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eyo2019on Restic – Backups Done Right

Meet this guy!: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21411467

eyo2019on Plane Tests Must Use Average Pilots, NTSB Says After 737 Max Crashes

You're technically correct, but for the metric "human pilot skill" I think the median and average probably align fairly well.

eyo2019on Bullet charts – Avoid extraneous details in corporate presentations

A lot of places I have worked at would love this to show a KPI in a simple manner, and they didn't care about the time axis and this type of slide was common:

    KPI #13

    2018: 124
    2019: 125 (A BIGGER NUMBER THAN 2018, YAY!)

eyo2019on Strengthening Congressional Independence from Corporate Lobbyists

If you read more closely, the book Fat City: How Washington Wastes Your Taxes was the one which stated that it was an "unnecessary agency" and the Regan admin liked the book. Newt Gingrich was the one who spearheaded the closure of the OTA.

eyo2019on New research suggests that we’re making ourselves sick over politics

In America, we all bitch about politics, give up, and wonder why things suck. Meanwhile people are protesting quite vigorously, in HK, Paris, all over the Middle East a few years ago, etc. If we want the change we're looking for, we need to get in the streets and disrupt daily life for everyone until we collectively get what we are demanding.

eyo2019on Some tea bags may shed billions of microplastics per cup

You sound really smart in your other comments usually, but this comment is dumb and dumber. Who cares what tea people drink? Why did you have to get so mean about tea? Are you having a bad day? Seriously, life is too short to get angry over some fancy teas.

eyo2019on Holographic Tabletop Gaming – AR D&D

Thanks for the information, this colors the Kickstarter choice a lot differently and actually makes me trust it a bit more, so I'm going to "edit" my original comment (I can't actually edit it, so consider this the edit/retraction) to mention that, in this instance, I've changed my mind.

eyo2019on Holographic Tabletop Gaming – AR D&D

Looks really cool, something I've been waiting for at this price level for years since I saw the Microsoft Hololens. I'll never fund another Kickstarter, however, due to the time I funded a 3D printer that was almost as complete a product as this and it was still 1 year late and never worked right. If a product like this is seriously awesome, they should get proper funding to produce it as a sellable product rather than take this Kickstarter shortcut and, as is the usual case, fuck over the customers for some time before getting it right. I predict they will come up with a decent finished product in the next few years, but before that happens some other company will come out with a similar but better working alternative that I don't have to take the Kickstarter risk for. I'm not trying to be a dickhead, but a Kickstarter is nothing but a red flag for me and a ton of other people at this point.

eyo2019on iPadOS

> Another reason is that it's extra work to decouple the browser with the OS.

I thought that argument was rejected already in 2001[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

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