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eppp··on A 28-Year-Old DOGE Operative Gutted USAID. HR Had No Record of Him Working There
Congress can and should pass a law to dismantle an agency they created. There is no real roadblock once that is done.
eppp··on A 28-Year-Old DOGE Operative Gutted USAID. HR Had No Record of Him Working There
So that means congress exercised their authority to check and balance the executive and everything turned out ok?
eppp··on Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear
Just dont expect net metering and get yourself some batteries. They are cheap now.
eppp··on Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear
I diy installed a 13kw ground mount with a 32kwh battery for $18,700 before the tax rebate last december. 6 year payback at my current rate of $0.12 kwh after the rebate. Its a complete no brainer at this point.
eppp··on Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP
That seems a little excessive.
eppp··on Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts
Cell phones arent wheat. It is a pain to switch between OS's.
eppp··on Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?
The lack of support for SANs and ISCSI really bothers me. I like the way this style of setup works, I would like to keep doing it.
eppp··on Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP
In fairness, google tried to bypass all of the systems that already exist and are widely used for doing pole attachments.
eppp··on Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP
I have had a grand total of one customer ask in almost 10 years. I have the block and announce it but there are so many dangers with implementing it that I am scared to even try yet until we slow down a little.
eppp··on Cord didn't win. What now?
Ive been doing this for 20 years and I have had to do several major migrations due to vendors doing all sorts of stupid things. Millions of dollars and so so many hours completely unproductive because a commercial off the shelf product was 'cheaper' to buy initially.
eppp··on Cord didn't win. What now?
Perhaps they didn't want to build it themselves and took into account the other risks like the company folding?
eppp··on Cord didn't win. What now?
The in house developers raised their hackles and had reservations about using the product even in the face of perceived inferior solutions. The product then goes out of business... The irony of this story...
eppp··on Java at 30: Interview with James Gosling
I know that what you said is supposed to be true. However in my real world experience it is anything but. Cisco java programs are a disaster and require certain JVMs to run.
eppp··on Has the decline of knowledge work begun?
Who have also captured regulators and politicians and use them to cement their advantage by making things too costly and difficult for new startups to compete.
eppp··on How Spotify Killed Lo-Fi Hip Hop
Who gets the money?
eppp··on Where is London's most central sheep?
I guess? Seems like a concert for example would be just as fun in a smaller rural venue than a gigantic urban one.

I would enjoy the activity itself without regard of the location. If the city is to be impressive should it not stand on its own?

eppp··on Where is London's most central sheep?
I am not sure what you mean by that. Do cities not want people to visit them? You can't travel through a city unless you commit to live there for a while?
eppp··on The Most Detailed Map of US Waters That You've Ever Seen (2023)
Lidar and some sort of algorithm probably. It seems to work ok but not perfectly and depending on your area the lidar point cloud could be almost 10 years old.
eppp··on Where is London's most central sheep?
I have lived my entire life in a a rural area, not even a town and it seems to me that every time I go to a city it is the same as the last. Everyone has their thing I guess.
eppp··on The Most Detailed Map of US Waters That You've Ever Seen (2023)
It also has a lot of features that dont exist and is missing several that do.

Pretty strange. It misses a pond that is completely obvious on the lidar elevation map.

eppp··on I made $100K from a dick joke
But you also can't blame Ebay for letting the guy steal? Ebay just can't be blamed ever, seems like a great position to be in.
eppp··on First demonstration of quantum teleportation over busy Internet cables
I know almost nothing about this but lay understand is this: the state of a photon can possibly be encoded with a vast amount of information, instead of transmitting that information encoded into light, they transmitted the state of entangled photons and thusly recreated the information on the third photon.
eppp··on Are at-home genetic tests worth it? As an oncologist, here's my advice.
Ive watched people die of cancer. I do not want to die of cancer. Early detection and treatment increases the chances of a better outcome. What is a normal person supposed to do exactly to avoid this terrible fate when doctors say nothing works and you should just yolo it?
eppp··on Visual Basic 6 rebuilt in C# – complete with form designer and IDE in browser
Activating it isnt. I havent found a way to make the old version worth without installing some hacked fix that I have no idea if I can trust or not.
eppp··on How dermatology became the 'it' job in medicine
They dont need 600 dermatologists on staff. They need residency slots. These people aren't asking to work for the hospital permanently, they just have to check the residency box that is artificially limited by gatekeepers.
eppp··on MIT engineers make converting CO2 into useful products more practical
So CO2 is magical here or would a reservoir of highly pressurized atmosphere be just as valuable? I think you are missing where the value is in this situation.
eppp··on Visual Basic 6 rebuilt in C# – complete with form designer and IDE in browser
Not being able to replace hardware easily seems like a disaster in waiting.
eppp··on Wazuh – open-source Security Platform
I have run it for a while and I have yet to successfully upgrade it a single time. I always just end up rebuilding the server to get a new version.
eppp··on Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team
No, they pretty much gave up on winforms when .net core morphed into "the" .net that is cross platform. There are some nice crossplatform gui libs now though.
eppp··on Repair and Remain (2022)
What if you are good at learning new things?
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