
If you open them up and keep them clean, they can have uses forever:
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My 27" iMac (2009) still sits faithfully alongside my main 48" setup (because I own the copy of CS4 installed upon it – FU Adobe!). It mostly plays background shows (while I work on main computer, adjacent).
My 24" iMac (2006) still sits faithfully on my tax desk, for its annual usage/filing. It also still plays Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne (quite well!).
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>I suggest spending a bit more and getting a mac mini and a ... display, instead
This is fantastic advice; my past two Apple's have been Mini's. My three main machines all connect to the same massive 48" display (that is about to outlast its first retired Mini).
The only new iMac I would ever again consider purchasing would be something on-par with the iMac Pro (2017) – but in 2026+ any iMac would need a 32"+ display (minimum) to be "usable" IMHO.
You sound remorseful (from your youthful indiscretions); but out of curiosity... does the "glow" splat when thwacked (with a tennis racket)? or does it immediately extinguish?
As with all things, the past few decades were slowly, while the past few years have went quick.
What do you like talking about? What brings you into the HN comments?
>>[Even] 5gw in a [60gw] peak load system is massive.
What you originally wrote is also true, but for normal operating conditions:
This would save Texians so much money by not having to use natural gas peakers (but the generators' owners, themselves, are making bank... so they ARE incentived to use nat.gas), and each facility makes BANK when the Texas grid is peaking at 80GW+ (e.g. 2021 winter storms, the costliest natural disaster in Texas' history, would have been entirely avoidable == buy electricity from the rest of America).
After the 2021 storm, the top-rate for a MWH was reduced -66% (but is still orders of magnitude more expensive than normal ERCOT operating compensations; the Texas power grid operators are incentivized to tax the grid maximally).
but if anybody else wants to read about this (the tagline "helps you configures zfs backups" – wasn't helpful to me) technology, here is the zrepl quickstart guide:
<https://zrepl.github.io/quickstart.html#quickstart-toc>
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From zrepl guide, example use-cases:
•) Continuous Backup of a Server
•) Local Snapshots + Offline Backup to an External Disk
•) Fan-out replication
My landline does not ring.
Stopped using email almost a decade ago.
If anybody needs to get in touch with me, they physically have to show up (or write a letter).
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This is seemingly "impossible" for most people to attempt, but is worthwhile. May I encourage anybody reading this to step away from phones/emails for just 24 hours, to start.
I have paid a small five-figure sum defending myself against various contempt of cop charges (multiple alleged violations over the years); my last arrest was for 0.009 grams [†] of marijuana (literally a flake of potleaf), wherein my Texas defense attorney [0] laid it out clearly: "if the marijuana laws in Texas changed, *I'd be out of the job..!" (boo hoo).
[†] same Class B Misdemeanor for all possession between 0-1.9999 ounces
[0] former Travis County prosecutor, of course; at the time, this should not even have resulted in an arrest ("arrest and release" was the county policy), but Rollingwood gonna Rollingwood (the wealthiest suburb of Austin)
>I use it with ... most of my external disks with macOS
How do you personally deal with the terrible macOS default SAMBA client (if using SMB shares)? I can get saturated single-file transfers, but even deleting 100+ small files takes a longgggggg time. It is my understanding the the macOS only allows single-threaded SMB access.
I am considering using ExpanDrive (for NAS access only); openZFS is perfect for DAS (direct disk access), albeit not ideal (since the ARC takes away from system memory); is Thunderbolt linkage still impossible in TrueNAS?
How do you connect your mac fastest to TrueNAS (not top speed, actual IO rate)?
>advice [that] was valid in the old world but might not be valid in the future world
Nor even now.
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>"When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game." –Toni Morrison (Nobel Author, for Beloved (a novel) [1987])
...quoted with no shade to you...
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>"Just remember Neo, all I'm offering is the Truth" –Matrix
>"They hated him because he told the Truth" –Galatians 4:?
It generated nine pictures, all set within courtrooms (whether as witnesses or jurists) #makesyathink
One image was almost identical to Gemini 4 Argon's [0] (although obviously much more primitive): “Humans did not evolve to find truth; they evolved to win arguments and secure status within their tribes” [picturing a judge covering one-eye to Truth].
Around this time, an elderly friend mentioned to me that "her brother only went to law school to learn how to steal better, like they all do" – her dob-1937-reflections forever tie in with my own blossomings into LLMs.
What do you do with something that has read everything [published, and some not]? Will we listen to its/our own Perception(s)?
[0] article's first 3x3 image output chart: 2nd row, 1st column (i.e. middle left picture of judge)
This mentality is called "prosecutor disease;"
I once said this to a former Atlanta-area DA (family-of-friend) and his first reaction was fake-revulsion; after I told him of my listenings-to-brothers' own lawfare, he conceded publishing conviction rates probably isn't good PR (but is how it works in their little Bar club).
DA then asked my friend "who is this blue collar guy?!" (when I wasn't around) – unfortunately, much of my insanity checks out...
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>co-founder Aaron Swartz['s crimes]
Which was trying to free pay-walled, publicly-funded scientific journals; today, post-LLM-consumption, his alleged crimes seem so MickeyMouse (i.e: LLMs can reformulate all published text, across platforms, with minimal IP infringement claim).
What an incredible human. SO many young lives have been snuffed-out by Prosecutors' Disease. Wake up you inhumans.
The author (Palanhuik, sp?) wrote the "core" of Fight Club in 2 hours (it's either Chapter 5 or 6, from memory). It "came to him," wasn't entirely his own work, the keys on his typewriter just getting tapped. I do not remember which author-interview he states this in, but his creative processes are worth listening/exploring (for both writers and not).
>the film adaptation rivals the original work
He was heavily involved in the film adaptation.
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Rant (his other great book, IMHO) is Freudian time-travel-rape at its best (worst?) – I don't even like the genre! but his perspectives help you think beyond normalcy/complacancy, however offputing.
1) Using state police to enforce laws that cities choose not to
2) Preventing cities from local environmental policies
3) Silly marijuana laws, when the vast majority of Texans support recreational taxation (whether they partake, or just want the taxbase/freedom!)
My take-away is that the Texas GOP hates most of its constituents... or at least thinks they "know better" ..?
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>Tao Te Ching #66 (excerpt):
>If you want to teach people, don't talk down to them.
>If you want to lead people, find out where they want to go!
>People love leaders who make them feel safe, without smothering them.
>They'll always support a leader like that, and because he doesn't try to compete with anybody else, nobody is able to compete with him.
>Tao Te Ching #65 (excerpt):
>People who know too much cannot be taught anything.
>Leaders who try to be clever often screw things up.
>Leaders who keep it simple often make things right.
If you prefer wordless silence, pulling out a phone (or book/magazine) works well when talkers "don't take the hint;" or face away (for particularly invasive conversation starters).
My hope is that small talk leads to shared connections, perhaps even (a brief intertwining of) humanity.
Shortly before this (the weekend after you secured YC funding, IIRC), I['m almost certain I] met you in downtown Oakland at Saagar & Tiffany's /r/bayarea meetup [0] – won't go into further details, other than I was one of their co-conspirators =P
My point of writing this is dualfold:
1) Thank you for sharing your design – I literally just installed my first Docker module (last week) and am floored at all the problems Docker might help me solve (I am not employed in tech)
2) My recollections of you, this decade+ later, was of a humble young man (we're the same age) that didn't know what else to do with his newfound techfame (and money) than keep'on keepin'on.
After watching your Docker Debut video, I'm fairly certain it WAS you: we chatted about dirtbikes (and just what the hell you were going to do now that you "had money" – then such a foreign concept to us both)... if this wasn't you it still seems to echo in your mannerisms/tact/approach. May your humbleness and cleverness prevail!
[0] It might have been at Gustafson's NYE party (I was the guy remorselessly conjuringbitches; "Volcano"); we had a mutual friend at MalwareBytes?
I have read Abbott's book [0].
I have family who have worked for him.
Their views on this world are of Power, alone.
"Why does a dog lick his balls; because he can."
I am no longer Texian. Best of luck to future Senator Talarico (D), may he [be allowed to] live long and prosper.
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[0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01FCWVTY6
Brief comments on Broken but Unbowed (his book): Abbott suggests that constitutional amendments need to be implemented using an archaic, never-used-before (constitutional) method to allow states to implement their peoples' wishes (seems honorable). My counterargument is that America is too big, and needs to end its massive Federation (which seems to cause so many of the problems here), to allow more-local-rule.
Also, Abbott's continuing crusade on tort limits is a blemish to his own good fortunes (from his own multi-million dollar payouts, ongoing). He spends too much time discussing his physical disabilities; I'd argue he should focus more on his mental deficits.
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joke: "how do you know when a politician is full of shit"
obvious punchline: "when his mouth is moving"
new post-AI schtick: "if he's still breathing"
At present, Texas is allowed (and does) minimal energy transfers, using mostly DC-DC ties (but also one AC interconnect in Rusk Co, Texas, for emergencies); but the limit is a small single-digit percentage of usage (<3%, IIRC).
>There was a 5gw 3 way intercpnnect almoat over the finish line maybe a decade ago.
Trés Amigos (the project you refer to) was disbanded in 2016. Its major backer "backed out."